OCALA INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW is honored to host the final class of 2025 for the inaugural year of the ARHPA Green Driver Roadster Championship. It has been a very successful year for this innovative class that came from a suggestion by Don Deardorff at the 2025 UPHA Convention during our annual ARHPA meeting.
Each participant in the ARHPA Green Driver Championship will receive a Freedman’s halter. The winning trainer of the entry will receive a $500 gift card from Bowman Tack. The Standardbred Journal is giving every entry a page of advertising. The winning entry will also receive a Full Color Ad in the Saddle Horse Report, as well special ribbons, trophies, and a neck garland. Trainers of 1st through 5th will share a purse of $1,500, with 35% going to 1st, 25% going to 2nd, 20% going to 3rd, and 4th & 5th receiving 10%. The trainer’s purse is sponsored by Sunrise Stables.
This class has been added to the schedule as class 81.1, on Thursday evening after class 81. The specs are as follows:
Open to amateur drivers 15 years and older. Manners will be emphasized as a major requirement to ensure safety. Judges must immediately excuse any horse that acts as if it may be more horse than the driver can handle. To be shown at the jog-trot and road gait both ways of the ring. Speed is not to be called. Attendants are allowed in these classes and classes must be split if more than eight (8) entries. To be judged on manners, performance, quality, and speed.
Gaits: Jog and Road Gait only, both ways of the ring
Specs: Manners, performance, quality, and speed
To be judged on overall performance at the jog-trot and road gait. Must show a distinct change in speed between the jog-trot and the road gait.
Eligibility:
For drivers new to the roadster division that have not shown in more than five (5) road horse classes in their competition lifetime (excluding green driver class).
Ten wins eliminates a driver from further competition in green driver classes with the exception of one horse classes.
The green driver class does not prohibit drivers from showing in youth, ladies, or amateur classes at the same show.
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