{"id":598,"date":"2008-06-23T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2008-06-23T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T18:43:38","slug":"heading-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Heading in the right direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/strange_terry.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>Membership, shows, entries, added money, purses: all of the trends an equine organization might watch are heading in the right direction with the National Cutting Horse Association, said NCHA&#8217;s finance committee chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m0EIN\/is_2002_Dec_18\/ai_95576702\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Terry Strange\">Terry Strange<\/a> (pictured) at the association&#8217;s annual convention in Grapevine, Texas this weekend. He showed NCHA directors figures that from 2000 to 2007 to illustrate that NCHA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Membership increased 31%<\/li>\n<li>Weekend show purses were up 40%<\/li>\n<li>Limited age event purses were up 121%<\/li>\n<li>Purses at NCHA&#8217;s six shows were up 69%<\/li>\n<li>Purses at all NCHA shows were up 76% (from $24.6 million to $43.4 million)<\/li>\n<li>Purses per member were up 34%<\/li>\n<li>The appraised value of NCHA&#8217;s headquarters building, purchased in 2002, has risen by 76% over the cost of purchase and renovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main business of the convention is for the NCHA&#8217;s 13 standing committees to develop proposals for the executive committee to review for action later this year. The front-and-center topic was changes to the standards applied to Amateur and Non-Pro eligibility, with statistics gathered, proposals circulated and surveys taken well in advance of the convention. Most committee chairs reported opposition to a major overhaul of the current standards, but invited ongoing review of money limits and other requirements for Amateur vs. Non-Pro eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics that sparked widespread interest included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wider recognition of Hall of Fame, Horse of the Year, Non-Pro and Youth horses and riders<\/li>\n<li> Gather data for setting time limits for settling herds in Triple Crown events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Re-elected to the Executive Committee are Jerry Black and Ernie Beutenmiller Jr. Joining them are newly elected members Edley Hixson Jr. and Don Bussey. Bronc Willoughby was installed as president; Chris Benedict is the newly elected vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Membership, shows, entries, added money, purses: all of the trends an equine organization might watch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}