PENNSYLVANIA BEAGLE GUNDOG
ASSOCIATION, INC.
RUNNING RULES AND GENERAL
PROCEDURES
The Association will follow the American
Kennel Club’s Beagle Field Trial Rules and Standard Procedures for Small
Pack Option trials. The exception
will be for the following special rules and procedures (these rules and procedures apply to both
all-age and derby qualifying trials except where
noted):
P. B. G. A. QUALIFYING
TRIALS
A -
Each
P.B.G.A. Qualifying trial shall qualify hounds who have successfully
obtained the necessary placing and points as stated in the running rules
for the
P.B.G.A. Championship Trial.
B -
1. Entries: are open to AKC registered Beagles. If not AKC registered, the hound
must be part of an AKC registered litter. Exceptions will be allowed for Beagles
registered in Canada.
Entries are open to anyone whose hound can meet these requirements. Individual membership in the Association
is not required to qualify
their hound for the PA Beagle Gundog Championship
Trial.
2. Entry Fees will be a minimum of $10.00 and a maximum of $12.00
per hound
for DUAL ENTRY ONLY (field and show), at the discretion of
the club with the per
capita adjusted as needed returned to the Association’s Treasurer. All entry forms must be filled
out completely.
3. Castrated dogs and spayed bitches
are ineligible for entry.
C -
Field
Scoring: The Field Judges will score the first
five field placed hounds in each class
independently of each other and give their scores to the Roving
Marshall or Field Trial Secretary. The Field Trial Secretary will add the
two judges’
scores for each hound and divide by two for each hound’s field score. The Field
Judges will base their hound scoring from 100 points on down. A score of 100 points will be given to
the perfect running hound, and a percentage of perfection awarded to each hound as
it pleases each judge. A
minimum of sixty (60)
points is needed to qualify a hound for the PA Beagle Gundog
Championship Trial.
D
-
Conformation Show Scoring:
The Conformation Show Judge will score each hound entered in the
show. Scoring is based on the AKC
Standard for the Beagle using the
100 point scoring: 25 points for
head, 35 points for the body, 30 points
for the running gear and 10 points for miscellaneous. The Show Judge will give the scores for each hound to the Field Trial
Secretary.
Running Rules and
Procedures
Page 2
A minimum of sixty (60) points is needed to qualify a hound for the PA
Beagle Gundog Championship Trials.
Any hound owned by the show judge will be given the minimum score of
sixty (60) points for the
show.
Hounds placing at PBGA member club AKC LICENSE TRIALS in the current
field trial season are exempt from the sixty -(60) point minimum score in
a qualifying trial
show.
Dogs placing at PBGA observation trials shall be qualified and points
earned, as in other PBGA qualifying
trials.
E -
1. Grand Final
Winner: At Qualifying trials, there will be a
single Grand Final
Winner to cover all four classes.
At the All-Age Championship Trial and at the
Derby Championship Trial a Grand Final Winner trophy will be awarded in
each of the four classes.
The Grand Final Winner typifies the single hound in each class as the complete Beagle, and is given
to the hound scoring the highest
combined total number of points from both field and show. The Field Trial Secretary will post the results for each class
so that all may see the scoring for the
Grand Final Winner Award.
2. In the event of a tie for Grand
Final Winner, the following tie breaker system will
be used:
1. The hound with the highest field
placement shall win.
2. If field place is in tie, the hound with
highest field points shall win.
3. If field points are tied, then the hound
placing in the largest field class
(defeated
more field starters) shall
win.
4. If the field classes are the same size,
then the hound placing in the
largest show
class shall win.
F -
Awards: The following awards will be used at all P.B.G.A.
Qualifying Trials:
MANDATORY
AWARDS -
First place TROPHIES to all classes
(field
and
show.
TROPHIES to Grand Final
Winners.
Ribbons must be given to all placed hounds
in
the field.
OPTIONAL AWARDS - TROPHIES to
all places.
It is recommended that
ribbons be given to
all lesser placement in show
other than 1st
place and
GFW.
Running Rules and
Procedures
Page 3
G -
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS:
1. Color-coded collars must
be used. Painted numbers on the
hounds may be used at the
clubs discretion.
2. Alternate packs may be
run whenever it is warranted by the Field Trial
Committee.
3. Any club may run a combined sex P.B.G.A.
Qualifying Trial providing the
host club advertises that it will
be a combined sex trial.
4. Apprentice judges may be used in field
and show, apprentice judges to be
observer
only.
GUNDOG BRACE
FORMAT:
1. Each member club may hold
two all-age qualifying trials and one derby
qualifying trial,
in addition to one SPO licensed trial and a dissimilar licensed
Brace
trial.
2. It is proposed that each
club holding an all-age qualifying trial may hold one
qualifying trial
using a Brace format as outlined in AKC rules. Said qualifying trial may not be
held in conjunction with NEBGF qualifying trials or National
SPO
Championship qualifiers.
3. No club is required to
hold a qualifying trial using the Brace format; clubs not
wishing to use
the brace format are still eligible to hold two all-age qualifying
trials using the
SPO format.
