English Setter Club Claimed

The English Setter Club was founded at the Curzon hall, Birmingham, on December 1st 1890. It was proposed that a Club be formed “whose objects would be the improvement of the English Setter not only in regard to perfection in form etc., but in respect to practical use in the field”. The interest in Shows steadily declined until 1950, since when the object of the Club has been to promote Field Trials and to adopt such other means as may be deemed advisable for the encouragement of the English Setter.

On November 30th 1891, the English Setter Club agreed to hold a Field Trial in conjunction with the Pointer Club, the judges to be Mr CH Beck and Mr R Purcell Llewellyn. The first Field Trial organised by the Club took place on the Bradfield Estate, Cullompton, Devon on 17th and 18th April 1893, the judges being Mr Pilkington and the Hon.H.H. Molyneux. The Stakes run were an English Setter Puppy Stake, a Pointer Puppy Stake, a Brace Stake and an all Aged Stake. These were the usual Stakes run until 1950, except that after 1933 Irish and Gordon Setter Puppies were permitted to run with Pointer Puppies.