New York Combine Breeder of the Year Award

By Pete Fratangelo

The New York Combine Breeder of the Year Award is an annual award given to the New York Combine member who has had the most success at New York Combine shows that show season.  The New York Combine is the premier club in the world for showing the American Domestic Show Flight.  To win at the Combine is simply to beat the absolute best.  To win more than any other competitor throughout a show season is truly a hard earned and magnificent accomplishment.  It can only be achieved by those breeders that consistently breed large numbers of excellent quality Domestic Flights across many color classes.  Winning the New York Combine Breeder of the Year Award signifies more than the accomplishments of that breeder in that specific year, as significant and difficult to achieve as those accomplishments are.  Winning this award signifies that the winner is a top breeder of American Domestic Show Flights, is dedicated to breeding and showing the very best in a variety of colors and classes, and is able to put in the effort, knowledge, and experience required to breed and maintain a large stud of top quality Domestic Flights.

The Breeder of the Year Award is one the most Prestigious Awards that the Combine bestows and is won by the breeder of American Domestic Show Flights who scores the most points during the three-show showing season of the New York Combine.  These shows are the NYC Young Bird Show in October, the NYC Fall Show held in late November or early December, and the NYC Futurity show held in late January.

Points are awarded at these shows for Young Birds only and at the Futurity show, only in Division One.  Points are awarded as follows:  In each class (12 young bird classes at each show), a First Place gets 3 points, Second Place gets 2 points, and Third Place gets 1 point.  In addition, the Best in Show bird at each show gets an additional 5 points.  Thus, there are a total of 6 points per class times 12 classes, which is 72 points, plus 5 points for Best in Show equaling 77 points available at each of the three New York Combine for which points are awarded.  That is a total of 231 points available per show season.  In case of a tie by two breeders, two Breeder of the Year Awards are given that year.

2007 New York Combine Breeder of the Year

In the 2007 Show Season, the New York Combine held its Young Bird Show on October 20, 2007, its Fall Show on December 1, 2007 and its Futurity Show on January 27, 2008.  Complete results and photos of the winners of these shows are available under the “Show Reports” tag on the left side of the webpage.

The winner of the 2007 Breeder of the Year Award is the partnership of Sal Gigante and Fred Monteleone.  Gigante and Monteleone won the award with 52 total points.  The most incredible part of the accomplishment is that these men did not show at all in the Young Bird Show and the Fall Show – all 52 points came in the Futurity Show.  This partnership has won the Breeder of the Year Award many times in the past, and this latest accomplishment adds to an already incredible resume of breeding top quality, Championship American Domestic Show Flights.  Congratulations to Sal and Fred on winning this award again, and in most impressive fashion.

New York Combine Breeder of the Year Award Winners Since Inception

Year	Breeder of the Year

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