AKC Agility May 28-31 2021

Yolo County Fairgrounds, Woodland CA, Memorial Weekend
Trial Chairs: Sandy Zajkowski and Karen O”Neil
Trial Secretary: Kathie Leggett
DEFINITELY email the chairs or the secretary with your trial feedback, we’re already making plans for next year!!

Katy Robertson took photos!  Check them out here!

Another one in the books!  It looks like we been doing this big memorial weekend event annually since 2005, making this its 15th year (forgetting 2020 entirely), with most of the original cast and crew still involved: you are all awesome!  It was stinkin’ hot but everyone was a trouper and a sweetheart (or tried to be!), agility people are the best.  This was our first time doing it at Woodland, and we’d love feedback on whether to keep it in Woodland or go back to Dixon next year.  Also, thanks to our crack scoring crew, the results are already posted on the website (below)!
Now for the THANK YOU’S!  On Monday over the microphone, we briefly gave a shout out to our key workers who are out in the rings, keeping the trial running.  But that list is only a fraction of the people who make this trial truly excellent and a delight to work for.  We’d like to take this opportunity now to thank our out-in-the-ring AND our behind-the-scenes key workers who made everything work SO seamlessly and invisibly and brilliantly and with good humor:

  • BEST JUDGES EVER Jan Skurzynski and Dale Mohoney!
  • Secretary for life Kathie Leggett and RV/facilities/everything else czar Sandy Zajkowski
  • Vendor czar and person-we-went-to-for all-matters-covid-and-health Karen O’Neil
  • BEST SCORING TEAM EVER Mary Roseberry, Marlene Jurkovich, Becky Hardenberg
  • Tireless awards boss lady Pat White and her elf Julia O’Rourke
  • LUNCH LADY who single-handedly kept us all on our feet for 4 days: Katrina Anderson and her elf Debby Thompson
  • TRACS info booth and PR specialist Debby Thompson
  • ICE LADY even when there was an ice shortage in town: Katherine Lai
  • AMAZING RAFFLE lady: Penny Larson
  • PARADE OF VETERANS, video, also memorial video, also ribbons and announcer Penny Larson and her tech support Kathie Leggett.  This is SUCH a great way to remember our senior canine loved ones as well as canine loved ones passed.  (Did you all check out the videos of this on the TRACS home page?)
  • TRAILER managers for life (even though one stayed home to be with his wife whose back surgery was a success by the way, and the other coming back from knee replacement!): Jim Aitkin and Jan Davis and newly recruited elf Harley Frazee.
  • AND finally but NOT least, our crack team of those key workers out on our “front lines”:
    • EVERYONE that came to help with set-up thursday, for whom this was actually a FIVE DAY TRIAL, including our trailer managers and set-up expert Katrina Parkinson
    • superhuman chief course builders Roger Ly and Tracy Duncan, all four days, and their builder pool Cathy Beam, Jennifer Eichstedt, Katrina Parkinson, Rosalie Ball, Beverly Morgan Lewis, Carol Newman, Cindy Macklin.
    • superhuman crew chiefs who do all the jobs when no one signs up for them AND run their dogs – we should always be thinking about how they end up stuck with the work if the rest of us don’t volunteer!  Kaye Juhl, Vickey Meyer, Karen Johnson, Gail Gomes, all four days!
    • secret grounds people who were so effective that we didn’t even know they were there but we sure would have noticed if they weren’t!  Kelly Chaffin, Mary Palumbo, Mary Phoenix, Linda Greene, Bev Serafica, Carol Bowers, Karen Schwartz
    • our fulltimers who make it so our rings run even if no one signs up: Ginger McMullen, Liz Smith, Kate Marie, Sandra Walther (newbie who soaked everything up like a sponge!), Mary Palumbo, Georgia Demetre, Mary Phoenix, Jenny Cuccinello, Betsy Ramsey – THANK YOU FOR GIVING US YOUR HOLIDAY WEEKEND!
    • also thank you to fairgrounds employee Bart who brought out the giant lawn sprinklers on Sunday evening!
    • OH YES also teardown on monday afternoon was AMAZING, took an hour, THAT is the cat’s meow! Thank you thank you!

