EVENT SANCTIONING REQUIREMENTS
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Show Sanctioning Requirements
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE
Please contact the RHAA offices in advance of your local competition to allow an RHAA representative the opportunity to attend your competition. RHAA officials can help with organization, judges, promotion, scoring, and competition format. The RHAA wants to assist you in any way possible to promote your local competition and emphasize the qualities and characteristics of the modern working ranch horse.
SCHEDULE OF COMPETITION
Please contact the RHAA office as soon as you are aware of your dates for your next competitions so that the RHAA may update its schedule of competitions and accurately respond to inquiries from contestants and other interested parties. It is the responsibility of the sponsoring organization and all persons participating to be aware of and abide by all RHAA rules as stated in the RHAA rules packet. Office personnel must be familiar with all requirements necessary and required as stated and adhere to all standards.
Please fill in a sanctioning agreement and forward to the RHAA office at PO Box 7723, Abilene, TX 79608 in order to have your show approved and reserve the date requested.
In order for a local Working Ranch Horse Competition to be approved to qualify its winning contestants for advancement to the RHAA National Finals, the outlined minimum criteria must be followed and the event must be approved by a signed sanction agreement which is to be submitted to the RHAA office no less than thirty days prior to competition. All necessary forms (judges’ cards, competition results, membership applications), will be furnished by the RHAA to the sanctioning show committee, and only RHAA forms must be submitted at the conclusion of all events.
OPEN TO THE WORLD: The local competition must be open to the world. Reasonable entry deadlines are obviously allowed. In an otherwise closed ranch rodeo, the Working Ranch Horse Competition event still must be open to the world. Classes may only be limited because of time available. During the year, classes offered will be the Junior, Senior, Ranch hand and Cowboy classes in order for contestants to compete with other RHAA members of similar skill levels. An optional Open class may be offered. All RHAA National Finals qualifiers will be eligible compete at the Finals in each of their qualifying classes .
RHAA SANCTION FEE: A $10.00 per horse sanction fee must be delivered to the RHAA office along with the event results by the sponsoring organization following the event. The Sanctioning Agreement signed by the show committee constitutes the payment of a sanction fee regardless of the outcome of the show, (i.e. whether the class was a qualifying class, # of entries etc.) as well as the use of RHAA approved forms only.
COMPETITION RESULTS: Local competition results must be reported in writing certified by the event director or secretary, to the RHAA office as soon as possible after the conclusion of the event (not to exceed five days). In the event of back to back shows, the RHAA may request placing and earning information to be submitted either by fax or by email within 2 business days of the event. Items required to be forwarded to the RHAA office are as follows: the completed RHAA competition form (indicating number of entries, class, riders’ names, horse’s registered name, placing, and pay out, in order of final placing), sanctioning fee, judges’ sheets, as well as any new memberships and fees collected.
JUDGES: At least two judges are required. Judges’ names must be submitted to the RHAA at least two weeks prior to the show. Only RHAA certified, card carrying judges must be used at all competitions. Judges must be provided with a current copy of the rules and RHAA judge’s card at the time of competition and be familiar with the judging criteria. One judge must be provided a whistle or a flag in the event a run must be halted to allow for new cattle. It is important that judges do not sit together or confer during scoring. Judges should sit outside the arena of competition, preferably one judge on each side of the arena so they will be judging different views of the competition. Judges must use a uniform score sheet supplied by the RHAA. All score sheets must be forwarded to RHAA after the competition.For a complete list of RHAA rules, please click on the Rules link.
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