09/22/2026
The Crown Jewel Incentive is about rewarding the people who invest in a horse’s future — and that reward follows the NOMINATOR, not the ownership of the horse. AND Stallions are NOT required to be nominated for your horse to compete!
This year’s inaugural Crown Jewel Futurity showed exactly how the program is designed to work. When a nominated horse earned a Top Five placing in an eligible division, the Nominator of Record earned the corresponding Crown Jewel Incentive payout.
And here’s the important part: you do not have to own that horse when it competes to receive the Nominator payout.
If you nominate a weanling, yearling or two-year-old and are established as the Nominator of Record, your eligibility for future incentive payouts remains with you even if that horse is later sold. The Terms & Conditions specifically provide that early nominators retain the right to applicable Nominator Incentive payouts regardless of who owns the horse at the time of competition.
That creates an entirely different opportunity for breeders, owners, trainers and anyone willing to identify and invest in promising young horses early.
Nominate them young. Nominate them before you sell them. And if you see a horse you believe has a future in the Crown Jewel, you can be the one who puts your name behind it.
Early nomination also costs less. Current Open nomination fees are based on the horse’s age: $250 as a weanling, $350 as a yearling, $450 as a two-year-old and $550 in the three-year-old competition year.
Get your eligible weanlings, yearlings and two-year-olds nominated and establish your place in their Crown Jewel future.
The horse may change hands.
The opportunity you created as its Nominator can remain yours.
Elevate the Horse. Elevate the Brand.
The Crown Jewel Incentive
Program eligibility and payouts are subject to the official Crown Jewel Incentive Terms & Conditions. https://crownjewelincentive.com/
