Could someone just clarify for me if you can still qualify a dog for crufts on 1st 2nd or 3rd place... if there is no ccs on offer for the breed.

Only if your breed is classified as a Rare Breed & doesn't yet have any CC's on offer in the UK

Thank you. So if not a rare breed it is roughly the same as an open show but twice as expensive. Yes?

It is exactly the same as an Open show

thanks

Ahh but don't forget many of us who are in the rare breeds (well not quite there yet) have had to pay the same as none CC breeds at champ shows and we've not been able to go any further than our classes :d  And some of us have been doing this for a number of years!

But many of us who show dogs are mad! :D