Before you start

The scorer runs in any browser — Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox — on a phone, tablet, or laptop. No install. There are two ways in:

• The hosted app at gtpscorer.app — the normal way. Open the site and it asks for your hunt key (see below). One key unlocks one hunt.
• A single emailed file — used for demos and pilots. Double-tap it and you're running; no key needed.

The flow of a hunt, top to bottom: Setup → Judges → Hounds → score all day on SCORE ENTRY → check STANDINGS → enter BENCH SHOW → print everything from PRINT. The tabs across the top run left-to-right in roughly that order.

Hunt Setup ↑ top

You land here when you open the app. Fill it in once, before the hunt.

1. Hunt Name — e.g. 2026 Tar River Classic. Prints on every sheet.
2. Date — for a multi-day hunt fill in both boxes (start and end); the second box only shows when the hunt is more than one day. The range prints on every sheet.
3. Location / Pen.
4. Number of Days — pick 1 Day / 2 Days / 3 Days, or + Add for a 4th. You can add a day mid-hunt if the format changes. The Standard runs one-day hunts — it starts on 1 Day and you'll normally leave it there.
5. Class Days (multi-day hunts) — set how many days Derby runs; All Age always runs the full hunt. Default is 2 on a 3-day hunt (All Age 3, Derby 2). If a Derby hound later gets scored on a day Derby doesn't run, the app warns you and flags it for review — see the Faults & Fixing sections. AFHA note: AFHA Derby stakes run the full trial — set Class Days equal to the number of days.
6. Classes (this hunt) — The Standard'sCRHA's classes are yours to define per hunt. Add or remove classes on the Classes card: a single open class, Puppy / Derby, two puppy classes, Derby / All Age — whatever this hunt runs.
7. Hound Numbering (this hunt) — every hunt splits classes by number a little differently, so pick this hunt's rule: No Rule (the default — a hound can be any number; pick each hound's class by hand at entry), Number Blocks (type each class's number blocks in the #s box on its class row, exactly as the flyer prints them — a class can hold more than one block, e.g. Derby 1–75, 900–999 with All Age 76–899), or Odd / Even (numbers split by parity — set which classes the even and odd numbers belong to, e.g. Derby even, All Age odd). A block can carry its own odd/even when two classes share one span — 0–299 odd for Puppy, 0–299 even for Derby, 300–999 for All Age. If the hunt was booked with its classes and numbering written on the booking, Hunt Setup opens already filled in from the booking — check the chips and the rule, and change anything the hunt runs differently. With a rule set, typing a hound's number picks its class automatically at entry. If you set or change the rule after hounds are already entered, tap Apply numbering rule to entered hounds to reclassify them in one tap (it's one Undo away).
8. Hound Numbering (this hunt) — defaults to Odd / Even with even = Male, odd = Female (the traditional VOBA convention), so typing a hound's number picks Male or Female by itself and most hunts have nothing to set up. If this hunt numbers differently, change the rule here: No Rule (pick each hound's class by hand at entry), Number Blocks (type each class's number blocks in the #s box, e.g. Male 1–99, Female 100–199 — a class can hold more than one block, comma-separated), or flip which class is even and which is odd. If you change the rule after hounds are already entered, tap Apply numbering rule to entered hounds to reclassify them in one tap (it's one Undo away).
9. Times are AM / PM — everywhere: Hunt Setup, Score Entry, the standings, the judges' phones and every printed sheet read 3:15 PM, the way people say it. Nothing to set. It matters most for a hunt that starts after noon (nobody should have to work out that 1 PM is 13:00) and for one that runs past midnight: 12:30 AM simply comes after 11:59 PM, and the app already knows that belongs to the same night. Type 315p, or type 315 and tap the PM button beside the field — either works. The AM/PM buttons are not in the tab order, so keying scores straight down the form never stops on them: Time, then Tab, and you are on the next field. The judge name box is skipped the same way — type the judge's number and the name fills itself, so Tab carries you past it to the time. Both are still there to tap when you'd rather point than type. And AM/PM sticks: the half of the day carries over from the last score you entered, because calls are keyed in the order they happened. Once you're into the afternoon, type 205, 210, 235 and they are all PM — you cross noon once and it stays. Before a day has any scores the day's cast time sets it, so an evening hunt is in PM from the very first entry. Typing a or p always overrides it, and the lit AM/PM button shows which half the next time will land in before you type. If you have military habits, keep them: a four-digit 1830 still lands on 6:30 PM. The field always reads back what it understood, so a mis-typed morning is visible before you leave the box.
