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Important Information for Competitors

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN EARNING AN AWARD IN THE ADEQUAN/USDF ALL-BREEDS AWARD PROGRAM, READ CAREFULLY.

The All-Breeds award program has adopted a one horse/one breed/one award rule, approved at the 2003 USDF convention. If you want your horse to be considered for the USDF All-Breeds award program, you must make sure that your breed or performance registry (called the "Participating Organization" or PO) has been declared in our records for your horse. If you have not done this already, the declaration must be on record with USDF by September 30, of the current competition year.

Adequan/USDF All-Breeds Awards now have preliminary standings on our web site. The horse is ranked in the preliminary standings have met the USDF All-Breeds requirements and their Participating Organizations's requirements.

POs will be monitoring, throughout the year, lists of horses that are declared for their organization that have a USDF Lifetime Horse Registration and have at least 1 score of 58% or higher from this competition season. Once a horse has met the award requirements and has been checked as "good" by their PO, the horse will appear on our All-Breeds preliminary standings.

The All-Breeds Preliminary Standings will appear at the same time as the open year-end awards preliminary standings.

Owners and riders, it is your responsibility to check your standings throughout the year and notify USDF and your PO if for some reason you believe that you have been incorrectly ranked or left out. Also please monitor your current year score check to make sure all scores are listed correctly.

With this process, Adequan/USDF All-Breeds Awards will be final with the open year end awards; there will not be a time lapse between award finalization, as there has been in past years. No changes to the awards standings can be made after October 15 of the current competition year.

HOW THE DECLARATION IS DETERMINED:

• If you have provided one set of breed/performance/color registry papers to USDF, your horse will automatically be declared for that organization, as long as they participate in the All-Breeds Award Program.
• PLEASE NOTE: If you have sent in breed papers previously or even if your horse has received All-Breeds awards from a specific organization in the past, your horse MAY NOT be automatically declared. All competitors and owners should check their horse's declaration status at, Owner's/Lessee Horse Portfolio Search.
• When registering a horse with USDF, it is important to send a copy of the registration papers.
• In the case of a horse with multiple sets of papers, you should only send us a copy of the breed papers that you choose for an All-Breeds declaration, which should be the foal papers.
• Some US based subsidiaries of a foreign registry do not automatically recognize the foreign-papered horses, so please contact the registry for eligibility requirements.
• If your horse is registered with an organization that does not participate in the USDF All-Breeds award program, you may declare for a participating organization before September 30th. However, it is up to that PO to accept your horse into their organization for All-Breeds awards. USDF recommends that you contact your chosen participating organization for their specific requirements. A list of participating organizations can be found on our participating organizations page.
• If your horse already has multiple registry papers on file with USDF, the original foal registry should be the declared PO for All-Breeds awards unless you had declared for a specific PO prior to October 1, 2004. However, it is up to the owner to make the declaration.
• If you own a foal that you would like to declare for All-Breeds Awards that has not yet received breed papers, prior to September 30th you must submit a letter of verification from your chosen PO stating that the foal is eligible for awards from that PO.
• Once a declaration has been made above, it cannot be changed. This is a one-time declaration for the life of the horse, even if there is a change in ownership.
  Exception: The owner may change the declaration of their horse to another registry with which the horse has breed registry papers, upon written request to USDF, for the following reasons:
• A participating registry joins the All-Breeds program after the horse has already been declared with another All-Breeds participating registry.
• A participating registry discontinues its participation in the All-Breeds program after the horse has already been declared with that registry.
• This declaration does not affect any other awards program.

IN SOME INSTANCES, SUBMITTING BREED PAPERS IS NOT ENOUGH FOR AN ALL-BREEDS DECLARATION:

For example:

• If you submit more than one set of papers and it is not clear which is the foal papers.
• If multiple sets of papers are on file and the foal papers are not recognized by a participating registry.
• If your horse's papers are not recognized by any of the participating registries. For example, your horse has foreign papers. You will need to indicate to which American registry he has been registered.

In these circumstances, please contact allbreeds@usdf.org for assistance.

HOW TO VERIFY THAT A DECLARATION HAS BEEN MADE:

It is the owner's responsibility to ensure that an All-Breeds declaration has been made for his/her horse by September 30 of the current competition year. Once a declaration has been made, it will remain the same for the lifetime of the horse.

Verification of declaration status can be done three ways:

• Accessing your score check and looking for the "All-Breeds Declaration" line towards the bottom of that document, see score check.
• Accessing the web list for currently competing lifetime registered horses without a declaration on file, see Lifetime Registered Horses Not Declared For the All-Breeds Program.
• Accessing your Comprehensive Owner's/Lessee's Portfolio where you can access all the horses you own at once, see Owner's/Lessee Horse Portfolio Search. This portfolio will list all horses in which you are listed as the current owner; it is color coded and will list each horse's All-Breeds declaration.

Please send a copy of your papers to Attn: All-Breeds, USDF, 4051 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY 40511 , or FAX (859) 971-7722. Questions and declarations may be directed to allbreeds@usdf.org.