Morris and Essex Kennel Club

07/10/2025

04/10/2025

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05/09/2025

Entries close September 10th for Morris and Essex Kennel Club show held October 1, 2025

14/06/2025

16/04/2025

Trophy alert!

It appears there is an outdated trophy-sponsorship list or website page floating around Facebook.

* Here is the correct, up-to-date list:*

https://morrisandessexkennelclub.org/2025-trophies/

As you can see, only 19 breeds remain unsponsored.

If you know anyone who might be interested in sponsoring these remaining trophies (listed below), please send them the correct link.

And if you come across that outdated trophy list or link on FB, please let us know so we can take steps to have it removed.

Thank you, and see you all on October 1!

** Available Morris & Essex breed trophies updated as of 5/6/25:**

HOUND
Plott

WORKING
Chinook
German Pinscher

HERDING
Beauceron
Belgian Lakenois
Bergamasco
Entlebucher Mountain Dog
Swedish Vallhund

MISCELLANEOUS
Bolognese
Japanese Akitainu
Kai Ken
Norrbottenspets
Peruvian Inca Orchid
Portuguese Podengo
Pyrenean Mastiff
Russian Tsvetnava Bolonka
Small Musterlander

All other group placements and breeds have been sponsored.
Thank you for supporting Morris & Essex!

06/02/2025

Judging Morris and Essex Kennel Club 1939, Irish Terrier

28/01/2025

Morris and Essex Kennel Club 1939 Kerry Blue Terrier judging

04/10/2024

Would you like to be included as a trophy sponsor for Morris and Essex Kennel Club show October 1, 2025? There are still trophies available for your consideration.

You are invited to become part of the excitement and sponsor a trophy. www.morrisandessexkennelclub.org click on 2025 Trophies
Morris & Essex 2025 Available Trophies will appear

Be sure to identify which breed you are sponsoring in the SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS field

Please note that payment of trophy fee does not assure sponsorship: You will be notified if the trophy you have requested is unavailable.

Any questions, please contact Trophy Chair Debbie Davis at [email protected].

SPORTING GROUP :

American Water Spaniel

Curly-Coated Retriever

Vizsla

Weimaraner

Wirehaired Pointing Griffon

Wirehaired Vizsla

HOUND GROUP :

American English Coonhound

Beagle, 13 inch

Beagle, 15 inch

Ibizan Hound

Plott

Portuguese Podengo Pequeno

WORKING GROUP :

Boerboel

Chinook

Danish-Swedish Farmdog (to join the Working Group on January 1, 2025)

Dogo Argentino

Dogue De Bordeaux

German Pinscher

Great Pyrenees

Komondor

Leonberger

Neapolitan Mastiff

TERRIER GROUP :

American Hairless Terrier

Staffordshire Bull Terrier

TOY BREEDS :

Manchester Terrier (Toy)

Toy Fox Terrier

Yorkshire Terrier

NON SPORTING GROUP :

Norwegian Lundehund

HERDING GROUP :

Australian Shepherd

Beauceron

Belgian Laekenois

Belgian Sheepdog

Bergamasco

Entlebucher Mountain Dog

Miniature American Shepherd

Mudi

Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Pyrenean Shepherd

Swedish Vallhund

MISCELLANEOUS:

Bolognese

Czechoslvakian Vlciak

Dutch Shepherd

Japanese Akitainu

Kai Ken

Norrbottenspets

Peruvian Inca Orchid

Portuguese Podengo

Pyrenean Mastiff

Russian Tsvetnava Bolonka

Small Musterlander

Teddy Roosevelt Terrier

04/10/2024

You are invited to become part of the excitement and sponsor a trophy. www.morrisandessexkennelclub.org click on 2025 Trophies
Morris & Essex 2025 Available Trophies will appear

Be sure to identify which breed you are sponsoring in the SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS field

Please note that payment of trophy fee does not assure sponsorship: You will be notified if the trophy you have requested is unavailable.

