This sport allows the entire family to compete and enjoy its horses together. The NSCA had adopted a set of pattern horse racing events for national competition.
Competition is the very keenest, but with the greatest regard for sportsmanship and fair play.
The NSCA held its first national championship show in 1966, the first national saddle clubs show in the history of the nation. The winter meeting is held in October at the site of the next years Championship show. The man on horseback, down through the ages, has been set apart from the man on foot. A man in a car or in an airplane is merely a man devoid of the romantic feeling inspired by a horse. Perhaps the man when mounted takes on the pride, courage, dependability, honesty and competitive spirit of his good horse.