SHW123. ENTRY FEES may be charged, and if so, must be uniform to all exhibitors in the class, be collected by show management and paid by the entering party, not paid nor reimbursed by a third party, particularly another competitor in the class. All show fees shall be the same to all exhibitors within each respective division: open, youth, amateur, novice youth and novice amateur.
SHW123.1 Entry fees, if charged, must be specified on the application for show approval.
SHW123.2 Any scheduled class to be held with no entry fee must be so designated on the show application.
SHW123.3 No change in specific entry fee shall be permitted after approval, unless the change can be published in at least one issue of The American Quarter Horse Journal prior to the scheduled date of the show. Violation will be cause for disqualification of the class.
SHW123.4 It is strongly recommended that entry fees for rookie, novice and green classes be nominal.
SHW123.5 Show management may offer discounted entry fees to novice amateurs or novice youth who exhibit in the corresponding amateur or youth class.
SHW123.6 Show management shall maintain detailed written records, sufficient to establish to AQHA's satisfaction, upon request, that each exhibitor's entry fee was paid as required above. Such records shall be preserved for at least one year from the date of the show. Failure to maintain and preserve such record shall be cause for AQHA to disallow the class and refuse show results, or, if previously entered, remove them from AQHA's records.
SHW123.6.1 Failure on the part of show management to maintain or preserve such records as required above shall create the presumption that the requisite fees in question were not paid in accordance with the above rule, with the burden of persuasion on show management and the individual exhibitor to prove otherwise.
SHW123.7 If a horse per SHW904.1 or SHW904.5-6 is entered in a show, its entry fee shall be refunded and it is not to be exhibited.