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Production Class
Production classes are designed for the youth that has experience
riding a horse and now wants to do all of the training on a horse
starting when the horse is a yearling. The youth can then show that
animal in classes against other youth that have also done all of the
training on their horse. For a safe and rewarding experience the
following rules apply to all production classes.
- Stallions may only be shown (and then only in the county) during
the calendar year in which they are born. NO EXCEPTIONS.
- Production classes are limited to youth who have passed their
thirteenth birthday and have not passed their nineteenth birthday as
of January 1, of the current year.
- The horse will be used only by the 4-H'er. Parents, trainers
and any other people may not train or show the horse. The horse may
be shown in open or breed shows, but only by the youth who owns the
project. Youth may get advice from others, but no one else will
actually ride, drive, or handle the horse at halter to train or show
it.
- The horse must be raised or purchased by January 1 of its
yearling year. You may lease a mare to produce the horse, but you
can not lease the horse you will train and show.
- See the Uniform Rule Book for proper tack, equipment and
class rules.
- Riding production horses in the classes in the performance
division of the regular 4-H show using equipment and showing style
required there does not make that horse ineligible to continue
showing in the production division. However, they will use the same
bit as is used for the production division.
- Classes at the Production Show will be divided by type, age,
sex or any other reasonable division based on number of entries.
Halter classes are available for 1,2 and 3 year olds; Performance
classes for 2 and 3 year olds include Pleasure classes for western
(stock type), hunter, saddle-type, and easy gaited. Pleasure driving
is offered for light and draft horses. Longe line is offered for
yearlings and ground driving for yearling and two year olds. The
Production Program ends after the horse's third year.
- Only one production animal per exhibitor may be shown at
State Fair in one year. A production animal may show in only one
halter class and in one Performance Class in the State Fair
Production Show. WEANLINGS ARE NOT SHOWN AT STATE FAIR. As long as
the production animal continues under the production rules, it does
not need to be shown each year at State Fair in order to show the
following year.
- A youth can show a production animal and other project
animal(s) that qualified under PAS and/or dressage at state fair.
- If a youth is in both FFA and 4-H with horse projects, the
youth must have a production animal in one organization and a
non-production animal in the other organization.
- To attend State Fair, a youth must enter through the local
extension office or vocational agriculture instructor, and the entry
must be at the office of Amber D. Moffett, 2029 Fyffe Rd, Columbus,
OH 43210, by June 20 of the year of the show. Production horses do
not need to qualify in County PAS classes to show in production
classes at state fair. Production classes are open to FFA and 4-H
members meeting the requirements listed within this document. If a
youth enters the Production Show at State Fair and then does not
attend (except a letter from a veterinarian stating that the horse
is injured or unable to attend or a doctor's excuse saying the youth
is unable to attend is sent to the State Horse Specialist by one
week after show date), they will be ineligible to show at State Fair
the following year.
- After you enter, you will receive an exhibitor letter, a copy
of the classes for the production show and any other information
necessary.
- If any youth has broken rule #3 above and there is evidence to that effect, they will be dismissed from the program and not allowed to show a production horse in 4H or FFA for at least 3 years. Horses violating tack rules will be given a warning the first time (and will not place in a class when using illegal tack), subsequent violations will cause dismissal fo that horse from the production program.
- At the start of the project year the contract and entry form
which is supplied by the local
extension representative or vocational agricultural instructor and
must be signed and filed with them. The contract binds the youth to
the rules as set forth in the production division. Production horses
should be identified by the same time other horses are identified in
your county and a copy of the production contract kept in the
Extension office.
