1 march 2010 national agility link association
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March 2010
NATIONAL
AGILITY LINK
ASSOCIATION
MAGAZINE
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National Agility Link Association (formed 1989) CENTRAL COUNCIL comprises Secretary, Treasurer, and NALA Reps. EDITOR/SECRETARY KAREN DE WIT, 74A Kirton Drive, Riverstone Terraces, UPPER HUTT. Ph: 04/528 6796. Mob:0211240174 Email: [email protected] TREASURER FIONA FERRAR, 630 Te Kowhai Rd, RD8, HAMILTON. Ph: 07 829-7016 Ph: Mob: 021 358-996 Email: [email protected] NALA REPRESENTATIVES. NORTH ISLAND. ANNE KENNY, 505 Pipiwai Road, RD 6, WHANGAREI 0176, Ph 09 435 6525 Email: [email protected] MEL MANKELOW, 663 Western Drain Road, RD2, WHAKATANAE. Ph: 07 322 9224 Email: [email protected] PETER DE WIT, 74A Kirton Drive, Riverstone Terraces, UPPER HUTT. Ph: 04/528 6796.Mob: 021 1712528 Email: [email protected] SOUTH ISLAND. SUE MCKEE LYNLEY BARRETT ELAINE PEARCE, 175 Chain Hills Road, R D 1 DUNEDIN 9076 Ph 03 489 3072, Fax 03 489 3096 Email: [email protected] RESULTS RECORDER (Agility) Results may be viewed at www.nala.org.nz For more information contact MIKE BUTLER, 146 Clyde St, Island Bay, WELLINGTON. Ph: 04/383 8143. Email: [email protected] RESULTS RECORDER (Flygility) ALLAN ROHDE, 167A Runciman Road, R D 2, Pukekohe, AUCKLAND. Ph: 09-2385464; Email [email protected] All Flygility results must be in by the last day of the month. LIBRARY ENQUIRIES DARRYL JEWISS, 33 Bell Rd, Lower Hutt 5010 , ph: 04-972-7701. Email: [email protected] OR [email protected] MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION CAROLE LOGAN Email: [email protected]
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Our club held its big Champ competition last weekend and we had lots of visitors from all over the North Island. Agility events are such wonderful social events, as well as being an opportunity to have rush after rush of adrenalin as you try to do your best on the Judges course. We had some lovely comments about Upper Hutt which has some big parks and the river, and also Harcourt Holiday park is great accommodation as it is next to a lovely park. There are some lovely venues for dog events all over NZ, we really are lucky that we get to see some really nice spots. We also got nice comments about the wonderful kids that we have at our Club, it is a credit to Nevenka and of course to the parents of these kids that they want to come and run their dogs, and help too!! The future of our sport looks great!!
~ NALA REPORTS ~
Top ‘Arf report – by Ann Kenny No report from Ann this month—we hope next month is a better month for her.
Central Report—by Mel Mankelow. Fielding Champ Our first big show with the new addition you wouldn’t believe how much stuff we had loaded in the ute. The weather was good but the grounds were really good the rain had made a huge difference. Some good results from the Mounties Deb & Cheeky and Jan & JJ. Jason had a great weekend coming 1st 2nd & 3rd in one Jumpers C and 1st & 3rd in the other all the dogs in B Jumpers now Amanda McKennie also had a great weekend getting places with her own dog Zip and also getting her 1st challenge, she also ran Dyson’s dogs and had a win in jumpers B with Rumer. Peter & Quick had a great
EDITORIAL
by Karen de Wit
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show winning both Intermediates and a Senior what a weekend. Natasha and Sage also getting 5th place in Senior. The Judges were all dressed up sat morning all looking great, shame they didn’t dress up on Sunday as I heard Dyson had some very tight lycra pants to wear.
Cambridge & Wag Ribbon Always a really good finish to the year we weren’t able to camp this year but we stayed with Ali, which was great thanks Ali. Great turn out for the show big en-tries. Some good runs all weekend Petra & Bode 2nd in Novice also Jude & Lace 2nd in both Jumpers they are starting to do some great stuff in the ring now. JJ winning Intermediate and Pleze 2nd in Senior with Chelsea & Flash 1st. Cambridge always has a great novelty event and this year was no different it was a fun course with a circle of jumps around the edge and tunnels in the centre. There were some very fast dogs, Alex even running one of Chelsea’s dogs so nice to see her running maybe she should have a go more often. I paired Indi with Deb & Pleze just for a laugh as I had only just started running a dog again this week-end the first run was good but we were misinformed when to start so we had to re run, 2nd run also a good one but the timers didn’t go by this stage I was just about to drop but out we went again this time all was well and we ended up winning. There was no way I could have run again !!!!. Off for the Christmas break what will we all do with no shows for a few weeks, some information I have been given Lou Baker & Tess have 218 clear rounds this year out of 246 WOW, also she managed 56 consecutive clear rounds at one point this year go Lou & Tess good luck for 2010
Tokoroa Champ Here we go again another year full of Agility as always we start the year with Tok not our usual weather this year frosty mornings and a chill in the air during the day. The new grounds are great so much room although I must say it didn’t feel like Tokoroa it’s always a cosy show being on the small grounds but the new grounds are fab. Although one bad point of the weekend poor JJ cutting her foot open some glass by the bin was to blame. I’m sure she will recover soon and be back out there. The show ran really well with some good results Judy Casey having a great run with Tui coming 2nd in Starters and 2nd in Novice also Diana Bird having an amazing run with Bounce so nice to see Diana back in the ring. Chelsea done a great job winning all Intermediates, seniors and Jumpers A amaz-ing weekend for her again if only we could all get results like that. Also great to see Alan & Elaine with Knight back in the ring he did some fantas-tic runs. The Bushes also coming away with some good placings with Bindi & Ohce. Nick Chesters jumpers B was a great course all wing jumps was great to run even if I did make a hard job of it. Ngaire had a great run with Risky really great to watch. Knight won it with a fantastic run. The wing jumps make the rng look so
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much better. The novelty theme was dead famous this year with Martin Bush dressed as a woman for another year I believe he was Marylin the blonde bomb-shell he seems to like dressing up should we be worried I wonder !!!!!
