Just going to enter a breed club champ show and noticed in the schedule that Novice is the class BEFORE Maiden. As obviously Maiden is a lower ranking class can anyone explain why it would be after Novice.? And is it legal.!!.
. Must admit in .....years of showing have not seen this before.

Why would you think it wouldn't be?

Just in case it's because you feel that once a win makes the dog no longer a maiden....

Because of the advance entry system, all wins up to and including a certain date ( usually a month) before closing date, count for classification.
Once a show entry has closed all wins in the interim do not count...so any wins at a show dont count...only when entering the next show.
If a dog wins a CC after the close date of a show, it is still eligible for the class it was entered in..... even maiden.
make sense?

Praps I am not making myself clear.! As classes will be judged in catalogue order it would mean, ( if it is same as schedule, ) that Novice will be judged before Maiden.. which seems rather strange to me.?

I have never seen that before, it may be an error on the printers side.
The classes have to be judged in schedule order/judges book order not catalogue order.
You are right that Maiden is a lower classification class than Novice.

I've never seen that before either, no idea if it's ok or not. I did once have my boy entered in Open at an open show and they asked if I'd mind them going back to Junior first as the single entrant had arrived late during the Graduate class. I said fine, but have no idea if that was allowed either!

No they shouldn't have done that, once Grad had been judged that should have been it