10. Hunt Length — pick how many hours the hunt runs (1 to 8) and the app fills in every day's end time from that day's start, then locks it. This is the fix for the four-hours-and-a-minute argument. A 4-hour hunt cast at 06:00 ends at 09:59 — not 10:00. 09:59 is the last minute that can be scored, and 06:00 to 09:59 is exactly 240 scoreable minutes. Entering 10:00 instead is four hours and a minute, and it isn't just untidy: the hunting hour caps count from the start, so that one extra minute opens a fifth hour — a call in it would be capped at 30 instead of the fourth hour's 25. Nobody has to do that arithmetic now, and nobody can argue about it. Multi-day: each day can cast at a different hour — type each day's start and they all run the same number of hours. Leave Hunt Length on Custom to type both times yourself (hunts scored before this existed load that way and are unchanged).
11. Start & end time per day — to the minute. If the cast is 6:02 AM, enter 6:02 AM, not 6:00. Interval throw-outs calculate off the exact time you enter, so this matters. With a Hunt Length set you only type the start; the end is figured and shown greyed out. Shortening a hunt after scoring never deletes anything — if any recorded call now falls outside the window the app says so, in orange, right under the picker.
12. Night hunt that runs past midnight? Enter the real clock times — start 22:00, end 02:00 is fine. When the end time is earlier than the start, the app knows the day crosses midnight: scores entered after midnight (00:30) belong to the same night, sort after the pre-midnight ones, and intervals measure correctly across 12:00 AM (a 23:58 and a 00:01 crossing are 3 minutes apart, not 24 hours). Both boxes must be filled for this to work — a start time alone can't tell the app the hunt runs overnight. Hunt Length handles this too: a 5-hour hunt cast at 22:00 ends 02:59, and the app reads it as the same night.
13. Speed & Drive interval — see the box below.
14. Speed & Drive format — Standard (35-30-25-20, then 15 pack score for every hound 5th & back) or GTP5 (35-30-25-20-15-10-5 for 1st–7th, 8th & back score 0). Set it to whatever this hunt runs.Speed & Drive format — Standard (35-30-25-20, then 15 pack score for every hound 5th & back) or Max 7 (35 working down to 5 points at 7th place; 8th & back score 0). Set it to whatever this hunt runs.Speed & Drive format — locked to AFHA's Top 7 ladder: 35-30-25-20-15-10-5 by position within class, 8th & back score 0. Each class scores its own top 7, so two classes on one crossing can score up to 14 dogs. Nothing to set.
15. Tiebreaker (this hunt) — hunts differ, so pick the rule this hunt breaks ties by: Placement count-back (the default — most 1st-place crossings, then most 2nds, and so on) or Latest kept time (the hound with the later latest kept time wins; tied there, the next-latest decides, and so on). The standings, tags, and prints all follow whichever you pick — see the Standings section.
16. Awarded Places (this hunt) — on a plain Speed & Drive hunt, the pen owner or Master of Hounds picks how deep this hunt awards: Top 5 / Top 10 (the default) / Top 15 / Top 20. The standings show only that many places — on screen, on the Standings print, and on the Half-Time leaderboard — so a small hunt never posts a sheet naming every dog in the pen. The Ranked Speed & Drive print still lists every scored hound (that one is the full audit list). This choice only appears on the Speed & Drive ruleset — GTP and HGA hunts follow the National convention (Top 40).
17. Endurance (this hunt) — most Standard hunts leave this Off (points are kept S&D only). If the hunt runs an endurance bonus, pick By Day (the traditional rule: 10% Day 1 / 20% Day 2 / 30% Day 3 of the day's subtotal, only when that subtotal reaches 60) or By Hour — each kept score earns 2% per hunt-hour elapsed when it was scored, so hour 1 counts least and the final hour counts most. By Hour is the day rule at hourly resolution (hour 5 = 10%, hour 10 = 20%, hour 15 = 30%) with no minimum subtotal — set the day start and end times above so the program knows the hunt clock; a day without times is assumed 5 hours. Standings, dog sheets, and prints show the endurance figure whenever it's on.

