Student News & Brags!
From Kim Dembinski:
Noni celebrated the 4th of July with a DOUBLE Q at the AKC trial in Escondido. |
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From Sandy Crook:
Geronimo Double Q'd again on Friday, 6/18/2010, San Diego Rhodesian Ridgeback Club Agility trial at HVOC! |
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From Maria Marshall:
At the Ups N Downs NADAC games trial the weekend of June 12-13, Meg earned 7 Qs out of 10 runs, to complete her Superior Open Tunnelers and Outstanding Open Weavers titles.
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From Sandy Crook:
Highlights at the Agility Club of San Diego NADAC Trial 5/1 & 2, 2010: Hattie brought home many lst-Place Q's and two titles: Open Chances (OCC) and Open Tunnelers (TN-O) and Geronimo followed with lst-and 2d-Place Q's! |
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From Melissa Hubbs:
Drake earned his AX title with a beautiful Standard run at the San Diego Agility Club Trial on April 4th. I guess the Easter bunny brought some treats for me after all. He is now in Excellent B and can start towards earning his first MACH. |
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From Sandy Crook:
Easter 2010 Q's were had at the Agility Club of San Diego AKC Trial featuring Geronimo's Double Q with two 2d Placements in XB Std. ((25 and 19 MACH pts.) and Tommy's lst Place XA Std. Q with a miraculous table sit and down for Bruce! |
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From Sandy Crook:
At the San Diego Rhodesian Ridgeback Club, March 27 and 28, 2010 Geronimo Double "Q'd" with a lst Place (28 MACH points) in Excellent B Standard on Saturday and Q'd in 3rd Place in Excellent B J/W 12". Hattie "Q'd" with a 2nd Place on Saturday and a lst Place Q (36 MACH points) on Sunday in Excellent B J/W 12". Nell "Q'd" with a lst Place and titled ("OAJ") in Open J/W 12" and "Q'd" in 2nd Place in Open Standard. Tommy "Q'd" in Excellent B J/W on Saturday. |
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From Melissa Hubbs:
Drake earned his AXJ title March 28 at the San Diego Rhodesian Ridgeback Club Agility Trial. He also Qd in his Standard course leaving only one more needed to earn his next title. Drake is a Superstar! |
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From Kim Dembinski:
Noni has offically started 2010 with a Standard Q at the San Marcos AKC trial. |
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From Sandy Crook:
In spite of raging hormones on very challenging courses, Geronimo Q'd in Saturday's Keeshond Club of Southern California in Excellent B Standard (missing a weave pole in XB J/W) and Double Q'd on Sunday March 14, 2010! This may be an omen of more athletes on the way! |
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From Jennifer Brennan:
The mud slowed me down but not Shayla Feb. 28th at Silver Bay in Del Mar. Shayla qualified and finished in first place in both her Jumpers and her Standard runs. I had to move her back to novice when she started jumping as a veteran, but this trial let her finish her Open titles, and move back up to Excellent! |
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From Melissa Hubbs:
Drake got his first excellent Q ever at the Silver Bay Dog Show. He fought through the rain and wind to get his first Q in Jumpers and one in Standard. He also earned his second Q in Jumpers at Belgium Tervuren Club in March. |
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From Jennifer Brennan:
Shayla might be a senior in years, but she does not act like an old lady on the agility course! She has slowed down at home, but agility still gets her to jump for joy. She has continued to earn 2nd and 3rd place finishes behind dogs half her age in the 2010 spring trials. She earned 6 out of 8 possible Q's in the Hidden Valley CPE trial, including 2 titles for Regular and Handler Games. Go Shayla! Thanks Sandy for helping me keep the game new and exciting for her for 11 years and counting. |
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From Kim Dembinski:
Team Tuesday had a great CPE weekend in February---it is not very often we are all at the same trial! Jennie, Pat, Kim, Katlyn and Melissa |
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From Sandy Crook:
Results of NADAC UDAC Trial 1/30 & 31, MAC Ramona Rampage Trial 2/13 & 14 and PAC Ramona Rampage Trial 2/20 & 21/2010 (cold, windy, muddy rain/hail storm): Geronimo 1st-3rd Place Q's titling in Elite Agility Certificate EAC), Elite Tunnelers (TN-E), Touch N Go Open (TG-O) and Weavers Open (WV-O) Hattie lst & 2d Place Q's titling in Elite Agility Certificate (EAC), Novice Chances Certificate (NCC), Open Jumpers Certificate (OJC) and Elite Jumpers Certificate (EJC) Nell lst & 2d Place Q's titling Novice Agility Certificate (NAC)...one trial before bitch in season withdrawal! |
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From Pat Rundel:
2010 - The year is starting off well with Rio getting his NADAC Elite Jumpers title and 1st Place in Ramona! |
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From Kim Dembinski:
Noni saved her Christmas present for the last AKC trial of the year: our first Excellent Double Q! |
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From Pat Rundel:
2009 was a great year for Rio. Here are the stats:
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From Melissa Almond:
Drake took 1st place in Open Standard at the Southwestern Rottweiler Club trial in December, getting his last leg so he can move up to Excellent. Troy took 2nd in the same category winning him his first leg, only two more to go!! |
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From Jennifer Brennan:
Theo has loved training and trials in early 2010. He is really starting to get the game, to work ahead of me with power and not look back. He earned his AKC Novice Standard title on Dec. 6th in Hidden Valley with a first place finish!!! |
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From Sandy Crook:
On Saturday, 12/5/09, at the GRCSD AKC Trial at HVOC, Geronimo Double Q'd! On Sunday, a knocked Standard bar kept him from a Double-Double. |
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From Sandy Crook:
At the UDAC NADAC November 14 and 15, 2009, trial, there were many Q's with 1st thru 3rd Placements and the following titles: Geronimo OAC and OAJ Hattie OAC Tommy OAC Sparky WV-N |
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From Melissa Almond:
At the CPE Trial in November 7 & 8, hosted by Ups 'N Downs, Drake was a awesome on Saturday achieving 3 out of 5 Q’s. He also was a great sport letting a junior handler, Katlin run him on Sunday even if he didn’t get any Q’s. Troy was a superstar earning 8 of 10 Q’s. Finishing out level one with his first ever Q in Snookers, two Q’s to be exact. He’s an overachiever!! Racer earned 2 Q’s, one in Jackpot and the other in Jumpers(his favorite class)! |
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From Pat Rundel:
Rio got his NADAC Elite Standard Title at Rohr Park October 3rd. Out of 10 runs at the CPE trial in Murrieta, Oct 10-11 Rio Q'd and placed in 7. |
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From Maria Marshall:
While visiting family in Sacramento, Maria Marshall and Cherokee, Meg, and Augie attended the 10 day NADAC Super Trial, September 18-27, in Elk Grove, California. We ended up with quite an xpen display of qualifying and new title ribbons. Due to the small trial size, most of the qualifying runs were 1st places, with a few 2nds. There were also other placements in runs that were not qualifiers. What a Super Trial- super fun, super hot, and super successful! During the trial of 6 full days and 2 evenings of events, Cherokee had 24 qualifying runs and earned the following new NADAC titles: Outstanding Open Regular Superior Novice Jumpers Novice Tunnelers Novice Tough and Go Outstanding Novice Weavers Superior Novice Hoopers Novice Versatility Novice Superior Triple With 28 qualifying runs, Meg earned: Outstanding Novice Chances Superior Novice Jumpers Open Tunnelers Superior Novice Weavers Superior Novice Hoopers Outstanding Novice Versatility Augie had 28 qualifying runs and earned: Superior Novice Regular Open Jumpers Outstanding Novice Touch and Go Outstanding Novice Weavers Outstanding Novice Versatility |
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From Melissa Almond:
Troy earned his Open Jumpers September 27, 2009 Aztec Doberman Pinscher Club of San Diego, off to excellent we go. | ||
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From Melissa Almond:
Drake earned Novice Agility September 20, 2009 at the German Shepherd Dog Club of San Diego trial, FINALLY!! He also earned his Open Jumpers title back in August 2, 2009 |
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From Sandy Crook:
Palomar Agility Club NADAC Trial, 8/22 & 23/2009, Skydance Ranch, Oceanside (very hot & humid), CA, results: Geronimo, Hattie, Tommy and Sparky took many lst-3rd Place Q's and three titles: Hattie TG-N, Tommy NAC and Sparky NAC! |
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From Sandy Crook:
Highlights from the German Shepherd Dog Club of SD Agility Trial 8/1 & 2, 2009, at hot/humid Rohr Park: Geronimo Double Q'd with 3rd and 4th Placements totaling 20 MACH points! Hattie won the X/B J/Weaves 12", 30 MACH points! |
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From Sandy Crook:
On Sunday, July 26, 2009, at a hot/humid AKC Aztec Doberman Pinscher Club of San Diego trial, Geronimo (Stud Muffin) Double Q'd on very challenging courses earning 9 MACH points XBJ/W and 9 MACH 9 points (4th Place) XBStd. Geronimo was the only dog to accomplish this by layering the table near the end of the walk for a line out right over jumps to the left end of a curved tunnel! |
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From Maria Marshall:
At the ACSD July 4th weekend trial in Rohr Park, Augie earned his Excellent A Standard title with a first place finish on Sunday, July 5th. He also Q'd in Ex B JWW the same day, showing that he will be capable of double Q'ing now that it will really count! |
