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November 2012

NATIONAL

AGILITY

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ASSOCIATION

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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 5018 Ph: 04/528 6796. Mob:021 1240174 Email: kpdewit@xtra.co.nz TREASURER FIONA FERRAR, 630 Te Kowhai Rd, RD8, HAMILTON 3288 Ph: 07 829-7016 Ph: Mob: 021 358-996 Email: f.ferrar@actrix.co.nz NALA REPRESENTATIVES. NORTH ISLAND. KIM ORLANDO-REEP, Pepepe Valley, RD2, HUNTLY 3772 Ph: 078266725 Mob: 0274488896 E: kim@rockinghorses.com HELEN FABLING, 17 Tarata Street, Matua, TAURANGA 3110 Ph: 07 5767058 E: fabling4@kinect.co.nz SANDRA MOHEKEY, 57 Albert Street, Palmerston North. Ph 063591300 E: runaone@cheerful.com SOUTH ISLAND. SUE McKEE:- 203 Mandeville Road, RD 2 Kaiapoi 7692, Ph: 03 312 6264 Mob: 027 290 8182 E: suemckee2001@yahoo.com LYNLEY BARRETT: Lrbarrett@xtra.co.nz RAEWYN LECKIE E:- raeleckie@gmail.com 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: mbutler@ihug.co.nz RESULTS RECORDER (Flygility) ALLAN ROHDE, 167A Runciman Road, R D 2, Pukekohe, AUCKLAND. Ph: 09-2385464; Email mark.iii@clear.net.nz NOTE: All 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: djewiss@paradise.net.nz OR library@nala.org.nz MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION CAROLE LOGAN Email: distribution@nala.org.nz

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EDITORIAL by

Karen de Wit

A few pics from NZDAC, a special event.

1. Jonty wins Sarah Top dog trophy

2. Daniel and Zing winners of Jumpers C final

3. Skyla and Cassie win YKC.

4. Finn wins Novice final.

5. JJ and the hoop

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This is the first of the three Games offered this series. It is called Gamblers. You can choose which obstacles you do in the opening sequence—so you can avoid those you are not so good at and repeat those which you are good at!!! This means you might do the A-frame twice because you have a fast running contact but avoid the weave even though its worth the most points. Be mindful of how long it takes to get from one obstacle to the next, because while your dog is running it is not scoring any points. Try to be near the Gamble at the end of opening sequence, then you can easily get the Gamble points in a fast time. Give yourself a good run in to the gamble so that your dog will run ahead of you into the grey area because if you come to a screaming halt your dog will too!! For the rules on Gamblers and how to judge it go to the Agility Committee information page—select Regulations. http://www.dogagility.org.nz/regulations.html

The Opening Ceremony Photo by Karen de Wit

~ NZDAC 2012, Cambridge ~

THE GAME IS ON!!!

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Top Ärf Report by Kim Orlando-Reep

Photos by Emily from Auckland Area Agility photos.

NZDAC

Where do I start? So much to write about! I don’t think reports should be a list of results as these days they’re available on the Agility website and with the splits there are too many to mention and the danger of for-getting someone. So these are just a few recollections that appealed to me personally.

This was an amazing weekend with a number of highlights and achieve-ments. It was always going to be huge - the biggest agility competition ever held in NZ, organised by a relatively small committee who put in a tremendous amount of work for months to make it a resounding suc-cess. The venue, at Leamington Rugby Sports Ground in Cambridge was perfect, with a large flat area and heaps of room for camping and run-ning dogs - in fact there was room to spare. Large camping sites marked by strips mown by Graham Jeffries were a touch of genius – as were the huge block of portable showers

~ NALA REPORTS ~

Allan Rohde received a Cer-tificate of Appreciation from the Agility Committee for all his work over the years for

agility.

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which dispensed continuous hot, reviving water at the end of each day.

Friday kicked off with AD ADX and YKC and the bulk of competi-tors arriving and just to keep the visitors from the nether regions happy, the weather laid on some pretty nasty stuff with low tempera-tures and blustery winds. Temperatures plummeted over night and some campers were not exactly happy....and it was a cold start at 7am with Nick Chester, resplendent in the black with orange tie, repeating

Photos. 1.Alice's wetting and 2. Tess, Lou Baker's retired sheltie (1251 Clear rounds) takes a break from watching agility.

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his opening speech. Nick followed up with a win in the first Senior with a lovely run with Edge, followed by a second Senior win with Nick’s partner Tiffany who had already picked up a challenge with Edge earlier in the month. Highlights of the day were Alice Cam-eron making up Ace to Champ and her subsequent wetting – Gra-ham’s whoop of joy and Alice’s ear to ear grin really said it all – and Alice sat out in a biting wind afterwards to watch the rest of prize giving wrapped in a towel presumably too blithely happy to notice the cold!

