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May 2010We have three new members to the League so far this year so please make Carol and Jack Hodgkins welcome. Jack is 11 years and runs his mother Carol’s cairns Nell and Elly. Nell is running 8th in the league and Elly joint 7th along with Suina and Jodi, Sue and Mac and Alice and Hector. The third of our new members to welcome is Alice and Hector, a Westie. Both doing very well especially as Alice is 15 years of age. It is very nice to see that our younger members are doing so well so watch out the adults! If you see me at any shows do come over and say hello. These are the results for May 2010 for the league. We have a new leader – Adrienne and Tessa with 99 points so far. Well done to them. Tessa is a Grade 7 agility dog. Nikki and Ollie, Grade 5, are following closely behind with 79 points but haven't won as many shows as Tessa so they still have time to catch up or is the thought of getting a new small dog taking too much concentration for Nikki? There is a bit of a fight for 3rd place between Laura with Kai, Deirdre with Rhum and Megan with Alfie. It is so good to see that Megan is beginning to do well with Alfie, moving up to Grade 2. I know how frustrating Cairns can be to do agility! Please email me your results for the next results table. Results - May 2010
March 2010The season this year seems to be slow taking off but here are some results. The most exciting thing to report so far is that Megan and Alfie have won into Grade 2. Well done to them both. Grade 3 here they come! Also Deirdre and Rhum went into Grade 2 in January so well done to them too. So far the leader of the 2010 League is Laura and Kai with 30 points, followed closely by Megan and Alfie with 24 points. Louise and Nikki have drawn for 3rd place with 19 points. Good luck to everyone this year. Results - March 2010
January 2010The results for the Scottish Terrier Breeds Agility League for 2009 have been finalised.
In 2nd place was Mary Morgan with her G7 Cairn Terrier Misty. They had a score of 244 - just ten points below Crisp. They only had 26 classes so not as many as Crisp but still a good achievement. Well done. During 2009, Misty also gained her Gold Agility Warrant. What an achievement! In 3rd place with 219 points is Adrienne Atkinson with Tessa, a Scottie X who started the year as a Grade 4 dog. In May, Tessa won out into Grade 5. In June, she became a Grade 6 dog and in August she won into Grade 7. The results are for 32 classes. A very good performance throughout the year. Well done to them both. Nikki Barber and Ollie, another Cairn, finished in 4th place with a score of 141 out of 36 classes, having been the leader for July’s results. They too have had a very good year. Ollie started the league as a Grade 4 dog and won into Grade 5 in May. In the UKA Agility, Ollie moved to Senior in Performance Level in May and went from Beginners to Novice Steeplechase in April. They also finished 20th in the Small Grade 4 Agility Club tables. Louise Palmer and her Cairn Terrier Milly were 9th in the League and was placed 43rd in The Agility Club Small Grade 1 tables. It was good to see three Cairns placed in the Agility Club Tables for 2009. Megan Drinkall (11) and her Cairn Alfie were 1st in the Grade 1 dogs, gaining 53 points. This is such a brilliant achievement for her as training Alfie has been quite hard work. Well done on your achievement. At the end of the year, the League has 19 members – ten Cairn Terriers, three West Highland Terriers, one Scottish Terrier, two Skye Terriers, one Cairn Westie cross and two Scottie crosses. It is good to see a mixture of terriers.
STB Agility League Final Results 2009
Thank you to the Midland Cairn Terrier website and the Cairn Terrier Rescue Fund web site both of whom have put the STB league results on their website. October 2009
The other handler to be welcomed to the League is Deirdre Munro with Rhum, a Cairn Terrier. They too are in Grade 1 agility and come straight in to 12th place. What a few months of agility competitions have done to the league results with a lot of movement in the placings! Cairns are still leading. Who said Cairns can’t do agility! When you break the results down by Jumping and Agility classes, it looks like the Cairns prefer the Agility classes to the Jumping classes but only just! We have a new handler on the leader board. Mary Morgan and Misty, her Grade 7 Cairn, have moved up from 5th place to 1st with a whopping score of 241 points. Mary also has informed me that Misty got her Gold Agility Warrant in June. What an achievement for them both and well done! Sorcha Price and Crisp, a Grade 6 cairn, stay in 2nd place, having achieved a score of 201 points, while Nikki Barbar and Ollie, a Grade 5 Cairn, dropped down to 3rd place with a score of 135 points. This is still a brilliant score. Laura Mandelson and Kai, a Cairn/Westie X, in Grade 4, slipped from 3rd to 4th place but still have a good score of 92 points. Suina Rogers and Jodi, a Grade 6 Cairn, also drop from 4th to 5th place with 75 points. The Grade 1 dogs are all doing very well. We have Megan Drinkall and her cairn Alfie who remain in 6th place overall with 38 points - quite an achievement for a youngster. (Megan, I mean). They are topping the Grade 1 agility dogs so very well done to them both. Just four points behind Megan and Alfie are Susan Seal and Mac, a Westie. These two have been creeping up the table, and are now lying in 7th place overall with 28 points. This pushed Louise Palmer and Milly, another Cairn down one place to 8th (27 points). I