It was a privilege to be invited to judge both the
Championship classes - and one which we
thoroughly enjoyed. We have known each other for many
years and have a similar mind set on how to test various
aspects of agility. All in all, we both were
extremely happy with how the courses ran and felt that they provided
the opportunity for all sizes of dog to show off their agility and
the skills of the handler.
Small & Medium - Bob Griffin
The day started with the qualifying Jumping round,
run in a reasonably large course that made full use of the ring. It
required handlers to run but still maintain a degree of
control in several tighter sections.The course was run in
heavy rain showers and squally winds, but the competitors
ignored the difficult conditions and turned in some excellent rounds.
The weather improved somewhat to just being blustery
with shorter lighter showers, but this did not detract from
the competition which was keenly fought with a range of contact faults and poles
down as the handlers were pushing their dogs as fast as the conditions allowed,
yet still turning in some excellent rounds.
I would like to congratulate all the
competitors who got through to the Final round a superb
achievement in itself.
The final round was once again a fairly large but open
and flowing course that still required a degree of control.
The weather did improve slightly for the Small final
which turned out to be the only class that was judged during
the day without any wet weather gear on!
It was good to see everyone attacking the course and
putting in some excellent runs. When Lauren Langman ran with
Blink, knocking four seconds off of the
fastest time, I did not expect that to be beaten. However
Bernadette Bay with her Ag.Ch. Obay Itz Got
Pizazz was to prove me wrong. She put in a superb run which was extremely smooth
and didn’t lose any time at all on the turns, beating Lauren’s
time by just 0.148 sec and, thereby, taking
the ticket!
Many congratulations to Bernadette
with Ag.Ch. Obat Itz Got Pizazz
AW/G for winning the KC Small Challenge
Certificate and to Lauren with Samsir Blinkin Brilliant for
Devongem for taking the KC Small Reserve Challenge Certificate.
Place |
Handler |
Dog |
Time/Faults |
1 |
Jo Gleed |
Ag.Ch. Let's Get ready to Rumble |
40.328 (C) |
|
Nicola Garrett |
Obay One Crazy Dude |
40.363 (C) |
3 |
Linda Cummings |
Ag.Ch. Urban Moonlight Noworries |
41.818 (C) |
4 |
Christine Wingate-Wynne |
Ag.Ch. Obay Tiz Wil AW/G |
41.897 (C) |
5 |
Amanda Hampson |
Ag.Ch. Shoredancer Sea Jade |
42.640 (C) |
6 |
Alice Moodie |
Grinshill Mr Pip |
44.539 (C) |
7 |
Sue Powell |
Avalia Black Cardamom |
50.810 (C) |
8 |
Rob Archbold |
First Class Buddy AW/S |
78.653 (25.653) |
Large - Chris Huckle
It was both a pleasure and honour to judge the Large Championship. With too
many excellent rounds to mention everybody individually, I would still
like to make a special mention
of Theresa Hagreen Hagreen who ran
third with Sparky and put in a storming round.
She led the competition for a considerable time,
putting pressure on all the rest of the competitors until the last five dogs.
Greg Derret put in wonderfully smooth round at a blistering place
with Rehab, taking the lead from Teresa and Sparky by almost
1.8 seconds.
We were down to the last few dogs
when Lee Windeatt and Pip took the competition to another level with
a wonderfully smooth round, taking over a second out of Greg
and Rehab’s round.
Well done to Lee and Pip taking the Kennel Club Large
Challenge Certificate and to Greg and Rehab for taking the Reserve Challenge
Certificate.
Large Results
Place |
Handler |
Dog |
Time/Faults |
1 |
Lee Windeatt |
Ag.Ch. Darleyfalls
Pipistrelle |
35.616 (C) |
2 |
Greg Derrett |
Devongem Rehab Sproglett |
36.758 (C) |
3 |
Teresa Hagreen |
Devongem Bright Spark |
38.579 (C) |
4 |
Nicola Garrett |
May the Boo Be With You |
38.595 (C) |
5 |
Marc
Wingate-Wynne |
Nedlo Strictly Classic |
39.441 (C) |
6 |
Sam Clarke |
Indysols Miss Moneypenny AW/G |
39.605 (C) |
7 |
Bonny Quick |
Redwood Trail of Flames |
37.340 (5) |
8 |
Anthony Clarke |
Rujaff Fate El Protest |
37.992 (%) |
9 |
Michelle Sturge |
Benjamins Gwter Goch AW/S |
46.231 (5) |
10 |
Lauren Langman |
Darleyfalls Free Flo for Devongem |
45.017 (10) |
11 |
Wendy Page |
Borderspirit Holy Grail |
53.911(10) |
12 |
Heidi Vague |
Just a Grizzy Mo AW/S |
45.227 (15) |
13 |
Ashley Peach |
The Moo |
40.897 (20) |
Many thanks
We would
The Welsh Kennel
Club said, 'As ever we wish to record its thanks to our judges this year and
join in congratulating the winners, all the competitors and the team that makes
it all work. We are very grateful for the continuing support of Royal Canin® of
the 2016 Agility Championships at the summer show.'