The second annual Jerry Wells Memorial Scholarship Halter
Futurity will be held on Wednesday, June 2, during the prestigious Oklahoma Quarter Horse
Association’s Redbud Spectacular horse show. The Redbud Spectacular is
held annually at the State Fairgrounds Arena in Oklahoma City and runs for
eight days from May 29 through June 6.
The Jerry Wells Memorial Scholarship Halter Futurity for
yearling horses is held as a special event at the Redbud show, and is
approved by both the American Quarter Horse Association and the World
Conformation Horse Association. Judging is by WCHA rules. This year
the Futurity will have two WCHA judges.
Last year’s show had thirty entries competing for a purse of
$28,243. Classes were held for Open and Non-Pro Colts, Open and Non-Pro
Geldings and Open and Non-Pro Fillies. This year the show has added
Limited Non-Pro classes and Youth Open and Youth Limited Open classes.
The Youth classes will be for mares and geldings only, and yearlings and older
horses are eligible.
A Leading Sire Award will be given again this year, with the
trophy being presented at the Jerry Wells Memorial Halter Futurity party at the
2010 AQHA World Championship Show.
Another new feature added this year is that the professional
trainers who show in this Futurity will do a halter clinic for the youth who
show, and for any youth who wants to attend. Information has gone out to
4-H and FFA organizations, and to newspapers across the state.
Entries are already coming in and the purse is growing
daily. This year’s purse is expected to be nearly $60,000.
A health fair by Purcell Municipal Hospital is being
sponsored by the Futurity committee, and will include a lipid panel, glucose,
blood pressure and pulse for $30, and an optional PSA (screening test for
prostate cancer) for $10. It will be offered to anyone who attends the
Redbud Spectacular, not just the Jerry Wells Futurity participants.
Donations have been made for class sponsorships by halter
trainers and their customers from all over the United States, and from friends
of Jerry Wells from Purcell to worldwide.
If anyone who reads this information is interested in
donating to the Futurity, either as a sponsor, or goods and merchandise for the
silent auction, please contact Futurity committee chairman Rob Young,
Northwest Insurance, Purcell, OK, at 405-527-8117, 800-828-0279, or at [email protected].
For more information on entering the Futurity, call Rob
Young or go to the Futurity web site at www.jerrywellsmemorialscholarshipfuturity.com.
The website has entry forms, information on horse qualifications and
Open/Limited explanations.
Entry fee is $300 until May19, and $450 after that
date. Entries are closed at 5:00 pm June 1. Ten percent of entry
fees go to the Jerry Wells Memorial Scholarship fund which was
established by the Wells family after Jerry’s death in 2008.