I was especially pleased to see Allan Rhode receive a well deserved award from the Agility committee in recognition of all his hard work and service to agility, both physically and mentally, for many years.

And then there was the team event with the Zone 1 team made up from Counties members. Anke with Hayley did a great job of train-ing and encouraging the cheer leaders, rivalled only by 2 very small bumble bees from Zone 3 – and after a disappointing start with Zone 1 trailing after the first round, Eduard Hamster and Tiba had the best clear Novice run – followed by another slightly hairy clear Intermediate from Marie Wales with Cole...which just left Senior. When Elaine came to run with Bolt, the pressure was really on – as a good clear round would give us victory. It was not an easy course and Elaine had to go hard and fast to win - which she did with a nail biting flourish! Go Zone 1!

Other highlights included: all the local clubs pulling together and running the rings so efficiently - Bevan’s huge generator shattering the pre-dawn stillness – highly necessary to supply the first cup of real fresh coffee. Libby’s birthday party on Friday – drinks and hi-larity, meeting up with old friends from South Island, awesome 80s party on Sunday and also Keri Neilsen’s birthday – great dress up occasion, wonderful costumes – a great improvement for some peo-ple (like they actually had hair – and quite a bit of it!) you know who you are - LOL! Prize giving - Vickie Wilson’s loud shriek of pleasure when receiving her prize from Heather Drewett sent poor Ikon scuttling away to safety - and on a personal note, watching so

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many Relko first and second generation dogs I’ve bred running so well – and winning - Awesome!

Lastly, I would just like to pay tribute to Eduard Hamster, long time Counties member who has taken up an offer to work in Belgium for 2 years. He flew to Europe to start his new job on the Saturday eve-ning of Counties show, having worked and competed all day. He then returned to compete as team member at the NZDAC less than 2 weeks later, before flying back again the following week. Eduard is another quiet, dedicated worker and instructor who will be sorely missed not only by Counties members but at other events as he was always jumping in to help when needed. And I’ll miss him because he’s a nice guy!

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After my near-death experience (passenger in a car written off by a drunk, stoned driver) I thought might have been saved for some spe-cial reason….however, it turned out that it wasn’t to perform well at Counties show…..anything that involved either breathing or moving proved uncomfortable and that was even before taking into consid-eration the weather.

I think I can safely say that the conditions on Saturday were the worse I have ever run in...no good having waterproof stuff if gale force winds are forcing moisture into the cracks! Most of the Starter Novice people performing in the morning were treated to deluges of torrential rain, whereas the afternoon was more howling gales with vicious showers. The gazebos used for the scribes were soon shred-ded and I felt sorry both for the scrimers and also the judges – Lyn Sayer looked especially cold lashed by wind and rain - despite his frog togs.

With a couple of "foreign" judges….I was going to say exotic but somehow that sums up a vision not quite resembling Mike Butler - who looked a bit like a red stork in his shorts and raincoat, although as he comes from Wellington it was just another average damp day for him. When I asked him about the howling gale he remarked it

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was "Just a breeze" apparently it isn't windy if you don't have to secure jump rails with blutack and lean at an angle of 45 degrees to judge....I don't think I'll be ven-turing to the capital in the near future!

Sunday was an im-provement. Just. John

Photos. 1 Ravaged gazebo 2 Alan's wetting 3 Flick looking on.

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Van de Sandt arrived with his horse float for one scrimer; while in the second ring the battered remains of the gazebo just about pro-vided a wind break, and in the third ring Peter Haworth seemed to spend most of the day scriming from the boot of (presumably) his Audi.

Judges from other areas always produce some slightly different courses and there were one or two I would describe as interest-ing...Mike Butler's Senior proved challenging with only 4 clear rounds - 2 of these were mini/micro. Allan Rhode had the only Midi clear with Flick and Vern McCauley with Xena, his German Shep-herd cross. This partnership had a dream weekend with 2 well de-served Senior wins, plus a second - and a couple of second placings in Intermediate. The Rohde family was on form with multiple wins in Intermediate and Senior - Allan with Flick and Knight, Elaine with Flare and Bolt and Hayley with Charm. In the first Intermedi-ate they were 1st, 2nd and 4th with Shirley Hall in 3rd.

Other successes were Clive Bushell continuing his winning run with 3 wins with Tic, Jane Mason from WAG with Charlie, a boxer cross, Lara Thompset from Cambridge with Tia, and Eduard Ham-ster with Tiba - our Zone 1 Novice dog. On the small dog front, Louise Franklin and her terrier Indiananapolis, and a number of Pico poodles bred by Carol Bennet. Amazingly there were 3 classes won by beagles with Laura Dick and relative newcomer Manako Sugiyama who won 2 - I think with Cinnamon. And great to see Sylvia Lord's big smile when she won micro Novice with Scooter.

