Notice Board
Change of Judge
Jo Pearce (Westonfields) will now Judge Bitches at the Southern English Setter Association Championship Show on 23rd November in place of Mary Young (Brookedge). Unfortunately Mary has withdrawn due to ill health.
Open Show
I am the Secretary of Tamworth Canine Society. Our Society has Scheduled your breed for the first time and I wonder if you would be kind enough to mention the details in your column, which are as follows: Tamworth & District Canine Society Saturday 12th July, 2008 Sports Connexion, Coventry. Judge: Anne Derry - Balvenie Enquiries to: Sally Damms (Hon. Sec) 01283 791165 or sally.damms@btopenworld.com
Change of Judge
Patsy Hollings (Gunalt) will now Judge English Setters at Scottish Kennel Club Show on 18th May in place of Terry Thorn.
Website Map
A website map is now available. Use this page to understand the structure of the ESA website and to quickly locate the page(s) in which you have an interest
2008 Open Shows
In order to help B & C list judges gain entries at Open Shows details will be provided on this site. To enable this to happen if you are judging or know of any shows where B or C list judges are judging, send the details to me and they will be added to a list on this Web Site. Just list the judges name, the show and the date including closing date for inclusion. Click here to link to page
The KC Gazette announces the following Judges for future shows
2009:
English Setters to lose Challenge Certificates from Belfast in 2009
Crufts: Mr D. Howarth (D) Mr S Collier (B)
English Setter Association: Mr G F Williams (D) Mrs L Taylor (B) Mr J Baldwin (Ref)
Northern English Setter Society: Mrs J Lynn (B) Mr D Lewis (D) Mrs C Moorhouse (Ref)
National Gundog Association: 1st August: Mrs Jessie Boyd
Midland English Setter Society: 1st February: Mrs Cherryl Smith (D) Mrs Karen Barker (B) Mr R Green (Ref)
Three Counties - Mrs Val Cozens
LKA - Mrs Joy Field
English Setter Society of Wales - Mrs Jo Pearce (Dogs) Mrs Margaret Gittins (Bitches) and Mrs M White Referee.
English Setters now in Band "D"
A recent announcement in the Kennel Club Gazette has confirmed that English Setters will be moved from Band "E" to Band "D" with effect from the beginning of January 2004. This is as a result of the drop in entries at championship shows where CCs are on offer. The Kennel Club calculate the average entry over the preceding 3 year period and use this to determine an appropriate Band.
This change has implications in a number of areas. One implication is the qualification for a Stud Book number. In Band "D", it is only CC winners, Reserve CC winners, 1st-3rd in the Open class or 1st in the Limit class (at championship shows) which will qualify for a Stud Book number.
Another impact relates to the judging of the breed at Open Shows. As the breed are now in Band "D", an Open Show judge must be on the "B" List or higher in order to be able to judge more than 3 breed classes, rather than the 5 classes which applied when English Setters were in Band "E".
