Paddock Master

Summary of Duties

	For JC TESTS, call hounds in order of the AKC Test Judging Form. Each test hound should be collard and close enough to the Paddock area to hear their hound's name being called.
	For TRIAL, pick up your Paddock Sheets from the Field Secretary or Field Clerk.
	Watch Huntmaster, Lure Operator, and Judges to see when they are about ready to start.
	Call up the first run of the first breed (according to posted running order) to the Paddock. Call the next group of hounds to be suited and ready.
	They are call as "Basenjis 1^st open, jacketed and to the paddock! Basenjis 2^nd open, jacketed and on hold, please!"
	Hounds run by Open, Special, then Veteran.
	Double check blankets and slip collars and that Color and Course match the hounds by Call Name as listed on the Paddock Sheet.
	After Tally-Ho is called for that run, call up the next group of hounds to the Paddock and the group after that to the ready.
	When the Huntmaster calls for the next group "To the Line", inform them that they are to go to the line now.
	Repeat this process, keeping things moving and making sure that you always have the next set of hounds ready to run.

The PADDOCK MASTER (P/M) controls the PADDOCK AREA, which is the "next-course-holding" or staging area.

The P/M is responsible for expeditious flow to the line and shall advise the Judge of a Course Delay (in the event a Handler has a 2nd hound running in the next course)

DRAW SLIPS or PINK/YELLOW TRIAL SHEETS indicate the course number, blanket color and call name of each hound. The exhibitor is responsible for getting their Preliminary, Final, any Run-Off, and/or Best-of-Breed Draw information and suiting up their hound in a timely manner.

For the AKC Test hounds do not need a colored blanket. The release collar should be in place. All other collars or impediments must be removed. Running order is by AKC Test Judging Form order. Each test hound should be collard and close enough to the Paddock area to hear their hound's name being called. It takes roughly 2.5 minutes to run a course without equipment failure, course delay or judges' conference with the Huntmaster. Following the Preliminary run and a short intermission, new Draws will be posted and slips done.

This is a very interactive assignment. The responsibility to keep the Trial moving smoothly, requires good communication skills and a knowledge of general management is helpful.

AKC Lure Coursing Regulations:

Section 8. Paddock Master Shall insure proper hounds in the course following the course on the line are in the paddock area or accounted for, and properly blanketed.

Section 9. Field Committee
1. Field Committees may make additional regulations for the government of their events as shall be considered necessary and proper, provided such regulations- or rules do not conflict with, change or modify any Rules or Regulations of The American Kennel Club. Such additional Regulations shall be printed and distributed with the premium list and violations thereof shall be considered the same as violations of the Rules and Regulations of the AKC.

2. The decisions of the Field Committee shall be final, conclusive and binding on all parties, in all matters occurring on the day of the meet, except for matters coming within the jurisdiction of the Judge(s). Such Committee decisions must be made in accord with the general regulations and standard procedures that apply to the trial being held.

3. The decisions of the Judges in all matters relating to the course are final.

4. If it becomes necessary to replace an advertised Judge after the opening of the event and no person on the eligible Judges list is available as a replacement, the Field Committee may select a person whose name is not on the eligible Judges list provided such person is in good standing with the AKC. The Field Committee must announce and post the name of any substitute Judge before the draw for the stake at which he is to officiate.

5. If a Judge is unable to complete a judging assignment, a replacement may be substituted. The Field Committee shall notify the exhibitors of the substitution. All of the scores of the Judge who was replaced shall stand as recorded.

6. If a Judge is substituted, the owner or handler of a hound entered in that stake has the option of withdrawing the hound before the draw and receiving an entry fee refund. If, after the draw, a Judge must be substituted, no refunds shall be made.

7. In the event that an unadvertised Lure Operator must be used, the Field Committee must select a substitute Lure Operator and must announce the name of that substitute before the draw for the stake at which he is to operate the lure. If an unadvertised Lure Operator is used, the owner or handler of a hound entered in that stake has the option of withdrawing his hound before the draw and receiving an entry fee refund. If, subsequent to the draw, a Lure Operator must be substituted, no refunds shall be made. The advertised Lure Operator shall make every effort to complete his assignment.

8. The Field Committee shall handle all official protests on the day of the event as specified in Chapter XIV.

9. At no time may the Field Committee overrule, change or reverse a judging decision except in the case of eligibility as determined after a protest is filed, without the express consent in writing of the Judge involved.