have not had any recent results from Louise, so if you have any please do send them to me. Jennie Fairweather has no results to report as Tinker is still not running the course he should be doing! But, maybe one day... The other Cairns have shown Jennie that it is possible! I have heard from Camilla Hamilton with Dougal who tells me they are not competing at the moment. I have not heard anything from Charlotte Rowles and Ann Marie Hill so if you have any results just email them to me at ockcairns@yahoo.com. The Cairns in this league are also doing well in The Agility Club Awards 2009. Louise Palmer and Milly are 43rd in Small Grade 1. Nikki Barbar and Ollie are 20th in Small Grade 4, and Sorcha Price and Crisp are 27th in small grade 6. What a very good result for them all. Well done. That is all for now. Please keep me updated as this league does keep running until 31st December. Results to 16 October 2009
July 2009Membership in the STBL has almost doubled since the launch in May 2009. New members Nikki Barbar and Ollie, a Small Grade 5 Cairn, are having a good year. At the moment, they are heading the top of this league having achieved 100 points so far. They are currently in 14th place in Small Grade 4 in The Agility Club Annual Awards 2009, a great achievement,. Congratulations to you both. This is not all Ollie had done. He moved up from Grade 4 to Grade 5 by winning Small Agility Graded 4 – 5 at Shrewsbury Agility Club (KC Show) in May and managed to get the 6 points he needed to move him up to (UKA) Senior in Performance Level. He did this at HH Weekend (UKA Show) in May, winning first in Novice Snooker, so he did it in style. Moreover, at Scrambles (UKA Show) in April, he got a clear run in Beginners Steeplechase which moved him up to Novice Steeplechase. Well done. In second place of the Scottish Terrier Breed league is Sorcha with Crisp who is also a Cairn in Small Grade 6. They are not too far behind Nikki and Ollie with 79 points. In third place is Laura Mandelson with Kai who is a Grade 4 Cairn X Westie. Results to 11 July
May 2009
It all started as a result of a conversation between Cairn handlers Jennie Fairweather and Margaret Ehrenbergan at a 'beauty' dog show. They talked about about agility and came up with the idea of setting up a Cairn Terrier Breed Agility League. After talking with others, it was agreed that it would be more fun if the League was not limited to just Cairns but included all the other Scottish terrier breeds.
Jennie put an
advert on the Desperately Seeking...page of Agilitynet to see if there was any interest. She
got a good response and so she started the Scottish Terrier Breeds Agility League (STB)
on 1 January 2009 to run from the beginning of the year until 31 December 2009.
Membership is free and open to any terrier breeds which originated from Scotland e.g. Cairn, Westie, Scottish, Skye, Dandie Dimonte - and they don't have to live in Scotland, just originated from Scotland. They can be any grade. Anyone who is interested in joining should email Jennie Fairweather at ockcairns@yahoo.com or tel. 01869 322996. The League There are seven dogs in Grade 1 and the leaders are as follows. In first place is Louise Palmer with Milly, a Cairn who has 23 points won in five shows. This is a fantastic result for a Grade 1 dog especially as the classes were Combined, ranging from G1-3 to G1-5 grades. Milly achieved a 3rd, 4th and 8th place in the Agility classes and a clear run in all the rest. In 2nd place with three points is Max, a Westie owned by Julie Bond. They haven't been to as many shows as Louise and Milly (3) but they have achieved clear runs every time. Again they have entered combined jumping classes so very well done to them both. In 3rd place with two points is Tigger, a Cairn Terrier owned by Margaret Ehrenberg. Tigger has managed to gain a clear run in G1-4 Agility and G1-4 Jumping at the same show. Unfortunately for him, although he got a clear run in the G1-7 Combined Agility class, he managed to pick up time faults so this does not count for this competition. Tigger has achieved a lot as not only is he doing agility. He is also a Show Champion, Carradine Master Tigger and he is distantly related to Jennie Fairweather's cairn, Tinker. The results have just come in from Sue Seal whose Westie Mac who got a clear run in the Nursery so gets one point and puts him in 4th place. Jennie is still waiting for results from the other handlers and dogs. She said, 'I have to confess that I have yet to enter my cairn Tinker into a show as he is still learning and isn't doing full weaves as yet but I am working on this - maybe a Jumping class at The Agility Club show? Who knows! That's it for now it is up to you all to keep me informed.' The results up to 18 May 2009 are below. Scottish Breeds Agility League 2009
It has been suggested that there is a competition just for the league members which could be tagged on to a show, but as the League members come from all parts of the UK it might be difficult to get a venue which is central and affordable. |
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The overall
winner of the League is Sorcha Price with Crisp who won with a total score of 251. Crisp is a
Grade 6 agility Cairn Terrier. The results were for 63 classes. They also finished 27th in the
Small Grade 6 Agility Club tables. Well done to Sorcha Price and Crisp.
The
Scottish Terrier Breeds (STB) Agility League is doing well although there are a lot more STB
terriers out there who could join - the more the merrier.
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