Norwest Champ Well a wet start for Norwest this year, which is a first normally, one of the hottest shows we spent most of the weekend under cover of the tent. So didn’t get to watch many runs there were some good results from Sue & Cookie with 2 plac-ings in Starters, Jan and JJ winning Intermediate and also 3rd in Senior, Jude hav-ing some good runs with Gabby and Lace. Was nice to see Charlotte back at a show she had a great weekend winning Senior with Chaos and getting 1st with Chaos In jumpers and 2nd with Gun good was to come back to competing. The show seemed to run well although it dragged a bit on Sunday when we all wanted to get home also a lot quieter this year as the folk festival wasn’t on looking for-ward to getting back to camping again maybe next year when Callum is a bit big-ger. I have noticed that Hayley Rohde has taken over running Kiss and what a great job she is making of it so good to see the young handlers running the seem to find it a lot easier than us adults. The highlight of the weekend was Jason & Jack getting their first challenge it was a year to the day that he first competed so was very special for us, lets hope there will be more to come.
DAWG Champ We made the long trip south to drop of gear and to do this show and what an en-joyable weekend we had in the Capital. Saturday was just beautiful and you couldn’t have asked for better weather and Sunday was typical windy Wellington. Jason and Nevenka had a great competition going on between them with Cassie getting the upper hand on Saturday but Jack getting the better of her on the Sun-day and picking up another CC. There were some great results from the weekend too; Kate Butler and Spring tak-ing out a Novice to put them into Intermediate, Karen and Tana were on form as were Nevenka and Cassie. Highlight for us though from the weekend was Skyla and Breeze again taking out the YKC run, Breeze loves running for Skyla and they have so much fun together, Jason better watch out or he will be losing his dogs. Great to see the clubs putting themselves out to run the YKC events as these kids are the future of our sport.
Taupo Champ Well another great show in Taupo with the numbers up on last year and people coming up from Wellington area to enjoy the sunshine and the swims in the lake at the end of the day. The water temperature in the lake was wonderful and I am sure all the dogs enjoyed it as much as ours did when they had their swim in the afternoon.
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Trying to keep this report short so pick of the results were Chelsea with most of her dogs doing well again, Dawn Williams picking up a win in Starters, Kate Last with some good placings on her home ground, Shelley Clark and Tulli winning Novice, Susan McKay and Phantom winning Novice 2 to put them into Senior I think, well done Susan. Stacy Hobson winning Novice on the Sunday though I think it was his young lady running the dog, Dyson and Rumer winning Int 2 and other good placings too. Sue Andresen and Tip getting 4th in Senior 3, but the biggest smiles of the weekend would have to go to Heather Warren with Griff taking out Senior 3 with an outstanding run over what was a very difficult course. Well done Heather.
Cambridge Champ Well anyone would have thought we were at the NDTA or the Nationals at this show as the numbers were massive and Cambridge did a fantastic job in running 4 rings. Cambridge has to be one of the best shows of the year with just the best grounds around so no wonder they get the numbers to the show they do a big well done Cambridge and a small club to boot as well. Pick of the results for the weekend were Tarah Hunt running Mille winning Jumpers C and Novice 1, Catherine Martin and Volt winning Novice 2 and 3, Alice Cameron and Ace, Kristina Beresford and Jazzy, Deb Jackson and Cheeky, Jan Murden and JJ, Chelsea with all the dogs, Natasha Kenny and Sage, Dyson ad Rumer in the money again. High light though had to be Hayley Rohde coming 2nd in Senior 1 with Kiss truly outstanding. Have to mention that my Bailey boy picked up a Challenge in Senior 3 coming 3rd was so proud of my boy.
North Shore and Hibiscus Coast Champ We didn’t go to this show but thought I would write a bit about this show as Julie McConkey and Blake won Senior 3 on the Sunday to gain there last challenge to make them up to Agility Champions, Hibiscus Coast has become quite a lucky ground for Julie and Blake so well done Julie and watch out at the Mount/Tauranga show as Jason plans on getting you since he missed out. Other results from this weekend were Deb Jackson and Cheeky winning Sen 1 and good placing in Int 1, 2 and 3, Jan and JJ winning Int 2 and Debbie Mid-dlemiss in the money with Riddles even picking up a 2nd Place Challenge with him in Sen 3 – go Riddles.
Hawera Champ What and eventful weekend this was for all that attended and some very very happy people there were too on the drive home from Hawera this weekend. The biggest smiles of the weekend had to go to Tiffany Brown & Kylia and Lou Baker & Kosima who picked up 1st and 2nd in Senior 2, Kosima also got her JDX. You couldn’t wipe the smiles off their faces and so cool it was to too see them pick their blueys.
