This has nothing to do with the AFTCA. This is an Open Championship.
That's why I put this in separate thread. That said I believe the AFTCA administers the win certs/etc for being qualified open and/or Am - at least as it was explained to me. Basically I was just trying to say be sure your dog is qualified to run where you wanna run 'em, trying to help my stubbie bruthas out!!
In your premium it states "Entry must have a placement in recognized open derby or open SD stakes" It's been my understanding the AFTCA is the body that does "the recognizing" - at least submits the win certs (the AF maybe just recognizes the placements from their data base...???):
From AFTCA:
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR FIELD
TRIALS FOR ALL POINTING BREEDS
Section 1.
Wins will not be recognized and recorded unless the trial/or each stake in which such win is made conforms to the following conditions as adopted by Amateur Field Trial Clubs of America, Inc., the American Field Publishing Company, and The Field Dog Stud Book:
Section 2. The name of the club, place, and date of the trial, and the Secretary’s name and address must be announced in an issue of “The American Field” bearing publication date of at least fourteen days before the trials are to be run.
RECOGNIZED STAKES
Section 3. Recognized stakes are:
(a) Puppy Stakes: From January 1 to July1 in each year for dogs whelped on or after January 1 of the year preceding. From July1 to December 1 of each year for dogs whelped on or after June 1 of the year preceding.
(b) Derby Stakes: From July 1 to December 1 in each year for dogs whelped on or after January 1 of the year preceding, and from January 1 to July 1 in each year for dogs whelped on or after January 1 of two years preceding.
(c) All-Age Stakes: For dogs of any age. An “open stake” is one in which there are no limitations with respect to either dogs or handlers. An “amateur stake” is one in which all handlers are amateur as defined in Chapter 3, Article II, Section 1, RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR FIELD TRIALS.
(d) Winners in Members and Gun Dog or Shooting Dog stakes shall be recorded and win certificates issued, but winners of children’s, ladies’, brace, and other stakes not conforming to the definitions contained under this Section will not be recognized.
(e) Championships, Winner’s Stakes and Futurities: Wins will be recorded only in such amateur events of the above character as are recognized by the Amateur Field Trial Clubs of America, Inc. and in such open events as are recognized by the American Field Publishing Company and the Field Dog Stud Book.
Section 4. The minimum length of heats for all stakes other than Puppy Stakes shall be thirty minutes, on the basis of the time that an average brace takes to negotiate the course. In the case of one-course trials, no more than eight minutes of the thirty shall be spent in the bird field. Minimum length of heats for Puppy Stakes shall be fifteen minutes.
Section 5. A stake must be drawn by lot and numbered in the order drawn, in a convenient and approved place open to the public not later than the night before the day the stake is due to run.
Section 6. Dogs shall not be substituted after the draw.
Section 7. All braces shall be run as drawn except with the prior consent of the judges and handlers, which consent must not be given for the purpose of accommodating owners handlers or dogs that are not available when reached in the regular order of the draw.
(a) Should there be a bye in the stake, the judges may, at their discretion, order it to be run alone or with a dog selected by them for the purpose. Provided, however, that if a dog from any regularly drawn full brace should be withdrawn, fail to appear or be disqualified, the bye dog shall be named by the judges to run with the dog remaining in that particular brace, the bye moved up to fill the vacancy caused by the absent dog. In the event there is no bye, then such dog losing its brace-mate, as previously contemplated, must be run in its regular order of drawing, either alone or with a dog as a running mate that is satisfactory to the judges. In the event that there be two withdrawals from different brace, the brace-mate of such withdrawn dogs may be run together where the first vacancy occurs, or in their regular order, at the discretion of the judges. This same rules applies if there be four or any even number of dogs withdrawn from the stake.
(b) All stakes should be so arranged that if at all possible, no more than one bye dog is drawn or run. Except where there is an uneven number of starters in a stake, no bye should ordinarily occur. For example, in the event the drawing by lot has two dogs handled by the same person remaining as the last in the stake, the bracing is rearranged with the last previous available dog drawn not so handled, changing places with the first drawn of the final two dogs.
Section 8. No entry shall be accepted after the stake is drawn.
Section 9. No more than one brace of dogs shall run on a course, or any part of a course at the same time, irrespective of whether the dogs are in the same stake or in different stakes.
Section 10. Stakes shall be run only on recognized game birds whose flight has not been impaired by caging, hobbling, wing clipping, brailing, or in any other manner.
Section 11. Bitches in season shall not be permitted to run in one-course trials. In multiple-course trials, they may start only if, in the opinion of the judges, it can be accomplished under conditions which will insure absolute fairness to other entries.
Section 12. Wins will not be recorded, or if recorded, will be cancelled if made at a trial or in a stake not conforming to the above requirements.
The one thing I don't see mentioned here is that the club itself must be in good standing with the AFTCA but I'm pretty certain that needs to be the case as well.
