News
February AKC Board minutes
from the February AKC Board meeting minutes :
http://images.akc.org/pdf/board_minutes/0212.pdf
Events and Entries Update
Mr. Sprung reported that entries have increased over the last ten years by 20%. Total entries for
2011 were 3,130,561, which is an increase of 3.8% from the previous year. Agility topped the
one million entry plateau for the year. This is the first time that any sport other than
Conformation has achieved this level. Miscellaneous Class was up 55 % in 2011.
Berger Picard
The Board VOTED to approve a request, from the Berger Picard Club of America, to advance
the breed to the Miscellaneous Class effective January 1, 2013
Associated Breeds to Hold Herding Event
The Board VOTED to approve a Staff recommendation to allow specialty clubs to hold Herding
events that are open to their breed as well as “associated breeds” on a special request basis.
Associated breeds for this purpose would be those breeds with a common heritage. The special
request must be approved by the Performance Events Department. Effective date: April 1, 2012
Lifetime Agility Title
Mr. Curtis reported that without objection, the new Lifetime Achievement title (July 1, 2012
implementation date) would be applied retroactively to dogs earning the title requirements after
January 1, 1999, and prior to July 1, 2012. A fee of ten-dollars ($10.00) will be charged for
owners that want an actual grandfathered title certificate to be printed and sent to them. Dogs
earning the title after implementation will have the title certificate print automatically similar to
other agility titles. There was no objection.
2011 AKC agility stats
AKC published their yearly Agility stats. For the first time there are two docoments, one for regular and one for preferred. Also the format is much easier to read. here the link to the documents :
http://www.akc.org/events/agility/statistics.cfm
In 2011 the AKC® agility program reached a new record number of agility trials and entries for the 17th straight year, with 2,629 agility trials held
and 1,040,071 entries recorded.
Top 5 Briards in Regular :
| 1 | MACH2 Blackwater Aria D'Amour De Tosca CD | Nona Horsley | 1819 | 22 | 2039 |
| 2 | TC Celebratia's V D'Occasion OAP MXF TQX | David Behrens | 863 | 16 | 1023 |
| 3 | Cascadias Chanson De Geste RN MX MXJ XF | Paul G Hanson & Kathryn Hanson | 352 | 6 | 412 |
| 4 | CH Sendero's Voodoo Charms MX MXJ XF | Kathleen Fitzpatrick | 228 | 5 | 278 |
| 5 | Glendrlourse Coastal Confession RN MX AXJ OF | David Wyndham & Laurie Wyndham | 236 | 1 | 246 |
Top 2 Briards (all that competete in 2011 in excellent B, the highest class) :
| 1 | MACH2 Classique Tempo De Puccini CDX RN MXP2 MJP3 | Nona Horsley | 1371 | 17 | 1541 |
| 2 | CH Esprit D'Mystic Oaks CD BN RAE PT AXP AJP | Michelle Holmes & Alice Bixler & James Holmes & Aline Brisendine | 32 | 1 | 42 |
Big Brag
Ch Enchanted Petite Pasikola "with lots of titles" call name Piper...... just earned her Herding Excellent Sheep C course (HXC) in Texas this weekend... getting HIT one trial and RHIT the other trial. The Big occasion is she is 12+ years and still going strong.. i am sooooo proud of her.
Congrats also to Julie Reconnu and her RHIT and points in advanced!!!!!
Briards Ruled!!!!!!
Jumping, jumpheights
The (UK) KC has good paper online about jumping and jumpheight :
at the end are references listed, try to find them online and listing them below
first Swarte, Mouwen & Mouwen from a lecture given by Dr H C Schamhardt, of the Veterinary faculty of Utrecht University :
http://www.sportdierenarts.mouwen.nl/index.php/sporthond/loads
Front and Rear Angulation in the Working Dog written by Fred Lanting :
http://www.fredlanting.org/2008/10/front-and-rear-angulation-in-the-working-dog-2/
Structure as it relates to the performance dog, by Nina Plail :
http://www.sheltieranch.com/articles/structure.html
Agility in 2011
AKC is a month behind in Agility results, so some little things will still change. 2011 was a good year. Briards was competitive as never before. Nona's Puccini retired from regular Agility to almost making the PACH in eleven months trailing, and yes in January 2011 Puccini had to start in Novice.
Nona's Tosca made MACH2 and is well on the way to have MACH3 sometimes in 2012. Also impressive Tosca made 1819 MACH points and 22 double Q's in 2011 alone !
David's Vie is the first TC (triple Champion) Briard, Vie is a conformation Champion, Herding Champion and made the MACH this fall.
Tosca, Vie and Puccini are all also qualified for the National Championship 2013 in Reno NV
in 2011 13 Briards was competing in the highest regular class, additional two Briards was also running in the highest preferred class. Never before in AKC Agility did 15 Briards compete in one year at the highest level.
Tosca and Morgan's Argos also had some runs where they would have been fast enough to qualify for world tryouts, so maybe soon we see a Briard trying to get qualified.
