National Lure Coursing Club

   Fall is just around the corner, and that means great cool weather for lure coursing ! So far four meetings are scheduled:

Sunday, October 25 -- SEGC hosts the 13th running of the Fullerton Cup. All eligible breeds and crosses. Bear Creek Farm, Moreland, Georgia. Our judge for this meeting comes to us from England -- Waterloo Cup Slipper Arron Atmore !

Saturday and Sunday, November 21 and 22 -- The Coursing Hound Association of the Southeast (CHASE) hosts two NLCC meetings alongside ASFA trials. All eligible breeds and crosses. Old Mill Farm, Cartersville, Georgia

 Sunday, December, 20 -- SEGC hosts the inaugural running of the Christmas Cup. All eligible breeds and crosses. Chattahoochee Hills Farm, Fairburn, Georgia. We will be running on a new field at this picturesque 8000 acre fixture.

      Join us for big fields, cool weather, and the best of lure coursing sport ! Watch for additional meetings to be added.

As promised, we have tweaked the Running Rules just a bit based on the experience at the first lure meeting.

Here are the hightlights of the revisions:

(1) Rule 5(b) -- This makes it clear that owners may still enter an older dog in the Open stake (but not in both Open and Senior in the same meeting), and that the Seniors stake is an optional stake for all dogs of the eligible ages.

(2)Rule 6(c) -- This tweaks the assignment of byes, and provides that if during
the progression of the brackets a dog without a bye is withdrawn, then the dog
left in its assigned course runs against the dog that had been assigned a bye,
so as to reduce the number of byes as much as practicable. It also provides that
if a bye must be assigned after the draw, it goes to the dog which occupies the
lowest bracket in the stake (whether it's in the A Bracket or the B Bracket).

(3) Rule 7(b) -- makes clear that in the point tally scoring format, the 2 or 3
points to be awarded depends on whether the run-up is more or less than 100
yards -- 2 points if less than 100 yards, 3 points if more.

(4)Rule 10 -- This is a proposed new Rule 10, providing some guidelines for running an optional Best in Field competition.
It basically provides that host clubs have a lot of flexibility in how they structure the Best in Field competition, and it gives clubs the opportunity to see to it that dogs of similar speeds are run together
  The addition of this new Rule 10/Best in Field required the re-numbering of the rules coming after it.

(5) Rule 25 -- the Grand Field Champion title. We have
reinstated the original proposed numbers (25 meetings, 1st place 60% of the meetings OR 1st or 2nd place 75% of the meetings)by which dogs will earn the title.
     A paragraph (c)has been added to provide for an alternative way that a dog can put a win in his column toward earning the title. That paragraph provides that if a dog entered in Open has less than 4 of his breed entered at a particular meeting, but he goes on to win Best in Field over at least 3 other dogs running for it at that meeting, that Best in Field win will count as a 1st placement toward the requisite winning percentage.