LEADING RIDERS AND HANDLERS
FROM 2020 U.S., SPORT HORSE AND MID-SUMMER NATIONALS Computer research by Douglas Tatelman
Now in its 25th year, Totally Tops honors outstanding professional trainers and amateurs from the U.S., Sport Horse, and, historically, the Canadian Nationals. This year that show was cancelled due to concerns about COVID, and the Mid-Summer Nationals was held in its place. The tallies are based on the number of wins each trainer or amateur has accumulated as specified below. Congratulations to those who have made the list — numbers don’t lie, you really are Totally Tops in the Arabian breed. Congratulations from all of us at Arabian Horse World. Join us as we salute our Totally Tops 2020 winners. We thank them for their fine examples of horsemanship and for taking the Arabian to even higher levels of performance.
Totally Tops Disciplines – How we tallied the Tops for 2020
Things you should know about how we compiled the rankings:
• All disciplines include purebred and Half-Arabian wins. • Points are awarded as follows: Championship: 10 points; Reserve Champion: 7 points; Top Ten: 4 points. • A rider/handler must have at least two Top Ten wins or one Reserve Championship to be listed. • Totally Tops charts count only the horses actually shown by these individuals; every effort is made to confirm each rider/handler’s point tally. • Amateur classes are tallied separately from all other disciplines. Classes not included: • Sidesaddle, equitation, or exhibition classes; carriage pleasure driving classes; supreme classes; JTR and JOTR classes; U.S. National AWPA, AHPA and AEPA futurity and maturity classes. Classes included in each discipline: All amateur and junior classes are excluded from the following disciplines. • Halter — purebred and Half-Arabian halter, futurities. • English – Park, English pleasure, country English pleasure, driving, informal combination. • Hunter Pleasure – All hunter pleasure classes. • Show Hack – All show hack classes.
• Trail – Trail, trail junior horse, trail futurity, English trail. • Western Pleasure – All western pleasure classes. • Working Western – Reining, cutting, working cow, reined cow, ranch horse riding, and herd work. • Native Costume – All native costume classes. • Sport Horse Halter — Sport Horse In-hand, Hunter type and Dressage Type. • Sport Horse Performance – Working hunter, dressage, sport horse under saddle, hunter hack, jumper, and hunter/jumper. • Multi-discipline Pros – All trainers with points in two or more disciplines. The following disciplines are limited to classes designated by ATH, AATH, AAOTH, ATR, AATR, AAOTR, AOTH, AOTR, ATD, AOTD or AAOTD:
• Amateur Overall – All classes designated amateur from the halter, English, hunter pleasure, show hack, trail, western pleasure, working western or native costume disciplines. • Sport Horse Amateur — All classes designated amateur that would otherwise fall into the sport horse halter or sport horse performance categories.
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