Finally, there was Allan Rohde's wetting for making up Flick to Jumpers Champ...pictures here!

Lower North Report- by Sandra Mohekey

Wanganui Fly Tournament 29th September The day was a little overcast but everyone was in a happy mood and it was nice to see some people from further north at this tournament.

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Jumpers Grand Champion. Quickmagic C’s the Day (Quick) and Peter de Wit, at Central Hawkes bay in October, followed by Senior Finals winner at NZDAC, Cambridge.

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The draw produced hilarity at times because of people needing to be in two places at once; and there was the added entertainment of seeing whether title points were gained by the end of the day. Diaz and Rae won Beginners over Pulse and me – hurray for Pulse’s first ever ribbon! All the work I’d put into training his return from the box was suddenly worthwhile because he had a light-bulb moment – “Oh, you want me to come back the same way I went up, not just run straight back to you? Why didn’t you say so earlier?” Diaz and Rae also won intermediate – they were having a very suc-cessful day. Shadow and Nicola were second after some exciting runs. My Niko won Senior - but the Senior plate produced the most laughs. Merlin was drawn against Eddie for one race and Pippi was against Heydoh for another. Which reminds me; better start training one of my dogs to run for someone else. In Advanced Toonie, who needed one point for his grand title, squared off against Shaylar who needed one advanced point for champ. Toonie won so Barbara had to wait for her wetting. Ad-vanced was won by Lynda and Chloe – it’s no wonder fly is now her favourite dog sport! The last event of the day was Intermediate

AGILITY CHAMPION—Abby, Lex Clare

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Pairs. Nicola’s Shadow and Chris’ Ted E proved an unbeatable combination; Rae’s Breeze and Judy’s Jess were runners-up. After prize giving was held inside we took Chris outside for her well deserved wetting – making a small dog up to Grand Champ is a wonderful achievement and since she had “missed” other wettings by going up north for her title points there were a lot of buckets lined up! Thank you Wanganui for a fun filled day and all those generous Pal prizes. Hawera Dog Training Club Fly 30th September The sun came out as if giving the seal of approval to Hawera’s deci-sion to hold their tournament at Wanganui’s grounds – I know I was grateful – and the sun block and shade cloths also came out. The competition moved at a good pace and when the results came in quite a few Taranaki people had smiles on their faces and songs in their hearts. Rae and Song won Senior and Rae and Diaz won Inter-mediate. (Their Song was Diaz, Rae, Me… don’t know what hap-pened to so, la, tea etc. but, appropriately, Carol was singing along, she and Meiah were runners-up.) Still singing, Rae and Diaz won Beginners ahead of Judy and Jess. All that winning gave Diaz her FD title, so she won’t be winning beginners again but I bet she’ll still be winning intermediates! The Beginners Plate went to Wan-ganui over Wanganui: Bronwen and Jenna won over Claire and Bai-ley. Hopefully these newbies are now firmly hooked! Chris and Harley from our club also had some awesome runs as labby Harley had his own light-bulb moment. Next up Niko and I won our first Advanced. Unfortunately Bar-bara’s Shaylar didn’t get the point they needed, which was a shame as it was such a warm day and the hose was handy. Senior Pairs produced some awkward but funny moments as Lynda had two dogs in different teams and had to keep changing dogs – she had trouble remembering at times which she needed - as they both stayed in contention until the final race when Chloe partnered with my Niko came up against Pippi and Rae’s Song. Lynda did have a substitute handler for Pippi prepared for this eventuality (Chloe refused to ac-cept substitutes but Pippi is more co-operative generally) but unfor-

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tunately I was the substitute and Niko was running against Pippi. Thanks to Ngaire for stepping in to try and run Pippi – but once she (Pippi not Ngaire) saw Chloe AND Niko she just wanted to chase them. So Niko and Chloe won and Pippi and Rae’s Song were runners-up. Thank you to Hawera for a well run show with great prizes. And thank you to Eukanuba the generous sponsors – our dogs were very happy. Happy – and lucky to escape a wetting because she’d forgotten how to count – was Ngaire who used the tournament to make Risky up to Grand Champ. Wanganui’s grounds are obviously very special in that regard – two grands in one weekend. Central Hawkes Bay Agility This show, handily located on the way to Cambridge, was the biggest the club had ever held. Everything was split except A. And thankfully, since so many were camping, the weather was much better than what the rest of NZ got, even if it didn’t always live up to the sunny Hawkes Bay motto. Notable Zone 3 results include Lynda and Pippi winning Starters 1 maxi, this was a surprise to her as the results had gone up differently but they are definitely now in intermediate. Caragh and Milly won mini and Navenka and Q won midi over Penny and Rio – so a clean sweep for Zone 3 there! In Novice 1 maxi Ana and Smudge were first and Fay and Flynn were third. Not bad for an 11 year old! First in mini was Jo’s Sage and Navenka and Basil were first in midi. Another great result for Zone 3. Intermediate 1 mini was taken out by Aprille and Smarty; midi by Re-becca and Seeka; and maxi by Peter and Ally. Senior 1 saw Diane in the midi line-up twice – Jamaica was second and India was third. Karen and Tana won maxi ahead of Maree and Jet. Despite not feeling on top of her game Patricia with Rosie was third in Starters 2 midi. Caragh and Milly were second in mini – this team is on a roll. Angela and the refreshing Cider were third in Intermediate 2 maxi; Maree and Jet zoomed into fourth. Peter and Quick’s second in A made Quick a Grand Champ and the wetting was enjoyed by all – especially his fellow club members. Re-becca and Seeka were third. In B Merlin celebrated his return to com-

