Small & Medium - Bob Griffin
The day started with the qualifying Jumping round, run in a reasonably large course that made full use of the ring. It required handlers to run but still maintain a degree of control in several tighter sections.The course was run in heavy rain showers and squally winds, but the competitors ignored the difficult conditions and turned in some excellent rounds.

The weather improved somewhat to just being blustery with shorter lighter showers, but this did not detract from the competition which was keenly fought with a range of contact faults and poles down as the handlers were pushing their dogs as fast as the conditions allowed, yet still turning in some excellent rounds.

I would like to congratulate all the competitors who got through to the Final round a superb achievement in itself.

The final round was once again a fairly large but open and flowing course that still required a degree of control.

The weather did improve slightly for the Small final which turned out to be the only class that was judged during the day without any wet weather gear on!

It was good to see everyone attacking the course and putting in some excellent runs. When Lauren Langman ran with Blink, knocking four seconds off of the fastest time, I did not expect that to be beaten. However Bernadette Bay with her Ag.Ch. Obay Itz Got Pizazz was to prove me wrong. She put in a superb run which was extremely smooth and didn’t lose any time at all on the turns, beating Lauren’s time by just 0.148 sec and, thereby, taking the ticket!

Many congratulations to Bernadette with Ag.Ch. Obat Itz Got Pizazz AW/G for winning the KC Small Challenge Certificate and to Lauren with Samsir Blinkin Brilliant for Devongem for taking the KC Small Reserve Challenge Certificate.

Small Results

Medium Results

Large - Chris Huckle
It was both a pleasure and honour to judge the Large Championship. With too many excellent rounds to mention everybody individually, I would still like to make a special mention of Theresa Hagreen Hagreen who ran third with Sparky and put in a storming round. She led the competition for a considerable time, putting pressure on all the rest of the competitors until the last five dogs. Greg Derret put in wonderfully smooth round at a blistering place with Rehab, taking the lead from Teresa and Sparky by almost 1.8 seconds.

We were down to the last few dogs when Lee Windeatt and Pip took the competition to another level with a wonderfully smooth round, taking over a second out of Greg and Rehab’s round.

Well done to Lee and Pip taking the Kennel Club Large Challenge Certificate and to Greg and Rehab for taking the Reserve Challenge Certificate.

Large Results