The Kennel Club has announced the allocation of championship
show status for 2006 which was agreed by the K C General Committee
at its June meeting. An additional 29 sets of Challenge Certificates
have been granted across 15 breeds with a total reduction
of 38 sets across a further 35 breeds. This is a net reduction
of only nine sets of CCs out of a total allocation of some
3288 sets of CCs in total - over all the breeds.
As the allocation of Challenge Certificates is based upon
a breed’s average entry at Championship Shows over a
number of years, the committee, says a press release issued
last week, was careful to ensure that any reduction was not
made based on show entries achieved solely in 2001.
That
year some entries were adversely affected by the foot and
mouth outbreak. A number of calculations were made in order
to be as fair as possible, and it was only the most favourable
results which were used in arriving at the new breed allocations.
The majority of changes are featured within the General and
Group Championship Show allocation. The Scottish Siberian
Husky Club has been allocated Championship Status for the
first time.
During the course of agreeing this allocation the committee
took into account a number of requests from breed clubs to
alter their breed’s distribution of Challenge Certificates.
The committee was pleased to be able to meet a number of these
requests and these are shown on the allocation chart published
in the July Kennel Gazette.
SINGLE
BEST OF BREED CCS
The
committee is always mindful of the effect a reduction in the
number of Challenge Certificates has on a breed and on its
exhibitors. There was considerable debate on how to lessen
the effect of a reduction in the number of Challenge Certificates
on, in particular, the numerically smaller breeds. The Committee
wanted to attempt to maintain a reasonable number and spread
of Championship Shows at which exhibitors could have the opportunity
to enter.
As a result of this debate the Committee agreed to introduce,
on an experimental basis only, the concept of a single Best
of Breed Challenge Certificate. It was further agreed that
those numerically small breeds, which were due to lose a set
of Challenge Certificates, should take advantage of this new
concept.
So rather than removing a set of CCs (two CCs) from one show,
the Committee agreed that one Challenge Certificate should
be removed from each of two shows thereby maintaining the
number of shows at which exhibitors could compete for a Challenge
Certificate, and lessening the effect of the reduction.
The breeds affected by this new allocation in 2006 are:
Ibizan Hounds, Finnish Spitz, Pharaoh Hounds, Otterhounds,
Norwich Terriers, Sealyham Terriers, Welsh Terriers, Irish
Terriers, Maremma Sheepdogs, Belgian Shepherd Dogs (Groenendael)
and Swedish Vallhunds.
The General and Group Championship Show Allocation chart indicates
those shows where single Best of Breed Challenge Certificates
will be on offer.
The complete allocation to breed clubs is published in the
July Kennel Gazette and it should be noted, says the Kennel
Club, that this allocation is made with the proviso that the
societies concerned have run satisfactory shows in the previous
year.
OUR DOGS hopes to reproduce this list for the interest of
readers in next week’s issue.
Kennel Club Factfile see Regular Features.