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petition with a third in midi. The speedy team of Zane and Ty were first in C mini. I didn’t stay for Sunday because Niko’s paw injury meant doing con-tacts wouldn’t be a good idea. But I heard Maree and Jet had well de-served success in senior and created a new champ. Thank you CHB for an enjoyable show. South Rangitikei Dog Training Club’s Ball Fighters Fly Tournament October Running this tournament was a last minute decision. I discovered at Wanganui’s tournament that there were a considerable number of us who weren’t heading to Cambridge and who were keen to have a fly tournament so we ran one for $2 an entry and points only. Richard and Barbara brought down Wanganui’s barriers as this is something we have yet to acquire but we now have our own set of balls and – thanks to Julia – flags. The weather was very kind – I had to put on sunscreen – and everyone pitched in and helped. Thank you box loaders and flag wavers – Barbara seemed to always have a flag in her hand (except when she was running a dog!) and Lesley and Bob helped out val-iantly box loading although they had only come to see Floosie running with her substitute handler Jean. The Beginners was won by Silvia’s Boomer; a great result as Silvia is still recovering after surgery and has not had much time for training. Sharon and Jete were runners-up. Intermediate saw my Pulse win his second ribbon – except it was a virtual one because we didn’t give out ribbons! Pulse won intermediate ahead of Carol and Meiah. In Senior Sonia and Sputnik’s win meant their trip up was worthwhile – and thank you for your help calling Sonia, we appreciated it. Elaine and Eddie were second which meant Elaine had the BIGGEST smile on her face for the rest of the day. Intermediate 2 went to Judy and Jess, Patricia and Cloud were runners-up. Niko and I won Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 with Silvia and Yanni and Lynda and Chloe respectively the runners-up. Although everyone who gained points was happy there were some es-pecially happy people. Delcie and Nie gained FD – welcome to sen-ior! Barbara and Shaylar and myself and Niko gained championship titles. Barbara duly got a wetting but I escaped – didn’t realise I had

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one point more than I needed, thought I was one short! Honestly! Thank you everyone who joined us in the windy sunshine. A big thank you to everyone who box loaded, set up courses, waved flags and called the board. A special thanks to Elaine who stepped in to judge Intermediate 2 and Advanced 2. See you all in Otaki at New Years, I hope. Don’t forget to go to the Hurricanines tournament in the Wairarapa on 24 November either!

Canterbury Tails by Sue McKee, Teezsa, Rez & Switch

Crikey, another month over - won’t be long before it’s Christmas. A few more agility events to go yet though, it gets pretty busy from now until the break. Righto, here we go for October. Selwyn Ribbon Trial 7th October This was held on the Sunday this year, and it turned out to be a crowd pleaser with big entries. Inspired idea from Selwyn to catch those people with kids playing sport who can’t make it on a Satur-day. I do admire the way that Selwyn club has worked so hard to get a fantastic clubroom facility up and running in such a short timespan. Keri Neilson and her one-person travelling road-show attended this - we treated her to some pretty nice sunshine, and she did us the fa-vour of explaining the heights review. Keri has been working very hard to make sure that all zones get an insight into the review, which is a pretty thankless task and has involved her giving up a lot of her time, so thank you, Keri. Not only has she spent many hours travelling all around the country but she has given up personal holi-day time to compile the results of the survey and formulate the next stage. Without people like her and many others who give up their time so selflessly the agility world would be in strife. MCCOC 13th/14th October Oh dear, mid-Canterbury do seem to have rotten luck when it comes to the weather for their events, and Saturday was no exception. I

