[ Forms: Dam Nomination, Puppy Nomination, Litter Nomination ]

Purpose:To encourage and reward the breeding of the best possible Tibetan Spaniel. Such recognition is important to the breed and these stakes will not only reward the efforts of the breeder but also the owners in whose hands lie the responsibility of developing the inherited potentialities. Recognition is also given to the Sire of the dogs for his contribution to the breeding.

Rules and Regulations of Futurity Stakes:

  1. All Futurity stakes shall be held in connection with only the National Specialty of the Tibetan Spaniel Club of America. Said stakes will not be held at any other TSCA or non-TSCA sanctioned function. Stakes classes are a non-regular class in conjunction with the TSCA national.
  2. Eligibility of dog:
    1. The breeder must nominate a litter at the time of breeding. Each individual puppy from said litter shall be eligible to compete in the next Futurity stakes held on or after the date they will reach six (6) months of age; eligibility to enter a Futurity stakes will be for this stakes only.
    2. Each nomination must meet all time restrictions in order to be considered legitimate nominations. Only dogs that actually compete in the stakes for which they are eligible can win any stakes money and/or prizes.

How to Nominate a Dam:

  1. Nomination forms shall be provided by the Stakes committee, shall be printed periodically but no less than annually in the TSCA Newsletter, and shall be made available on the TSCA website.
  2. Forms shall be submitted to the Stakes committee by the breeder or co-breeder of the litter; and said person must be a member in good standing of the Tibetan Spaniel Club of America for at least six months prior to the date of nomination. The nominator must also be a member of the Tibetan Spaniel Club of America at the time of the stakes judging.
  3. At the time of breeding and before whelping the dam is nominated by sending a completed dam nomination form to the stakes committee bearing a postmark date before the date of whelping.
  4. Fee for nominating a dam shall be $15, and may be revised by the Board of Directors of the TSCA. There shall be no refunds given for ANY reason.
  5. Upon receipt of the dam Nominating Form, the Stakes Committee shall send to the breeder, preferably by electronic mail, the following: TSCA Dam Control Number (to be used on Litter/Puppy Nomination Forms), and a Litter Nomination Form.

How to Nominate a Litter:

  1. Forms shall be submitted to the Stakes committee by the breeder or co-breeder of the litter, and said person must be a member in good standing of the Tibetan Spaniel Club of America for at least six months prior to the date of nomination. The nominator must be a member of the Tibetan Spaniel Club of America at the time of stakes judging.
  2. Completed Litter Nomination Form and check or money order made payable to the Tibetan Spaniel Club of America (TSCA) must be received by the Stakes committee bearing a post-mark date of no later than eight (8) weeks after whelping date of the litter being nominated.
  3. Fee for nominating a litter shall be $30.00, and may be revised by the Board of Directors of the TSCA. There shall be no refunds given for ANY reason.
  4. All puppies in a nominated litter shall be eligible for Futurity competition, but individual puppies must be nominated before the age of 4 months by the actual owner.
  5. Upon receipt of a Litter Nomination Form, the Stakes Committee shall send to the breeder preferably by electronic mail, an acknowledgment of receipt and copy(s) of the Puppy Nomination Form.

Individual Puppy Nomination Form:

  1. The owner of an individual puppy must nominate that puppy before the age of four (4) months and will need to complete a Puppy Nomination Form supplied by the breeder. Owner does not have to be a member of the TSCA.
  2. Puppy Nomination Forms shall be returned to the Stakes Committee and must be postmarked, on or before eight (8) weeks prior to the date of the Futurity Stakes competition at which it will first be eligible.
  3. Puppy Nomination Fee shall be ten ($10.00) dollars and may be revised by the Board of Directors of TSCA.

