Yes, all horses need to be nominated every year to remain eligible.

Nominations are due every year by August 1 for $200 OR by December 1 for $300. This is same for both Pink & Ruby Buckle.

Yes, they are separate incentives and therefore have separate fees.

Please click here for our Pink Buckle stallion guide year-by-year.

You can now look that up on our website under the nomination tab, then click online nomination and ‘Look Up My Horse Now’. Type in the registration number OR sire and dam for best results and click ‘Look up’. If the horse does not pull up there than you can contact the office at office@pinkbuckle.com for more information.

Horses DO NOT need to be registered in order to be nominated! Please don’t put off sending in a nomination by Aug 1 on a foal. You will need to fill out the nomination form with everything but the registered name, and number and send it in or you can go online and nominate it there. Once you receive the papers from AQHA you can email us a copy so we can update our records.

All horses need to be nominated every year, if a year is missed the horse will become ineligible. We do have a missed nomination fee for horses that are under 4. That fee is $2000 and is due by Dec 31 of their 3 year old year. Then you will need to continue making payments every year after that to keep your horse eligible. Once a horse turns 4 and a payment is missed they become ineligible.

No, it is the owner’s responsibility to send in payment every year, but we do send out monthly newsletters with reminders and other pertinent info. If you are in our database you should receive these newsletters, if you are not receiving them please go on to our website and subscribe at the bottom of the home page.

Payments for new stallions added can be made starting in January of the year they are officially a Pink Buckle stallion. Contracts are due Dec 1 for stallion owners and Pink Buckle will announce our official list for the next year around Dec 15 . Any new stallions announced in Dec DO NOT become an official Pink Buckle stallion until January, at that point nominations will be accepted for his offspring.

All entries & nominations need to be postmarked (stamped from the Post Office), emailed (Midnight MST) or processed online (Midnight in your time zone) by the due date. If they are received after that the late fees will be applied, or they will not be accepted if applicable. PLEASE do not wait until the last day!! We are very strict on our deadlines!

Normally processing time is just a day or two, but if you wait until the deadline we ask that you allow at least 2 weeks for processing. We send an email receipt with everything that gets processed. If you submit it online you will instantly get an email receipt -please check your junk folder if it doesn’t show up in your inbox.

No, we do not send out stickers because the fee has to be paid every year for the horse to remain eligible.

• The 50 stallion slots are owned by the stallion owners, with consent from the Pink Buckle.
• There will never be more than 50 total stallions in the Pink Buckle.
• We will not announce the following year’s stallion roster until after Dec 1 when the contracts have been finalized. No payments are due on their offspring until the year they become a Pink Buckle stallion.
• The Pink Buckle stallion waiting list was replaced with the Ruby Buckle stallion roster.
• Our first priority is to promote the current stallions in the Pink & Ruby Buckles! The ONLY WAY to GUARANTEE that you will have an eligible horse is to BREED TO or BUY ONE that is sired by a Pink Buckle stallion.
• We will not promote the Ruby Buckle waiting list because it is of zero value to our currently enrolled stallion owners, breeders and contestants.