Herd Sire Nomination Terms

To be eligible for entry into the Futurity Herd Sire Champion award, entries for the show classes need to be the progeny of a sire that the owner of the sire has previously nominated and paid the nomination pledge fee for. The nominated sire must be registered with the BAS UK Alpaca Registry on or before 11th March 2011 and the progeny entries must have been born in the UK.

Nominating your herd sire is an excellent way of supporting the Futurity whilst promoting your farm and your stock and the Futurity team would like to encourage all sire owners to consider making their nomination pledge. Nomination forms are available within the forms section of this website.

Show class entries are also welcome for alpacas who are not progeny from a nominated sire. See option 3 below. In this instance points awarded for placings will not go towards the Futurity Herd Sire Champion award, but will go forward for the Judge’s Choice award.

Option 1

Nominating a Herd Sire simply requires the herd sire owner pledging to pay the nomination fee of £300 plus VAT per sire. Once nominated, all of that male’s offspring become eligible for entry into the British Alpaca Futurity 2011 judged show classes with points won going towards the sire’s Futurity Herd Sire Championship competition.

Nominating a herd sire also entitles the herd sire owner to 10% of the prize money won by its offspring during the Futurity Show. The 2011 Futurity Champion Herd Sire will have the highest total of points won by the best performing nine progeny in the show ring, and will be announced during the Celebration Dinner on Saturday 12th March when the winner’s cup and sash will be presented to the owner.

In addition, nominated herd sires will be listed on the Futurity website and in the event catalogue. The owner will also have the right to use the Futurity logo and name in their farm advertising up to the publishing dates of 31st December 2011.

Nomination fees will not be invoiced until entries have been received for the show. If no entries are received, then no invoice will be raised. Show entries will close on 6th February 2011 and sire nominations must be received by 14th January 2011 to meet the copy date for the event catalogue.

Option 2

Discount your nomination fee. Nominate more stud males and the prices become cheaper. If you are able to nominate two or more herd sires the nomination pledge fee is reduced to £200 per sire. This discounted fee applies only if entries are received for 2 or more of the nominated sires.

Option 3 Herd Sire Waiver Option

For situations where stud owners are not willing to pay the nomination fee or the owner of an alpaca to be entered wishes to enter their alpaca without the sire being nominated, the entry will be welcome upon payment of a nomination waiver entry fee of £65 plus VAT per entry. The entry must be born in the UK and the sire of such entries must be registered on the BAS UK Registry on or before 11th March 2011.

In these circumstances such sires will not be eligible for the 10% of progeny prize money, and will not be listed on the Futurity website or in the event catalogue. However the exhibitor will receive prize money and placing awards as per other exhibitors and the entry will be eligible for the Judge’s Choice award.

Herd Sire Nomination Terms and Conditions
Herd Sire pledges that are placed through the British Alpaca Futurity will be subject to the following Terms and Conditions to which herd sire owners have agreed and are deemed to have accepted by submitting the signed pledge form: 1 Nominated herd sires must be registered on the BAS UK Registry on or before 11th March 2011 2 The nomination fees will become due upon receipt of a BAF invoice. This will be issued following the receipt of a progeny entry to the British Alpaca Futurity 2011 show. The closing date for show entries will be 6th February 2011, however invoicing will occur upon receipt of the first progeny entry 3 Should no progeny entries for the show be received for a nominated herd sire by the closing date then no invoice will be raised and no fees will be due 4 Sire owners making a nomination must agree to provide a copy registration certificate for each herd sire nominated 5 Sire owners making a nomination must agree to provide full information for each male, including fibre data if available and colour picture, either by indicating a website link or by enclosing with the pledge form a computer file containing such data or by providing printed information sheets and good quality colour pictures

Herd Sire Nomination Terms and Conditions

Herd Sire pledges that are placed through the British Alpaca Futurity will be subject to the following Terms and Conditions to which herd sire owners have agreed and are deemed to have accepted by submitting the signed pledge form:
1 Nominated herd sires must be registered on the BAS UK Registry on or before 11th March 2011
2 The nomination fees will become due upon receipt of a BAF invoice. This will be issued following the receipt of a progeny entry to the British Alpaca Futurity 2011 show. The closing date for show entries will be 6th February 2011, however invoicing will occur upon receipt of the first progeny entry
3 Should no progeny entries for the show be received for a nominated herd sire by the closing date then no invoice will be raised and no fees will be due
4 Sire owners making a nomination must agree to provide a copy registration certificate for each herd sire nominated
5 Sire owners making a nomination must agree to provide full information for each male, including fibre data if available and colour picture, either by indicating a website link or by enclosing with the pledge form a computer file containing such data or by providing printed information sheets and good quality colour pictures