AQHA Incentive Fund provides unexpected bonus at Adequan Select World Championship Show.

John Hoffer of Auburn, Kansas, received $500 along with his bronze trophy in 2-year-old stallions through the Incentive Fund. To see more photos from the 2010 Adequan Select World, watch the slide show below.

John Hoffer came into the media room at the 2010 Adequan Select World Championship Show on August 29 with an important question: how to collect his money.

John entered his 2-year-old stallion, Special Ordered, in the AQHA Incentive Fund, and during the Adequan Select World, one randomly selected entry in each finals class that is enrolled in the Incentive Fund receives $500.

“Well, I got third in 2-year-old stallions, and they said I got 500 bucks,” John says, “so I’m not going to turn it down.”

Not bad for one day’s showing.

The AQHA Incentive Fund, a multimillion-dollar program that started in 1984, pays people for showing their Quarter Horses. At the end of the year, horse owners and breeders get money for the points they have earned. Through September 30, owners who enroll eligible horses can do so at a discount.

“(It’s a) real good day,” John says of his unexpected bonanza at the Adequan Select World. “I’m going to buy a new hat for my wife, probably from Shorty’s.”

John and his wife, Barbara, who live in Auburn, Kansas, are also the breeders of Special Ordered. John told his wife he wanted a buckskin. When the stallion was born, John figured the horse was “special-ordered.”

To see more photos from the Adequan Select World, watch the slide show below. Click on the photo to see the caption.

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