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Dyson and Rumer took out Int 1 and Sen 1 to pick up another Chal-lenge, want be long before we are soaking them at this rate. Fiona and Sharky picked up a trifecta by win-ning a Intermediate, Senior and Jumpers B, Sharky’s first of many CC I am sure. Joanne Small had and outstanding weekend with Breeze getting a place in nearly ever event she was in and winning a Novice to which must put her into senior now. Have a funny little story to finish on about a little incident that happened at Kerry Lane involving a poor little chicken. There we were back at Kerry Lane on Saturday night and Jason went to toilet the dogs and he met up with Shane McGhie who was looking a little worse for wear following his fall earlier in the day. He and Jason got talking and he said to Jason you would believe what has just a happened, I had just let the dogs out to have a run around and Josh disappeared around the corner so I called him back and around he trotted proud as punch with a HUGE chicken in his mouth, he had killed it and I thought oh no what do I do. Shane owned up and went and told the people with the lady owner being devastated at losing one of her prise Chickens. The McGhies want be able to book at Kerry Lane again, so watch out people there is a Chicken Killing Miniature Schnauzer in our midst now.
No Josh not the Chicken
Lower North Report - by Peter de Wit
So what does a person write in a column about agility competitions for the month of February when said person did not actually go to any events in that month.
At our club I take the newbies class, those people straight off the street that have seen some dog agility and think they might like to give it a go. Every term that means around 10-15 keen and nervous handlers and dogs turn up for an eight week course.
This term is fairly typical of most with a huge range of dogs in the class. There’s
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Teddy the Toy poodle cross Jack Russell terrier that stands about 200mm, Jonny the Foxy, Kaahu & Millie the poodles, Chloe the Weaten x Tibetan, Kane the Sheltie, Monty the Boxer, Millie the something cross something else, Monty the Boxer, Baxter the Cavoodle, Diesel the Huntaway and Sam the BC. In our town this is pretty much what we get all the time. There are quite a few challenges to training all these breeds and it makes for an interesting class.
As the main aim of this class is to have some fun while the handlers and dogs learn a little about agility, we spend lots of time running doing tunnels, running in circles and zig zags and scrambling along planks, and running relays. There are only a few rules for the class and here they are:
All training is on lead unless your instructor gives you permission to be off lead, Keep a good 3-4m space between dogs most of the time, If dog to dog issues arise, everyone must WALK AWAY from each other until you are far enough away that your dog is calm. If a dog gets loose the instructor will say, “HOLD YOUR DOG”. Everyone must stop training and hold their dogs until the loose dog in under control. The class members are responsible for setting up the equipment and putting it away.
We do have a lot of fun and by week 5 most of the dogs are running off lead doing sequences of “jumps”, tunnels and ramps that make the class feel like they are do-ing agility.
In late January I went to Canterbury for five days, 3 days of agility training and 2 days of judging at the CATS Agility competition. I would like to thanks my hosts, Bernadette, Gay, Tina & Trisha for looking after me so well, you guy are amazing.
I must say that CATS had the best raffle I have ever seen at an Agility event, al-though there was not much in it for me. There was a table with hundreds of items of cosmetics on it. The raffle was multi-draw and I saw some people go up a huge number of times. I think I got the 5th last draw, all that was left was 4 x hair colour-ing and a scented candle. I took the candleJ.
I thoroughly enjoyed setting courses for the southern dogs and watching them race around. There were a couple of events where the winner ran last and crushed the hopes of those that ran earlier. After five days on my feet it was great to have a couple of days off after that.
While I was away, at the DAWG agility in Wellington Daryl Hogg and Eye-C won senior to gain their AGILITY CHAMPION title. Huge congratulations to Daryl on gaining this title and I’m sure that the Grand
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will come along too. Being a typically hot Wellington day, the wetting was held in a kiddies paddling pool.
As some of you know we have dipped in to the pond of dog breeding with Quick. She has been mated to Mel & Jason’s Bailey and is due to have pups in April. This is the main reason for having some time off agility competitions. Even though we have just started it is very exciting and a new experience. I am busy ready Karen’s notes from a course she took a few years ago and gathering the things we will need next month.
Last weekend was Upper Hutt’s big agility competition of the year. This year we had a carnival atmosphere with all the marquees, tents and campervans around the ring. The event is held in a popular public park, right next door to a softball dia-mond (with games being played) and “Maidstone Max” a huge play ground and skateboard park. Many members of the general public come to see what is going on. They are no doubt entertained by the antics of the dogs (and their handlers!). It does mean we and our dogs have to be on our best behaviour.
Being at the end of the island we get smaller entries than just about any club in the north, but this has the advantage that we can run more events and we do! Three agility sets plus two jumpers plus AD plus YKC. We were well supported with competitors from all over the North Island including some from as far away as Auckland.
Every time we run one of these events I am reminded of the huge amount of work it has become to run a competition. It seems to take an amazing number of peo-ple, performing a wide range of tasks to get the event going, to keep it running smoothly and to bring it to a close at a reasonable hour on Sunday (3pm in this case). I take my hat off to everyone that run and help out at events all around the country. Well done to everyone that came to the competition and achieved their goals for the weekend.
Did you see all those little kids with their maroon tee shirts on? There they were working their little butts off, call stewarding, lead running and doing the white board. They even got to run their dogs in YKC. I must admit I am very proud of the kids at our club!