How to Enter a Dog for Futurity Stakes Judging:

  1. A dog must be entered in any regular class, at the TSCA National Specialty and Obedience Trail, for which it is also eligible for Futurity Stakes competition. The entry fee for said regular class must be paid and accepted as a valid entry fee by the superintendent/show secretary responsible for taking said entries.
  2. The Futurity Stakes entry shall be listed on the official AKC entry form for this Specialty and Obedience Trail as an Additional Class. Fee for this class shall be determined by the show committee but shall not exceed $15.00. This fee is for the purpose of paying AKC and superintendent fees, with remainder going to TSCA. The Additional Class must include the appropriate age division as described in #3 below.
  3. Futurity Stakes competition shall be divided into four (4) age divisions as follows: 6-9, 9-12, 12-15, and 15 months and over. Each age division is further divided by sex. The reason for classification for 15 months and over is due to a puppy that will only be five months of age at the next Specialty, would conceivably be up to 19 months of age due to the “floating schedule” for Specialties.

Procedures for Judging a Futurity Stakes:

  1. The Judge shall judge the Male entry for the 6-9 division first, then the Female entry for the same, and shall continue in this manner until all age divisions have been judged, making four placements for each sex, if possible.
  2. After completion of all age divisions for both sexes, the first place winners of both sexes for the 6-9 and 9-12 month age divisions shall enter the ring and compete for Best Futurity Junior Puppy. The same procedure shall be used to judge the 12-15 and 10 month-and-over class first place winners with the judge selecting the Best Futurity Senior Puppy.
  3. The Best Futurity Junior Puppy and Best Futurity Senior Puppy shall then compete for the Grand Futurity winner.

How the Futurity Stakes Monies are Distributed:

  1. Two stakes will be created for the Futurity – one exclusively for the junior puppy competition and one solely for senior puppy dogs. Nomination fees received from the breeders and owners of bitches and puppies eligible for competition in the puppy classes, will become part and parcel of a Stake to be sued for the puppy classes only; and similarly like fees, received from breeders and owners of puppies subsequently eligible in the senior puppy classes, will become part and parcel of a Stake to be used for the senior puppy. Ten dollars ($10.00) will be put aside from each litter nomination fee for the “maturity account”.
  2. The Cash Stakes for the Puppy Competition will be divided as cash awards as herein below set forth:
CASH PRIZES FOR EACH CLASS
First Prize:
$15.00
Second Prize:
$12.00
Third Prize:
$9.00
Fourth Prize:
$6.00
CASH PRIZES FOR BEST JUNIOR PUPPY/RESERVE PUPPY

Breeder of the Futurity Winner Junior
50%

Owner of the Futurity Winner Junior
30%

Sire of the Futurity Winner Junior
20%
  1. Said percentage will be calculated on the total monies received from all nomination fees for the Junior Dog Competition after first deducting 20% for expenses and 10% for award to the Grand Futurity Dog.
  2. Senior Puppy Cash Stakes will be as above, with percentage calculated on the total monies received for the Senior Puppy Classes.
  3. The Best Futurity Junior Puppy and the Best Futurity Senior Puppy will compete for Grand Futurity Winner. The cash awards for this competition will be divided as follows:

    CASH PRIZES FOR GRAND FUTURITY WINNER

    Breeder of the Grand Futurity Winner
    50%
    Owner of the Grand Futurity Winner
    30%
    Sire of the Grand Futurity Winner
    20%

How Trophies and Ribbons will be Offered:
The TSCA shall offer a rosette for the Best Futurity Junior Puppy, Best Futurity Senior Puppy, and Grand Futurity Winner, from the Futurity Expense Fund. Flat ribbons for each age division class placements will be offered from the expense fund also. Other rosettes and/or trophies may be offered at the discretion of the National Specialty Show Chairman and the Futurity Chairman.

How the Judges shall be Selected for the Futurity Stakes:
Only individuals listed by AKC as “provisional” for Tibetan Spaniels will be eligible to judge futurity/maturity, to include TSCA members eligible to judge as provisional. Judge eligibility will be determined at the time of selection. Thus a provisional judge can accept in that status and subsequently, before the date of Futurity/Maturity, attain full status for Tibetan Spaniels. Balloting will be done by the Judges Selection Committee or whomever is designated for TSCA.

