NBA Show
Last week was the February show, normally a Limit show but this year changed to and Open show. Unfortunately it didn’t seem to benefit the entries with only 21 entered. This is our 3rd successive show with entries around or under the 20 mark and I know the Borzoi Club also have similar entry levels. At least one saving grace was that there were few absentees. Is this the number of entries we can now expect for breed shows? if so it raises all sorts of concerns if they don’t enter we can’t sell them raffle tickets or sell them food so the other major elements of income are also hit.
We need to do something about this but at the moment I’m not sure what the answer is, there’s been a number of options suggested
- Run back to back shows with 2 shows in a day
- Combine with another association, like the Borzoi Club do wih the Hound Association
- Can we run alongside a Champ show either with or without tickets.
Whichever route we take we cannot cantinue simply as we are, we’ve tried breed specialist judges, all rounders, reducing entry fees all to no avail. Another aspect is that if we can’t attract entries to breed shows it seriously hits the experience a judge can develop making it more difficult to achieve the level to move to the A3 list.
Let me know if ou have any ideas