The sixth annual United Professional Horsemen's Association (UPHA) Classics Incentive Sale will be held in conjunction with the UPHA American Royal National Championship Horse Show at Kansas City, Missouri’s Hale Arena, on Friday, November 20, at 9 a.m.

The purpose of this sale is to raise incentive money to be paid back on the local and national levels in the UPHA Classics program, offering breeders a viable marketplace for their two-year-olds. Two-year-olds purchased through the 2009 sale will be eligible to compete as three-year-olds in 2010 for the incentive money raised from this sale. The culmination will be at the 2010 UPHA American Royal National Championship Horse Show, when bonus money will be awarded to the eligible horse that placed highest in the following UPHA Classics Championships:

• UPHA Three-Year-Old Five-Gaited
• UPHA Three-Year-Old Three-Gaited
• UPHA Three-Year-Old Fine Harness
• UPHA Three-Year-Old Park Pleasure

Eligible two-year-olds for the program automatically include those purchased through the UPHA sale. All two-year-olds will be presented through the sales arena, in harness or under saddle, as they would be shown under United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) guidelines.

For the broodmare section of this sale, the mare must be a World Champion, Reserve World Champion or the dam of a World Champion or Reserve World Champion. Embryo transfer mares will be accepted if they are carrying a foal from a mare that meets these criteria. The resulting foals will be eligible for the UPHA Incentive Fund prize money in their three-year-old year.

Broodmares must have been declared in foal by the entry closing date and be reconfirmed in foal one week prior to the date of the sale. A veterinarian’s certificate confirming pregnancy must accompany the entry and the updated confirmation must be presented with the mare at sale time.

Entries closed Wednesday, October 14. Ten percent of the bonus money paid at the 2010 UPHA American Royal National Championship Horse Show will be awarded to the consignors of the 2009 two-year-olds.

For further information, contact:

UPHA, Inc.
4059 Iron Works Parkway, #2
Lexington, KY 40511
Phone: (859) 231-5070
Fax: (859) 255-2774
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.UPHAOnline.com
Or Bret Day at (859) 351-1784