Lone Star English Cocker Spaniel Club

Here is more information about our Specialties in July at NRG in Houston, Texas.
Thursday, July 16 concurrent Specialty
Breed, Juniors, 4-6 month Puppy judge-Margie Wilson
Puppy & Veteran Sweeps judge-Hal Bierman
Saturday, July 18 concurrent Specialty
Breed, 4-6 month Puppy judge-Juan Miranda
Juniors will not be offered
Puppy and Veteran Sweeps Judge-Ellen Schultz

Hope to see you there!

Greetings Everyone - I thought Iwould bring you up to date on a few things.

1. NRG 2026 - I am getting ready to apply for the two shows. They will be Concurrent Specialties on Thursday and Saturday. Apparently the AKC is moving very slowly on approvals and we need to get the applications in.

2. I did take a poll of club members that were in Belton regarding trophies for the two shows. We had quite a few of the metal art pieces that Deb M brought back from the 2025 ECSCA National Specialty. So those will be the prizes for one Specialty. The second will be pieces from the Stone Pony Pottery for the larger prizes and garden flags with orginal photos from Becky P collection. In order to fund these trophies we are going to ask for sponsorships this year. We have not done that in quite some time but we will give it a try for 2026. Be on the lookout for that information. The first draft of the Premium is due in February.

3. Agility for 2025 - One trial left and that is coming up quickly! The 14-15-16 of November. This event will be held at Dog Gone Fun Agility in Magnolia. The Committee/Volunteers for that event are Connie H, Vonda S, Sandra M and Ron B and Terri B
Thanks to Connie H , Vonda S, Rene F, Shelby F and Jerald K for help with the trial last weekend at Top Dog Training. That was a fund raiser for the ECSCA.

4. Continuing on the agility theme.....Connie is the Chair for the 2026 National Specialty Agility and has asked me to post the following for everyone:
Hi All!
I am the trial chair for the agility portion of the National Specialty next May in St. Louis. I want to show our appreciation for our volunteers and have a worker raffle since we won't be giving out vouchers. I'm looking for donations of items to put in the raffle. It does not have to be dog related, having a variety of items will make it fun. For example, Teri W is donating some of her books with her autograph. So, If you have something you bout and never used it and won't this is you oppotunity to put it to good use. Gift cards are another good idea.
Please let me know if you are interested in donating. I will be in Houston many time beofore then and at different shows and can collect the items.
Thank you for conisidering helping out!
Connie

I am sure we can come up with a few things for Connie's raffle!

5. Continuing with the National Specialty - The Show Committee has asked Clubs to donate a basket for the basket raffle. If anyone is interested in co-ordinating this please let Addi P know.

6. The Club normaly donates money to each National Specialty - a donation for Hospitality and for Breed trophies and Performance trophies. In the past we have donated 250.00 to each area. I think Purina will be expensive for hospitality because they are strict about no outside food. My suggestion would be to donate 1000.00 - with 500.00 to hospitality and 250.00 to breed and performance trophies. Someone will need to make a motion and we then can vote on this.

That is all for me!
Terri

A huge shout out to everyone that helped at the Specialties last week. First of all thanks to everyone who entered! Lots of first time attendees - we hope you enjoyed the shows. Entries were at a record high and there were majors - majors - majors!
Congrats to all that finished dogs - please post of a pic of the new CHs or GCHs in the comment field.

These shows require teamwork! The embroidered towels and grooming stool seat covers were done by Addi. The rest of the trophies were handled by Deb, Ashleigh, Jan, Sandy and Nancy. Penny and Connie delivered the trophies to the ring each day. Penny also handled the after show hospitality. Ring stewards were Becky M, Yvonne, Andrea and Ron. Thanks to Becky P for taking care of the judge's gifts. Thank you Dagmar for making the bait for both shows, it was a hit.
Thanks to everyone that helped make the shows a success!

Trophy table for today’s Specialty.

Marked catalog for today’s Specialty.