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Built for the Long Season: Inside the Valley Equine Super Stallion Incentive

By November 20, 2025No Comments

The NCHA Futurity sits at the center of the season, and the early rounds this year have made the influence of the Valley Equine Super Stallion Incentive hard to miss. With more than seventy-five percent of the horses advancing toward the Open Semi Finals eligible for incentive earnings, the program’s reach is already evident well before the checks are presented. Valley Equine has one million dollars set aside for eligible horses at this event, and that level of support reflects a program built to carry significant payouts not only at the Futurity but across the other major points of the season as well.

“We want the incentive to matter on the biggest stage, and then continue to matter long after the Futurity finishes. Supporting multiple major events is what keeps the program valuable throughout the year.” – Jeremy Barwick, owner of Valley Equine Reproduction

The breakdown inside the Futurity is straightforward and substantial. Eligible horses stand to earn from $600,000 in the Open, $250,000 in the Non-Pro, and $150,000 in the Unlimited Amateur. These payouts reflect the program’s commitment to supporting owners when their horses reach one of the most competitive stages of their three-year-old season.

And this isn’t a concentrated, single-week payout model. The Super Stallion Incentive program enters the Futurity after already completing its cow horse leg for the season. At the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity, the Super Stallion Incentive paid $174,300 through the Open Finals, with the top eligible horse earning $40,089 and payouts running through $5,229 for tenth. 

The 2025 NCHA Summer Spectacular paid out $318,000, and the 2026 show is set for a 78 percent increase.

The next step comes after the Futurity concludes. More than $568,000 is already allocated for the 2026 NCHA Summer Spectacular. From the Open Derby and Classic at $153,117 each to the Non-Pro’s $78,117 purses and the Unlimited Amateur’s $53,117 allocations, the program continues paying when most incentives have already closed their books for the year.

What ties these points together is simple: the Valley Equine Super Stallion Incentive is structured to operate across the full cycle of the major-event season. It pays in cow horse. It pays in cutting. It pays in the Futurity. It pays again at the Summer Spectacular. The horses positioned to earn are the ones proving their ability across these events, and the advantage owners receive stays consistent each step of the way.

First Place in the Incentive for $138,000 at the 2024 Open Futurity went to JH Nail Ranch Inc for Too Hott To Tag, sired by Hashtags

The incentive is funded through the current year’s breeding season, meaning all stallions standing at Valley Equine in 2025 are eligible for this year’s payouts. Multi-year participants may also have eligible foal crops even after leaving the roster. A full list of eligible stallions appears at the end of this article and under the Super Stallion Incentive page on our website. 

With $1,743,003 distributed across the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity, the NCHA Futurity, and the NCHA Summer Spectacular, no other program reaches this combination of volume and coverage. Valley Equine stallions are producing the horses still standing deep into the show, and the incentive designed around them is built to reward those that believe in them. All that remains now is to see how the results for this segment of the incentive pay out.

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Eligible Stallions:

  1. Eligible After 2026 NCHA Summer Spectacular ↩︎
  2. Eligible through 2026 NCHA Summer Spectacular ↩︎
  3. Eligible through 2028 NCHA Futurity ↩︎
  4. Eligible through 2026 NCHA Summer Spectacular ↩︎
  5. Eligible through 2029 NCHA Futurity ↩︎
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