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had not entered this as I was off up to NZDAC and I was very pleased with my decision. It sounds like the weather was just awful on the Saturday, although Sunday was much better. Good to see Susan Tansey back in the judging game although I’m pretty sure she would have been thinking hard about her decision after standing around in the rain all day on Saturday. A lot of people from zone 4 had already left to go north to Waipukurau for this event, so num-bers were down and no one has given me any results so have no idea who did what. Oh, I do remember that Tim Conolly won and came 2nd with Radar and Foe, getting them out of Jumpers B into Jump-ers A. NZDAC Well done to the winning team zone 1, and commiserations to Zone 4 who put up a very good show but couldn’t quite do it. Great event to watch - I was there purely for the social side, made slightly less pleasurable by the fact that I had to leave my young dog behind who was coming along to meet up with her two brothers from Auckland and spend time with her siblings Swirl and Journey along the way. She decided to come into season just as I was about to leave, so no holiday for her. Maybe next year. CCOC double jumpers single agility event 27/28 October You would think that people attending the NZDAC would have had enough for a while, but there were a few stalwarts there, although numbers were down. A last-minute hitch which anyone living in post-quake Christchurch would be used to - the council decided to start digging up the grounds to lay new sewerage pipes meaning that the grounds were somewhat unsafe for running two rings. In the end Saturday was run with one ring, and Sunday they managed to squash two rings in, although fears of safety were vindicated when Kim Monaghan left the ring after a clear round with her boxer, only to twist her ankle in a rut left by a big truck. Tim Conolly continued on his winning way with Foe and Radar tak-ing out a 1st and a 2nd in at least one of the jumpers B. I know this as my boy Rez was 3rd to them. It will be good to see them gone

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into Jumpers A finally, with these two rounds being bonus rounds as entries had closed when he won them out. Tim perhaps had bet-ter buy a Lotto ticket as the very early closing of CCATS entries for their anniversary event in November means he gets yet another few bonus runs next weekend too! Not many clears in the starters on the Saturday, and lovely to see Heather Hood get a 2nd placing with her “steady eddie” Rako. Nice courses all weekend from our judges Teresa Ford and Isobel Syme. That’s it from me this month. Catch you in November. Sue

Central Bark By Linley Barrett

Nelson Tunnellers Fun Day Just a quick one from the top of the south. While everyone was at the big National Agility event of the year, Nelson held a fun tun-nellers day. This was organized by Lizzi G and Nartasha G. Begin-ners, Novice and Open were the levels offered. What is great about tunnellers is that older retired dogs can participate as well as younger dogs that are not able to compete yet. All proceeds went to the Nelson Ark which is an organization that works with at risk teens and pairs them with unwanted dogs. Once a dog has run through the program, it is then put up for adoption. $87.50 was raised for the Nelson Ark. Great chance for some newbies to have a go at the Beginners with-out any hurdles to worry about. I got Claire V to run both my dogs for me in Open. Mainly because I am terrible at remembering where to go in anything other than standard agility. The open level was probably too hard for my brain. Claire ended up running four dogs overall which were Hadassa’s Lily, both my dogs and her own Kaz. Which I think she ended up winning the opening with Kaz. Four dogs, higher odds I guess? ;) I think Claire was puffing a bit after running all that lot. I hope everyone achieved their own personal goals over Labour weekend!

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Books

Peter Lewis Teaching agility

Clean Run, Workbook- Introductory,

Intermediate, Advanced

Clean Run, Games book

Clean Run, Course design book

The Clothier Natural Jumping

Method, by Suzanne Clothier

Jacqueline O'Neil, All About Agility

Christine Smith, Your Secret Coach

Building Blocks for Performance

Peak Performance - Coaching the Ca-

nine Athlete M.Christine Zink

Jumping from A to Z M. Christine

Zink

Course Analysis for Agility Han-

dlers Stuart Mah

Ruff Love Susan Garrett

Shaping Success Susan Garrett

Dogwise John Fisher

Excel-erated Learning Pamela Reid

Developing Jumping Skills

VHS

Ruth Hobday, Pups progress

Ruth Hobday, Advanced control exer-

cises.

Puppy Love - Raise your dog the

Clicker way.

Greg Derrett Foundation Video

Greg Derrett, - Great Dog, Shame

About the Handler

DVD

4 on the Floor

2x2 Weave Training

Agility Fix It, Contacts & Weave

Poles

Agility Foundation Training

Best of the 2006 FCI Agility World

Championships

Best of the 2007 FCI Agility World

Championships

Contacts: Bridging the Gap Be-

tween Training & Competition

Crate Games for Self-Control &

Motivation

Foundation Jumping 4-DVD Set

Foundation Training for Agility 3-

DVD Set

Great Dog Great Handler, The Win-

ning Combination

Great Dog, Shame about the Han-

dler

How to Win at Gamblers and

Snooker

On Course to Excel

Reliable Running A-frames

Success with One Jump 2-DVD Set

World Class Weaves

In FOCUS Crying for Control

Go the Distance Vol. 1

LIBRARY ENQUIRIES DARRYL JEWISS, 33 Bell Rd,

Lower Hutt 5010 , ph: 04-972-7701.

