RULES + SHOW SCHEDULES

Standardbred Section
  • All horses must carry an official Harness Racing Brand
  • Horses age is of 1 August
  • Height Certificates must be carried where classes are defined by height
  • Performance cards to be carried & documented for Novice status
Minimum Schedule
Inhand:
  1. ​Mare/Filly
  2. Colt/Gelding/Stallion
Champion and Reserve Champion Inhand Standardbred – (To be judged from the winners of classes 1 & 2…Second placegetters to standby)

(Optional classes that may wish to be added)
  • ​​Best Presented Horse and Handler
  • Best Paced Inhand Standardbred
  • Best Handler

Ridden:
  1. Best Rider on a Standardbred
  2. Novice 0-5 wins
  3. Open Standardbred
  4. Best Paced Standardbred
  5. Best Mannered Standardbred
​Champion and Reserve Champion Ridden Standardbred – (To be judged from the winners of classes 2 & 3…Second placegetters to standby)

(Optional classes that may wish to be added) 
  • Best Presented Horse and Handler
  • Best Walking
  • Ladies Standardbred to be ridden by a Lady or Gentleman
  • Gentleman’s Standardbred to ridden by a Lady or Gentleman​
Comprehensive/Royal Schedule
Inhand:
  1. Best Presented Horse and Handler
  2. Youngstock 3 years and under any sex
  3. Mare 4 years and over
  4. Gelding/Stallion 4 years and over
  5. Best Paced
Champion and Reserve Champion Inhand Standardbred – (To be judged from the winners of classes 2, 3 & 4…Second placegetters to standby)

​Ridden:
  1. Best Presented Horse & Rider
  2. Best Rider on a Standardbred
  3. Novice 158cm and under
  4. Novice over 158cm
  5. Open 158cm and under
  6. Open over 158cm
  7. Best Paced Standardbred
  8. Best Mannered Standardbred​
Champion and Reserve Champion Novice Standardbred – (To be judged from the winners of classes 3 & 4… Second placegetters to standby)
Champion and Reserve Champion Ridden Standardbred – (To be judged from the winners of classes 5 & 6…Second placegetters to standby)
Champion Paced and Mannered Standardbred – (To be judged from the winners of classes 7 & 8… Second placegetters to standby)
***    Please refer to NZSBA’s condition # 7 – for other options if split heights are not required. 


​NZSBA conditions:
1 All horses must carry an official Harness Racing Brand.
2 Horses age is of 1 August.
3 Height Certificates must be carried where classes are defined by height.
4 Novice performance cards to be carried & documented
5 Novice Classification: a) A Novice exhibit or rider is one that has yet to win six (6) classes in any division within the competitions provided at any A & P Show/Event. Note: To clarify further, at time of first day of the Show/Event competition If you have 0, 1 or 2 wins – you can enter the 0-2 wins class, if you have 0, 1, 2 or 3 wins – you can enter the 0-3 wins class, if you have 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 wins – you can enter the 0-5 wins class. Once you have achieved 6 wins in Conformation (and this includes Ladies & Gents classes) and/or Paced & Mannered classes, you can no longer enter in Novice classes in that category.
6 Novice horses must be shown in a single bridle (snaffle bit).
7 Only Open conformation, Open Champion & Reserve are HOY Qualifying classes
However, as we want to ensure maximum entries for your classes - we would appreciate you take your shows entries into consideration and run, either two Open classes split by height or an Open and Lady’s combination, with no more than three open classes being available at one show (eg - two Open classes split by height with an added a Lady’s class or one Open class, a Lady’s class with an added Gentleman’s class if you choose to have three open qualifying classes, bearing in mind competitors are only eligible for either a Lady’s or a Gentleman’s – not both
 Please choose the schedule that suits you to maximise your entries per class.
8 Supreme has been removed from both schedules - from a judging point of view a Ridden horse cannot be judged against an Inhand horse unless the Ridden horse is stripped, therefore you are judging two Inhand horses - making the Supreme null in void. 
In no other section, do RAS or Breed have an Inhand and Ridden horse compete against each other for a Supreme.
9 Standardbred schedules are to be sent to NZSBA (julie@thebreeders.co.nz) for approval, PRIOR to schedules going live online. NZSBA is an affiliated breed society to RAS, therefore RAS do NOT approve the Standardbred schedule, NZSBA as the governing body of the breed does.
10 NZSBA offers shows holding a Standardbred section, sponsorship of $100 + GST and $200 + GST for Royal Shows.
11 Judges: When choosing a Judge for this section - although it’s not a requirement, NZSBA would prefer an RAS listed Judge and wish these horses to be judged the same as any other RAS section…on Conformation and Movement – not breed specific.
12 NZSBA request all A&P Shows to send Standardbred results to julie@thebreeders.co.nz to ensure correct qualifying has been obtained for HOY.
​13 NZSBA is the affiliated organisation to RAS for Standardbred’s – all correspondence RAS related is to be dealt with by New Zealand Standardbred Breeders Assn (NZSBA) at julie@thebreeders.co.nz - not North Island Standardbred Assn (NISA) or New Zealand Standardbred Riding Assn (NZSRA).        
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