The Zone Awards were presented last weekend by Karen de Wit. Congratula-tions to:
Top Senior/Intermediate Diane Reid & India (BC) Top Novice /Int Polly Catlin-Maybury and Zip (BC) Top Starters/Novice Jane Aukett & Paris (Boxer) Top Mni/Midi Chris Ross and Jack (Sheltie)
So that’s it for another month, if any one would like to contribute to this column for March and April just let me know, don’t hold back.
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ABOVE: Upper Hutt Top Dogs. Top Mini: Jack and Chris Ross, Top midi: Dyson Beasley and Rumur, Top Maxi: Jill Payne and Finn.
BELOW: Zone 3 Annual awards. Best mini/midi: Chris Ross and Jack Best Starts/Novice: Jane Auckett and Paris Best Novice/Intermediate: Polly Catlin-Maybury and Zip Best Intermediate/Senior: Diane Reid and India
TOP DOGS!!
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Canterbury Tails by Sue McKee & Teezsa, Rez and Switch
South Canterbury Dog Training Club - 13th/14th February I only attended day one of this event. Talk about four seasons in one day. Ar-rived at the grounds to howling gales and light rain. The rain cleared and for a couple of hours or so we were all sweltering and down to singlets and shorts. Then the front came through and we all put our layers back on and froze while the wind blew a gale again. Then just as everyone went home the wind died down. Apart from all that, some interesting courses set by our judges, Graeme Lawson and Steve Tansey. Steve Tansey’s all jump jumpers - no tunnels - in Jumpers B had many wondering if we were going to get lost. It certainly kept our brains working at the end of a long day to navigate our way around the course. I man-aged to get round it with the Red Dog and got my last clear round needed for JD. Well done to all the newbie handlers (and some not so newbie) in Starters where it was a 1st to 5th lineup of Waimakers, Megan Loughridge winning with her mum’s dog Charley - a nice birthday present for Megan who turned 14 that day, followed by Darron Willetts and Jess, Heather Drewett & Willow, Chrissy Knowles and Angel and Yolanda Nuberg & Rev. Although I wasn’t there, I hear Darron won Starters on Sunday. North Otago Dog Training Club 20/21 February North Otago put on a very ambitious event for us all, with triple agility and triple jumpers - this with a club which has around nine members! Well done to them for pushing the envelope and putting on a great show. And they even had influ-ence over the weather, as it was hot and dry - too hot of course for running agility. There were lots of people camping, which was great to see. Megan Loughridge with her mum’s dog Charley carried on their winning way, making sure they were well and truly out of Starters with another win to clinch the deal. And didn’t Charley have fun in the water trough, thought-fully provided by Allan Booth - no ordinary trough, this was big enough for a couple of humans to have a bath in if they felt so inclined. Not without its drama, with Helen Lappin tripping over her little spaniel George at the start line and then getting her foot hooked in the ring rope and falling and breaking her wrist. St John Ambulance were soon on the scene and she was carted
Charley having fun in the water trough at Oamaru.
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off to hospital. Little Jake Remon did a great job of waiting for the ambulance to arrive and directing them to the proper area, and I believe also got a short ride in the ambulance into the bargain. Many thanks to all the people who rallied round and gave advice and medication to my sick wee man, the Rezmeister. Agility people are a great bunch of caring people. Maybe he’ll learn not to eat stuff he shouldn’t from now on, but some-how I doubt it. Michael Barrett won Jumpers B a couple of times and now has joined the ladies in Jumpers A, although we weren’t sure if he may have already been a lady when his name was accidentally read out at prizegiving as Michelle. Lovely courses the whole weekend by our judges Bernadette Thompson, Graeme Lawson, Joanne Rennell, Carole Logan and Irene Lock. So nice to see courses at the ap-propriate level, particularly in Starters and Novice where even the simplest courses can turn to custard for new dogs. Looking at the entries, next year this club if it had roughly the same numbers would have a split in Novice, Intermediate and Jumpers C, while Jumpers B, Starters and Senior would have to battle it out with all dogs competing against one another, although of course lots more dogs in midi jumping lower than they were this year. My three (including my heading dog) will still be jumping with the big guys so no change there, sadly. Interesting times ahead, with the South Island so different from the north. Waimakariri Dog Training Club Ribbon Trial Another stunning day, and a well-attended event with judges Judy Young and Nic Furby doing the honours. Lovely to have plenty of trees to park under for shade. Congratulations to young Emma Trimble for winning Elementary A with the Trimble’s rescue dog, Levi who is a super cool dude.
