Subject: My 2 cents worth
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:10:49 -0500

The starting date for the NCC changes/moves, so months will not work. And, placing at a NCC should qualify the placing dogs at the next NCC or so. For a qualification for 3 years, it should be from the start of an NCC to the start of an NCC three years later (that makes 2 partial years and 2 full years): NCC 2017 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'14-'15,-'16, to start of '17 NCC 2018 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'15-'16,-'17, to start of '18 NCC 2019 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'16-'17,-'18, to start of '19 NCC 2020 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'17-'18,-'19, to start of '20 For a qualification for 2 years, it should be from the start of an NCC to the start of an NCC two years later (that makes 2 partial years and 1 full year): NCC 2017 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'15-'16, to start of '17 NCC 2018 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'16-'17, to start of '18 NCC 2019 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'17-'18, to start of '19 NCC 2020 Qualifiers placed from the start of NCC'18-'19, to start of '20 This past year is the first time we have had over 100 dogs placing at open stakes. Even with about 150 dogs qualified (3 year), we still have not had 100 dogs enter an NCC. It may be a little early to change things-a pole of the field trials should help make a decision to be put in the future. The next couple of years will "tell the tale" of our growth or stability. Yours truly, SueR PS hopefully the chart that Dennis requested is attached