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From Sandy Crook:
At a hot Fourth of July 2009 celebration at the Agility Club of San Diego AKC trial in Rohr Park, the Bostons and PWD attained Q's and Placements with all-star Hattie winning the 12" Excellent B Standard class for 50 MACH points. |
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From Sandy Crook:
At the UDAC NADAC trial May 30 and 31, 2009, at Skydance Ranch, Oceanside, CA, the Bostons and PWD turned on their BC skills with 35 Qualifiers (17 1sts, seven 2nds, nine 3rds and two 4ths). Sparky came through for Bruce with all lsts and a TN-N title and Tommy met the challenge with two titles, WV-N and TN-N. Sandy's Hattie came away with 1st and 2nds and two titles, WV-N and TN-N. Geronimo had 1st through 4ths and three titles, WV-N, TG-N and TN-O. Nell was a crowd pleaser attaining a few qualifiers including a 1st! |
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From Diana Walker:
At the AKC trial on May 2 & 3, Rush got her Novice FAST title and her Open Jumpers with Weaves title. |
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From Diana Walker:
Pebbles got her MACH on May 3, 2009. Thanks to Sandy's training she is my second Mach dog. Thanks Sandy Diana Walker |
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From Melissa Almond:
Troy was great at the CPE trial in April. He pulled off 6 Q's out of 10. The other 4 were handler error. HmmHmm 5 of his Q's were 1st place. Awesome! |
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From Melissa Almond:
Drake was the MAN! At the CPE trial on April 18 and 19th, he went 10 for 10. 10 Q's leaving himself one left to finish off Level 2. Awesome Drake!!! |
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From Melissa Almond:
Katlin and Racer entered their first CPE trial on April 18 and 19 2009. Both had a very successful weekend. Katlin earned a junior handler Q with her perfect Standard run on Sunday, even with all the pressure of family packed crowd. Racer earned 2 Qs one in Standard with a 1st place finish and one in Colors with a 2nd place finish. They are a dynamic duo!!! 7 1st and 3 2nds. Way to go! |
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From Maria Marshall:
During the recent set of NADAC trials in San Diego County, Cherokee earned her Superior Novice Chances title (April 11), and then her Superior Novice Regular Agilty title (April 26).
Augie earned his Outstanding Novice Jumpers title at the ACSD NADAC trial on April 26th. On the same day, he was the darling of the audience by clearing without any apparent effort, two 20” jumps that didn’t get reset before the 12” dogs had their Novice Chances run.
Meg earned a few Qs here and there during the recent set of NADAC trials, but she and mom are spending the most time working on running fast (and having more fun), and it’s paying off. Meg earned a Novice Jumpers Q with a speed of 5.25 yards per second on Saturday, April 25th at the ACSD NADAC trial. On Sunday, her speed was just under 5 yps in the Jumpers event, but a knocked bar kept us from Qing. Cherokee’s and Augie’s photos courtesy of Lynn Hamon, Taisho Australian Shepherds Meg’s photo courtesy of Rick Pittman, NADAC Judge |
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From Sandy Crook:
In celebration of Easter and return to NADAC at the FUN-raiser 4/12/09, Bruce and Sandy (quickly walking on course with her bionic left knee installed 1/26/09) brought home 1st and 2nd-Place Qualifiers! |
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From Marion Schuller:
At the San Diego Agility Club AKC event at Rohr Park last weekend (March 28 & 29), Tango won 1st place in open JWW and 1st place in her first FAST event. LOVE that "send"...thanks, Sandy! |
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From Melissa Almond:
Troy earned his novice Jumpers title at the Silverbay dog show in Febraury. Two first places! My little superstar!! Drake was able to take a first place in Standard, earning his first leg in novice. Amazingly completing a teeter in competition. Way to go Drake!!!! |
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From Kim Dembinski
Noni struck gold at the Paws O'Robles trial in Silverado March 7-8. After a year of no FAST in San Diego, she got 1st and Q'd in Open FAST for the Open Title. The next day she got her first MACH points with a 4th and Q in JWW. Continuing the streak, she got a 2nd and Q in Excellent A Standard and now is in Excellent B Standard! Yay SUPERNONI! |
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From Ian Long:
In Henderson, Nevada both Misty and Brandi walked away with first place finishes in Fast with Misty earning her Exc A Fast title. Misty also double Q’d with a 4th place finish in JWW. Brandi also earned a 1st place Q in Exc A Std course. |
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From Ian Long
At the Portuguese Water Dog trial at Industry Hills, Misty Q’d on Sat Jan 31. She double Q’d on Sunday Feb, 1. Brandi Q’d with a 2nd place in Open STD earning the Open title. |
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From Maria Marshall:
At the City of Industry Portuguese Water Dog Trial on January 31 and February 1st, Augie Q’d 3 out of 4 runs, with two 1st place runs and one 2nd place finish. Meg double Q’d on Sunday, earning her Excellent A Standard title. |
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From Melissa Almond:
Drake earned his Novice Jumpers Title at the Southern CA Portuguese Water Dog Club Trial in the City of Industry on February 1, 2009, with a first place run. Troy earned 1st place in Standard Novice Jumpers and 2nd place in Novice Jumpers. |
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From Maria Marshall:
At Arizona Wags for Wishes, January 16, 17, and 18, Meg earned two Excellent A Standard Qs, an Open FAST Q, an Excellent A JWW Q for her AXJ, and finally, an Excellent B JWW leg for her first MACH points! At the same trial, Augie earned two Open JWW Qs for his OAJ, an Open FAST Q, and two Open Standard Qs. |
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From Diana Walker:
At the USDAA Trial on Jan 9 & 10, 2009 we had a great weekend. Rush got a 4th in Starters Gamblers. The other runs were really good but no Q's. On SaturdayBam Bam was running really well, however I missed a jump. On Sunday, he got a 1st in Starters Snooker. |
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From Sandy Crook:
At the West Coast Cocker Spaniel Club trial, January 1-4, Nell got her NA title on the 3rd and is in Open Standard and Open Jumpers/Weaves. All 1st and 2d Place Q's. |
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From Kim Dembinski:
Can you believe it? Noni is on a streak with a 2nd place Q in Excellent A Jumpers on New Years Day in City of Industry. This places her in Excellent B Jumpers...MACH points here we come! |
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From Kim Dembinski:
The Streak Continued for Noni with a DOUBLE Q December 28th! First place in Excellent A Standard and Second in Excellent A Jumpers. Go Team Black Dog! |
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From Sandy Crook:
Highlights at Southwester Rottweiler Club of San Diego trial, December 27 and 28, 2008: Nell won Novice B 12" Standard and Novice B 12" Jumpers/Weaves Saturday and titled on Sunday with another 1st-Place Q in Jumpers/Weaves (all 100's)! This was Nell's second trial at 15 months of age. Unfortunately, Nell switched to puppy mode in Standard on Sunday and continuously veered off to greet everyone around the ring! |
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From Maria Marshall:
At the December 13 and 14th CPE trial in Temecula, Cherokee earned Qs in 7 out of 10 runs for the weekend, completing all necessary legs for her CPE Level 2 titles and making progress on Level 3 Standard. Augie completed all his Level 1 legs and started on Level 2 legs by earning Qs in 9 out of 10 runs. Meg continued working well at Level 3, Qing 8 out of 10 runs. |
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From Pat Rundel:
It wasn't the Q's that Rio got during the CPE trial in December that the brag is about, it was the fact that after 3 long years Rio finally did a teeter in competition. It was such a great feeling and the cheering from my friends, they know how we have struggled, made this my biggest brag of 2008. Thanks Sandy for taking us on and making me believe that it was possible to overcome this nemesis. Rio and I usually fly by the seat of our pants in the hope of pulling out the big win. Sandy is now giving us the skills and more importantly the confidence to do it right. Rio and I may never get Double Q's, NATCH's, MACH's, etc., but we did get the teeter that one day in December and I won't forget how great if felt. |
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From Kim Dembinski:
Noni Q'd 5 for 5 at the Temecula Valley CPE trial on December 14th. One of the Qs was a Standard run that I didn't walk through because I was too focused on the snooker walk through at the same time! She has moved up to Level 3 in all classes. Thanks to Hilary and Frank for coming out to support us! |
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From Kim Dembinski:
Noni emerged victorious in Excellent A Jumpers on Bruce and Sandy's wedding anniversary on December 7th. This ended a 6 month no-Q streak! |
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 From Alyce Sumita: On November 22, 2008, at the AKC trial held at Rohr Park, my oftentimes unfocused and inattentive Basenji, Max, found his focus! He double Q'd and we attained our long awaited NA and NAJ titles! Thank you Sandy - those shoulder pulls and focus exercises really did the trick!! |
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 From Maria Marshall: Cherokee earned her NADAC Novice Regular and Chances Agility titles at the UDAC Veterans on Parade Trial November 15th and 16th, 2008. She was definitely a star as she came away with four 1st place Qs in her Regular runs and Qs both days in Chances. She also had a 1st place Q in Jumpers on Sunday, and 2nd place Qs in Touch and Go and in Hoopers (our first time to run a Hoopers course!).
