The SPHO-NJ Year-End Awards Program is designed to encourage members to use their Standardbreds as ambassadors in horse shows, parades, hunter paces, trail rides, and exhibitions.

These awards are designed to recognize those who help show the Standardbreds as a versatile breed within the equestrian community, rewarding excellence in all disciplines.

Celebrating our members and their horses who have worked to promote the breed in sport and recreation, each season’s hard work is rewarded with a year-end awards banquet hosted in February.

To be eligible for year-end awards, you must:

• Be a current SPHO-NJ member

• Submit an Annual Horse/Exhibitor Registration. There is a $40 fee per horse and rider/driver combination per year, payable upon submission of the registration form

• Within 30 days of completion of a competition or pleasure ride/drive, submit the corresponding points submission form online.

• Each horse/exhibitor combination will be required to volunteer two hours at the National Standardbred Horse Show or buy out your hours at $50 per hour. You may have a family member/friend volunteer in your place. Buyout fees will be due no later than October 31 of the membership year.
  

Points will be awarded to the same horse/rider or horse/driver combination only. Please select the correct classification for riding/driving levels on the Annual Horse/Exhibitor Registration form.

Placings earned in open classes (not restricted to Standardbreds-only) will be rewarded double points.

​The registration fee will be waived in the event a horse becomes injured, ill or deceased. The competitor has the option to register a replacement horse for the remainder of the season without having to pay a new fee. Points earned with the prior horse are non-transferable.

Members must submit a separate Annual Horse/Exhibitor Registration form for each exhibitor/horse combination.

Points Structure: