The Kennel Club has approved the following changes to the regulations for field trials.
Regulation J4.d(2)(iv)
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Entries listed as follows:
Registered name and number of dog and/or Stud Book number.
Name of owner(s).
Breed of dog.
Address of owner(s), unless requested by the owners(s) to be withheld for publication.
Sex of dog.
Date of birth of dog.
Registered name of sire and dam.
Name of breeder.
Name of handler
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Regulation J5.c(3):
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Judging experience must include stakes judged at trials held by at least two different societies. Before being added to the Panel for Retrievers or Spaniels candidates for the B Panel must have handled a dog to win at least one field trial stake for the appropriate sub-group and have considerable field trial experience. Before being added to the A Panel for Retrievers or Spaniels, candidates must have handled a dog to win at least one open stake or in the case of Retrievers, been placed 2nd in a 2-day open stake and, since being added to the B Panel, have substantially increased their field trial experience.
For HPRs, before being added to the A Panel or the B Panel, candidates must have handled a dog to a win at a novice, all-aged, or open HPR stake.
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Regulation J8.b.(9)
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(9) A handler must ensure that only the number of the dog being handled at the time is displayed. It is the responsibility of the handler, if handling more than one dog, to ensure that his/her dogs are being run in the correct order when competing.
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Regulation J(A)3.c.
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Judges are responsible for the proper conduct of the trial in accordance with Kennel Club Rules and Field Trial Regulations and the schedule for the stake. Judges are also expected to maintain and abide by the highest standards in accordance with the appropriate Codes of Best |Practice as published from time to time.
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Regulation J(A)3.h.
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Judges should make sure that they have the correct dogs in the line.
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Regulation J(A)4.c.
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All wounded game should, where possible, be gathered and/or despatched immediately. Unless exceptional circumstances prevail then wounded game should always be tried for before dead game. If game cannot be gathered, the judge must depute this task to the official handler and dog appointed for this purpose.
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[NOTE: for clarity, the regulation amend is to remove the word ‘or’ from ‘gathered and/or despatched immediately’]
Regulation J(B)3
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- Competing
(a) The order of running shall be the order of the draw unless, in exceptional circumstances, with the Judges’ approval it is decided the Judges decide to split the competitors.
(b) Initially, the dog with the lowest number under each Judge should be placed on the Judge’s right. When there are three Judges for a Stake they must judge singly and when there are four Judges they must judge in pairs. If two of the four Judges are not Panel Judges they must not judge together. Moreover, if there are only two A Panel Judges present they must not judge together.
(c) All dogs, unless discarded, must be tried in the first two rounds by more than one Judge if there are three Judges, or by more than one pair of Judges if there are four. Whether the Trial is run in numerical order, or split in exceptional circumstances, dDogs must not come into line in the second round under the same Judges as in the first round. After the second round, dogs may be called back into line in numerical order to either side in a four Judge system or to any Judge in a three Judge system.
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Regulation J(B)3(d)
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In the event that the dogs are to be split between the judges, this will be done odds and evens. Where the trial is to be run under the 4 judge system, in the first round the odd numbered dogs will be seen by the right hand judges and the evens by the left hand judges. Where this system is adopted, in the second round the odd numbered dogs remaining in the trial must be seen by the left hand judges and the evens by the right hand judges. The judges can thereafter continue to rotate the dogs remaining in the stake in this way until they get together for a run-off, when the order of sending shall revert to numerical order. Where a handler is running an odd numbered dog and an even numbered dog, both dogs should be run on the side of the lowest numbered dog. The dogs on that side will be run in numerical order.
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Regulation J(D)2.
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Number of runners
To qualify for entry in The Kennel Club Stud Book, the number of runners permitted in stakes is:
- Open stakes: maximum 40, minimum 16.
b. Novice/All Aged Stakes: maximum 45, minimum 12 10.
c. Puppy Stakes: maximum 45, minimum 8
Where an open and any other type of stake are to run on the same day, the maximum number of runners over the whole day is 45.
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Regulation J(E)2.
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Number of runners
To qualify for entry in the Kennel Club Stud Book, the number of runners permitted in stakes is:
- Open stakes: maximum 12 16, minimum 10.
b. Other stakes: maximum 12, 16 minimum 8.
c. Championship - no maximum number
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In the interest of clarity and consistency, the following regulation has been amended.
Regulation J(G)1.a.
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GWTs are competitions which, by artificially simulating shooting day conditions, seek to assess, without game being shot, the working abilities of the various breeds of Gundog. Cold game and dummies may be used at the discretion of the organisers.
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