Meg wasn’t feeling 100%, but did earn a Chances Q on Saturday and a Hoopers Q on Sunday, despite the awful heat. It’s great to see my dogs doing so well in multiple venues. Of course, they had great foundation training- thanks Sandy! |
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 From Maria Marshall: We attended the American Belgian Tervuren Club and Superstition Kennel Club trials in Tempe, Arizona, November 7-10th 2008. On Sunday, Augie earned his Novice FAST title. He competed in FAST on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, earning his three Q's in FAST runs on three consecutive days, placing first each day. On Monday, Augie earned his Novice Standard title after receiving two first place Q's (Friday and Monday) and a 2nd place Q (Saturday) in Novice Standard runs. |
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| From Maria Marshall: On Saturday, October 25, 2008, at the San Diego Golden Retriver trial at Rohr Park, Augie ran a clean Jumpers with Weaves course for his Novice JWW title taking 3rd place. On Sunday, Augie earned his first Open JWW Q taking 1st place. On Sunday, Meg earned a first place Q in Excellent A Jumpers with Weaves—the only Excellent A dog to qualify. |
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| From Sandy Crook: Highlights from the Golden Retriever Club of San Diego Agility Trial on Sunday, October 26, 2008, at Rohr Park, Bonita, CA; Hattie won Excellent B Jumpers/Weaves 12" (against 19 competitors) in 29:47 seconds (Standard Course Time was 46 seconds) earning 32 MACH pts. (She was less than a second behind the overall fastest time winner in the 8" class.) There were very few qualifiers in all heights. Geronimo (dad) had a 3rd-Place Qualifier! |
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 From Joy Vinson: Roxy had her debut AKC Trial Sept. 27-28, at Rohr Park. she walked away with two Jumpers Q's and two Standard Q's, in Novice, placing in all four. We are very excited she did so well. Thank you Sandy for your exceptional training. |
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| From Ian Long: On Saturday, Oct 11 at the SCAT AKCc trial, Misty Double Q’d earning her MX title. On Sunday, Misty Q’d with a 4th place ribbon on the STD course. Brandi earned a 1st place Q on the Open STD course. She was the only 12 inch Open dog to Q. |
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| From Diana Walker: At Aztec Doberman Pincher Club of San Diego AKC Trial on September 27 & 28, Dottie Qd on Saturday in Excellent B Standard with a 3rd and on Sunday with a 4th. Pebbles Qd on Sat in Excellent B Standard and on Sunday in Excellent B JWW. |
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 From Maria Marshall: At the Aztec Doberman Pinscher Club of San Diego Trial on September 27th and 28th, Augie qualified, taking 1st both days, in Novice Jumpers with Weaves. The boy loves to jump! |
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| From Diana Walker: At the Golden Retriever Club of Los Angeles AKC Trial August 30-September 1, Dottie on Saturday got a 1st in JWW and on Sunday got a Q in JWW. On Monday she got a double Q with two 1st place finishes. Pebbles got a Q in JWW on both Saturday and Sunday. On Monday she got a double Q. It was a very hot weekend, but great fun. |
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| From Bruce & Sandy Crook: Highlights at the Golden Retriever Club of Greater Los Angeles three-day Labor Day trial, at Noble Creek Community Park, Beaumont, CA (the desert): Despite a blown trailer tire en route to trial in 96-degree hot/humid weather, strong winds uprooting and twisting canopies and jumps and a heavy rain storm, Bruce had Qualifying Excellent Jumpers runs with Sparky and Tommy! Sandy with Hattie had Qualifying Excellent Jumpers runs each day and Geronimo topped that with a Double Q! |
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 From Maria Marshall: Cherokee earned her Standard/Level 2 title at the August 16-17th CPE Trial with two 1st place qualifying runs on Saturday. She ran Wildcard/Level 2 for a 1st place Q and also had a 1st place Q in Jackpot/Level 2. On Sunday, she had two 1st place qualifying runs in Standard/Level 3 and one in Full House/Level 2. Meg worked well in Level 3, earning qualifying runs in Wildcard (3rd), Snooker (2nd), and Colors (4th) on Saturday. On Sunday, Meg qualified in Standard (5th), Colors (2nd), Wildcard (2nd), and Full House (4th). Augie, the foster/permanent poodle, joined our group for his first outing at this trial. He started off his agility career with two 1st place qualifying runs in Wildcard and Snooker on Saturday. He placed in several other events over the weekend, as well, but didn’t have any other qualifying runs. Augie took three private lessons with Sandy before joining her group classes in mid June—two months ago! Great reflection on Sandy’s training that we could even come close to being ready for a trial this early in Augie’s career. |
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 From Kim Dembinski: At the CPE trial on August 17th, Noni qualified in all 5 of her classes! First place in Standard, Colors and Jumpers Third place in Standard 2 and Fullhouse She got her Level 2 standard title and Level 2 Fun title:) |
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| From Ian Long: Last weekend at the SCAT trial in Costa Mesa (August 9 & 10), Brandi earned her Nov STD title with a second place finish. |