When setup is done, tap Next → Register Judges.

Register Judges ↑ top

1. Type the judge's full name.
2. Leave Judge # blank to auto-assign, or set your own. That number is how you'll pick the judge fast during scoring — you type the number instead of scrolling a list.
3. Optionally add location / address, phone, and pick a role: Field Judge, Master of Hounds, Home Plate Judge, Trial President.
4. Tap + Add Judge. Repeat for each judge.

The roster shows each judge with their number, role, location, phone, and a live scores-logged count. Remove one with the × (you'll confirm). Tap Next → Enter Hounds when done.

Scan Sign-In Sheet (optional shortcut)

If your judges signed in on a paper sheet, don't retype it. Tap Take Photo or Upload Image of the sign-in sheet and it reads each judge's number, name, address, and phone. Always review what it read before adding — fix any misreads in the list, then tap Add All Judges. It skips any judge already registered by name, and if a judge number on the sheet is already in use it assigns a fresh one. Roles come in as Field Judge — change any that aren't afterward.

Enter Hounds ↑ top

1. At the top of the form, optionally enter the Kennel / Owner and Owner City + State — these belong to the hunter, not the dog, which is why they come first (a registration sheet starts with the owner). City/State print with the final results. In Entry-sheet mode they stay filled while you enter all of that hunter's dogs — see the tip below.
2. Enter the hound's number (the painted number) and name — both required. A trailing letter on the number can set the class as you type (41d) — see the tip below.
3. Optionally add Sire and Dam — both fields suggest names already entered this hunt, so a littermate's sire is two keystrokes and a pick, never a retype.
4. One Day Option: set Yes / No — is this hound in the paid Day-1 Speed & Drive pot? It defaults to Yes (most hounds are in) and sits right after Dam so the keyboard flow reaches it without a mouse. See the One Day Option section.
5. Pick the class: All Age or Derby. This is set per hound and is what the scoring uses. If the hunt set a numbering rule (Hunt Setup → Hound Numbering), typing the number snaps the class buttons automatically — watch them flip as you type; with No Rule, it's up to you to pick.
6. Class: Male or Female — set automatically from the number (even = Male, odd = Female by default; Hunt Setup → Hound Numbering if this hunt runs a different rule). Watch the buttons flip as you type. You shouldn't need to touch them.
7. Class: the buttons show this hunt's classes (whatever you set up on Hunt Setup). If the hunt set a numbering rule (Hunt Setup → Hound Numbering — number blocks or odd/even), typing the number snaps the class automatically — watch the buttons flip as you type. A number the rule doesn't cover falls back to whichever button is selected.
8. Tap + Add Hound — or, in Entry-sheet mode, just press Enter from the Dam or One Day Option field. Hounds sort by number automatically.

Scan Entry Sheet (optional shortcut)

Hunt taking number claims online? If this hunt runs The Standard's number service (hunters claim their numbers on the website ahead of time), tap ☁ Pull Pre-Registered Roster once on hunt morning — every confirmed entry lands in the review list before the first truck arrives: numbers, hounds, kennels, classes, 1-Day Option. Needs signal once; the same review flow (edit, remove no-shows, Add All, duplicate guard) applies. Hunters who didn't pre-register — and any late swaps made at the desk — come in by QR sheet or by hand, exactly as below.

Printed entry page? Hunters with a free My Kennel account at thestandardscorer.app can print their registration sheet at home — a typed page with a QR code block above the signature lines. Tap ▣ Scan QR Entry Page and point the camera at the code (or use Upload QR Photo with a picture of the sheet) — every hound loads exactly as the owner entered it: numbers, breeding, registration, class, 1-Day Option. Instant, offline, and never an AI guess — the code is the data.

• Big kennels bring more than one code — one code holds 6 hounds, so a 14-dog string prints three. Scan them in any order; the screen tells you which code is still missing before anything imports.
• If this hunt runs a numbering rule (Hunt Setup → Hound Numbering — number blocks or odd/even), the number sets the class on import, exactly like typing at manual entry. A hound whose sheet disagrees gets a flagged row — e.g. "#4 is an All Age number at this hunt — the sheet said Derby". Usually that's a young hound legitimately running up, and it's already correct; if the number was the mistake, fix it in the review list and the class follows it.
• A hound with a blank Dog # (owner didn't have numbers yet) still rides along — it lands in the review list and you type the number there.
• Everything else is the normal review flow: edit anything, remove no-shows, then Add All Hounds. Duplicate numbers are caught the same as always.
• A whole pile of sheets, or prints your camera can't read? Laptop cameras struggle with faint printouts — phones don't. Tap 📱 Scan sheets with your phone and scan the code on screen with any phone: a scanner page opens (internet needed once; offline all day after). Scan every sheet with the phone as they hit the table, then tap Deliver, open ▣ Scan QR Entry Page here, and hold the phone up to this camera — the codes play back on their own and every sheet stacks into one review list. Sheets can't import twice, so letting it loop is harmless.
• Own a barcode scanner gun? Tap ⌨ Scanner gun, click the box, and scan the codes straight off the paper — a 2D imager reads faint prints better than any camera. Same review list, same rules.

For a handwritten sheet, tap Take Photo or Upload Image of a handwritten entry sheet. It reads each hound's number, name, kennel/owner, registration, sire/dam, and class, and One Day Option. Always review what it read before adding — including the 1-Day Option Yes/No toggle on each hound (it defaults to Yes, so just flip the few that are out to No right in the list — no accepting then editing later). Then it fills the list for you. Tap Next → Score Entry when the field is full.

Scoring — the four things you're trackingSpeed & Drive only ↑ top

At the top of SCORE ENTRY, first pick the Day you're scoring. Then you're recording one of four things — the app keeps each one differently, automatically. You never do this math; just enter what the judge calls.

VOBA scores one thing: Speed & Drive crossings.The Standard scores one thing: Speed & Drive crossings.CRHA scores one thing: Speed & Drive crossings — and under CRHA rules every crossing counts: no intervals, no throw-outs. There is no Hunting, Trailing, or Endurance — the whole hunt is the crossings, and a hound's total is simply its kept S&D points. Points per crossing run 35 / 30 / 25 / 20, then 15 for 5th and back, by position within class (or the Max 7 ladder if this hunt runs that format — see Hunt Setup). Everything else on Score Entry — judges, times, ghosts, faults — works the same as described in the next sections.

Choosing the rules: Speed & Drive, GTP, or HGA ↑ top

On HUNT SETUP, Rule Set picks how this hunt is scored. Set it before you enter scores; it changes which categories exist and how points are kept.

What comes with it

Picking HGA or GTP also turns on the BENCH SHOW tab — bench placements by class and sex, the bench awards (Best in Show, Best Opposite Sex, Natural Carriage), the couple classes, and the Combination Award that pairs a hound's bench placing with its field placing. Run a bench show or don't; if you leave it empty it simply doesn't print. The bench show has no bearing on H.G.A. — the general average is the four field classes and nothing else.

Under HGA, HUNT SETUP also reveals a First tiebreaker choice: Book order (the default — Hunting → Trailing → S&D → Endurance, then the latest-kept-time rungs) or Speed & Drive first (the National's 2024 insert item 3 — a pen hunt may elect S&D as the first rung, with the rest of the book order unchanged). Every hunt here is a pen hunt, so the election is the host's call — leave it on Book order unless the hunt advertised S&D first.

Under GTP or HGA the PRINT tab gains the Result Sheets card — the same four sheets the National runs, because four scoring classes need four sets of places called out and the plain Speed & Drive sheets have nowhere to put them. Results Sheet: the top ten with pedigrees and owners, the special awards, and the four-category placement table — on HGA each place carries its weight (100 down to 10), so a hound's H.G.A. can be checked line by line. Standings List: every eligible entry's place and points in each category, its grand total and overall place, with ties highlighted. Daily Grid: a landscape day-by-day sheet with every hound including the scratched ones (struck through, with the day, fault and time). Eligible List: who is still in for a given day's cast. Pick the class on the card. The sheets carry The Standard's badge and your hunt's name — there is no National seal and nothing on the paper says the hunt was sanctioned by anyone.