Down South report—by Elaine Pearce The first event for the month was the Otago CTC champ show and ADXA trial. Unfortunately this show turned out to be a real challenge. Firstly we found out that some entries had been stolen. Luckily a kind member of the public rang a club member to say she had found their cheque on the street in South Dunedin. A lot of stress, time and advertising later and, hopefully, we managed to contact everyone who had intended entering our show. The second disaster was when, due to personal circumstances one of our officiat-ing judges, Abi Lister could not come. We had already organised and paid for Abi's flight and she was flying out of Rotorua airport, not a terribly common de-parture point. Abi kindly arranged for Martin Bush to drive approx 100 km to Rotorua airport so he could use her ticket. Our Treasurer, Anne, then had to con-vince Air NZ to transfer the ticket which, after numerous time consuming phone calls, she did. To start with they had no intentions of being helpful and there were
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all sorts of suggestions about how to convince the airport authorities that Martin was in fact Abi. At the time of our Feb show, Martin was not a senior judge so Steve Chester kindly agreed to judge all three Seniors. A bit of reorganisation to the judging allocation and we were set. Thank you to Martin, Steve and Abi for being so helpful. Then our Eukanuba sponsorship did not arrive purely due to the rep forgetting to send it. This is the first time it has ever happened and Eukanuba have been gener-ously sponsoring us for many years. With Waitangi Day on the Saturday there was no way to get the product to us in time. Rest assured that there will be full sponsorship at Otago's April show. Sponsorship is very hard to come by so we should be extremely grateful to Eukanuba. This is the first time they have ever let us down and it certainly was not inten-tional. Just human error. The final disaster to top everything off was when we found out that the Dunedin City Council had allowed the Mountain Bike Club closure of the Forrester Park access road on Sunday. The closure was supposed to be all day but with the co operation of both clubs it was agreed to allow our members vehicle access to the dog park until 10.00am. The road was then reopened at about 1.00. Hopefully this did not inconvenience too many competitors. Despite all this, we ran a great show, were generally lucky with the weather and most people seemed to have a good time. Thank you to all non Otago and Otago CTC members who pitched in to help. Timaru had a champ show on in the second weekend of Feb but sorry no report and cannot see any results. The third weekend was the North Otago Triple Championship Agility Event, Tri-ple Championship Jumpers and AD Trial. A huge ask for any club but particu-larly for North Otago which is probably the smallest club in the South Island. Obviously plenty of outsiders jumped in to help but with three rings mostly run-ning simultaneously it must have been pretty difficult. I only attended the Sunday and when I arrived there appeared to be plenty of sun-burnt people and some very tired looking dogs. On the Saturday some dogs could have had up to 6 runs and on Sunday those same dogs could have had another 4 runs. Goodness knows how the people with multiple dogs coped. I did not hear or see a lot of results except for Lisa Duff taking out the highly contested top dog award.
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HOW CAN YOU TAKE PART? You can take part by either join-ing NALA or joining NZARO. To receive the complete NALA magazine including the Rally-O supple-ment you must be a full member of NALA. To receive the Rally-O sup-plement only you need to be a member of NZARO. Any club member can judge. Anyone judging must make themselves familiar with the NZARO
Handbook, a copy of which has been sent to all clubs. The handbook is available on the website www.nzaro.webs.com
COURSE for April The measurements show location of the signs. Numbers should be placed near the signs, unless they are a part of
New Zealand Association of Rally Obedience
Send Results to: MIKE BUTLER Email: [email protected] by the 27th of the month.
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the sign itself. Remember to keep the signs on your right as you run the course. The light line shows the handler/dog path. Don’t forget to count your steps during the halt 1-2-3– steps forward. If you get it wrong you can retry! CLUB RESULTS
1 Feilding Elsie Marriott Fat Albert 100 41.24
