The phrase
"junior handlers" refers to young people who are learning to take care of and show dogs in competitions.
Full definition
Today Junior Showmanship at Westminster is a limited class for young people who have won
Best Junior Handler awards seven times or more at AKC Licensed or Member shows in a certain time period.
The Boston Terrier Club of America awards certificates to the Top 20 Boston Terrier
Junior Handlers in the nation each year.
Robert Hamilton Award - Logan Miller Best
Junior Handler Award - to be awarded at the 2011 National Specialty Show Junior GPA & Performance Award - Logan Miller Junior Showmanship Performance Award - none
The
CSPCA Junior Handler National Specialty Grant is available to every Junior Member attending the Annual National Specialty Show who meets the established criteria.
The OESCA shall annually award the Junior Showmanship Award to both the Open Senior and Open
Junior handlers who accumulate the maximum number of points in their classes, respectively.
It is awarded to the highest ranked
junior handler at the annual National Specialty Show of the Old English Sheepdog Club of America.
The CSPCA Board of Directors establishes the Ernest
Albright Junior Handler Memorial Grant and will determine the annual funding available for grant applicants.
There are also finals for dogs
with junior handlers (aged 16 and under) and «Lap Dogs,» or dogs under a certain height so no participant feels left out.
The GSDCA Junior Showmanship awards were introduced to encourage young members to train and handle German Shepherd Dogs and compete in
Junior Handler Classes as defined by the ANKC age grouping and conducted at member clubs or GSDCA approved show.
Grants from The Ernest Albright Memorial Trust may not be awarded in part or in full each year, due to lack of applicants, lack of
eligible Junior Handlers or the satisfaction of the CSPCA Board with any applicant in a given year.
Spice, a devout sleeper and Doberman pinscher of
Pennsylvanian junior handler Elizabeth Dubosky, 15, spent so much time by the fireplace that her skin dried and caused, thankfully, reparable dandruff.
We hope it will help reward Cavalier
Junior Handlers academic achievements and maintain their enthusiastic interest in the sport of purebred dogs.
About 5,000
junior handlers nationwide are registered with the American Kennel Club, a governing body for Westminster and many other dog shows.
The best way for
prospective junior handlers to see what is involved in junior handling is to watch the Junior Showmanship classes at a dog show.
Venetian Kennels offers a ten inch pewter bowl on a wooden base to the winner of the Best
Junior Handler Annual Award.
In 1995, Erin Kerfoot retired the Venetian Juniors Challenge Trophy by winning the
most Junior Handler points in 1993, 1994, and 1995.
The CSPCA Board of Directors may, as circumstances demand, amend any of the terms and / or conditions or any other factors governing The Ernest Albright
Junior Handler Trust, as it deems necessary according to its sole discretion.
The GSDCA wants to encourage, teach, and
support Junior handlers of German Shepherd Dogs as an important part of the future of this breed.
The Great Dane Club of America Charitable Trust supports breed welfare and rescue efforts, educational programs, Scholarship Programs
for junior handlers, initiatives to create great awareness of breed - specific health problems and medical research efforts to improve the quality of life of the Great Dane.
The finals competition held at Madison Square Garden, finishes with one handler being awarded
Best Junior Handler with following 2nd, 3rd and 4th placements.
Robert Hamilton Award - Logan Miller Best
Junior Handler Award - Trevor Golden Junior GPA & Performance Award - Logan Miller Junior Showmanship Performance Award - Summer Khatib — Earned a Championship Title on Ch.
Junior handlers would also benefit from this class.
No extra points shall be awarded for «Best
Junior Handlers» at a show.
The JUNIOR HANDLER CLASS is a dog training class for handlers who are 10 years of age and older, and their dogs of any age.
We didn't come anywhere until the last category of Best
Junior Handler.
All junior handlers must be able to control their dog.
It is not necessary for either
the Junior Handler or a member of his / her family to be a member of the Club.
Presented to
that Junior Handler who achieves the most number of wins while handling a West Highland White Terrier during any given competition period.
Each year, the ACKCSC recognizes the Top Ten Cavalier
Junior Handlers.
Junior handlers can spend hours per week training, grooming and exercising their dogs, weekends traveling to shows and years balancing it all with school, other activities and friends.
To mail in an entry, send information including dog's breed, variety, sex, dog's registered name, AKC individual or litter registration number and date of birth; owner's name, address and phone numbers; name and age of
any junior handler; and classes to be entered.
There is also
a Junior Handler Division for children up to age 16, and in 2015, the Golden Division for dogs 10 years or older was added.
Each member club of the GSDCA shall provide to the GSDCA
the Junior Handler winner from their club for each of the following age groups.