On May 11, National Horse Show of America, Ltd. President Mason Phelps, Jr. along with representatives of Alltech and the Kentucky Horse Park, announced that more than $600,000 in prize money will be handed out at this year’s Alltech National Horse Show, which will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park from Nov. 2-6.

“We’re going to be offering $370,000 to the open jumpers, including the $250,000 Alltech National Horse Show Grand Prix,” said Hugh Kincannon, manager of the Alltech National Horse Show. “That brings this show on par or better than any show here in North America, or any indoor show anywhere in the world. We’ll have $50,000 for the junior and amateur-owner jumpers as well. In the hunter divisions, we’re going to offer the most significant amount of prize money for any horse show anywhere in the United States.”

Regarding the financial support, Dr. Pearse Lyons, founder and president of Alltech stated, “I’d like to say it’s not quite as much as we put into the World Equestrian Games, but we have already locked up a number of folks who have said they want to come on board as sponsors, so I believe that once we put together the entire umbrella of sponsorship, I’d be very surprised if we’re not way north of $1 million, once we pull the whole thing together. When you do something like this, you have to step up and do it right. We feel we will have a lot of goodwill coming towards us, and you’ll be hearing more about that in the coming weeks.”