Breeders Program

To: DBPR

            Please accept this letter as submission of Florida Quarter Horse Racing Association’s annual plan for the distribution of owners’ and breeder’s awards from the November 28, 2009 through February 2, 2010 QH meet at Hialeah Park.

            The total purse structure negotiated with Hialeah Park for this meet is $4,000,000 in total purses for the forty days of racing from November 28, 2009 through February 2, 2010. $40,000 of the $4,000,000 is earmarked for distribution as owners’ and breeders awards for accredited Florida Bred AQHA registered horses racing at the above mentioned meet. None of the $40,000 will be distributed in 2009. All $40,000 of the owners’ and breeders’ awards fund will be distributed after the end of the meet in 2010 at a time sufficient for all blood and urine samples to be tested but not later than March 5, 2010. The $40,000 will be distributed on the point system outlined below. The points given to each accredited Florida bred are based on the difficulty and class of races the horses have competed in and the placing of each individual horse in each race. Any accredited Florida is given at least one point if it enters and competes in a race of any class. The total money awarded to each accredited Florida bred, each accredited Florida stallion and each breeder will be based on that particular horse’s total number of points as a percentage of all points that are awarded to all the accredited Florida breds racing at the 2009/2010 Hialeah QH meet.

            The owner of the horse receiving any owners’ and breeders’ awards must be a current member of FQHRA. If the accredited Florida bred is by a stallion that was an accredited Florida stallion at the time of conception of the point winning horse, then the owner/s of the stallion at the time of conception will receive their percent of the $40,000 in owners’ and breeders’ awards. If the breeder (owner of the mare at the time of conception) is a current member of FQHRA then the breeder will receive their percent of the $40,000 in breeders’ awards.      

            The point system for owners’ and breeders’ awards for the 2009/2010 Hialeah QH meet is listed below:

The points given to horses that place >4^th (ie:5^th through 10^th) are given to reward accredited Florida breds for entering races.

 Each accredited Florida bred racing at the Hialeah meet will have their points calculated off the above table. That horse will then have their points divided by the total number of points awarded and the resulting percentage number will be multiplied by $40,000. The resulting number will be the amount of money awarded to that accredited Florida bred.

 Any stallion that was an accredited Florida stallion at the time of conception and is the sire of any of the horses that win owners’ and  breeders’ awards based on the above table will receive 50% of the number of points as his progeny that raced at the 2009/2010 Hialeah meet. Any stallion that became an accredited Florida stallion on or before December 31, 2008 and is the sire of any horses that win owners & breeders’ awards based on the above table and was based in Florida at the time of conception will receive 50% of the number of points as his progeny that raced at the 2009/2010 Hialeah meet.

 Any breeder (mare owner at time of conception) of any horse that wins owners’ and breeders’ awards  and that is a member of FQHRA will receive the same number of points as the progeny of the mare that is racing at the 2009/2010 Hialeah QH meet.

All race horse owners’ points, all stallion owners’ point and all breeders’ points will be totaled for the grand total of all points. Each race owner of an accredited Florida bred, each accredited Florida stallion owner and each breeder that is an current FQHRA member will have their total points computed as a percentage of the grand total and that percentage of $40,000 will be the amount of owners’ and breeders’ awards awarded to them for the 2009/2010 Hialeah QH meet that runs from November 28, 2009 through February 2, 2010.

            This owner and breeder award system is planned to stimulate the breeding and buying of accredited Florida breds. This first QH meet is scheduled to bring in approximately 850 registered QH’s into the state of Florida to race at the 40 day meet. The $40,000 in owners’ and breeders awards is only the beginning of a major accredited Florida bred program that will develop as other QH permitted tracks begin racing. We appreciate your time and effort in working with FQHRA to develop a new and vibrant American Quarter Horse breeding and racing industry to our great state.

 Sincerely,

Stephen D. Fisch, DVM
President
Florida Quarter Horse Racing Association.