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500 Years of Pointer History and Trivia
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American Pointer Club National Winners
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Best-In-Show and Other Stats -- (as of 2003)
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Crufts Winners
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Dual Champions (AKC)
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National Field Trial Championship Winners
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Westminster Kennel Club Winners
- 1500's
- Paintings
- 1700's
- Introduction into England
- "Spanish ??? Pointer"
- The Spanish Pointer
- The Pointing-Dog
- The Pointing-Dog and Nets
- The Pointing-Dog and Hawks
- Late 1700's - Foxhound Crosses - "Col. Thornton's Dash"
- 1800's
- The "Pointer"
- Pioneering English Breeders of Pointers
- 1840's
- 1844 - the Edge of Strelly Sale
- 1850's
- 1859 - first "Dog Show" (England)
- 1860's
- 1860 - "Bird's Bob" - Lemon and Whites
- 1865 - First "Field Trial" (England)
- 1868 - "Garth's Drake" whelped
- 1869(?)-1895 - The Pointer Club (England)
- 1860's - 1870's - "Whitehouse's Hamlet"
- "The Four Cornerstones"
- 1870's
- 1873 - English Kennel Club
- 1874 - English Kennel Club Stud Book
- 1874 - "Sensation" whelped
- 1874 - First public field trial in America
- 1876 - "Official Registrations"
- 1876 - "Burges's The American Kennel and Sporting Field"
- 1876 - "Orgill's Champion Rush"
- 1877 - Westminster - "First Annual New York Bench Show of Dogs"
- 1878 - First pointer registered with AKC - "Ace of Spades", AKC#1187
- Late 1870's - American Importation - "Sleaford", "Bow", and "Faust"
- 1879 - "Croxteth" Imported
- 1880's
- 1880 - English System of Registration
- 1881 - "Ch. Graphic" whelped
- 1882 - First Pointer to win an Important Field Trial - "Vandevort's Don"
- 1884 - American Kennel Club
- 1885 - "Ch. Graphic" imported to U.S.
- 1885 - Westminster Best Sporting Dog - "Robert Le Diable"
- 1888 - Canadian Kennel Club
- 1888 - Pointer Club of America
- 1889 - Canadian Kennel Club Inaugural Field Trials
- 1889 - "Rip Rap" - Black and Whites
- 1889 - "The American Kennel Gazette"
- 1890's
- 1890 - AKC Field Trials Established
- 1891 - First Crufts Show
- 1893 - Heavyweights and Lightweights
- 1896 - First National Bird Dog Championship
- 1897 - Second National Bird Dog Championship - "Declared Off"
- 1898 - "Faskally Bragg", Henry Sawtell, and an early "Recreational Vehicle"
- 1900's
- 1900 - Turn of the Century -
"Lunesdale", "Arkwright", "Mallwyd", "Ferndale"
- 1900's - "Crossing for Coon Dogs"
- 1900's - "For Sale - $1.00"
- 1900's - Early AKC Championships
- 1900 - Pointer Club of America's Inaugural Field Trial
- 1901 - "F.Ch. Alford's John" whelped
- 1906 - "The Pointer and His Predecessors"
- 1908 - "Fishel's Frank" lost the National Championship
- 1909 - First National Champion - "National Field Trial Champion Manitoba Rap"
- 1910's
- 1910's - "Comanche Frank" and "John Proctor"
- 1911 - "Specials" Classes in AKC
- 1917 - Superintendents and Judges Licenced
- 1917 - "Nat. F.Ch. Mary Montrose" took Winners Bitch at Westminster
- England Before the "Great War"
- Decline of Field, Increase in Show, The "Professional" Dog Show Judge
- 1920's
- 1920 - "Nat. F.Ch. Mary Montrose" won her third National Championship
- 1920 - First AKC Sanctioned Matches
- 1924 - AKC "Best In Show" Began
- 1925 - "Nat. F.Ch. Becky Broomhill" won her third National Championship
- 1925 - Crufts
- 1925 - Westminster Best-in-Show - "Ch. Governor Moscow"
- 1926 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Nancolleth Belle"
- 1927 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Dapple Joe"
- 1927 - "Nat. F.Ch. McTyre"
- 1928 - Crufts RBIS and Best Gundog - "Stainton Spruce"
- 1858-1928 - "Edmund H. Osthaus"
- 1929 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Herewithem JP"
- 1930's
- 1930's - Influential - Good Or Bad ? - "Ch. Marlais Marksman"
- 1931 - Crufts RBIS - "Ch. Nancolleth Markable"
- 1932 - Westminster Best-in-Show - "Ch. Nancolleth Markable"
- 1932 - Junior Show Classes
- 1934-1936 - First AKC Obedience Trials
- 1934 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Benson of Crombie"
- 1935 - Crufts Best-in-Show - "Pennine Prima Donna"
- 1935 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Nancolleth Marquis"
- 1936 - Elhew Kennels
- 1936 - "Ch. Nancolleth Beryl of Giralda" - a BIS Record to last for 48 years"
- 1938 - "Int. Ch. Drumgannon Dreadnought" imported to the U.S.
