As the largest three day
agricultural show in Wales, the Pembrokeshire County Show is a fantastic array
of displays, competitions,
entertainments, shopping and agility. One of the top events, is the
Pembrokeshire by The Pond Show featuring the Burns Welsh Handler of The Year
along side the Royal Canin® Rest of the World Challenge. The ROTW for all dogs
G3-7 - Large, Medium, Small - with handler/owner not resident nor born in Wales.
Dogs must run in both classes for faults and times which are added
together to find the winner. The one with the least overall faults with fastest
combined time wins. Eliminations are given 200 faults and, in the event of a
tie, a further Agility round will determine the winner. With thanks to Shawn
Powell for the germ of inspiration!
2016
Karen Sanders with I Am Number Four must
have a love / hate relationship with the Royal Canin® Rest of the World
Challenge. For the second consecutive year, she led the competition overnight.
Could she take the title in 2016?
Held as part of Pembrokeshire by The
Pond, this is a two part competition - open to dogs of all sizes of dog - for
those handlers who do not live in Wales. The Welsh handlers have their own
competition across two days with the finale on Royal Canin® Thursday.
The Jumping
round, under judge Lorraine Walchester, saw Karen winning Part 1 and Nicola Garrett getting an unrivalled
three dogs into the top 10. There was less than three
seconds between the top 10.
The Royal Canin® Rest of
the World Challenge Agility round is always run as the finale in the Feature Ring. The best
ten from the previous day run in reverse order.
Part 2, judged by Paul Payton,
began with Amanda Grist and Riverwatch Suka running first. They
achieved the first double clear in some 66 seconds and so
the Challenge was on. Could anyone do better?
Unfortunately it all started well for
Karen but fell away. With three dogs in the final round, Nicola was then favourite to take the title. Her May The Boo Be With You, running
ninth, could not keep pace with its kennel mates but the other two ran fast and
clear and, for the second year running, a handler took 1st and 2nd places. Well done, Nicola.
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Nicola Garrett with Nedlo Wych Way
Now
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Nicola Garrett with Obay One Crazy
Dude
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Julie Dowle with Here we Go Loupey
Loo
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Amanda Grist with Riverwatch Suka
Congratulations to our top four who took
home more than £100s worth of Royal Canin® prize money as well as lots of Royal Canin®
goodies.
Going into its 7th year next year, The
Royal Canin® Rest of the World Challenge will be one of the highlights of the
Pembrokeshire by The Pond 2017 event.
2015
Consistency was the name
of the game for the winner of this year’s Royal Canin® Rest of the World
Challenge title at Pembrokeshire By the Pond show on 18-20 August 2015. The
competition is run over two days, under two judges, with the finale on the
Thursday,
Round 1 was Jumping,
judged by Agility Champ judge Judge Hilary Bowden who saw the top three all with
times under 30 seconds. Considering the conditions that was a feat of some
proportions.
As always, Round 2 threw
up some surprises. The Agility round was run under the watchful
eye of Barrie James with
the best 10 from the previous day running in reverse order.
Mary
Cleverley had two dogs in the top ten. Her first to run No Tears Bugsie went
into 4th place in a shade over 40 seconds. So would that be enough? Sophie
Macbeth’s Dude took six seconds off Bugsie’s Agility time with Blinkin Inca,
handled by Louise Evans, a close second but both had fallen apart the previous
day. Could 2014 Royal Canin® ROTW finalist Veronica Hill give Mary a
fright. Close but no cigar. The Spy Catcher’s fate was eventually to take 3rd
place overall in the 2015 competition.
Then Mary produced a
second clear round with Moorwood Rye. There was nothing she could do but sit on
her hands and watch Karen Sanders with I Am Number Four run. They could
just not deliver a second clear round, leaving a delighted Mary (as you can see)
to both 1st and 2nd places.
It was a great
competition especially considering the weather conditions and with less than
half a second separating our top three dogs after the two rounds.
Congratulations to our
overall top four who took home over £100 of Royal Canin® prize money as well as
lots of Royal Canin® goodies.
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Mary Cleverley with
No Tears Bugsie
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Mary Cleverley with
Moorwood Rye
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Veronica Hill with
The Spy Catcher
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Audrey Weekes with
Min Kadile Magic
Going into its 6th year
next year, The Royal Canin® Rest of the World Challenge will be one of the
highlights of the 2016 Pembrokeshire By The Pond event.
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