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 From Maria Marshall: On August 9th, 2008 at the South Coast Agility Team trial in Costa Mesa, Meg ran the Jumpers with Weaves course flawlessly for her Open JWW title. |
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 From Larry and Barbara Emdur: Brownie (Bedlington Terrier) moved up from Novice to Open Standard in the June 28th AKC trial in Chula Vista, Ca. In the Doberman Pinscher trial July 27, 2008 in Chula Vista, Ca, Brownie had a clean run in Open Standard taking first place with a run in 46:49 seconds. He beat out two Australian Shepards whose times were 62:58 and 69:58. My compliments to Sandy whose great instruction is really paying off.!!!!! |
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| From Jennifer Brennan: NATCH TITLE!!!! After 10 years of training and trialing only in San Diego, Shayla Ann has earned her NADAC NATCH title in Dehesa at the one ring trial April 2008. Thank you to Sandy for all the tools, coaching and support to get us both to this level of competition. Shayla still loves to run and agility has kept her in shape and mentally on the ball. We continue to work as a team, with Sandy helping us with our next personal challenge, to cleanly run the NADAC elite “bonus line” at trials. |
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 From Diana Walker: At the Aztec Doberman Pinscher Club of San Diego AKC trial on July 26 and 27 2008, Dottie got her MACH on Saturday!!! We had a great day. Thanks Sandy Pebbles got a first on Saturday in Standard and on Sunday got a Double Q. |
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 From Maria Marshall: On July 27, 2008 at the San Diego Doberman Pinscher Club Trial, Meg turned in a 3rd place qualifying run in Open Standard for her title. Thanks for the new pictures, Bruce! |
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| From Sandy Crook: On a hot/muggy Sunday, July 27, 2008, Hattie won (42 MACH points)the very challenging 12" Excellent B Standard Class of 18 at the Aztec Doberman Pinscher Club of San Diego AKC Trial, Rohr Park, with Sandy without her bionic left knee! |
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 From Maria Marshall: Cherokee and Meg attended their first NADAC Trial at the 2008 Wags for Wishes event at Otay Ranch. Both dogs ran all 14 events over the three days, but only Mom seemed pooped! It was great to have so many US Agility students at the same trial all cheering each other on. Cherokee Q’ed in two of our three Novice Chances runs. She also Q’ed 2nd and 4th in Novice Standard runs. In addition, she received a non-qualifying 1st in Novice Jumpers, and two 3rds and one 4th in Novice Standard runs. We’re all getting there! |
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 From Sandy Crook: At the Golden Retriever Club of San Diego AKC Trial on June 28, Bruce with Sparky attained her MXJ title with a 1st-Place Q and 14 MACH Points in the 20” Division! |
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 From Diana Walker: At the Golden Retriever Club of San Diego on June 28 & 29 Dottie had a great weekend. On Saturday she double Q'd and earned a lot of MACH points. She's getting really close. Sunday I really messed her up, but she had a lot of fun. On Saturday Pebbles got a fourth in Jumper. On Sunday she got a double Q. On Sunday Rush got a frist in Novice Jumpers and a second in Novice Standard earning her Novice Standard title |
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| From Kim Dembinski: Super Noni qualified with a first in Open Standard on Sunday June 29th. She now has her Open Standard title and is in the running with the big dogs of Excellent Class! Noni has been able to excel thanks to the challenging weekly courses and support from Sandy and Bruce---she has earned Excellent JWW and Excellent Standard in less than a year of competing with a new handler and Sundays only of competing! |
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| From Sandy Crook: At June 15 at the San Diego Rhodesian Ridgeback Club AKC Trial Bruce Q’d with Sparky in Excellent B JWW…hearing the bystanders, you'd think he got his MACH! |
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| From Diana Walker: At the San Diego Rhodesian Ridgeback Club on Saturday June 14 & 15, Dottie got a 4th in jumpers on Saturday and a Double Q on Sunday. On Saturday Pebbles got a 4th in jumpers. |
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| From Ian Long: At the Ups and Downs NADAC trial at Skydance Ranch on May 31, Misty ran away with three 1st place runs in weavers and tunnels courses. Brandi followed closely with a 1st place in tunnelers and a 2nd place in weavers. Those lefts and rights really paid off. Thanks Sandy. |
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| From Diana Walker: At the Mission Circut Southern California Portugese Water dog club on May 24,25,26 On Saturday Dottie got a double Q. On Sunday she got a Q in Jumpers. Pebbles got double Q Saturday and Sunday. On Monday she got a Q in Jumpers. Rush earned a Q in both Standard and JWW on Saturday. On Monday she got a Q in Novice B Standard. |
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 From Ian Long At the Portuguese Water Dog Trial last weekend, Misty got back on track with a Q in Ex Std earning two more points towards her MACH. Brandi won her first leg in Nov STD with a blazing 1st place finish. Thanks to Sandy’s training both dogs have shown tremendous improvement with much more to come.