Email: djewiss@paradise.net.nz OR library@nala.org.nz

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Jane Aukett is the co-ordinator. Jane can be contacted on markjane.aukett@xtra.co.nz

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Beginners 11 & UnderPaige Davis Opal Cambridge 0/16.787 1Kayne Needham Zoe Cambridge 0/16.991 2Kayne Needham Rocky Cambridge 0/17.574 3Zack Lappin Trixie CCATS 5/27.539 4Zack Lappin Jake CCATS E

Experienced 8-11Erin Ball Claire Mangawai 0/28.364 1Erin Ball Kay Mangawai 0/43.044 2George Sharrat Pickle Selwyn 0/60.516 3Paige Aukett Bobby UHDTS EEmily Sharrat Pickle Selwyn EErin Ball Mist Mangawai EFlynn Bunter Nettie CCATS E

Beginners 12-15 yearsAmy Forrest Sooty Otaki K9s 0/11.17 1Julia Burrough Muffy Nelson 0/16.91 2Liv Bishop Hershey Blenheim 10/20.215 3Savita Dhanak Wag CCATS 10/21.252 4Jess Mortimer Lily Nelson 10/27.34 5Holly Dawson Maggie Wanganui E

Experienced 12-15 yearsHayley Rhode Bolt Counties 0/24.227 1Hayley Rhode Windi Counties 0/25.899 2Hayley Rhode Flare Counties 0/26.351 3Hayley Rhode Charm Counties 0/27.034 4Hayley Rhode Flick Counties 0/30.589 5Emma Trimble Levi Waimakariri 5/31.226 6

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Experienced 16-20 yearsLauren Homer Bella Mt Maunganui0/30.649 1Lauren Homer Zac Mt Maunganui0/40.077 2Lauren Homer Tessie Mt Maunganui10/29.265 3Briani Gray Tilly Hawera 15/95.38 4

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CLUB COMPETITION DIVISION ONE

Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total> 1 Counties JCH Bolt FDX AD Border Col Hayley Rohde 19.227 61.477 Windi ADXG JDX F Border Col Hayley Rohde 20.899 Flare TCQ Border Col Hayley Rohde 21.351 2 Mt Maunganui 1 Thanx BC Debbie McFarlane 20.531 61.767 J J Cricket Heading Do Jan Murden 20.591 Pleze Heading Do Debbie McFarlane 20.645 3 Rotorua 1 Shift Border Col Chelsea Marriner 19.900 62.800 Spy FDX Working Sh Chelsea Marriner 21.190 Flash Heading Do Chelsea Marriner 21.710 4 Otago 1 Briar AD JDX Foxy X Hea Karen Grant 20.715 65.072 Juice BC Anne Cook 21.217 AgGrCh Pete BC X Anne Cook 23.140 5 Taupo Jayme ADXS JDX Min Schnau Lyn Sayers 21.921 67.178 Elle BC Sue Willis 22.424 Reva JD Toy Poodle Christine Gabb 22.833 6 Top DAWG Seeka ADXG Border Col Rebecca Sidwell 21.343 74.014 Mya ADXG JDX BC.X Rebecca Sidwell 22.707 Cider ADXG Boxer Angela Denton 29.964 7 Sth Canterbury Jonty BichonX Natasha Coulter 23.052 75.115 Benji Min Poodle Bronwyn Rumble 24.693 Kayla Lab x Lucinda Robertson 27.370 8 Taieri Meg Border Col Sallie Remon 23.600 80.700 Bob Boxer Don Leckie 25.170 Blitz Sibord Rosalie Lock 31.930 9 WAG 1 Phantom BC Susan McKay 25.162 80.741 Echo Susan McKay 27.678 Geisel Min poodle Caitlin Frater 27.901 10 Waimak 1 Quiz ADXG JDX Border Col Roselle Bremmers 24.368 81.848 Doogle Spoodle Helen Lappin 26.397 Tee BC/Foxi x Phil Johnson 31.083 11 Cambridge Tia Blue Heele Lara Tompsett 25.162 86.856 Opal Sheltie Janette Davis 28.161 Rocky BC Paul Needham 33.533

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12 Upper Hutt QuickMagic Heading do Peter de Wit 21.440 89.250 Paris Boxer Jane Aukett 31.940 AgGrCh Tana BC Karen de Wit 35.870

Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total> 1 Mangawhai Claire ADXG JDX Border Col Erin Ball 23.364 71.137 Breeze BC Annette Flannagan 23.675 Kay ADXG JDX BC Jinnie Gailey 24.098 2 Wairarapa India JDX Border Col Dianne Reid 22.030 72.040 Tasman ADX JDX F Border Col Sharleen Drummond 23.430 Zephyr ADXB JD Heading X Karen Bealing 26.580 3 Nelson 2 Swift Heading Do Hadassa Koessler 22.508 72.348 Lilly ADXB JD BC x Hadassa Koessler 24.514 Roko Border Col Linda Humphries 25.326 4 Wanganui 2 Pippa ADXG Hunt.X Mark Barrett 22.432 72.706 Josh ADXS Min Schnau Wendy Bainbridge 24.740 Heydoh ADXS,JDX, Swedish Va Jonna Gibson 25.534 5 Blenheim 2 Rose Golden Ret Jane Norton 24.637 79.180 Q Collie Sheryl Vincent 25.623 Jazz BC Natasha Neame 28.920 6 North Taranaki 2 Zip BC Polly Catlin-Maybury 25.403 79.385 Naki Border Col Clare Wellington 26.757 Trump BC Maree Butterworth 27.225 7 CCATS Izzy Min Schnau Kathryn Snook 25.543 80.166 Sam Cocker Spa Dot Mote 27.137 Viper Kathryn Snook 27.486 8 Hawkes Bay 2 Riddle Debbie Middlemiss 25.164 83.486 Vinvin Heading Do Debbie Middlemiss 28.008 Ch'lee Dobermann Jane Webley 30.314 9 Central HB Taz Heading Do Kim Loye 24.477 85.300 Finn Heading Do Jill Payne 28.994 Loose Working Ke Kim Loye 31.829 10 Mt Maunganui 2 Khia Border Col Anne Proctor 23.911 91.140 Cruise BC x Kate MacDonald 32.152 Zac Beardie x Lauren Homer 35.077

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11 East BOP Joker JDX Belgian Sh Una Forrester 24.940 95.780 Robbie ADXG JDX BC Tina Mitchell 26.620 Kwila JD Belgian Sh Una Forrester 44.220

Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total> 1 Selwyn Jag Border col Carole Logan 23.713 73.132 Trixie Staffy x Misha Baxter 23.958 Jock Kelpie x B Carole Logan 25.461 2 North Shore 3B Bessie B C Roy Davis 24.829 80.922 Josie Kelpie x Bruce Ronald 27.552 Peggy Spaniel x Alison Swinyard 28.541 3 Canterbury COC Zac ADXG JDX Border Col Bruce Wilson 26.090 82.450 Harmony Bearded Co Robyn Sanders 28.060 Wilco ADXG JDX Border Col Bruce Wilson 28.300 4 Waimak 3 Milli Tibetan Te Emma Trimble 26.639 87.677 Ritz Border Col Martin Trimble 28.229 Robbie Border Col Darren Johnston 32.809 5 Southland Flirt ADX Heading Do Glenyse Pearse 27.093 89.021 Lulu Border Col Rae Evans 27.458 Fern Heading Do Lynda Lindsay 34.470 6 Whangarei Zito ADX Gold JD Australian Rebecca Roper 26.780 91.750 Taragh BC Ann Kenny 29.690 Meg ADX-B NZ Heading Christine Fifield 35.280 7 Hawera Zoe BC x Foxy Ian Wooldridge 30.210 91.980 Belle JD Border Col Carl Ranford 30.370 Trudy JDX Trudy Jack Russe Shanice Clements 31.400 8 Wanganui 3 Flick Foxy X Jac Jenny Benson 27.998 99.823 Varna Miniature Bronwyn Morgan 34.989 Coal Border Col Mark Barrett 36.836 9 South Rangitikei Niko ADXAs, JDX Heading Do Sandra Mohekey 26.160 104.100 Yani Silvia Rizzi 36.310 Chloe JDX, FDX BC Lynda Cummins 41.630 10 North Shore 3A Quinn ADXG, JDX, J/Russell/ Tess Bayly 25.000 104.115 Hiska Kelpie Matilda van Rijnberk 33.103 Tala ADX JD West Highl Tess Bayly 46.012

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Plc Team Dog Breed Handler Score Total> 1 Mt Maunganui 4 Bella BC x Lauren Homer 25.649 82.298 Myer Huntaway Frazer Delamere 27.682 Skip Border Col Mandy Ward 28.967 2 Hawkes Bay 4A QuBa Heading Do Colleen O`Connor 21.294 83.536 Flint BC X Aust Robyn Fargher 29.702 Q NZ Heading Sharon Simonsen 32.540 3 Tauranga 4A Chase ADXG

