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The Shows:

The club conducts back to back shows in late October. The show grounds are near Leesburg, Virginia, on the National Historic Trust's Oatlands Plantation. The plantation house was built in 1810 and has long been a home of horses, dogs and fox hunting. The grounds lend to events a genteel ambiance, and many old hands at showing dogs say that the Middleburg shows have the grace and friendliness of a classic dog show. The AKC Gazette has recognized the show as one of the top ten in the country. Exhibitors and spectators have enjoyed not only the shows but also tours of the Oatlands grounds and their formal English gardens.

 Oatlands front
Picture from the National Historic Trust Web Site
The 2005 shows began our first full weekend event, with shows on Saturday and Sunday. For the previous nine years we had a Friday and Saturday format. Since the Friday shows had no obedience, this change enabled us to offer two days of obedience trials alongside our breed competitions. Entries to the shows average 2000 dogs each, most of which stay for both. There is ample RV parking and a large nomad community settles in Friday night on fields that on other Fall weekends are silent and empty.
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Oatlands back
Picture from the Herb Search Web Site
The Middleburg shows are two of the featured events at Oatlands over during the year and are in appropriate company. Oatlands is also the site of the Winter and Fall Hunt Country Antique Shows, the Spring Hunt Country Antiques Fair, the Loudoun Hunt Point-to-Point Races, the National Sheep Dop Trials, Christmas at Oatlands and several plays that are performed during the year. For a calendar of Oatlands' events, click here.

The inaugural show was held on Saturday, October 29th, 1983, in the area that is now the parking lot for the Oatlands Carriage House. The entry for that first show was 1060 dogs. Appropriately for a kennel club based in Middleburg, Virginia, Best in Show was earned by an English Foxhound, Ch. Mr. Stewart's Cheshire Winslow. The club began the two show, Friday/Saturday back to back format in 1996. Now we have moved to a Saturday/Sunday format, with obedience available in both shows.

For more detail about that first show, click here
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The Details:

Miscellaneous Details --Saturday 2008

  • Overnight parking avalable--no hookups
  • Show hours: 7:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M.
  • $5.00 parking fee
  • Obedience
  • No classes for German Shepherd Dogs in breed at the Saturday show
  • All judging will be outdoors
  • A portion of the revenue from the show will be allocated to the club's Marie A. Moore Fund for Charities
  • All puppy classes divided
  • No member of the Middleburg Kennel Club will exhibit or have any of their dogs exhibited at this show

Miscellaneous Details--Sunday 2008

  • Overnight parking avalable--no hookups
  • Show hours: 7:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M
  • $5.00 parking fee
  • Obedience and Rally
  • All judging will be outdoors
  • A portion of the revenue from the show will be allocated to the club's Marie A. Moore Fund for Charities
  • All puppy classes divided
  • No member of the Middleburg Kennel Club will exhibit or have any of their dogs exhibited at this show

For the results of the Saturday, October 27, 2007 Show:

InfoDog Show Results

For the results of the Sunday, October 28, 2007 Show:

InfoDog Show Results

InfoDog Rally Results

Specialty and Supported Entries

Below are the clubs which held specialties or supported the entry for the Saturday, 2007 show.

Click on underlined club name to go to its web site

Specialty and Supported Entries

Below are the clubs which held specialties or supported the entry for the Sunday, 2007 show.

Click on underlined club name to go to its web site

Chairman of the 2007 show, Mrs Virginia P. Grefe

540-347-5333

Chairman of the 2007 show, Mrs Virginia P. Grefe

540-347-5333

Directions to the Oatlands show site

Vendors and concessionaires for the Saturday 2008 show:

Vendors and concessionaires for the Sunday 2008 show:

Shows Past:

  • BIS Picture from the Inaugural 1983 Show: click here

 

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