Benefits to Owners - Trainers - Breeders - Horses - Industry

Owners

• Creates a new and exciting area of competition that expands the range of usefulness of your horse in and out of the arena.
• Provides potential for personal recognition at the local, regional and national level.
• Expands your skills and those of your horse thus making riding safer and more enjoyable.
• Increases value of your horse because of his expanded skills.

Trainers

• Provides the opportunity for new trainers to emerge as leaders in the SHV arena with the potential for recognition as the concept develops nationally.
• Creates a market for an ‘expanded’ type of training thus increasing the potential client base.
• Encourages the development of new skills in both horse and rider that expand and extend the working life of the partnership.
• Increases the value and marketability of horses.
• Provides a competitive avenue, which allows trainers to focus on developing necessary skills in both the horse and rider.

Breeders

• Broadens the market for horses by developing a horse that appeals to a larger segment of the equine market.
• Increases appeal to buyers because horses having SHV skills have training that sets them up for success in life or any competitive endeavor.
• Trains horses to be willing, calm and capable of handling life resulting in higher prices.

Horses

• Results in horses who are willing, refined in the way they handle/ride and well adjusted.
• Improves partnership between horse and rider.
• Provides a broad area of skills enabling the horse to more easily handle life situations.
• Develops confidence in the horse’s ability by giving the horse a job through the use of obstacles, which encourages curiosity and the skill of ‘how-to’ work through a situation.
• Increases the likelihood that his life will have more stability because of higher rider demand for horses with these types of skills.

Industry

• Offers a new competition that encourages refinement, ride-ability and 'just plain' usefulness of the horse through the development of valuable skills in and out of the arena.
• Improves marketability and increases the value of horses by enhancing their skills thus making them suitable to more people.
• Brings new riders into the competitive arena.
• Provides potential for national competition and recognition.