QUALIFYING
General Qualifying Rules:
● HORSES qualify for performance classes and RIDERS qualify for equitation classes.
● Horses entered in the Grand National & World Championship Morgan Horse Show® must qualify for a class between the last day of the prior year’s show and the day before the current year by:
Placing 1st through 8th in that class or comparable futurity class at an AMHA Regional Show.
Placing 1st through 6th in that class or comparable futurity class at a USEF All-Morgan show, USEF Morgan Division, and shows with a Morgan division sanctioned by registries that have been granted international reciprocity by AMHA.
Placing 1st-4th in that class at USEF Lite Show.
● Equitation riders qualify for Equitation Classes by placing 1st through 8th in that class at an AMHA Regional Show, 1st through 6th in that class at a USEF show or by placing 1st through 4th in that class at a USEF Lite Show.
● Dressage (Intro-First Level) and Western Dressage (Intro-Level 1) qualify by horse/rider combination riding in a Dressage class at any show at that Level.
● Stallions which have been gelded during the current competition year qualify for the corresponding class for geldings.
Qualifying rules for each section:
CARRIAGE DRIVING – No qualifying required
CLASSIC PLEASURE DRIVING – Horse must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any Classic Pleasure Driving class.
CLASSIC PLEASURE SADDLE – Horse must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any Classic Pleasure Saddle class.
DRESSAGE – No qualifying required for Second Level and above. Introductory, Training and First Level horse/rider combination must have been shown at any show at that level. Musical Freestyle horse/rider combination must have received a minimum score of 63% for Training through Fourth levels in the highest test of the declared freestyle level at a any show.
DRESSAGE, WESTERN – No qualifying required for Level Two and above. Introductory, Basic and Level 1 horse/rider combination must have been shown at any show at that level.
ENGLISH PLEASURE – Horses must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any English Pleasure class.
EQUITATION –
- Riders must qualify for AMHA Medal classes by placing 1st or 2nd in an AMHA Silver Medal class.
- Reining Seat riders may qualify by riding a registered Morgan mare or gelding in an open USEF or NRHA recognized competition or a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in Reining Seat Equitation.
- Hunter Seat over Fences riders may qualify by riding a registered Morgan mare or gelding in an open USEF Hunter Over Fences Equitation class and place 1st, 2nd or 3rd.
- Dressage Seat riders can qualify by riding a registered Morgan mare or gelding in an open Federation Dressage competition and earning a score of 60% or higher in Training Level, Test 3.
- Riders must qualify for the UPHA Challenge Cup Finals by placing 1st through 4th in a UPHA Morgan Challenge Cup or by placing 1st through 4th in an Open UPHA Challenge Cup class while riding a Morgan.
- All other Equitation classes must be qualified by winning the appropriate placing in that seat. EXCEPTION: No qualifying required for Adult Equitation.
- Riders must qualify for the UPHA Walk-Trot Challenge Cup Finals by placing in a UPHA Walk-Trot Challenge Cup class while riding a Morgan.
- Walk-Trot riders must have shown in any Walk-Trot class to qualify.
FITTING & SHOWMANSHIP – No qualifying required.
FUTURITY – No qualifying required. Horse must be current on all World Morgan Futurity Fees and have a show fee paid to the Futurity for that class.
HUNTER – No qualifying required.
HUNTER PLEASURE – Horses must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any Hunter Pleasure class.
IN-HAND – Horses qualify by winning the appropriate placing in that class. Classes with combined age groups qualify for the class of the horse’s age. EXCEPTIONS: No qualifying required for yearlings or two year olds or Specialty In-Hand.
JUMPER – No qualifying required.
LEADLINE – No qualifying required.
PARK HARNESS – Horse must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any Park Harness class. EXCEPTION: Two-Year-Olds do not require any qualification.
PARK SADDLE – Horse must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any Park Saddle class.
PLEASURE DRIVING – Horse must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any Pleasure Driving class. EXCEPTIONS: Two-Year-Olds do not require any qualification.
REINING – No qualifying required.
ROAD HACK – No qualifying required.
ROADSTER – No qualifying required.
SPORT HORSE – No qualifying required.
TRAIL – No qualifying required.
VERSATILE MORGAN – No qualifying required.
WALK-TROT PLEASURE – Riders must have shown in any Walk-Trot class.
WESTERN PLEASURE – Horse must qualify by winning the appropriate placing in any Western Pleasure class.
WORKING WESTERN – No qualifying required.
For any questions, please contact Peggy Hatfield, Show Secretary 316-755-0395 or peggyhat@aol.com