Dear CBHI and Super Stakes Stallion Owners,

First off, thank you for your continued support and being part of another successful year. The dedicated CBHI Board of Directors continues to strive for improvements to offer stallion owners and competitors the most benefits, while keeping the program cost effective.

Highlights of 2025:

• First ever, High Point Broodmare was awarded to MS Red Stellettos, owned by the Salmond Family during the feature event. There were 25 mares with 2 or more offspring entered in the event.

• New Slot Race with extra incentive money to CBHI horses was added at the feature event.

• Top amateur futurity and derby competitors got to complete in the short go with the futurity and derby finalists at the CBHI event in Ponoka.

• Breakaway competitors got to compete on two head and a short go at the feature event.
• CBHI Yearling Sale High Seller's–Tie with Judgin By That Look sired by Judge Rock consigned by Colin & Mary Balan sold to Eric & Sheryle Anderson $19,500.00 and Impeccabull sired by Jets Honored Bully consigned by Katie & Logan Vinson sold to Shauna Peters $19,500.00

Congratulations to the Champions:

Super Stakes Futurity Winner – Taylor Cherry (owner/rider) on Lynns Honor $38,430, Sire - Guys Casanova Cowboy, owner Heidi Robinson (now owned by Doug and Debbie Willis) $12,810

Super Stakes Derby Winner – Owner - WT Ranches, Rider - Rylee Trenholm on Ivorys Looker $10,980 Sire - Ivory League, owner Ralph Danard $3,660

Top CBHI Stallion – Guys Casanova Cowboy, Owned by Doug & Debbie Willis, 41 Offspring Placings, $1,344.80

Runner Up CBHI Stallion – Ninety Nine Goldmine, Owned by William & Donna Beierbach, 37 Offspring Placings, $1,213.60

The mare program continues to grow and with that we have moved the deadline for payments to January 31, 2026 (for 2025 foals) to accommodate AQHA processing time and stagger stallion nomination deadlines. We can’t wait to have the first payout for the program in 2026. More information can be found on our website.

Don’t forget to get in your 2026 stallion nominations to the office by December 1, 2025.

Mark your calendars for next year as our event weekend has changed  to September 30 – October 3, 2026. This was due to the CFR moving to our weekend and it was going to affect too many competitors. Please watch for announcements of a new schedule of events and format.

Annual General Meeting – January 25, 2026, director nominations and submissions for agenda items need to be submitted by - December 25, 2025.

It has been an honour to serve as your President in 2025, please feel free to reach out to me at any time.

Take care and I wish you all a successful breeding year in 2026,

Janet Patriquin

President

Canadian Barrel Horse Incentive

Laurie Bresee -President’s Message highlighting another successful year. The super stakes stallion auction was the highest yet generating a purse for 2027 of $197,000. We had terrific entries at our event in October. We also we accepted into the AGLC Casino program and will get our first casino date in the third quarter of 2024.

We would like to thank Simmone Fowler for her years as director on the CBHI board. She has chosen to step down therefore, we’d like to welcome Jonathan Leader and Lisa Christianson as new directors for 2024. On the 2024 board we also have Sheila Chamulke, Corleen LeClercq, Janet Patriquin, Rhonda Allen, Joleen Hoffman, Julie FissetteTomchek, Laurie Bresee, Lorene Stone and Ralph Danard.

NEW BUSINESS

CBHI Event Format: some of the suggestions to improve the format for payout at CBHI events include:

• Have a true side pot where the payout is determined amongst only CBHI horses vs only paid if a CBHI horse places in a “D” at the event.
• If there is a “D” where there is no payout then that money is to be split evenly amongst the remaining “D’s” vs be retained by the CBHI.

Provincial Breakdown: The CBHI event payout for 2024 is as follows:

British Columbia - $6316.50, Alberta - $34,581, Saskatchewan - $12,936, Manitoba - $6316.50

Super Stakes - 125 Cap: our current rule is the super stakes auction is capped at 125 stallion and we take one stallion off the wait list every year. We have been asked if we could come up with ideas to help move the wait list quicker.

Breakaway: we held our first successful breakaway event in 2023. Discussion will be held at directors meeting as to if we continue in 2024.

Survey Results: from the survey results emailed to every stallion owner we got 26 responses. From the surveys handed out at Ponoka to all contestants we received 25 responses.

Volunteers and Fee: currently we have a $25 volunteer fee per stallion for owners who choose not to volunteer. This is to help cover the cost of paying people to help at Ponoka due to the lack of volunteers. It has been mentioned that we may need to increase that fee to $100 per stallion. Further discussion will be held at the directors meeting.

Online Forms: we are looking into getting all of our forms online so people can fill them out directly online to submit.

As the 2023 year comes to an end, we are so happy to have had such an amazing year with The CBHI.  

The CBHI Super Stakes Stallion Auction was another successful one, bringing in $197,000 for the payout in 2027.  The waiting list moved forward again this year, adding new stallions into the auction.  Congratulations to Annette Moore and “Blackgold Jack” who were the winning Super Stakes stallion owner in 2023.

The CBHI Futurity/Derby held at Ponoka over the thanksgiving weekend saw 141 entries in the futurity with 84 being Super Stakes Certificate Holders.  The Derby saw 153 entries, with 87 being Super Stakes certificate Holders.  We continue to have large entries, and with the 3rd year of running the open, youth, and peewee on the Thursday and Friday, then the Futurity, Derby, and Horse Sale on the Saturday and Sunday, the overall feedback was that this format was so much better and easier to follow and attend.  This year we did do a ‘trial’ for the breakaway, with 12 ladies being invited according to their standings in participating associations.  There seemed to be a very good response to this addition, however, we will need to have more sponsors step forward in order for this to grow.  If this is something that you wish to see more of, please contact the office.

In total, The CBHI paid out $63,000.00 in 2023 Incentive money to offspring of our nominated stallions, and $21,000.00 paid out to stallion owners, $1,500 to the youth. Top stallion for 2023 was Ninety Nine Goldmine, with 32 placings and a payout of $1,376.00. Please see website for all stallion placings.

CBHI launched a new mare program in 2021, to include those owners who are breeding to a CBHI Stallion, but are not necessarily a stallion owner themselves. We continue to have more mares nominated, and we are excited to start paying out the first year, 2026.  We will give stallion owners an extended deal to nominate mares still for $60 until Dec 1. (Mares with 2023 foals on)