Breeding and raising team roping horses has been a dream of many for a long time. Today, however, the NTRHA is making it a reality by offering the first breeder’s incentive program focused solely on the team roping horse. The NTRHA’s S/MBI Program is designed to encourage and promote head horses and heel horses as unique and profitable equine athletes, and to carry on the traditions and history of rope horses within the ranching and livestock industry.

 

Many breeders have been producing these outstanding individuals year after year with no platform from which to promote their genetics. Not only that, but many sons and daughters of specialty stallions in other western performance disciplines go on to excel in the roping arena. Whether you’re breeding ranch horses, cutting horses, or any discipline in between, you’ll now have the proof you need to also promote your offspring as exceptional rope horses.

 

It’s an industry standard that stallions are incentivized but rarely are the mares included in those programs. The NTRHA wants to start their program by listening to the mare owner and including those genetics within the S/MBI program.  Stallion and/or mare owners become members of the S/MBI by annually nominating their stallions and/or mares into the program with a yearly nomination fee per stallion and per mare.  The offspring of these incentivized stallions and mares are eligible for annual classes with additional prize money available from the nomination fees.  Currently, offspring of nominated mares and stallions will be eligible for incentive classes at the NTRHA Futurity and NTRHA Sweepstakes -- where the top-scoring 5 & 6 year old offspring of the incentivized stallions and mares will be paid from the nomination fees and class fees. S/MBI Entry Fees for the 2009 Futurity and Sweepstakes will be $250 for incentivized offspring. Payment will be based on the number of entries, so the more entries there are the more places that’ll be paid. All purse money shall be split among the 10 classes of the event, but that’s subject to change in future years as the event grows. Within a few years, the NTRHA envisions the S/MBI becoming its own event. 

 

Get your horses into what’s fast becoming the most prestigious and lucrative western performance horse market by nominating your stallions and mares today!