4. Derby qualifying trials
will run under SPO format.
5. Derby and All-Age
Championship trials will be run under SPO format.
6. All Brace and SPO format
qualifying trials, except licensed trials, will be
required to use
gunfire, must include conformation shows and will be eligible
for
consistency. License trials will
follow their original formats whether it be
Brace or
SPO.
P.B.G.A. HIGH POINT
AWARD:
Each year, the two-(2) most consistent hounds by sex and class will be
honored
for their accomplishment in gundog trials that are sponsored by P.B.G.A.
clubs
only. These gundogs trials
will include P.B.G.A. Qualifying trials, the All-Age
Championship trial and Plan A trials. A hound placing in any of these trials
will be awarded points on a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
point system. In the event of a
tie, the hound having the most wins with
the largest class within the Association shall be the
winner.
At the conclusion of each of these trials, the host club Field Trial
Secretary will send the top five
(5) placement results with entry forms that list the name of
Running Rules and
Procedures
Page 4
owner and name and sex of hounds, to the PBGA East Region Vice President
who
is responsible for keeping tabs on all the hounds in the running for the
High Point Award. The High Point
Award will be announced at the conclusion of the PBGA All-Age Championship Trial each
year. Most consistent and runner-up
trophies
will be awarded in each class (13” dogs, 13” bitches, 15” dogs and 15”
bitches).
All field trial results should be mailed by the Field Trial Secretary
within two (2) weeks to the
P.B.G.A. East Region Vice President.
Any club not submitting results within
two (2) weeks will be assessed a $25.00 penalty.
H
-
PENNSYLVANIA BEAGLE GUNDOG CHAMPIONSHIP: The All-Age Championship Trial will be held
on the second full weekend in October, unless due to an AKC schedule that conflicts
with the PBGA All-Age Championship
Trial date. The Derby Championship Trial will be
held the third weekend of
June except in years that Father’s Day falls on this weekend, then the
trial will be
held the second weekend of June.
These trials shall rotate from East to West in alternating years. No PBGA member club will schedule an AKC
License trial, and AKC sanction trial,
PBGA qualifier or other events on the dates of the PBGA Championship Trials.
1. The P.B.G.A. Championship trial
will be hosted by the member club who
successfully bids for this trial at the summer meeting for the following
year.
2. The judges for the Championship
trials will be selected by the delegates at the meeting before the trial (Derby
judges will be done in January and All-Age judges will
be done in June). Each delegate
will write down no more than eight (8)
names of proposed field judges and one show judge. Each judge, if accepting, must give the Association’s East or West Region
Vice President a signed
acceptance to judge.
3. The Championship trial will be
conducted in the same manners a P.B.G.A.
Qualifying trial, except all awards will be trophies. With
the exception of AKC
Field Champions, all entries must be qualified in a P.B.G.A.
Qualifying trial or at an AKC
Licensed trial by a P.B.G.A. member club the same year prior to the
trial. Owners and Handlers
of hounds will be responsible for seeing that their
hounds are placed in the right class: 13” bitches, 13” dogs, 15” bitches,
15” dogs. If a
hound places in two different classes at a P.B.G.A. qualifying trial, the
handler shall determine which class to enter the
dog.
4. The Association shall handle all
expenses incurred for the Championship Trials.
All monies received from entries shall be used to pay judges and other
expenses incurred on days of
trial. All excess monies from
entries shall be turned over to the
Treasurer.
5. Host club will be responsible for
providing meals and shall receive all profits.
Running Rules and
Procedures
Page 5
6. The
entry fee for unqualified hounds at the Derby Championship Trial will be doubled.
7. The
entry fee for AKKC Field Champions that have not placed at a qualifying trial will be
double.
I -
1. Qualifying Trial
Schedule: Each year at the June
meeting the West Region Vice
President will give tentative dates for the next year. The clubs will have until the October meeting
to respond to the schedule by approving or disapproving these dates. Scheduling will be done by the West
Region Vice President. Any changes
or disagreements about the schedule should be taken to this person. Any
changes or cancellations must be
cleared through the West Region Vice President before anything is
done. The state shall be divided
into two sectors. The east sector,
starting at PA - NJ line, west to State College. The west sector, starting at the PA
- Ohio line, east to State College.
2. Priority Trials: Considering the difference and diverse
Gundog Trials held by
member clubs is defined as follows:
A First Priority - Licensed Trials
B Second Priority - P.B.G.A. Qualifying trials, All-Age and
Derby
C Third Priority - Make your own pack, two couple pack,
etc.
3. If two or more clubs are in conflict over
the same trial date, the following
procedure will prevail:
The club which has been conducting gundog trials the longest amount of
time in years will have preference over another providing one of the
clubs did not hold a P.B.G.A. Qualifying trials on that date the previous
year.
J - ANY
MOTION TO CHANGE THESE OR ANY SUBSEQUENT RUNNING RULES MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE INDIVIDUAL
CLUBS SIXTY (60) DAYS
BEFIRE THE MOTION IS TO BE VOTED ON.