Any questions, please contact Trophy Chair Debbie Davis at [email protected].

SPORTING GROUP :

American Water Spaniel

Curly-Coated Retriever

Vizsla

Weimaraner

Wirehaired Pointing Griffon

Wirehaired Vizsla

HOUND GROUP :

American English Coonhound

Beagle, 13 inch

Beagle, 15 inch

Ibizan Hound

Plott

Portuguese Podengo Pequeno

WORKING GROUP :

Boerboel

Chinook

Danish-Swedish Farmdog (to join the Working Group on January 1, 2025)

Dogo Argentino

Dogue De Bordeaux

German Pinscher

Great Pyrenees

Komondor

Leonberger

Neapolitan Mastiff

TERRIER GROUP :

American Hairless Terrier

Staffordshire Bull Terrier

TOY BREEDS :

Manchester Terrier (Toy)

Toy Fox Terrier

Yorkshire Terrier

NON SPORTING GROUP :

Norwegian Lundehund

HERDING GROUP :

Australian Shepherd

Beauceron

Belgian Laekenois

Belgian Sheepdog

Bergamasco

Entlebucher Mountain Dog

Miniature American Shepherd

Mudi

Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Pyrenean Shepherd

Swedish Vallhund

MISCELLANEOUS:

Bolognese

Czechoslvakian Vlciak

Dutch Shepherd

Japanese Akitainu

Kai Ken

Norrbottenspets

Peruvian Inca Orchid

Portuguese Podengo

Pyrenean Mastiff

Russian Tsvetnava Bolonka

Small Musterlander

Teddy Roosevelt Terrier

30/07/2024

Only 429 days left until THE 2025 Morris and Essex Kennel Club
show ~ October 1, 2025. We are thrilled that thus far 53 Specialty Clubs have joined us, along with an additional 65 Supported breed entries. We have expectations that more will join our historic show.
We invite you to come and be a part of making history once again, at The Morris and Essex Kennel Club show in 2025.

24/02/2024

A Moment in History
Submitted by DiAnn Flory, History Committee Co-Chair
“Timmie” is an unusual story. He was bred by Anthony and Anna Neary who moved to America from the small town of Bedlington, north of England. Their new home was a small rental house on Long Island. They worked hard at trying to introduce their breed to America and attended nearby dog shows on weekends. One show where the Nearys exhibited was Westminster, and as luck would have it, William A Rockefeller was one of the ringside spectators. Rockefeller later phoned the Nearys, offered to buy the dog and hired Anthony Neary as kennel manager. That was the beginning of Rock Ridge kennel.

24/02/2024

A Moment in History
Submitted by DiAnn Flory, History Committee Co-Chair

The Morris and Essex History Committee is happy to announce the gifts recently received for our archives.

We received three catalogs that once belonged to Louis J. Murr. We are thrilled to have his show catalogs from 1947,1949 and 1950. His name is embossed on the outside covers of the Catalogs from 1947 and 1950, indicating those catalogs were given to him after his judging assignments. Tucked inside his 1947 catalog, we found two faded pink sheets of paper, which were his record copies of his markings for Afghan placements that day.
In reading more about him, we find that he was behind the famous Romanoff Kennels it is said that he refused to call his breed Borzois, but continued calling them Russian Wolfhounds all his life. Mr. Murr purchased his first Borzoi in 1917, when Nicholas II was still Czar of Russia. Where the breed had been called Russian Wolfhound. The name change from Russian Wolfhound to Borzoi came in late 1936, to conform with the name used for the breed in the rest of the world.
We also received a Catalog with Percy Roberts’ personal Catalog from 1949 with his hand-written name on the cover, with a hand written note, “English Setters.” There were 78 entries that day under Judge Earl C. Kruger.

Our thanks to Sue Lackey for donating the Louis Murr and Percy Roberts catalogs.