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2020 National Specialty

Per a recent BCOA Board announcement, the Albuquerque April National has been rescheduled to Friday, August 28, 2020. Beginning with Field events and ending on Friday, September 4, 2020 with Best of Breed competition. The complete schedule for the week will be distributed shortly.

We’ve all have been listening to how quickly the country’s stand on combating the Coronavirus changes. The Board has to also keep up with these changes. We held another emergency conference call Friday night. We discussed changes to the previous refund announcement. We also had a lengthy discussion on whether or not to hold the National. After all, we really don’t know what the state of the country will be at the time of our August date. We may have to cancel if the country leads us in that direction. We went as far as discussing the pros and cons for holding two Nationals next year. The consensus of the Board was slightly in favor of moving forward with the August date, while staying positive and hopeful that we will be able to see each other this year in Albuquerque.

This brings us to the changes in refunds. It was determined that we start the entry process over and refund the following monies whether or not your plans are to join us in August:

All Conformation, Companion and Field entries
All Health events: Thyroid, Heart and Seminar
All show catalogs and catalog ads
CGC Test
Trick Dog
Reserved Grooming
Members’ Ed.
Meals
All Raffles
Hospitality donations

The two categories that will remain on the books are:

Specialty Sales – The process has already started on these items.
Donations: Trophy, Health, Welfare and Juniors

We will begin the process of issuing refunds. There’s no need to contact us for your refund. We know who will receive a refund. Please be patient while this process takes place. We need to have this resolved before Barbara O’Neill starts her process on the new Premium List. Contact Carol Enz at kachinaborzoi@gmail.com, if you have any personal refund questions. As mentioned in the prior announcement, if the refund is processed via PayPal, the fee charged to BCOA for your use of PayPal will be deducted from the refund.

As always, contact me or your Regional Governor, if you have any general questions. Please don’t ask your questions to the Board via social media. They may go unanswered!

STAY SAFE * STAY STRONG * STAY HEALTHY * STAY WITH US

Ron Williams, BCOA President
Carol Enz, National Show Chairman
Barbara O’Neill, National Show Secretary
BCOA Board

Future Nationals

2021
Region 6 - Roberts Centre, Wilmington, Ohio - May 23-29, 2021
Regular Judge: Michael Canalizo
Sweepstakes Judge: Carol Kubiak-Zamora, Phaedra Borzoi

2022
Region 3 - Hampton Inn & Suites, Mesquite, Texas - April 23-30, 2022

BCOA holds an annual National Specialty Show whose location rotates from region to region and of course there are different judges each year. View the list of locations and list of judges.

In addition to conformation classes (including Futurity and Sweepstakes events), there will be an ASFA lure trial and/or AKC lure trials and on occasion AKC Junior Courser tests and straight-racing (LGRA). Also included are obedience, rally, a triathlon (combined scores for conformation, lure coursing and obedience) and junior showmanship. At times Agility or Rally Obedience will also be included.

Also offered may be art auctions, costume contests, silent auction, pee wee classes, health seminars, membership education seminars, raffles and the annual membership meeting. In addition will be the annual banquet where awards for the year's top dogs are presented and the next year's national specialty details are released.

Thanks to BCOA and its hard-working members on the National committee, each national specialty promises a lot of fun and competition and the viewing of quality dogs and their abilities. For further information e-mail the Show Secretary.