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 From Diana Walker: The AKC trial on May 3 & 4 was Rush's first trial. Thanks to Sandy we survived with a 1st in FAST Novice B with 76 points. Her other runs were great for our first trial. On Saturday Dottie earned a 2nd and her Excellent B title in FAST. On Sunday she Qd with a 1st in FAST and a 5th in jumpers. On Saturday Pebbles earned a 2nd in FAST. On Sunday she earned a Double Q. What a great weekend |
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 From Sandy Crook: Highlight at the Dog Agility Club of Ventura Agility Trial on Sunday, April 13, 2008: Out of a total of 32 dogs running in the Excellent FAST classes, Geronimo was one of only three Q's and got a 1st Place in the 12" division. |
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| From Kim Dembinski: Super Noni won 3 first places and 3 Q's at the April NADAC trial. That gave her Novice Standard Agility and Novice Chances titles! |
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 From Diana Walker: At the Agility Club of San Diego AKC trial March 29, 2008, Dottie got a first in Excellent Standard. Her hair cut really helped her speed. Pebbles got a 3rd place in Excellent Standard. |
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| From Joanna McKim: Georgi got a Standard Excellent A leg at the Rhodesian Ridgeback Club AKC trial. She won her 8" class in a speedy fashion. |
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| From Diana Walker: The Rhodesian Ridgeback Club AKC trial on March 22 & 23 2007. was a really great weekend. On Saturday Pebbles got a Double Q with a 4th in JWW and a 1st in Standard. On Saturday Dottie got a 3rd in JWW. On Sunday she got the last double Q needed for her MACH. We are now working on points. On Sunday she earned a 1st in both JWW and Standard. |
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| From Jennifer Brennan: At the Wearin’ O’ The Green trial, March 15 & 16 in Dehesa Shayla got her NATCH points in Standard and another run toward her Chances NATCH title. She has 1 chances run left for her NATCH title. Her clean runs were beautiful, smooth and felt effortless! The judge even said “Good fir you!” at the end of her 1st place standard run on Sunday. Shayla also took 1st in her standard class on Saturday, and 1st & 2nd in her jumpers runs for the weekend. Most of those 1st place runs, she was the only dog to Q in her division. Theo is having fun on the agility courses and he is teaching me something new each time. He took 2nd in his jumpers runs both days, but dropped a bar each time. He did Q on his chances run Sunday, ending my weekend on a high note. |
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 From Joanna McKim: At the Keeshond Club of Southern California AKC trial at Hidden Valley last weekend Lizzie picked up two Excellent "A" legs in Standard to get her AX. She also picked up an Excellent A leg in FAST and Georgi picked one up in Excellent B. |
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| From Sandy Crook: On Saturday, 3/8/08, at the Keeshond Club of Southern California AKC Trial, Geronimo attained his Master Excellent FAST title (MXF) with a 2d-Place Q in Excellent B FAST 12" and got a 1st-Place Q on Sunday! |
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| From Kim Dembinski: Super Noni found her weave again with 2 qualifying runs and 2 first places in Open FAST and Standard at the AKC trial on Sunday March 9. Thanks to all her friends for coming out to see her fly. We couldn't keep going without the support of Sandy who keeps reminding me to "run her like a border collie"! |
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 From Maria Marshall: The Fiesta Cluster in Scottsdale AZ turned out to be a great trial for us! In the first two days, Meg earned her 3rd Q in each event for all three of her Novice Agility titles — Standard, Jumpers with Weaves, and finally, FAST. In the final two days, she earned Open qualifying legs in FAST and then in Jumpers, earning a 4th place! Each run, she becomes more responsive, confident, and consistent. In Meg’s first tournament, she dropped several bars; this weekend, only one bar came down in 12 runs (and that was in FAST!). Not bad for such a young ‘un- Meg turns two next week. As always, Sandy and Bruce were there to cheer us on. Many thanks! |
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| From Jennifer Brennan: Theo got his Novice Standard title at the Ramona NADAC Fun-raiser! He also Q’ed in Chances for the first time! Distance work and directionals pay off! He also Q’ed in Jumpers with 3rd place. Shayla racked up the Q’s and really made headway toward her NATCH title. She took 2nd and a Q in 3 standard runs, 2 jumpers runs and a 3rd and Q in Touch N Go. She completed her NATCH jumpers, Outstanding Open Touch N Go and Outstanding Elite Standard titles. |
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| From Kim Dembinski: Noni got her first Open leg in JWW on Sunday March 2nd at the AKC trial in Orange County. She came home with a second place ribbon missing first by less than half a second! |