Picking HGA or GTP fills in the rest for you: Hunting and Trailing appear on SCORE ENTRY, Endurance is figured automatically by the book's rule (the Endurance picker steps aside — the rule set decides it), crossings run on 35 / 30 / 25 / 20 then 15 for every hound 5th and back, and throw-outs run on 10-minute intervals by default (1, 3, and 5 are available — pick on HUNT SETUP). The rules box on HUNT SETUP always shows exactly what is in force — read it once after you pick.

Recording a Speed & Drive crossing ↑ top

This is what you'll do most. On SCORE ENTRY, the S&D CROSSING button is selected by default.

1. Set the Judge — type their number (fastest) or pick from the list.
2. Enter the crossing Time (e.g. 5:11 AM — type 511 and tap AM, or type 511a).
3. Enter hound numbers in finishing order, 1st on down — one per slot. As you type, the hound's name and the points it'll earn show on the right.
4. Press Enter (or tap Record Crossing).

Points are set automatically by position within each class: 1st = 35, 2nd = 30, 3rd = 25, 4th = 20, 5th and back = 15 (or 15/10/5 then 0 under GTP5Max 7).Points are set automatically by position within each class: 1st = 35 down to 7th = 5; 8th and back score 0. Each class scores its own top 7 — a crossing with both classes can score up to 14 dogs. The app warns you if you enter the same hound twice in one crossing.

Hunting & Trailing scores ↑ top

Tap HUNT / TRAIL mode for individual scores (one hound at a time).

1. Pick Category: Hunting or Trailing.
2. Enter the Time.
3. Enter the Hound # — its name shows as confirmation.
4. Pick Points and the Judge.
5. Tap Record Score.

Remember the app keeps the best Hunting score per hour and the best Trailing score per 20 minutes — so logging two in the same window won't double-count; the higher one wins.

Under GTP / HGA the keep rules are the National's: every Hunting score counts toward its hour, up to that hour's escalating cap (10/15/20/25/30 — a second score in a full hour just tops the hour off), with the day capped at 100; and every Trailing score counts so long as no twenty minutes of the clock holds more than 30, measured rolling, back from each call. Just enter every call — the app does the capping, and shows you what it awarded: in the recorded-scores list under SCORE ENTRY a call that ran into its cap reads (30 → 10) — recorded at 30, worth 10 because it was hour 1. The full call is never changed or lost; the arrow is the rule doing its work.

Remember the keep rules (every ruleset): every Hunting score counts toward its hour, up to that hour's escalating cap (10/15/20/25/30 — a second score in a full hour just tops the hour off), with the day capped at 100; and every Trailing score counts so long as no twenty minutes of the clock holds more than 30 — measured rolling, back from each call, not in fixed blocks from cast. Just enter every call — the app does the capping, and the dog sheet shows exactly what each score counted.

Remember the AFHA keep rules: hunting keeps up to one score per 20-minute block (three blocks an hour), each capped by the hour's max — 10/15/20/25/30 for hours 1–5 — and a hound keeps at most one hunting score per hour from any single judge (scores from different judges in the same hour all count). Trailing keeps the best score per 20 minutes. Enter every approved call — the app does the keeping. Per AFHA procedure, hunting scores are approved at the daily judges' meeting before they're entered.

Running alone & the judge's-discretion override ↑ top

A hound that is the only one of its class on a crossing is "running a fox alone" and is capped at 20 points.A hound that is the only one of its class on a crossing is "running alone" — and under CRHA rules that is a mandatory 35 points, a first place. There is no 20-point option and nothing for a judge to lift or override: enter the solo hound and record it; the app scores the 35 automatically.A hound that crosses completely alone — no other hound of any class — is "running a fox alone" and is capped at 20 points. A lone Derby crossing with All Age company is not alone: everyone scores positionally within class (the rulebook's own example gives that Derby 35).A hound that crosses completely alone — no other hound of either sex — is "running a rabbit alone" and is capped at 20 points. A lone female crossing with males is not alone: she scores positionally within her own class (1st female = 35). The app applies this automatically when you save a genuine solo.

Ghost dogs — when you can't read a number ↑ top

Ghost dogs — when a recorded number isn't a hound in this hunt ↑ top

Numbers are painted on the hounds and paint wears off over a hunt. If a judge clearly sees a dog cross in a position but can't read its number, use a ghost to hold that spot.