Miscellaneous Information Regarding the Futurity/Maturity Stakes:

  1. There are no AKC Championship Points connected with the Futurity.
  2. It is highly recommended that anyone who has entered a puppy in a Stakes competition have available at the time of judging, copies of all correspondence, such as nomination form receipts, and/or correspondence to the Committee for any changes made to the information listed on the said form.

Rules and Regulations For Maturity Stakes:

  1. All Maturity Stakes will be held in conjunction with only the National Specialty of the Tibetan Spaniel Club of America, Inc. Said stakes will not be held at any other TSCA or non-TSCA sanctioned function.
  2. Eligibility of dog:
    1. Any dog, which has been nominated for the Futurity Stakes, is automatically eligible for the Maturity Stakes, but will only be eligible to enter the Maturity Stakes in the year following the Futurity Stakes for which it was eligible, whether or not it was entered in the previous year’s Futurity Stakes.
    2. Only dogs that actually compete in the stakes for which they are eligible, will be eligible for any stakes money and/or prizes.
    3. Any dog entered in the Maturity Stakes must be entered in a regular class at the TSCA National Specialty.

How to Nominate a Dog for Maturity Stakes:
All dogs from a litter previously nominated for Futurity Stakes, for which the Stakes committee has on file a completed and timely submitted Nomination Form which made said dog eligible to compete in the previous year’s National Specialty, shall be eligible to compete in the Maturity Stakes.

How to Enter a Dog for Maturity Stakes Judging:

  1. Dog must be entered in any regular class, at the TSCA National Specialty and Obedience Trail, which it is also eligible for Maturity Stakes competition. Entry fee for said regular class must be paid and accepted as a valid entry by the superintendent/show secretary responsible for taking said entries.
  2. The Maturity Stakes entry shall be listed on the official AKC entry form for this Specialty and Obedience Trial as an Additional Class. Fee for this class shall be determined by the show committee but shall not exceed $15.00. This fee is for the purpose of paying AKC and superintendent fees, with remainder going to TSCA. The Additional Class must include the appropriate age division as described in #4 below.
  3. Maturity Stakes competition shall be divided into three (3) age divisions as follows: under 15 months of age, 15-18 months of age, and 18 months of age and over. Each age division is further divided by sex.

Procedure to Judging a Maturity Stakes:

  1. The Judge shall judge the Male entry for the under 15 months age division first, then the Female entry for same, and shall continue in this matter until all age divisions have been judged, making four placements for each sex, if possible.
  2. After completion of all age divisions for both sexes, the first place winners of all three age divisions shall re-enter the ring and compete for the Grand Maturity Winner and the Best Opposite Sex to the Grand Maturity Winner.

How the Maturity Stakes Monies are Distributed:

  1. The Cash Stake for the Maturity Competition will be divided as cash awards as herein below set forth.

    CASH PRIZES FOR EACH CLASS

    First Prize

    $15.00

    Second Prize

    $12.00

    Third Prize

    $9.00

    Fourth Prize

    $6.00

    CASH PRIZES FOR BEST MATURITY DOG/RESERVE DOG

    Breeder of the Maturity Winner

    50%

    Owner of the Maturity Winner

    30%

    Sire of the Maturity Winner

    20%
  1. Said percentage will be calculated on the total amount of monies collected from the Futurity Litter nomination fee and previously placed into the Maturity “account.”

How Trophies and Ribbons will be Offered:
The TSCA shall offer a rosette for the Grand Maturity Winner Flat ribbons for each age division class placements will be offered from the expense fund also. Other rosettes and/or trophies may be offered at the discretion of the National Specialty Show Committee and the Futurity/Maturity Chairman.

How the Judges shall be Selected for the Maturity Stakes:
The judge for the Maturity Stakes shall be the same person chosen to judge the Futurity Stakes for the TSCA National Specialty for that year.

Miscellaneous Information Regarding Maturity Stakes:
Same as Futurity Stakes.