Beth Buechler Limited Series Returns to 2015 Paint Horse Congress
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Paint Horse Congress
Scheduled during the Paint Horse Congress on Saturday, August 1st, the Beth Buechler Limited Series will feature seven classes for Limited Open and Limited Non Pro riders and horses.
“We are excited about holding this event for a second year,” says Coordinator Clea Bobbitt. “We received such positive feedback on the concept, the awards, and all the great stuff every participant received. A huge thank you to Beth’s daughter, Michele Truxal, Black Hawk Coal, and Jim Buechler for supporting this event again this year. Thanks to this contribution, we are again awarding Harris work saddles to the Champions in both Western Pleasure classes. A special thanks to The Equine Chronicle for contributing a third Harris work saddle and to Micki and Sher, The Tack Room Incorporated, for again donating a Pessoa English saddle.
NEW CLASS ADDED
4-Year-Old & Older Green Horse/Limited Non Pro Rider Western Pleasure
The entire event will be held in the Built Ford Tough Livestock Complex main show arena following the Saturday Halter classes. Including this new class, the schedule will run as follows:
- Any Age Horse Limited Open Rider/Limited Horse – Trail
- Any Age Horse Limited Non Pro Rider/Limited Horse Trail
- 4 Year Old & Under Open Limited Rider/Limited Horse Hunter Under Saddle
- 4 Year Old & Under Limited Non Pro Rider/Limited Horse Hunter Under Saddle
- NEW IN 2015: 4 Yr Old & Older Green Horse/Limited Non Pro Rider – Western Pleasure
- 3 Year Old & Under Open Limited Rider/Limited Horse Western Pleasure
- 3 Year Old & Under Limited Non Pro Rider/Limited Horse Western Pleasure
To participate in this ‘limited’ event, exhibitors or horses cannot have won an APHA, AQHA, Quarter Horse Congress, ApHC World or Reserve World Championship in the previous five years in the particular discipline (Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle or Trail) in which they elect to show. This includes Champions or Reserve Champions in any futurities, maturities, stakes, sweepstakes or challenge classes.
Any participating horse cannot have won $2,500 or more as of January 1, 2015. A participating limited non pro rider’s lifetime NSBA earnings cannot exceed $5,000, and an open limited rider’s lifetime NSBA earnings cannot exceed $15,000. A 2015 list of NSBA money earners can be found on www.nsba.com.
“2014 Beth Buechler Limited Series Champions, riders or horses, cannot compete in the same class this year but can compete in a different class. They can return in 2016, but it’s someone else’s turn this year!” Bobbitt says. “World and Reserve World Champions in Amateur and Youth Walk Trot can show.”
The above criteria applies to all seven classes. Regarding the added class for Green Horses, refer to APHA Rule SC-246 that defines a Green Western Pleasure Horse as a horse that as of January 1st of the current year cannot have won more than ten points or a World or Reserve World Championship in the class.
For additional Beth Buechler Limited Series information:
Clea Bobbitt . 573-375-7885 . cleabobbitt@gmail.com
For Congress information as it becomes available:
Congress Chair: Casey West. 785-479-6817. westcasey@hotmail.com
Show Manager: Karen Kennedy. 479-414-6965. kpaintacre@aol.com
Sponsor Chair: Clea Bobbitt. 573-375-7885. cleabobbitt@gmail.com
Trade Show Chair: John Dunn. 816-898-4284. wwphcvendors@aol.com