A ghost is what the scorer calls a crossing entry whose number is not a hound in this hunt. The judge wrote a number down and called it in; when it reaches the scorer, no hound in the field carries that number. Nothing has been missed and nobody has failed to see a dog — there is simply an entry that cannot be attributed to a hound yet. Usually it's a digit misread off worn paint (a 59 that was really a 159), sometimes a number written in the wrong column.

Why the scorer holds it at all, rather than dropping it. That entry is the judge's record of the crossing, and it is the only thread back to whichever hound it belongs to. Dropping it would silently discard his work, and guessing at it would hand another dog's points away. So the spot is held, in position, and listed for you to chase down — the hounds the judge did identify ahead of it keep their points in the meantime.

On the National you never type a ghost. You enter the number the judge wrote, exactly as written; if it isn't in the field the app offers to hold it for you, keeping that number attached. What happens to the rest of the crossing while it stays unresolved is the rule book's call, quoted below — not the app's.

1. In the crossing, in the slot where the unknown dog finished, type ghost instead of a number.
2. Type the number the judge wrote down, exactly as it appears on his sheet. If that hound isn't in the field, the slot answers "#417 not in field — GHOST it as Derby · All Age (keeps the number)". Tap the class the judge scored it in. The spot becomes a ghost of that class still carrying #417, so you can chase the real number later, and it holds a place in that stake only. (A one-class hunt shows a single "tap to GHOST it" link.) You cannot type a bare ghost on the National — a ghost always carries the number the judge wrote.
3. If you know the dog's class (even though you can't read the number), pin it by typing ghost plus the class — ghost derby or ghost all ageghost male or ghost femaleghost plus the first letters of the class, e.g. ghost d for Derby, ghost p for Puppy.
4. Record the crossing as normal.

Resolving a ghost later

When the dog gets identified, look at the purple "Ghost Entries to Resolve" card on SCORE ENTRY. It lists every open ghost with its day, time, judge (number and name), and position. Tap the ✎ pencil to open that crossing and replace the ghost with the real hound number. You can also Print the open-ghost list to chase down numbers between casts.

Faults, probation & scratches ↑ top

Faults are logged in the Record a Fault / Scratch panel on SCORE ENTRY. Log each fault as a judge calls it — enter the hound #, the fault, the judge, the time, and the day, then tap Record Fault. The app decides whether that's enough to scratch the hound.

Fixing mistakes ↑ top

• Edit a score — tap the ✎ pencil next to it in the recorded list. You can change category, time, hound, points, judge, and day. (This is also where the running-alone override lives.)
• Edit a crossing — tap the ✎ on any recorded crossing to fix the order or swap a ghost for a real number.
• Delete an entire crossing — tap the ✎ to open the crossing, then tap the red Delete Crossing button. It removes every score and ghost in that crossing at once (you'll confirm first). Use this when a whole crossing was entered in error — no need to delete each dog one by one.
• Edit a fault — tap the ✎ next to it in the Faults Logged list. The fault loads back into the Record a Fault form; change the hound, fault, judge, time, or day and tap Update Fault (or Cancel). The hound's scratched / probation status updates on its own.
• Delete one score or fault — tap the × next to it.
• Undo — after any change, an Undo bar appears at the bottom. It rolls back the last add, delete, or edit.

Finding a score fast — filter the recorded list

When a judge says "let me check my call around 8 o'clock," you don't have to scroll the whole list. On the recorded-scores card (Score Entry tab):

• Show: Speed & Drive (crossings, the default), Hunting, or Trailing. Pick Hunting or Trailing to see every one of those scores in one place — the easiest way to check hunting/trailing against the judges' sheets.
• Judge: pick a judge to see only their entries, earliest-first. Hit Clear (or All judges) to go back.

Tap the ✎ on any row to review or fix it.

Standings & special awards ↑ top

On STANDINGS, hounds are ranked by Grand Total PointsH.G.A. weights on HGA and Outside hunts (each hound's four category placements, 100 down to 10, summed — perfect 400; the raw points show underneath) or Grand Total Points on GTP huntsSpeed & Drive points (the app calls them simply Points), always within one class — the classes are separate competitions, so there is no combined view. Use the class toggle buttons to switch between Male and Female; the button for a class with no hounds entered is hidden, and a single-class hunt just shows its one class. Tap a hound to expand its day-by-day breakdown (Hunting, Trailing, S&D, Endurance). Standings show the Top 40 — except on a plain Speed & Drive hunt, where they show the hunt's Awarded Places (Top 5/10/15/20, picked on Hunt Setup; default Top 10).

