The following information was
provided by the AKC. The concept of a point schedule
arose around 1900. The rule to limit majors to 18%
of the shows came about in the 1920's. The last major change in the
schedule was in 1989 when the If you have comments that you would like to leave
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Point Schedules
Before that Championships were based on earning a
specified
number of wins in the Open Class, regardless of the number
of dogs
in competition. The early schedules were not broken down
by
breed, and set total numbers of dogs in competition for each
point
level.
Though there was a single schedule for all breeds and sexes,
and
areas of the country. In the 1930's the country was divided
into
4 Divisions. The change to having different point schedules
for
dogs and bitches occured in the 1950's.
continental US was divided into 9 divisions from the
previous 4.
The divisions were set so that there was
a minimum of 100 all breed shows in every
division.
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