These statistics are based on earnings recorded by Equi-Stat, a division of the Cowboy Publishing Group, in the past 10 years (2001-2010), along with major limited-age events through March 15, 2011. This money includes checks won at shows, open incentives and sire/dam enrollment programs.

Money attributed to a horse is the amount of money that particular horse won and is no way related to who actually received the money. Also, monies attributed to riders are not the earnings of the rider, but rather monies awarded to all horses that riders rode from 2001 through 2010. It’s important to note that for the leading multi-discipline owners, the earnings for each listed horse is the money earned while that particular horse belonged to that owner.

The earnings minimums vary within the categories. For instance, the rider earning requirements are: $10,000 for cutting/reining; $25,000 for cutting/cow horse; $50,000 for reining/cow horse; and $5,000 for each discipline in the chart with all three disciplines. The primary objective for this statistical section was to name the representative leaders in each chart, and so the earnings minimums had to be adjusted accordingly.