2020 Italian Reining Horse Association Futurity Postponed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - The IRHA Board met in conference call yesterday evening Thursday 29 October and, despite the desire to complete the troubled 2020 show season plagued by the Covid-19 Pandemic, after intense days of analysis and discussion on all elements, aspects and numbers inherent to the possibility of keeping the Big Show at the end of November in Cremona, with great regret and displasure, the decision was made to postpone the entire Special Event:  4-year-old NRHA European Futurity, 3-year-old Futurity Irha-Irhba, and the finals of the Italian Championship hoping to be able to reschedule it for the end of February next year.

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The 2018 IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Open Futurity: Fonck rides Spook Sunburst to the Level 4 Open Championship and unofficially surpasses the NRHA Two Million Dollar Mark

Photo by Andrea Bonaga
Photo by Andrea Bonaga

An amazing night of competition in front of a full house closed the Euro 647.000-added IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Futurity. The event not only made history by offering the highest added in Europe, it also attracted the largest number of horses ever taking part in a European reining event — over 700. Yet another National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) milestone was crossed in Cremona: unofficially, NRHA Professional Bernard Fonck crossed the Two Million Dollar mark becoming the first European to do so; Cira Baeck became Europe’s first lady reiner to cross the NRHA Million Dollar Mark and the only woman open rider to join the elite club from the Old Continent.

Read MoreThe 2018 IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Open Futurity: Fonck rides Spook Sunburst to the Level 4 Open Championship and unofficially surpasses the NRHA Two Million Dollar Mark

The 2018 IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Open Futurity: Fonck rides Spook Sunburst to the Level 4 Open Championship and unofficially surpasses the NRHA Two Million Dollar Mark

Photo by Andrea Bonaga
Photo by Andrea Bonaga

An amazing night of competition in front of a full house closed the Euro 647.000-added IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Futurity. The event not only made history by offering the highest added in Europe, it also attracted the largest number of horses ever taking part in a European reining event — over 700. Yet another National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) milestone was crossed in Cremona: unofficially, NRHA Professional Bernard Fonck crossed the Two Million Dollar mark becoming the first European to do so; Cira Baeck became Europe’s first lady reiner to cross the NRHA Million Dollar Mark and the only woman open rider to join the elite club from the Old Continent.

Read MoreThe 2018 IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Open Futurity: Fonck rides Spook Sunburst to the Level 4 Open Championship and unofficially surpasses the NRHA Two Million Dollar Mark

The 2018 IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Open Futurity: Fonck rides Spook Sunburst to the Level 4 Open Championship and unofficially surpasses the NRHA Two Million Dollar Mark

Photo by Andrea Bonaga
Photo by Andrea Bonaga

An amazing night of competition in front of a full house closed the Euro 647.000-added IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Futurity. The event not only made history by offering the highest added in Europe, it also attracted the largest number of horses ever taking part in a European reining event — over 700. Yet another National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) milestone was crossed in Cremona: unofficially, NRHA Professional Bernard Fonck crossed the Two Million Dollar mark becoming the first European to do so; Cira Baeck became Europe’s first lady reiner to cross the NRHA Million Dollar Mark and the only woman open rider to join the elite club from the Old Continent.

Read MoreThe 2018 IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA Open Futurity: Fonck rides Spook Sunburst to the Level 4 Open Championship and unofficially surpasses the NRHA Two Million Dollar Mark