Linda Guiness Fusion 100 41.56
Lynda Cummins Chloe 100 43.05 100.0 125.85
2 WAG Aimee Smith Beau 100 38.62
Fiona Ferrar Jay 100 46.63
Fiona Ferrar Inca 100 47.06 100.0 132.31
3 Wanganui Kath Kerr Emma 100 43.37
Nikki McDowall Breeze 100 46.97
Barbara James Shaylar 100 47.94 100.0 138.28
4 Otaki Denise Mundy Lex 100 43.84
Denise Mundy Ty 100 45.87
Noeline Wagener Rumba 100 48.78 100.0 138.49
5 Hawkes Bay Bobby Dickerson Aruba 100 54.37
John Carbin Anjin 100 54.56
Heather McGrannachanPepper 100 55.60 100.0 164.53
6 North Taranaki Paula Roberston Skye 100 44.78
Laurel Austin Linden 100 58.78
Paula Roberston Jazz 99 50.43 99.7 153.99
7 Otago Denise Lindsay Tegan 100 48.43
Diana O'Kane Echo 99 47.20
Margaret Latimer Polka 99 54.89 99.3 150.52
8 Central ADTS Jane O'Callaghan Ruku 99 45.06
Mike Butler Ella 99 49.93
Angie Quinn Quassy 99 62.06 99.0 157.05
9 Canterbury COC Gay Bouterey Delta 100 51.65
Robin Sanders Tiza 100 53.00
Gay Bouterey Angel 97 59.30 99.0 163.95
10 Norwest Maree Green Ted 100 46.55
Joan McFarlane Chester 99 65.44
Sue McDiarmid Casey 98 57.75 99.0 169.74
11 Upper Hutt Peter de Wit Quick 100 40.06
Karen de Wit Tana 97 37.89
Jane Aukett Paris 97 55.70 98.0 133.65
12 Hawera Carol Galliers Kimba 100 51.78
Chris Moody Laser 99 54.56
Judy Towers Jess 95 58.31 98.0 164.65
13 CHB Beverley Thomson Jade 100 48.84
Beverley Thomson Topaz 99 64.69
Dani Stevens Pepsi 94 47.22 97.7 160.75
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Total RankUnder 8s Beginners
Skyla Paterson Cassie UH 8.66 1Cameron Alder Taz CHB 9.13 2Skyla Paterson Gem UH 15.39 3Antonia Vole-Packer Jed UH 22.56 4Paige Aukett Kite UH 23.47 5Cameron Alder Widget CHB 37.07 6Paige Aukett Paris UH 555 7
8-11yrsAnecia Wilkie Chip H/Bay 9.11 1Braeden Taylor-Phillips Hobson South Rangitikei 11.97 2
Grace Alder Taz CHB 13.91 3Zane Paterson Tana UH 14.20 4
olivia Harman Croc Tauranga 15.69 5Joshua Anderson Beau H/Bay 21.94 6Grace Alder Widget CHB 29.46 7Joshua Anderson Rumble H/Bay 34.04 8Estelle Sandford Molly UH 555 9
12-15yrsDylan Anderson Samson H/Bay 8.59 1Briani Gray Misty Hawera 12.84 2Briani Gray Tilly Hawera 18.87 3Danielle Stevens Fez CHB 20.34 4Danielle Stevens Emma CHB 555 5Dylan Anderson Rocky H/Bay 555 5
8-11yrs Experienced Total Rank
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8-11yrs Experienced Total RankErin Ball Claire Mangawhai 18.88 1Nicole Robinson Diva Levin 22.15 2Hayley Rohde Knight Counties 25.56 3Hayley Rohde Kiss Counties 25.65 4Erin Ball Trish Mangawhai 555 5
12-15yrs Jessia Bruce-Jones Beau Selwyn 15.85 1Jessia Bruce-Jones Gem Selwyn 20.03 2Julia Primrose Bella Taupo 20.38 3Shanice Clements Trudy Hawera 23.10 4
19 Julia Primrose Bella Taupo 20.38 3Shanice Clements Trudy Hawera 23.10 4Shanice Clements Zee Hawera 26.53 5Amy Hoogenboom Molly H/Bay 29.46 6Kris Butterworth Jet N/Taranaki 32.07 7
16-20yrsChelsea Marriner Ike Rotorua 14.72 1Chelsea Marriner Quest Rotorua 15.21 2Chris Moody Mickey Hawera 20.31 3Chelsea Marriner Bree Rotorua 24.38 4Chelsea Marriner Flash Rotorua 24.69 5Chelsea Marriner Spy Rotorua 24.78 6Bridee Manning Croc Tauranga 27.69 7Sarah Stephenson Maddie Canterbury 30.01 8Tracy Hart Jacko Norwest 31.92 9Kelsey McBeth Phoenix Canterbury 33.49 10Tracy Hart Jenna Norwest 34.39 11Kelsey McBeth Ivy Canterbury 34.47 12Chris Moody Laser Hawera 34.75 13Kelsey McBeth Dazzle Canterbury 44.25 14Sarah Stephenson Tess Canterbury 49.84 15Chelsea Marriner Shift Rotorua 555 16
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BEGINNERS COURSE
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AGILITY CLUB COMPETITION DIVISION ONE
Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total> 1 Rotorua 1 Ike FDX Heading Dog Chelsea Marriner 14.720 44.840 Rumur BC Dyson Beasley 14.910 AgGrCh FDCh Quest Working BC Chelsea Marriner 15.210 2 WAG 1 AgCh Rain BC Keri Neilson 15.370 46.160 Xena GSD x Vern McAuley 15.380 AgGrCh Cannon FD BC Fiona Ferrar 15.410 3 Mt Maunganui 1 Cheeky Heading Dog Deb Jackson 15.862 48.343 J J Cricket Heading Dog Jan Murden 16.223 Sage Lab Natasha Kenny 16.258 4 Waimak 1 Zac BC Norma Wilson 15.408 49.258 Wilco Border Collie Norma Wilson 16.796 Rogue Border Collie Graeme Lawson 17.054 5 Top DAWG FDCH Mya ADX JDX BC.X Rebecca Sidwell 15.135 49.958 Rapid ADXB FD Border Collie Mike Butler 17.314 Kashi ADXaB FDX Min Poodle Diane Miller 17.509 6 Cambridge Blake ADXG Heading Dog Julie McConkey 15.000 50.020 Millie BC Graeme Jefferies 16.650 Rosie Beardie Stephanie Holmes 18.370 7 Upper Hutt AgGrCh Tana BC Karen de Wit 16.148 50.539 Tuppence Border Collie Jude Haase 16.680 AgCh Cassie Border Collie Nevenka Paterson 17.711 8 Wanganui 1 Shade NZ Heading Dog Jenny Benson 15.574 51.357 Jenna ADX-G Miniature Poodle Bronwyn Morgan 17.681 FDCH Jordy ADX Lab x Barbara James 18.102 9 Southland Flirt Heading Dog Glenyse Pearse 17.102 56.575 Midge ADX Jack Russell x Joanne Rennell 17.989 Diva Australian Shepherd Trisha Cameron 21.484 10 Taieri Jodie Boxer Don Leckie 19.470 60.020 Blitz Sibord Rosalie Lock 20.210 Flicker Border Collie Sallie Remon 20.340 11 Nelson 1 Cloud ADX BC Vannessa Machen 18.133 69.367 Noosa Border Collie Dean Machen 25.349 Taya Kelpie.X Christine Henderson 25.885
