Before the decade’s end they were again
courting the good will of fanciers with
massive reductions in registration and
transfer fees, but few appeared to heed Kennel Club advice, particularly as an exhibit’s origin could easily be camouflaged with a simple name change.
As the canine fancy returned to its working class roots, with local societies, organising small almost social events, gaining popular support whilst the larger national shows, staged over anything up to five days, struggled to attain viability, the Kennel Club offered encouragement to the latter by abandoning the single Challenge Certificates for Best of Breed, in favour of matched pairs, one for each sex, with further encouragement given to Collie exhibitors by their decision to treat Rough and Smooth Collies as separate breeds, thereby abandoning the habit of awarding challenge certificates for the Best Collie or Best Dog, and Bitch regardless of coat type.
Similarly Collie fortunes followed national trends, with Regional breed clubs, concentrating on organising Matches, Sanction or Limit Shows, proliferated throughout the heavily populated industrial areas but of those first registered during the decade, only Northumberland and Durham Collie Club, whose origins can be traced to the early years of the century, remains active today.
