Other changes to registration and Stud
Book eligibility, included a curtailment
to the annoying habit of changing names
an innumerable number of times, they
being no longer allowed once a Stud Book
number had been granted. For the first
time Stud Book qualification was limited
to dogs having gained awards in either the
Open or Limit classes, and their pedigree
extensions were limited to registered stock
only, possibly in an effort to encourage the registration of none competition stock. Other examples of the Show Scene adopting a pattern that is familiar to today’s exhibitor include the formation of a number of new show societies which are currently well established in the show calendar, and the adoption of several revolutionary practices. Not least of which was the scheduling of acknowledged breed specialists to judge popular breeds like the Collie, Manchester Dog Show Society taking the even bolder decision to engage different specialist judges for Rough and Smooth Collies.
Breeders had been incorporating their kennel name, which often heralded their origin, into the registered name of their dogs for several years, but it was not until the mid 1890s that the Kennel Club gave official approval to the practice. Its ‘Register of Kennel Names’, which could be applied as either an affix (later termed prefix) or suffix, was introduced in 1894, and promised owners protection from improper use by third parties on payment of a small fee. The first list of registered kennel names published in Volume XXII (22) of the Stud Book included such famous Collie Kennel names as BARWELL, CANUTE, EDGBASTON, GREAT ALNE, HERDWICK, METCHLEY, ORMSKIRK, SEFTON and SOUTHPORT.