Special awards (one hound each)

All four special awards — Best Mouth, Classiest Hound, Best in Show, Best Opposite Sex — are one hound each for the whole hunt, judged across both classes. A Derby hound can take any of them just as an All Age hound can; there is no separate Derby Best Mouth and All Age Best Mouth. Leave blank any you're not awarding.

Enter Best Mouth and Classiest Hound here. Best in Show and Best Opposite Sex are entered on the BENCH SHOW tab (the bench judge picks them off the bench) and appear here automatically — the rule book shows the two class winners judged together for Best Male and Best Female, then those two together for Best in Show and Best Opposite Sex, so they are by definition one apiece for the show.

One Day Option ↑ top

The 1-DAY OPTION tab is a separate paid side pot, scored on Day 1 Speed & Drive onlyDay 1 GTP points. Hounds opt in when you enter them (defaults to Yes). It's ranked and paid out on its own, independent of the overall standings.

• Per class. Like the standings, it's ranked separately — use the All Age / Derby toggle. Each class is its own pot.
• Day 1 Speed & Drive only. Only the kept Day-1 S&D points count — no Hunting, Trailing, Endurance, or later days.
• Day 1 GTP points. The whole Day-1 score counts — kept S&D + Hunting + Trailing plus that day's endurance bonus. Later days never count.
• Only hounds in the option appear (the ones set to Yes on entry). Hounds set to No are left out.
• Change it after entry. Every hound's row on HOUNDS shows a 1-Day / no 1-day chip next to the name — tap it to flip the hound in or out. Or open the hound with the ✎ pencil and change the One Day Option field, then Save Changes. Either way it's one Undo away.
• Scratched hounds stay in. The pot is settled on Day 1, so a scratch later in the hunt does not remove a hound from the One Day Option result — its Day-1 run still stands.
• Top 40 shown per class, so the list covers however deep the payout runs that day.

Print it from the Print button on the tab, or from the PRINT tab (pick the class).

Bench Show ↑ top

On BENCH SHOW, enter the hound number for each bench placement, ranked separately by class (Derby / All Age) and sex (Male / Female), about 1–10 each. Leave a spot blank if it's not used. This feeds the Combination Award and the Dual Championship.

Bench Show Awards sit under the placings, one each for the whole show with both classes combined: Best in Show, Best Opposite Sex, and Natural Carriage (the rule book's "Mason Houghland" class — open to any hound from either stake, shown on leash and judged on conformation; it's optional for affiliated associations, so leave it blank if the show didn't run it). Under those, the Couple Classes: Best Couple (2 hounds) and Best Two Couples (4).Under those, the Pair & Pack Classes: Best Pair (2 hounds) and Best Pack (4). Every hound in a multi-hound entry must be owned entirely by the member or kennel entering it, and no combinations may be made on the day of the show; the judge scores half on the individual hounds and half on how they match up, with age and sex not mattering. Enter all of these once here — they appear on the STANDINGS tab, on the bench sheet, and on the new Special Awards sheet. (Best Mouth and Classiest Hound are also one-per-hunt, but they're field awards — enter those on Standings.)

A National bench show also carries the open show checkbox at the top and the Dual Championship panel underneath — see the callout under Standings. Tick open show when the trial qualifies; the champion figures itself from the bench and field placings.

Printing — what each sheet is for ↑ top

Most printouts live on the PRINT tab; Standings and Bench Show print from their own tabs. Every sheet carries the hunt name, date, location, and judges. On VOBAThe Standard every sheet is Speed & Drive only — no empty Hunting/Trailing/Endurance columns anywhere.

End-of-day routine ↑ top

1. Resolve any open ghosts you've since identified.
2. Print the Leaderboard and/or judge sheets and verify against the judges' paper.
3. Fix anything off with the ✎ pencil.
4. On HUNT SETUP, tap Download Hunt to save a backup file for the day.
5. If you have signal, open the ☁ Cloud Sync panel on HUNT SETUP and tap Sync Now — see the box below.
6. Charge the device overnight and bring a battery pack for the next day.

Quick reference cards ↑ top