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DIVISION TWO Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total> 1 Hawkes Bay 2 Polly Kelpie Annette Hildesheim 14.736 46.898 Sheeba ADXG Kelpie.X Campbell List 15.548 Samson Doberman Colleen O`Connor 16.614 2 North Taranaki 2 Zip BC Polly Catlin-Maybury 15.323 49.489 Flynn AD BC Fay Bailey 16.961 Mulga X.Breed Laurel Austin 17.205 3 East BOP Bindi ADX Belgian Shepherd Trish Bush 15.310 49.680 Kwila Belgian Shepherd Una Forrester 17.060 Bode Heading Dog Petra Parkinson 17.310 4 Sth Canterbury Solo Border Collie Natasha Coulter 16.349 50.918 Travis Border Collie Natasha Coulter 17.273 Benji Min Poodle Bronwyn Rumble 17.296 5 Central HB Emma BC.X Christine Harber 16.268 52.733 Taz Heading Dog X Kim Loye 17.207 Tide Huntaway x Catherine Harty 19.258 6 Otago 2 AgGrCh Jax BC David Cook 17.223 56.555 Jess Collie x Lisa Cross 17.695 Senna ADXAG Kelpie Elaine Pearce 21.637 7 Blenheim Tikeila ADX Gordon Setter Natasha Neame 18.011 56.623 Mistique NZ Working Dog Stephanie Hayes 18.476 Theodore Toy Poodle Jane Norton 20.136 8 WAG 2 Nemo sheltie/BC Sandy Rostron 15.670 57.317 Billie BC Melanie Held 15.797 Ace BC Alice Cameron 25.850 9 Counties Coal Kelpie Marie Wales 16.624 57.923 Kit BC Iris Walker 20.232 Turbo Heading Dog Di Stephens 21.067 10 CCATS Alexandria Huntaway x Steve de Haan 18.083 60.406 Bree Miniature Schnauzer Kathryn Snook 20.789 Grace Min. Schnauzer Sandra McHugh 21.534 11 Tauranga 2 BreezADX BC Jocelyn Jensen 17.394 61.191 Rocky ADX Sheltie Bernice Shearman 20.445 Lucky ADX Foxy.X Helen Moorhead 23.352
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DIVISION THREE
Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total>1 North Shore 3A Hiska Kelpie Matilda van Rijnberk16.200 51.540 Raven FD GSD X Diana McKay 17.578 Quinn J/Russell/Sch Tess Bayly 17.762 2 Horowhenua AgCh Phanta ADXG BC Heather Smith 15.911 52.207 Dice Penny Nalder 16.896 Monte Staff X Sandra Athea 19.400 3 Whangarei Hudson Lab.x Ann Kenny 17.340 55.490 Taragh NZ working dogAnn Kenny 18.900 Benji Span.X Ann Kenny 19.250 4 North Shore 3B Cara BC Cheryl Ritchie 16.469 56.182 Hollie Border Collie Cathy Clarkson 17.422 Bessie BC Lise Davis 22.291 5 Hawkes Bay 3 Ringo Kelpie Dot Janssen 18.668 59.045 Rocky Sheltie Ann Anderson 19.533 Rez Viszla Nicola Chadwick 20.844 6 Napier JJ of Carlyle AD Heading Dog X Celina Lovejoy 17.560 59.910 Holly Min.Poodle Diane Boden 20.370 Chloe Min poodle Diane Boden 21.980 7 Taupo Tehlulah Toy Poodle Christine Gabb 20.296 63.559 Bella cross Julia Primrose 20.385 Ziggy Toy Poodle Carole Gabb 22.878 8 Akarana Skooter ADX B.Terr Brigid Slykerman 19.438 64.865 conner border terrier X Brigid Slykerman 22.404 Drake GSD Aimee Cadman 23.023 9 Mid CanterburyMo Heading Dog Caroline Sinclair 20.490 66.450 Bud Labrador Tui Clucas 22.220 Tess Lab Tui Clucas 23.740 10 Wairarapa AgGrCh India Border Collie Dianne Reid 14.780 69.690 Tyson BC Ana Workman 26.060 Tessa Fox Terrier Sharleen Drummond 28.850
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DIVISION FOUR Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total> 1 Tokoroa Shine Huntaway X Gina Boreham 15.540 49.630 Jimmy Huntaway Amanda Benson (ex
Hayward) 16.840
Skye ADX FD Kelpie X Gina Boreham 17.250 2 Mt Maunganui 4 Jack BC Jason Hughes 16.060 52.512 Cookie Heading Dog Sue Andresen 17.800 Silke BC Anne Proctor 18.652 3 Waimak 4 Stella BC.X Anne Godfrey 16.016 54.163 Tee BC/Foxi x Lisa Duff 16.660 Levi Huntaway X Emma Trimble 21.487 4 Mangawhai Lace AD BC Annette Flannagan 17.840 55.750 Claire Border Collie Erin Ball 18.880 Pearl BC Annette Flannagan 19.030 5 Otago 4 Jinx Heading Lisa Cross 16.076 56.086 Marley Collie x Mary-Rose Scoular 19.187 Beau G Retriever Dianne Sprott 20.823 6 Tauranga 4A Betsy ADX BC Ian Walker 18.474 56.220 Tulli Schnauzer Shelley Clark 18.866 Chase Border Collie X Jocelyn Jensen 18.880 7 Go DAWG Hunter AD FD Min Poodle Diane Miller 17.936 56.351 Banjo Kelpie Murray Cain 18.166 Zephyr FD Vizsla Marian Holman 20.249 8 South Rangitikei Point Heading dog Jaz Ellery 18.560 57.620 Pollyanna Sheltie Rod Pearce 19.340 Amon ADXB Min Poodle Rod Pearce 19.720 9 Canterbury COC Foe Working Kelpie Meredith Evans 17.920 57.920 Lexie BC Tim Conolly 18.630 Sophie Aust Terrier Julie Adam 21.370 10 Wanganui 4 Shaylar FD Border/heading Barbara James 17.524 59.005 Taz Miniature Poodle Bronwyn Morgan 18.688 Flick Foxy X Jack Russell Jenny Benson 22.793 11 Hawera ADX Bronze FDX
