Another successful racing year has come and gone and both Susan and I have been busy compiling and publishing the statistics and top hounds for the year. Congratulations to the Basenji Ari, who earned the most NORC points for 2012 (42 points). Ari is loved and owned by Terry Colbert and calls the Midwest region home.
The results of the 2013 fall ballot and other news for the 2013 racing season from our NOTRA NATIONAL SECRETARY / TREASURER, Ray Luening.
"As we look forward to 2013 we have some exciting changes to announce, along with a couple announcements.
The first big news is that thanks to the voting participation of many of our member clubs the proposal to accept UKC registry for NOTRA registration purposes has passed! With a nearly unanimous vote of 16-1, we will be revising the rule book to reflect this important change. The voting represented a nice cross section of both whippet and OB clubs from all 5 regions helping to get this passed. As I understand it this change opens the door to make it easier primarily for some of our OB racing and racing-curious folks to join us at events in 2013. On behalf of the NOTRA Board I want to thank the Ann Chamberlain and the folks at SORCA for having the vision to propose this and helping foster a positive change that encourages greater participation in our sport.
The housekeeping changes to the Bylaws proposed on the ballot were also voted for to a count of 16-1. Unfortunately however, despite the overwhelming support for these enhancements, the voting failed to meet the minimum participation requirement for this to be passed. While rule changes pass or fail on the merits of the votes received, Bylaw amendments require 2/3rds of ALL clubs to voice an opinion in favor. In other words, 22 clubs would have had to vote in favor of the change - so despite only 1 vote of dissent, the measure has failed. This means that we will operate in 2013 under the same guiding set of bylaws as 2012. But fear not! More work will be put in to addressing the issues on how the club conducts its business in 2013, and I am confident that we will revisit these issues on the ballot in November 2013.
The 2013 OB Nationals Race Meet has been awarded to the Rocky Mountain Borzoi Club!
Date: Sunday, September 29, 2013
Location: Zoiboyz Ranch, 2115 Curtis Road, Falcon, CO 80831
Breeds: All eligible NOTRA breeds except whippets
Boxed: All Breeds Boxed except IW – IW will be hand slipped
Box Dimensions: 71” wide x 33.5” high x 48” long (ex-greyhound track box) Plexiglass covers the front door grates.
Host Club: Rocky Mountain Borzoi Club (RMBC)
Race Secretary: KC Thompson
Track: 350 meter U Val - Grass w/sandy soil w/slight uphill grade and banked curve
Results for the OB Nationals held on October 20, 2012 in Pennsville, NJ.
Hosted by Count Basie Racing Organization, Granite State Greyhounds & Lehigh Valley Coursing Club - 350m oval, drag, 3 program.
Thanks to all for attending, it was a fantastic weekend! Congrats to all the winners. Please consider sending me any photographs you have from the event so I can post them on this website.
You can also check on titles earned in recent years and whether the certificate was mailed out to the owner.
The database includes all dogs who have run from Jan 2012 through March 24 2013. I have also added dogs who earned titles in the past 5 years (approx).
You can sort by breed, by dates that titles were earned, by FTE dates.
Please check to make sure that the owners name is correct, I use the owner contact information I have in the database to mail the titles/certificates earned each year.
If you do see any errors please email me.
P.S. If you are still owed a certificate for a title earned in the past few years and never received it please get in touch with me to see what the problem was.
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