Thank you to everyone who supports our trials and USDAA in the area as well as judge Rebecca Hill for her fun set of courses! Watch for our New Year’s all tournament trial in early January and the upcoming Artful Dodgers trials in Octoberand Decemberas well as Hog Dog’s November trial.
Sincere congratulations to this weekend’s new titlists:
Becky Anderson and Huckleberry…Advanced Gamblers Carolynn Velas and Quilo…Snooker Champion – Titanium Reese Spindle and Havana….Master Jumpers and ADCH
The posted Running Order is a draft; the finalized one should be posted sometime on Friday. If you see an issue with it or with the information in your individual received final confirmation, please notify the trial secretary as soon as possible; they are so much easier to correct the sooner they are caught.
Course Diagrams will be posted at this site each morning at 3am
NOTE! Online entry is available for this trial. If you have not done that for a USDAA trial (it’s just rolled out as of this summer), see instructions specific to our trial here
Entry fees for the titling classes are $15 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.
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:
The posted Running Order is a draft; the finalized one should be posted sometime on Friday. If you see an issue with it or with the information in your individual received final confirmation, please notify the trial secretary as soon as possible; they are so much easier to correct the sooner they are caught.
Course Diagrams will be posted at this site each morning at 3am
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.
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 🙂
This year’s team tournament judged by Sarah Crane had 26 teams competing with the win captured by the “The “J” Squad” team of Jasper/Lisa Stevens and Jo Jo/Kathy Powers with a score of 855.33 points. Following on their heels were the teams of:
2nd place – “Magical Fire” – Ember/Sue Peppes and Wizard/Beth Bond – 722.39 points 3rd place – “Perfect Timing” – Kwik/Christine Tschech and Truant/Cynthia Hornor – 785.81 points
Other notable awards were for the Overall Top Team Dog and High Scoring Rookie Team (awarded to the team that has at least one dog showing at the Starters level). The Top Team Dog, in a highly contested race for the ‘tall cup’, went to Jasper/Lisa Stevens. Top Rookies went to the team “Lightning Strikes” – Lumi/Christine Tschech and Daze/Judy Whitbred with 518.82 points.
We had a few titles finished off this weekend as well. Congratulations go to:
Snooker Champion – Silver- Shiloh/Beth Bond Master Jumper – Jury/Nikki Hall LAA-Silver – Shiver/Nikki Hall Jumpers Champion – Wizard/Beth Bond Jumpers Champion – Shiloh/Beth Bond (100 Q’s in Jumpers !) Tournament Master – Platinum – Biscotti/Katie Conn Tournament Master Performance – Silver – Nala/Kendra Saunders
Full results for the two day tournament only trial are now available:
Mid-Atlantic MADness 