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| From Sandy Crook: Highlights of the Rainy/Muddy Outdoor AKC Silver Bay Kennel Club Trial on February 23 and 24, 2008 in Del Mar: Geronimo and Hattie are proven "mudders"; Sunday Geronimo walked away with a 1st and 2nd Place Double Q and Hattie took a 1st in Saturday's Excellent B FAST (3l:03 76 SCT 35 with the most points in the least amount of time all jump heights) and another 1st Place on Sunday! Hattie attained her Master Excellent FAST Title (MXF) with her 1st-Place Q at Silver Bay becoming the first Boston Terrier to earn this title. |
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 From Max Latifi: Max Latifi and his Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever [aka Toller], Robin [Javahill Boy Wonder, RN, CGC, TT] had 3 Q's at the Silver Bay KC agility trials on Feb 22-23, 2008 to complete their NA and NF titles! The Q's included a first place in Standard and a first and second place in FAST. This was only their third agility trial, so they are very pleased and proud of their accomplishments....and one last thing...Tollers rule! Thank you Sandy for all your encouragement, support and solid training! |
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| From Diana Walker: At the Silver Bay Kennel Club AKC weekend trial it was a little wet, but we had great fun. On Saturday Dottie got a 4th in Excellent JWW and a 1st in FAST. On Sunday she got a 1st in FAST. On Saturday Pebbles got a 1st in FAST. Bam Bam didn't Q but got his weaves on the first try in all 3 rings. It was great. |
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| From Kim Dembinski Noni Q'd with a 1st place in slidding off a muddy table in Novice Standard at Silver Bay. She completed her Novice title---look out Open! |
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| From Maria Marshall: February 3rd at the Portuguese Water Dog Club event in Industry, Meg received 2 Q’s, both for second place - one in Novice A Jumpers with Weaves and one in Novice A Standard. Thanks to the whole US Agility gang for encouragement and hanging around to cheer us on, especially Sandy for all her knowledgeable advice on how to approach our difficult obstacles! |
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| From Vicki Nelson: Zelda’s first competition was a great success, with 4 Q’s at the January 20th CPE in Murietta. She finished with a first in Snooker, Full House and Jumpers and a second in Standard. I think she’s a chip off the old block (her dad is Geronimo). Thank you Sandy – we’re hooked! |
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| From Jennifer Brennan: Shayla had an AMAZING chances run at the UDAC Oceanside trial Jan. 26. While most of the competition worked the line in an “L” shape through the course, I layered 3 obstacles out and pushed in on an angle. (Picture running the long side of a 90 degree triangle while the dog has to work the other 2 sides.) I was the only handler to try this path and when she completed the course, cheers went up from people watching in the tents around the ring. What a great feeling, to do something that other people view as “too hard” and make it look easy. To top it off, she earned her Outstanding Elite Chances title with that run! |
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 From Maria Marshall: We attended Arizona Wags for Wishes, January 18th and 19th, Friday and Saturday. This was only our second ACK Agility event. After just failing to qualify in her runs on Friday, Meg qualified in her first Novice Jumpers with Weaves on Saturday with an almost picture perfect run! Thanks, Sandy, for all your tips and support. |
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| From Sandy Crook: Our very best "Q" at the Arizona Wags for Wishes AKC Trial, was with Geronimo aka Stud Muffin. It was the last day, last class of a 3-day trial, Sunday, January 20, 2008! Something to be said about endurance. With testosterone raging and illusions of grandeur with Lucy in season, Geronimo got a 1st Place Q in a very fast and challenging Excellent B FAST class. He was one of a handful of qualifiers and the only qualifier in all lower height divisions. So I forgave him for blowing a Double Q during an extremely difficult Standard course where he lost his mind running out to a chute (something with a skirt on)! |
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| From Kim Dembinski Noni had 4 Q's at the CPE trial in Murietta on January 20th. First place in Snooker, Jackpot and Wildcard and a Second in Jumpers. Who says labs aren't fast???? |
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| From Sandy Crook: Hattie and Geronimo turned heads at the West Coast Cocker Spaniel Club at Industry Hills Expo Center 1/5/2008 by being two of very few qualifiers all classes for Excellent B FAST! Hattie took a 1st and Geronimo (dad) a 2ndin the 12" class! |
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| From Diana Walker: At the Golden Retriever Club of San Diego on Dec 29 & 30 and Southwestern Rottweiler Club of San Diego on Dec 31 & Jan 1 On Saturday Dottie Q'd in JWW, and FAST with a 2nd, on Sunday she Q'd in both standard and JWW with a Double Q. On Monday she Q'd with a 1st in FAST and on Tuesday she Q'd with a 3rd in Standard. Pebbles Q'd with a 2nd in JWW on Sunday and a 1st in FAST on Monday. |
Meg Q’ed 2nd and 4th in Novice Standard runs and also Q’ed in Novice Weavers and in Novice Touch N Go. Yes, she managed to hit all the contacts! In addition, she received non-qualifying 1st, 2nd, and two 4th place finishes in Novice Standard runs.
Brandi (to right) before Sandy and (far right) after Sandy
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