Flash Basenji Foxi Cross Debbie Towler 18.180 59.670
Mickey BC Catherine Massey 20.310 Zoe BC x Foxy Ian Wooldridge 21.180
24 12 Otaki K9s Cinders ADX Min Poodle Aprille McGee 18.470 61.530 Molly ADXG Min.Poodle Sharon Wagener 21.400 Lex Polish Lowland
Sheepdog Denise Mundy 21.660
13 Tauranga 4B Jacqui heading dog Rusty Jones 18.127 65.254 Cody Border Collie Ian Walker 21.071 Bruce Heading Dog Barbara Jones 26.056 14 North Taranaki 4 Trump BC Maree Butterworth 18.437 69.248 Amber BC Denise Davis 18.626 Mak Beardie X Isa Christianson 32.185 15 Selwyn Piper BC Nicola Govan 16.380 70.250 Rocky Huntaway x Misha Baxter 21.910 Splash Bearded Collie x Aimee Weber 31.960
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Standard Flygility Team results
Plc Team Total Dog Handler Time Flts 1 Sulphur City) 32.350 AgGrCh FDCh Bree Chelsea Marriner 32.350 0 Slickers
(rotorua AgCh FDCh Flash Chelsea Marriner
Shift Chelsea Marriner 2 Rotovegas) 33.780 AgGrCh FDCh Quest Chelsea Marriner 33.780 0 Rebels (rotorua Spy AD JD FD Chelsea Marriner McLeod Paula Nixon 3 Counties 33.840 AgGrCh ObCh Flare FDX TCQ Elaine Rohde 33.840 0 Black Gold Risky Ngaire O'Rourke Coal Marie Wales 4 Waimak 1 34.206 AG CH Tui Anne Godfrey 34.206 0 AgCh Teezsa FD ADX Sue McKee GrAgCh Zoom FD Lisa Duff 5 Wanganui Opals 35.310 Shaylar FD Barbara James 35.310 0 Heydoh Jonna Gibson Ella Steve Hessell 6 Hawkes Bay 2 35.475 Frodo Campbell List 35.475 0 Romar Dot Janssen Samson Colleen O`Connor 7 Mt Maunganui 35.910 Cheeky Deb Jackson 35.910 0 Indy Mel Mankelow Breeze Jason Hughes 8 Top DAWG 37.264 FDCH Mya ADX JDX Rebecca Sidwell 32.264 5 FDCH Seeka ADX JDX Rebecca Sidwell Cy-4 FD Kathryn Bayne 9 Wairarapa 2 37.410 Tasman Sharleen Drummond 37.410 0 Smudge Ana Workman Tessa Sharleen Drummond 10 WAG1 37.590 Beau Janet Smith 32.590 5 Sharky ADX FD Fiona Ferrar Phantom Susan McKay 11 Hawera 1 40.250 Mickey Catherine Massey 40.250 0 ADX Bronze FDX Flash Debbie Towler Kohi Carl Ranford 12 norwest 1 40.500 Boston Jessika Simone 35.500 5 Jenna Tracy Hart Raven FD Diana McKay 13 Wairarapa 1 41.030 Meg Howlett Imogen Howlett 36.030 5 AgGrCh India Dianne Reid Molly Imogen Howlett
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February 2010 Molly Imogen Howlett 14 Wanganui s 42.170 FDCH Jordy ADX Barbara James 37.170 5 Golden Yani Silvia Rizzi Pippi Jonna Gibson 15 Tauranga1 42.370 Deci ADX Marion Pope 42.370 0 Tulli Shelley Clark Lucky ADX Helen Moorhead 16 norwest 2 42.430 Chester Joan McFarlane 42.430 0 Tobias Allison Muller Todd Nicole Beaumont 17 North Shore 2 42.540 FdCh Caleb ADX Kay Ungemuth 42.540 0 Ash Annie Sail Rocky V Claire Vivash 17 North Shore 2 42.540 FdCh Caleb ADX Kay Ungemuth 42.540 0 Ash Annie Sail Rocky V Claire Vivash 19 Manga Flyers 42.570 Lace AD Annette Flannagan 42.570 0 Pearl Annette Flannagan Kay Jinnie Gailey 20 Counties 43.848 Elsa Janine Smith 38.848 5 Wind Blowers AgCh Windi FDX Elaine Rohde Tessa Karen Forrest 21 Otago 2 45.160 Benson Shayne Oliver 45.160 0 Breeze Teresa Walker
Border Collie doing Wheelies! The crowd at Upper Hutt Summer carnival watch dogs doing the Jumpers pairs course
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On Paws
Agility Equipment Manukorihi Drive, Kawerau
Phone: 073237239 or 0274756976
Email: [email protected]
www.onpawsagility.com
On Paws Agility Equipment is owned and operated by Jason Hughes and
Mel Mankelow. We both compete with our four dogs Bailey, Jack, Indi and
Breeze in Agility and can be often found somewhere around the North
Island most weekends competing.
We now sell a wide range of Agility and Dog Training gear so please feel
free to visit our website to see our entire product range or contact us by
phone or email for any further information you require.
Competition Contact Gear
Aluminium Frame work
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Standard Jumps 3 types
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We are happy to make any training aid you want,
just give us the details
Visit our website to see more or give us a call