Twenty-twenty-five is shaping up to be a landmark year for the National Reining Breeders Classic. It will be the 28th edition of the show, and by the end of the yearly event, which is slated for April 15-26, 2025, at the Built Ford Tough Livestock Complex at Expo Square in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the NRBC will reach the milestone of having paid over $31 million since its beginning!

Exceptional payouts have been a hallmark of the NRBC since its early years. It took just seven years for the event’s total purse to exceed a million dollars, and has never dropped below that benchmark since. In fact, the NRBC set another total payout record in 2024 when it awarded $1,708,043!

That’s not all. The NRBC Board recently announced that, for the second year, the 2025 the Million Dollar Show will officially offer one million dollars in added money for the aged event alone.

NRBC Secretary-Treasurer Cheryl Cody explained that the NRBC has always stayed true to its original formula. “It’s simple really. Foal and stallion enrollment money creates the bulk of the purse. 100 percent of the foal money four years previous (and interest) goes into the purse along with 90 percent of the current year stallion enrollment money.”

That’s been the basis of the program and its growth for nearly three decades, although the board has sometimes added additional money to incentivize different divisions.

Based on the number of 2021 foals in the program and the number of stallions consistently enrolled, the show is guaranteeing a minimum of $1 Million in added money for the 2025 aged event. 

NRBC President Tom McCutcheon noted, “For nearly three decades people in the industry have trusted us and have known how much we pay out, and how deep.”

For more information, visit NRBC.com.