JDX Border Col Jocelyn Jensen 26.642 85.489

Jacqui heading do Zina Gota 27.494 FeeBee JD Jack Russe Helen Moorhead 31.353 4 Norwest Pollyanna Sheltie Rod Pearce 27.440 87.410 Lass BC Colleen Lauder 28.790 Bella BC.X Colleen Lauder 31.180 5 Go DAWG Tikka Border Col Angela Denton 25.370 89.217 Lulu Miniture P Kim Nicol 26.910 Bella Huntaway x Lorraine Hazlewood 36.937 6 Tauranga 4B Chilli Sheltie Bernice Shearman 29.635 96.117 Wilbur G Retrieve Kate Audas 33.115 Millie Crossbreed Kim Hammond 33.367 7 Akarana Indianapolis Jack Russe Louise Franklin 26.646 96.795 Kenzy Border Ter Rosemarie Baker 34.889 Solo poodle Sonja Rosen 35.260 8 Tokoroa Luka Japanese S Rochelle Jager 30.090 103.010 Ayela Weimeraner Ed Hunt 36.380 Brooke Weimeraner Ed Hunt 36.540

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Rotorua Abby Lab x Wendy Mason 31.850 107.850

Chan Sharpei X Raewyn Saville 34.090 Lazer ADX BC Judy Casey 41.910 10 Hawkes Bay 4B Gilly BC Pam Brockie 28.237 109.052 Hi Jinks Poodle X B Robyn Fargher 38.224 Pepper BC Heather McGrannachan 42.591 11 Blenheim 4 Dudley Fox Terrie Erin Newton 33.463 112.026 Meg Lab x Coll Fiona Brown 38.946 Tankasaurus Lab x BC Carol Jones 39.617 12 Otaki K9s Fancy JDX Min Poodle Aprille McGee 36.840 125.100 JDX Diva Min Poodle Noeline Wagener 41.260 Smarty JDX Min Poodle Aprille McGee 47.000 13 Nelson 4 Georgie BC Nartarsha Gorrie 38.540 125.776 Eva Collie x G Lizzi Gillard 42.049 Dru Flatcoat R Jen Calder 45.187 14 CHB Orange

Roughies Maggie Border Col Olwyn Johnston 41.605 146.265

Fez Heading Do Beth Oliver 46.539 Bess Labrador X Shirley Parker 58.121 15 North Taranaki 4 Adelle Heading Do Valerie Riches 39.971 148.389 Diaz Border Col Rae Mayhead 52.347 Rosie Border Col Patricia Martin 56.071

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15 33.220 Shaylar FD Barbara James Molly Bruce Lacey Heydoh ADXS,JDX, Jonna Gibson 16 Oodlemunsters 34.310 Reece ADX Carol Galliers Nie Delcie Walkington Meiah Carol Galliers 17 Counties Red Dogs 34.794 Blaze Marilyn Lambert Dallas Christine Wallace Mac. ADXB FDX Shirley Hall 18 Counties Tri's 34.931 Kiss JDX Hayley Rohde Piper Nicole Beaumont FDCH Tip ADXB Margaret Anderson 19 Counties on Yer Jacqueschi 35.236 Chi Anna Snell JD Jacques Marie Pearman Robbie Nicole Beaumont 20 Rotovegas Rebels (Rotorua) 35.490 Quest CDX Chelsea Marriner Rua Jeni McFarlane Spy FDX Chelsea Marriner 21 35.870 Finn Barbara James Samual Richard Steele Lucy Bruce Lacey 22 norwest 1 36.970 Benson Jamie Pinnock DObby Gemma Hampson Jinx Tracy Hart 23 37.190 FDCH Jordy ADX Barbara James Pippi ADXG,JDX,F Jonna Gibson Peanut Richard Steele 24 Wairarapa 2 37.590 Jamaica Dianne Reid Milly JD Caragh Briggs Sam JD Stacie Clark 25 Taranaki Skyhawks 38.220 Cloud Patricia Martin Gyp Vivienne Robertson Breeze Rae Mayhead 26 Taranaki Hard Core 38.470 Mulga Laurel Austin Rosie Patricia Martin Song Rae Mayhead 27 Otaki 1 38.720 Dart Helen Carter JDX Diva Noeline Wagener Fancy JDX Aprille McGee 28 Tga1 39.420 Harley AD JD FD Helen Fabling Tulli ADX JDX FD Shelley Clark Lucky ADX FD JD Helen Moorhead 29 CHB Aces 40.190 Taz Kim Loye Fly Catherine Harty Molly AD Amy Hoogenboom

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PET EXPO at Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt. We did 3 agility displays—one on Saturday and two on Sunday. The pictures are all from Sunday (it was a lovely day), shame about the day before (rain!!). We also had a stall inside and had lots of people asking questions about agility and wanting to know where they could train their dogs and where you could get agility equipment from!! Thanks to Kathryn/Quiz and Liz/Jaffa for manning the stall and attracting lots of people to it due to their dog’s cute tricks!!

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