Executive meeting Sun June 28th.

ON the agenda.

1. Incident at Buttermere regarding allegation of vice by Huntsman’s Kooga..

. They inquired into why the hound was re-homed rather than destroyed and accepted the mitigating circumstances that surrounded the case. No blame was apportioned to the Cockermouth and Workington area Committee but a tightening of procedure was advised to all area Chairs.

2  A complaint was read out re the change of result at Ward Hall on Thurs June 18th when he altered his original decision from Barton first and Blueboy second to Blueboy winning. It was alleged that the time limit for the Judges decision was ‘up’ and he shouldn’t have altered it. The Judge explained in detail why there was confusion over the result and in his defence said that he was only putting right what in his opinion was wrong. He apologised for any wrongdoing and as a consequence will be stepping down from Judging.

3 The 200 draw is under way and hopefully it will be a success.

4 A letter was sent to the Secretary of the Border HTA regarding the attitude and behaviour of their  president involving one of our junior members. It was felt that an apology was forthcoming and we await their response.

5 Also discussed  was  the behaviour of members of both Associations and the Committee will be monitoring this behaviour at future meetings. It was also remarked that as this was the ‘International’ then all complaints should be addressed to the International  Committee.

6 The Committee welcomes venues  for the Association trails in August but it points out that due to a policy of early booking it has booked that Saturday for Uldale Common.

5  The Committee is also looking into the  possibility of providing perpetual trophies for all the major trails.