Proposed Change: 35-02-09

2008 rule change Page 37

F.     CATEGORY 1 LAWSON BRONZE TROPHY REINING CONDITIONS

(1) To qualify for an NRHA Lawson Bronze Trophy, an Open and Non pro must be offered with $2,000 or more added to each class.  Other applicable criteria as stated in this Handbook must be met.

(1)   Open classes only may qualify for Lawson Bronze with a minimum of $2000 added money   and maximum of 10% of the total added money in the Category 1 from the previous year.

(2)   Non Pro classes only may qualify for Lawson Bronze with a minimum $2000 added money and maximum of 10% of the total added money in the Category 1 of the previous year.

(3)   Open and Non Pro classes wishing to exceed the maximum added money must be cat. 5       and will not count for Top Ten World standings.  

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Intent of Proposal (include additional pages as necessary):

The intent of this change is to limit the influence 1 class has on the outcome of the world rankings to be a maximum of 10%. And this is also in line with the NRHA statement and policy that NRHA will not encourage or support the fact that one approved show in our schedule may decide or extremely influence a NRHA World Championship.

Example

In 2008 this would mean that a open class could not exceed $78,951.50 added money and a non pro class could not exceed $48,898.81added money in category 1.

This rules allows the for the limit to increase (or decrease) through the years if more money (larger purses) come into the industry