AMHA Amateur Information

Full details can be found in the AMHA websites Amateur Section

AMHA Amateur Eligibility
For horse show purposes, a person is considered an Amateur when he or she is no longer eligible to compete in Youth classes and has not engaged in any activities listed under AM-010 requirements in the current Official AMHA Rule Book, except as a Youth, during the past five calendar years (2022 AMHA Rule Book AM-000).
​All Amateurs are responsible for knowing the Division rules. 

Please refer to the current AMHA Rule Book, pages 161 through to 166 for full details on the AMHA Amateur Division - AMHA Rule Book

To be able to compete in AMHA Amateur classes you are required to hold an AMHA Amateur Card - Amateur Card Application Form

​AMHA Amateur Owned, Trained, and Exhibited (AOTE)
The AOTE program was established in 1999 with the intent and purpose of providing classes in which an amateur exhibitor could show his/her horses without having to compete with horses that have been trained, groomed and/or conditioned by a professional during the current calendar year.
The horse exhibited by the AOTE must be trained, conditioned, groomed and shown ONLY by the AOTE or a non-professional family member in all divisions entered. Non-professional family members are defined as: spouse, mother, father, brother, sister, niece, nephew, son, daughter, grandchild, grandparent, legal ward, in-laws, step-children, step-parents, step-siblings. No one with a professional trainer in the household or on premises may compete in the AOTE division. 
​Please refer to the current AMHA Rule Book, pages 163 through to 166 for full details on the AMHA AOTE Division - AMHA Rule Book