
Buffalo, NY
curlydog
December:
Dec 16th through 17th: Cleveland Crown Classic:
Eli picks up a Select for 2 points and gets a Best of Breed over a large entry for a 5 point major.
Eli completed his Grand Championship!
Emmett gets select 3 days and 2 days over specials.
Virgil gets a Reserve Winners to a 3 point major.
Tillie Q's in Excellent Jumpers and gets a first place in a large Preferred class! She was soooo close in the other three classes!
Clarion Agility Trial Dec 10th/11th:
Tillie Q's in Excellent Jumpers Preferred
Virgil gets back to back Q's in Novice Standard for the title!
Emmett gets his first (yay!) Novice Jumpers Preferred Q!
November:
Alaskan Malamute Agility Trial (Nov 19th/20th):
Eli gets an Excellent Jumpers Q!!
Tillie finishes her OJP title!
Virgil gets a Novice Standard Q!
Admiral Perry Agility Trial (Nov 13th/14th)
Eli gets a Open Standard Q! Nailed his 2o2o contacts and got the weave poles on the first attempt!
Tillie gets an OJP leg!
Emmett finishes his NAP title!!
October:
At the Admiral Perry Agility Trial in Edinboro PA, Eli passes Open Jumper for the OAJ title!
Emmett gets his second Novice Standard Preferred Title!
September:
At Wine Country Emmett gets a Lure Coursing Pass in the Coursing Ability Test! (CAT)
At the Niagara Fall KC show in Cambria NY Eli takes a Best of Breed and Best of Opposite Sex over specials.
At the Olean KC Emmett passes a Novice Standard Preferred classAND Tillie gets a triple Q passing Excellent Standard Preferred, Open Jumpers Preferred and FAST Preferred!
August:
Emmett- Q'd 4 times ( 2 Touch N Go, 1 Chances and 1 Weavers)
Virgil - Q'd 5 times (2 Chances, 1 Jumpers, 1 Regular and 1 Tunnelers)
Eli had 7 Q's (3 Regular,Open Tunnelers, Elite Tunnelers, Weavers, Jumpers) and finished his Open Tunnelers (TN-O), Novice Regular (NAC) and Novice Jumpers (NJC) title
Eli also earned most memorable run on Saturday for a nice Regular run! With over 300 runs on Saturday this is a great honor for my gentleman ridgeback!***
Tillie had a perfect weekend, passing all 6 classes (1 Novice Regular, 1 Open Regular, 2 Tunnelers, 1 Touch n Go, 1 Chances) and titling in Regular (NAC), Touch n Go (TG-N) and Tunnelers (TN-N)
Over all 22 Q's out of 31 runs between the 4 dogs.
July:
Hamlin: Eli takes Best of Breed for a 4 point major toward his Grand Championship!
Albion Agility: Eli gets a Open FAST Preferred pass for the TITLE, Tillie passed Open Jumpers for the TITLE! Tillie also gets a second pass in Novice FAST! A great weekend despite hitting 94 degrees!
June:
AKC Western Lakes Agility Trial: Eli gets two passes in Novice Jumpers Preferred to finish the NJP title! In addition he gets two Open FAST preferred passes. Virgil passes a Novice FAST course and a Novice Jumpers course to get his Novice Jumpers title-NAJ! Lastly, Tillie passes her third Excellent Agility course for an AX. This is the highest level of agility and requires perfection in order to pass- no wasted time, no knocked bars and mistakes!
In Canada, at the ARRF Ridgeback specialty Eli takes Best of Winners for 4 points! In the all-breed booster later that day Eli takes BEST OF BREED from the classes beating 6 specials for another 4 points. He goes on to a group 4! On Sunday, Eli does it again- a BOB from the classes and then a second group 4 and another 4 points. Eli finishes his Canadian Show Championship in 2 days!!Eli also become the number 16 Ridgeback in Canada!
Virgil gets Reserve Winners and then a AOH Group 2 at the Dunkirk dog show!
May:
HABOC agility trial: Tillie gets an AX pass, Virgil goes 2/2 in Novice Jumpers and Eli gets an Open Jumpers pass!
Tallmadge Ohio: Eli gets Select Dog to meet the requirement to beat Champions at three shows. We just need two sets of majors and enough points to get 25- for the Grand Championship!
New Castle PA: Emmett gets back-to-back-to back Selects to fulfill the major requirement for the Grand Championship!
April:
AKC Salt City Cluster- Syracuse NY- Tillie and Eli both pass Open Jumpers with Weaves for their first legs. Virgil passes BOTH his Novice Jumpers with Weaves for two legs!
March:
AKC- DOTCORNY Agility Trial in Boometowne- Tillie gets a Excellent Standard Q her first time in the Excellent ring with Eva!
NADAC- 4 Seasons- Tillie passes Novice Standard and Novice Jumpers. Eli passes Open Tunnelers, Novice Jumpers and Novice Hoopers for the TITLE! Emmett and Virgil put in a lot of effort but were just NQ (Not Quite!)
February:
Eli attends Westminster and is the only Rhodesian Ridgeback there with agility titles! Though the judge couldn't find us in the 40+ beautiful ridgebacks there...Eli showed his heart out!





Buffalo, NY
curlydog