Select Shooter Incentive Rules

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Select Shooters Incentive is an incentive program to promote stallions and their progeny in the

cowboy mounted shooting community.  Stallions are enrolled every year and progeny have a 

one time lifetime enrollment fee. This program is not association based.

• All disputes arising out of the interpretation of any rules or conditions of the SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE (SSI) program shall be reviewed and decision determined by the SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE, LLC management.
• SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE, LLC reserves the right to alter the rules and/or conditions of all or part of the Incentive Fund Program as it, in its sole discretion, deems necessary.  
• A show season runs between January 1st and December 31st of each year.
• SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE, LLC will publish the designated approved Shooting Events where the Incentive Program will be available.
• Each horse owner must have a current year W9 on file with SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE, LLC before distributions are made.
• A 1099 will be sent to each rider before January 31 of each year, with the prior year total earnings.

• To be eligible for a payout incentive at any shooting event, the horse owner must have a completed nomination form provided to SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE, LLC or the Producer of Shooting Event, BEFORE the run in the event.
• Each nomination must have photocopy of registration papers from a recognized breed association showing the current owner.
• Horses can be nominated at any point during the year, however, can only be eligible for incentive payout after the nomination fee is received for that year.
• OPEN STALLION ENROLLMENT: Select Shooters Incentive will offer an open enrollment annually for stallions NEW to the program for the following year. The stallion must be living at the time of enrollment. 
• INTRODUCTORY STALLION ENROLLMENT:  The total introductory annual fee will be $500
• STALLION ENROLLMENT: A stallion will be enrolled in the program and considered a Stallion Enrollee if Select Shooter Incentive sends written notification that the application or renewal is complete and accepted. Enrollment is valid for the calendar year of enrollment. A Stallion Enrollee is eligible for re-enrollment the following year. Re-enrollment is not automatic.
• STALLION LISTING: All enrolled stallions will be advertised on SSI social media platforms and the SSI website. 
• SUBSTITUTION/TRANSFER: If a Stallion Enrollee dies, or becomes unfit for breeding prior to February 1st, the owner/nominator may substitute the enrollee with another stallion owned by the owner/nominator by notifying SSI within 30 days of the death or occasion of breeding unsoundness. Failure to provide timely notice of substitution will result in termination of enrollment and forfeiture of applicable fees. Except as provided herein, the rights of Stallion Enrollees are nontransferable.
• DIS-ENROLLMENT: A Stallion Enrollee is subject to immediate dis-enrollment at any time at the sole discretion of the Company. Notice of dis-enrollment will be given to the Stallion Enrollee’s owner/nominator. If a Stallion Enrollee is discretionarily dis-enrolled, any fees paid on behalf of the Stallion Enrollee will be returned. A Stallion Enrollee may also be dis-enrolled for failure to comply with the Program Rules. In such an event, all previously paid fees will be forfeited.

OProgeny of Current Season Enrolled Stallions:

$200 - Grandfathered Horses ( horses ANY AGE sired by a currently participating stallion).

Progeny of Dropped Out Stallions:

$350 - Horses that are Ineligible for Grandfathering (horses born or bred during a season a drop out stallion was participating).

• Only foals sired by Select Shooters Incentive Enrolled Stallions are eligible for nomination to the Select Shooters Incentive program.
• Select Shooters Incentive reserves the right to refuse any foal nomination.
• Progeny enrollment is a one time fee of $200 for Grandfathered Horses or $350 for progeny born or bred during a season a stallion was participating but has since dropped out  
• Any age foal can be nominated. 
• All nominated foals will be listed on the Select Shooters Incentive website.
• TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP: The new owner must provide the SSI office a copy of the registration papers showing the current ownership along with current address, phone and email. 
• Nomination fees paid are not refundable

• Designated Shooting Events will have eligible SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE side-pot entries.
• Rider must have a completed Show Side-pot Entry Form and event entries paid prior to the run. There is no entry fee for SSI payouts. 
• Any SELECT SHOOTERS INCENTIVE horse can be eligible for Incentive Payout

at shooting events, regardless of age.

• Payout Schedule is set at the beginning of the year and will be modified as needed. A designated incentive amount will be “selected” for each approved shooting event.
• Payouts will only be paid to Nominated Members of Select Shooters Incentive
• Payout Schedule for each event will be posted prior to start of the competition. 
• Select Shooters Incentive bonus money will be paid on the horses aggregate qualifying time for the event.  To be paid on a 2D format based on the time of the fastest Select Shooters Incentive eligible horse with “a half split” between horses. Example: 6 horses split will be (1D)1-3 and (2D) 4-6. If there are an odd number of entries there split will fall with extra entry in the 2D Example: 7 horses (1D) 1-3 (2D) 4-7
• A rider can ride more than one Select Shooters Incentive horse if event rules allow. 
• PREMIUMS/BONUS MONEY: Twenty percent (20%) of all stallion enrollment fees will be retained by the SSI for administration costs. The remaining 80% will be paid out in premiums/bonus money as indicated in the Premium/Bonus Money Distribution.
• All nomination fees will become part of the bonus reward premium purse and distributed pursuant to these rules.
• Bonus money will be earned at events (“Annual Events”) that are selected annually by the SSI.
• Bonus reward money will be distributed as follows:
  • 60% to Owner of the nominated foal
  • 20% to Breeder - as listed on official registration papers 
  • 20% to Stallion Owner - as listed on registration papers supplied to SSI at the time of enrollment. If ownership changes during the enrollment year, original owner must provide SSI a copy of the Stallion buyer's agreement showing who SSI Bonus Money is to be paid. Stallions that are not currently enrolled no payout will be given. 
• Winners of bonus reward money will be posted on the SSI website. Owner distributions will be available approximately two weeks after the event producer gets full results to the SSI office. 
• Any bonus reward money not claimed 90 days after it was paid out is forfeited by the winner to SSI as an administrative expense.