Why Join
A Better Way to Reward Breeding
Most field trial registries pay one person — the owner of the dog that wins. The breeder who matched the pair, raised the litter, and produced the dog gets a handshake. The sire owner who put years into a great stud gets nothing but bragging rights.
Pointing Dog Collective is built on a different idea. When a PDC-registered dog places at a PDC event, the purse splits three ways: the current owner, the owner of the sire on event day, and the breeder who owned the dam when that litter was conceived.
The breeder share is the part that changes everything. It's frozen at insemination — locked in forever. Sell the dam tomorrow, and you still get paid every time a dog from that litter places at a PDC event. Not for a year. Not for the dog's first season. For the life of the dog.
This isn't a new idea. It's how the most successful breeding incentives in horse sport work — Pink Buckle, Ruby Buckle, Riata Buckle. Stud nominations and three-way payouts built those programs from nothing into multi-million-dollar yearly purses in under a decade. PDC is the first registry to bring that structure to pointing dogs.
The Dog You Run
If you run your own dog or pay a pro to run it, you are the Owner — and you take the largest share of every placement.
PDC pays the top ten dogs at every event. The structure is top-heavy — first place earns roughly ten times what tenth place earns — so a strong season can return real money, not just a ribbon and a photo.
You don't have to be a breeder or own a stud to play. Register your dog with PDC, enter PDC events, place in the top ten, and your share is automatic. That's the whole transaction.
The Dog You Stand
Own a stud worth breeding to? Every time one of his offspring places at a PDC event, you get paid — for as long as you own that dog.
This is the part that makes a great sire genuinely valuable, not just well-bred on paper. PDC turns offspring performance into a recurring revenue stream for the kennel that stands the sire. Stud fees become the appetizer, not the entrée.
Buy a sire, hold the registration, and the offspring you'll never own can still pay you. Sell the sire to another kennel and the new owner steps into the role — but every win earned while you owned him counted.
The Litter You Raised
The breeder share is the longest-lasting reward PDC offers. Whoever owned the dam at the moment of insemination is locked in as the breeder forever — for every dog in that litter, for the rest of those dogs' careers.
To unlock breeder rights, file a Litter Nomination within six months of whelp. It costs $50. Once filed, you get paid every time any dog from that litter places at a PDC event — every event, every placement, every year, for the dog's lifetime.
Sell the dam, sell the puppies, retire from breeding entirely — the payouts keep finding you. A litter never nominated forfeits this right forever. Six months is not a long window, but the upside is permanent.
One Brace. Three Checks.
A PDC-registered dog places at a PDC event. The purse for that placement splits three ways.
Roughly 80% goes to the current owner of the placing dog. Roughly 10% goes to the owner of the sire on event day. Roughly 10% goes to the breeder — the person who owned the dam when the litter was conceived, locked in at the moment of insemination.
A PDC event with the base payout schedule pays out $23,733 across the top ten dogs. The first-place owner takes home $5,210; the sire owner and breeder of that dog each receive $651. Tenth place pays the owner $500, with $63 each to the sire owner and breeder.
Every placement, every event, three checks.
Where This Goes
The base schedule is the starting line. As the registry grows — more dogs registered, more litters nominated, more events on the calendar — purses scale up. Same payout curve, same three-way split, larger numbers.
| Base Schedule | $100K Event | $200K Event | $300K Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Place — Owner | $5,210 | $21,953 | $43,905 | $65,858 |
| 1st Place — Sire Owner | $651 | $2,743 | $5,488 | $8,229 |
| 1st Place — Breeder | $651 | $2,743 | $5,488 | $8,229 |
| 1st Slot Total | $6,512 | $27,439 | $54,881 | $82,316 |
| 10th Place — Owner | $500 | $2,107 | $4,214 | $6,320 |
| 10th Place — Sire Owner | $63 | $265 | $530 | $796 |
| 10th Place — Breeder | $63 | $265 | $530 | $796 |
| 10th Slot Total | $626 | $2,637 | $5,274 | $7,912 |
| Total Per Event | $23,733 | $100,000 | $200,000 | $300,000 |
About these numbers. The base schedule is the launch payout structure. The $100K, $200K, and $300K columns are projected scale-ups showing how the structure works as PDC grows — they are not committed purses for any specific event and are not guaranteed payouts. Actual event purses are set per-event based on registry size, entries, and sponsorship.
2026 — 2028. Then The Gate Closes.
PDC is a closed registry. From January 1, 2029 forward, the only way a dog enters PDC is as the offspring of two PDC-registered parents.
For three years — 2026, 2027, and 2028 — any dog already registered with AKC, UKC, FDSB, NAVHDA, CKC, or NSTRA can be brought in. These dogs become the founding gene pool. Their offspring built from inside PDC inherit eligibility.
After 2028, an externally-registered dog cannot enter PDC. Not for any fee. Not for any reason. Bring your dogs and your breeding stock in now, while the door is still open.
Plain Numbers, No Hedging
Event entry fees are set per event and announced in the premium list. Payouts to all recipients are subject to W-9 collection and applicable tax reporting.
Get In Now
Foundation enrollment closes January 1, 2029. Every litter you nominate in this window is a lifetime payout stream. Every dog you register builds the gene pool that PDC will run on for the next century of the sport.