Complete Results

Event Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
MAPS Fri Maps Sat Maps
incl ISC		 Sun Maps
incl ISC		 Mon Maps
Premier Standard Fri Std Prem Sat Std Prem Sun Std Prem Mon Std Prem
JWW Fri JWW Prem Sat JWW Prem Sun JWW Prem Mon JWW Prem
Excellent/Masters Standard Fri Std ExMas Sat Std ExMas Sun Std ExMas Mon Std ExMas
JWW Fri JWW ExMas Sat JWW ExMas Sun JWW ExMas Mon JWW ExMas
FAST Fri FAST ExMas Sat FAST ExMas Sun FAST ExMas Mon FAST ExMas
Open Standard Fri Std Open Sat Std Open Sun Std Open Mon Std Open
JWW Fri JWW Open Sat JWW Open Sun JWW Open Mon JWW Open
FAST Fri FAST Open Sat FAST Open Sun FAST Open Mon FAST Open
Novice Standard Fri Std Nov Sat Std Nov Sun Std Nov Mon Std Nov
JWW Fri JWW Nov Sat JWW Nov Sun JWW Nov Mon JWW Nov
FAST Fri FAST Nov Sat FAST Nov Sun FAST Nov Mon FAST Nov
Time 2 Beat Fri T2B Sat T2B Sun T2B Mon T2B
ISC Standard ***** ***** Sun Std ISC *****
JWW ***** Sat JWW ISC ***** *****

Congrats to new MACH’s!

  • MACH5 Terra and Katherine Lai, friday
  • MACH Karat and Linda Groesbeck, friday
  • MACH6 Solo and Julie O’Rourke, saturday
  • MACH Edge and Julie Baclene, sunday

ISC OVERALL RESULTS

The ISC (International Sweepstakes Class) competition at TRACS is a qualifying event for the AKC World Team Tryouts.  Any dog may enter and jump at their regular jump height, however, dogs that enter/run at the World Team Tryout Heights of 12, 16, and 24 are eligible to earn a direct invitation to the event. To do that, the team must have one clear round and one round with 5 faults or less.  Additionally, this high combined winners in each jump height earn a cash prize as well.  They do have to post a score in each class, so any dog with an “E” (off course in ISC terms or three refusals), is not eligible for the high combined.

The High Combined winners are:

  • 8″ – no entries
  • 12″ – None (no 12″ jumping dog had scores in both rounds)
  • 16″ – Marcy Mantell & Stripe
  • 20″ – Katrina Parkinson & Trillian (preferred dogs are scored in their regular jump height).
    Trillian was the ONLY dog in any jump height to run two clear rounds.
  • 24″ – Sally Connell & Kit. 
    By meeting the required “one clear round and one round with 5 or less faults”,
    Sally & Kit are on their way to the 2022 AKC World Team Tryouts next May! 
    Congratulations to them.

Linda Brisbin’s TEAM CHALLENGE

First off, we’d like to thank Linda Brisbin for organizing her Team Q Challenge!  It added another layer of fun!  Placement was based on the team with the highest number of Q’s accumulated over Saturday and Sunday in the Std and JWW classes.  Tiebreaker is team with the most QQ’s, and then to the team with the highest placements count.  In case you didn’t hear or weren’t there to hear the results:

There were 22 teams.

  • 1st place team (winning $150) won with 11 Q (out of a possible 12):
    Jumping Sticks and Having Fun!
    • Annette Thomason/Savvy
    • Larry Rich/Tucker
    • Helen Zauba/Mojo
  • 2nd Place Team (Winning $60.00), with 10 Qs:
    Tux and His Golden Girls
    • Sandy Rogers/Tux
    • Pat White/Ray
    • Pat White/Ry
  • 3rd Place Team (winning $30.00):
    Would’a Could’a Should’a
    • Peter Chuck/Yoshio
    • Les Saito/Axel
    • Magy Rice/Mimi

Linda says: Thanks to all who played the game!

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