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NBHA Futurity Standards

Puppy Standards: Puppies are judged on the natural qualities they should possess: instinct to hunt, intelligence, good constitution, nervous energy, courage, good conformation, incentive to point, style and appearance. Heats of thirty (30) minutes with no birds liberated. Puppy winners are not required to point, back or retrieve.

Futurity Standards: Dogs must show determination under adverse conditions and intelligent adjustments to terrain and cover, hunt independently of brace mate with speed and be able to demonstrate endurance. Extreme range will be considered undesirable as it would be in any shooting dog stake, handle willingly and at a range adjusted to comfortable handling on foot. Dogs must display and intense desire to find birds, a keen nose to detect the presence of game and the ability to locate it quickly and accurately by body scent. Show staunchness, intensity, and style on point; dogs are required only to be steady to flush. Backing and retrieving will not be mandatory as in the National Bird Hunters Associations’ Shooting Dog Stakes. There will be qualifying heats of thirty (30) minutes and the judges will name those dogs that they wish to see in the final one (1) hour heats.

NBHA Futurity Nominating Rules

Litter: Nominations will be accepted for females and stud dogs, now registered in the FIELD DOG STUD BOOK, which are bred on or after October 30th and up to, including July 31st of following year. Females may be nominated within thirty (30) days of whelping, with payment of $20.00. this will complete the breeders’ nomination. Litters nominated after thirty (30) days, will be accepted with a payment of $45.00. This payment and enrollment of the litter in the FIELD DOG STUD BOOK, makes each puppy eligible for entry.

Puppy Classic: The owner of a Futurity Puppy has the option of entering the Jerry D. Kilgore Puppy Classic. The Puppy’s new owner, whose name has been sent to the Futurity Secretary, will receive a Forfeiture Fee Form with in their puppy packet. The owner completes the Puppy form and mails a $15.00 forfeiture to the Futurity Secretary by January 31st. this dog must be registered in the FIELD DOG STUD BOOK. A starting fee for the Jerry D. Kilgore Puppy Classic is $40.00: Payable prior to the drawing. Entry in the Puppy Classic is NOT mandatory to keep the dog eligible for the Futurity.

Futurity: An individual nomination forfeit fee of $20.00 for each dog must be made on or before December 30th, (year prior of its’ Futurity) and the dog must be registered in the FIELD DOG STUD BOOK. The starting fee of $60.00 must be paid PRIOR TO THE DRAWING of the Futurity. The drawing and starting dates of the Puppy Classic and Futurity will be listed in the AMERICAN FIELD thirty (30) days prior to the running of the stake.