- 1938 - American Pointer Club
- 1939 - "Ch. Pennine Paramount of Prune's Own" - First National Specialty Winner
- 1939 - "Spot Cash Comanche II, CD" - First (?) Obedience Titled Pointer
- World War II
- 1940's
- First Post-War Champion (England) -- "Ch. Highflier of Ide"
- 1945 - "Nat. F.Ch. Ariel" won his third National Championship
- 1947 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Beacon's Game Lad"
- 1947 - AKC Tracking Separated from Obedience Utility Class
- 1950's
- 1950's - Four Time National Specialty Winner - "Ch. Vilmar's Lucky"
- 1950's - First Solid Orange Champion - "Ch. Vilmar's Skogis Herta"
- 1950 - Bred-By-Exhibitor Class
- 1950 - Westminster Group I - "C P"
- 1951 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Captain Speck"
- 1954 - Field Trial Hall of Fame
- 1958 - "Show Champion" Title Created (England)
- 1958 - Crufts BIS - "Ch. Chiming Bells"
- 1960's
- 1960's - "Ch. Maryjay's Majesty"
- 1960 - Current English Pointer Club formed
- 1964 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Crookrise Danny of Muick"
- 1966 - Crufts RBIS and Best Gundog - "Sh. Ch. Blakeshay Avant Tout"
- 1967 - AKC "Best of Winners"
- 1968 - Revised AKC Pointer Breed Standard Approved
- 1970's
- 1970 - "Ch. Counterpoint's Lord Ashley" wins his 20th Best-in-Show
- 1970 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Counterpoint's Lord Ashley"
- 1971 - Youngest AKC BIS Pointer - "Ch. Elfin Forest Tag of Lor"
- 1973 - Crufts Best Gundog - "Sh. Ch. Daviam Titus Lartius"
- 1974 - American Pointer Club Hall of Fame
- 1975 - Revised AKC Pointer Breed Standard Approved
- 1978 - "Dual Ch. Scanpoint's Touch of Troll" whelped
- 1979 - First Orange and White National Specialty Winner - "Ch. Cumbrian Seabreeze"
- 1980's
- 1983 - Top U.K. Gundog - "Sh. Ch. Peakdale Badger"
- 1984 - "Ch. Jason of Kinnike" wins his first (of four) Nationals Title
- 1984 - "Ch. Cumbrian Black Pearl" breaks 48-year-old BIS record
- 1986 - Banner Year for Pointers
- 1986 - Westminster Best-in-Show - "Ch. Marjetta National Acclaim"
- 1986 - Crufts Best Gundog - "Sh. Ch. Stonebridgelees Sultana"
- 1986 - New Zealand Kennel Club's 100 Years Centennial Year BIS - "NZ Ch. Arista Brandon"
- Mid-1980's - First Obedience Trial Champion - "OTCH & Ch. Scanpoint Sunrise Serenade"
- Mid-1980's - First Junior Hunter - "Ch. Birnamwood Golden Gossamer, JH"
- 1987 - "Dual Champion and American Field Champion Scanpoint's MacKenzie"
- Late 1980's - First AKC and CKC Champion, Obedience, and Tracking Titles -
"Can/Am Ch. Truewithem Lord Dupont, Can/Am CD, Can/Am TD"
- 1989 - "Ch. Luftnase Albelarm Bee's Knees - "Number One All Breeds"
- 1989 - Westminster Group I - "Ch. Luftnase Albelarm Bee's Knees"
- 1990's
- 1992 - Westminster Champions Only
- 1993 - The "Pointer Sisters" - "When Group Winning and Multiple Group Placing Littermates Team Together"
- 1994 - AKC Agility Began
- 1995 - First UDX Pointer - "Ch. Scanpoint's Barefoot Contessa, UDX"
- 1995 - Can/Am Champion and Hunting Titles - Liver with Tan Points - "Can/Am/Int'l Ch. Nowwithem Tried N True, JDJr, JH"
- 1996 and 1997 - "Ch. Albelarm's Bee Serious" - "Number One"
- 1999 - "Ch. Sydmar The Heartless Wench" becomes
the "All Time Top Producing Pointer Dam"
- 2000's
- 2000 - "Best In Show - The Movie" - "Can/Am Ch. Nowwithm Accept No Substitute, CD, FD, JH"
- 2001 - Westminster AOM - Solid Liver - "Ch. Solivia's The Snowball Made It"
- 2001 - Crufts Best Gundog - "Sh. Ch. Calderside Love In A Mist At Whereathy"
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