[ SHOWGSD-L ] Forwarded for Peggy M.
- From: Stormy Hope <Stormy435@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:53:46 -0700
WELCOME BACK< PEGGY!
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From: "Peggy Mickelson" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:40 PM
Subject: AKC's Grand Champion title
you have to start with the knowledge that this award was never
intended to
mean anything ... the idea was conceived as a way to bring more money
into
AKC.
There was never any secret about that. As originally conceived, a dog
who'd finished his or her championship could get to be a Grand Champion
without ever beating another special. Nothing is required now in the
way
of wins (no best of breed win required, nothing)...just keep going and
going until some judges give you enough Select awards (that's what they
call them...select awards) and somewhere along the way, get one of those
when another champion in the ring doesn't get one...so you actually
beat a
dog.
The points counted toward a GrCH are not accumulated until your dog
is
already a champion...the points garnered along that way don't count
anymore.
However, the amount of points awarded for a Grand does depend on how
many
points were awarded in the classes on that day.
It's a rather stupid award, considering that it means nothing except
you
could afford to keep showing and showing your dog until it had enough
GrCH
points, and there are many, many people in this country who think the
title is a joke. On the other hand, there are people who are trying
like
mad to get the title...even if it took them 3 years of constant
showing to
finish the dog in the first place.
When it was a hot topic of discussion on the Judges' list, a fellow
from
New Zealand, where they claim to have instituted the original award,
said,
and he made no bones about it, that the Americans had made a mess of yet
another thing.............it was quite funny.
Anyway, it was supposed to make money for AKC by increasing
entries...(they should have put 3-6 or 4-6 month old puppy classes in
instead...that would probably really have increased entries, since
matches
are so rare these days). So, now, in addition to getting some kind of
certificate, the first 10 dogs in each breed to attain the title will
get
another one of the AKC's chintzy medallions............
You should know, too, that if a judge doesn't make the Select
awards, he or she will get a letter from AKC asking for a written
explanation of why not.
So much for it being discretionary..........what a joke.
Peggy
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