Pointing Breeds National Championships – new minimum standards of competition  before AKC will award a prefix title of NFC (National Field Championship or NAFC (National Amateur Field Champion) are:

      2.  The minimum qualification to enter the stake shall be one broke dog field trial    placement or a Master Hunter title.

3. At least one series of the stake must be run a minimum of forty-five (45) minutes.

Parent Clubs may establish qualification above these minimums.

To be discussed further at the April 2010 Board meeting is a proposed amendment to the Field Trial Rules and Standard Procedure for Pointing Breeds, Chapter. 3, Sec. 5, that would allow licensed Pointing Breed field trial clubs to hold up to three horseback field trials in a calendar year.

Dealing with Misconduct now permits an Event Committee to grant of stay of suspension.   It was intended to grant this stay is the violation was a reprimand and the Committee was going to recommend to the Staff Event Committee that the mitigated penalty be imposed..  It was voted to add under SUSPENSION in Section X and to the heading STAY in Section 11, effective immediately.

“The Event Committee shall only have the authority to grant a stay if the Event Committee recommends that the mitigated penalty of a reprimand be imposed.”