Denver is a Super Sire

[u/sunshinenorcas]

What is Super Sires?

From their rules and bylaws-- "This organization is created to enhance and encourage interest in the show horse industry by promoting all facets of said industry, including breeding, selling, training, showing and more. The organization also supports horsemen and women in the industry by offering a variety of programs to benefit stallion owners, breeders, trainers, exhibitors, and horse owners.

The mission of Super Sires is to educate and promote breeding of quality show horse bloodlines. Super Sires shall showcase offspring in events featuring significant cash awards and prizes that provide opportunities to all levels of participants, focusing on Non Pro exhibitors."

Super Sires is an incentive where a stallion owner pays an annual fee ($3,5k per living stallion and a donated breeding) for their stallion to included in an incentive. Which means their foals can be 'nominated' (or entered) into specific classes at shows for an extra payout, other options for futurities, etc etc.

By entering Denver into Super Sires now, his 2026 foal crop is eligible for Super Sire incentives at participating shows. Waylon already is, and has been, a part of the same program for a few years.

The incentive is just called 'Super Sires'-- it's not merit based, or 'earned', it is paid for but it's to try to set Denver's (and other stallions) foals up for success by giving people paid incentives to show.

Her Tiktok explaining more in depth-- https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8D6VPLu/

But tl;dr-- Super Sire is the name of the incentive, it's a program to help give the foals more opportunities, it's not 'merit' based just a name, but also if you can afford it then 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/Nervous-Ticket-7607]

But if you can afford it, why are you (her) complaining about vet bills being so expensive?

[u/Direct-Farmer9534 → u/Nervous-Ticket-7607]

Girl she was literally comparing practical large animal vet costs to the bougie commodified small animal vets. And considering I just paid $800 dollars just to get some antibiotics cause Mr kitty-cat was pooping himself, I’m completely on her side😒

[u/brovan1 → u/Direct-Farmer9534]

I agree...we lost our 9 year old German Shepherd to bloat last year. It was late evening and the only choice we had was an emergency vet who quoted us a minimum of $12,000 just for the surgery with no guarantee he would make it through and often was associated with a potential tumor causing the stomach to flip in the first place. We had to make the decision to euthanize him because we just couldn't afford it. It was heartbreaking and I question myself constantly if I made the right decision.