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Alberta Kennel Club Announcement - New Venue

On February 15, 2024, the Alberta Kennel Club released this important update:

It is with great disappointment that the Alberta Kennel Club is sharing the information that we will no longer be able to host the Summer Classic show at Spruce Meadows.

After 13 years with Spruce Meadows, we were dismayed and extremely disappointed by the drastic cost increases we received from the Spruce Meadows organization in January 2024. The increase was so significant, that to host the 2024 Summer Classic at Spruce Meadows would drain all available funds and financially ruin the Alberta Kennel Club.

We are very excited to have already located a new facility to host our Summer Classic show and our associated Specialties! Located 15 minutes south of Spruce Meadows, join us at the Okotoks Agricultural Society.

This is a horse facility with an indoor riding arena with hard packed sand, where we will have the obedience and rally trials; an outdoor sand arena for the agility trials; and a grass Polo Cross field for our conformation events.

All the Specialty Clubs have been informed this morning of this recent decision to move.

The Alberta Kennel Club Summer Classic show has become a destination show for exhibitors near and far. Our volunteers are committed to ensuring our Summer Classic show continues to have the prestige it always had – from Shouldice Park, to Springbank, to Spruce Meadows, and now at our new home - the Okotoks Agricultural Society. Please take a look at our DRAFT layout attached for an idea of how our show will look this year! Unfortunately, with the venue change we will no longer be able to provide indoor reserved benching but will still be able to provide outdoor benching.  We hope you love it and will embrace this change with us!

Stay tuned as we work on our new plans to make the 2024 Summer Classic the well-run show that you have become accustomed to!

Sincerely,

The hard-working volunteers of the Alberta Kennel Club