The premium is now posted for our annual spring ”March MADness’ trial at the Oriole Dog Training Club in Halethorpe, MD.

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Our judge is Randy Holford.

Entry fees for the titling classes are $16 per titling class. There are plenty of classes for newbies (see the low priced Intro classes!) as well as all other titling levels.

If you are looking to enter two of the same games class this weekend and see that only one day has the level you need and the other day has only a Masters level of that game: Please note – dogs of any level may enter ANY class at this trial, including those Masters titling classes. Per USDAA policy, if you are not yet showing in Masters and you ‘Q’, that ‘Q’ will be ‘banked’ for you. So if you are not happy for example with just once chance at earning a games Q, you can try for that Masters Q and/or use the training options available to use such as Fix and Continue, FEO, and Mulligans**..

Something (relatively) new for trials at this location: Oriole DTC now allows a limited number of RVs to stay overnight on the grounds, by pre-arrangement only.

As usual, this trial provides a nice warm way (climate controlled on artficial turf!) to get those tournament Q’s needed for Cynosport (aka the USDAA Nationals) which is back in Murfreesboro, TN this year.

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Haven’t been keeping up with the current state of USDAA? You’d probably be surprised to know that your dog can jump and climb the heights you been doing for other organizations. There’s a summary of the those type of changes here:

**What’s a Mulligan? That’s a chance to run the course again (or just go train for 60 seconds) for a small fee of $5. It’s an option available for most, but not all courses at the trial if they entry size isn’t too large 🙂