tag, you're it... [ AKC Agility National ]

The American Kennel Club is holding it’s 2009 National Agility Championship in Concord, North Carolina this year starting Friday, March 27th and with its finals in Sunday, March 29th.

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The AKC has already released some interesting stats for the event. There will be 598 MACH dogs attending—including 1 MACH 21 dog, 4 OTCH dogs, 54 CH dogs, and 15 VCD dogs. The bitches will outnumber the dogs at the event with 470 females and only 420 dogs attending. Ohio is sending the most dogs with 64, but dogs are coming from as far away as Alaska!

Karen and I would like to wish all the agility competitors from New England who are heading to the AKC Agility Nationals a safe trip and good luck! Run fast, run clean.

Those going from New England include:

• Connecticut: Robin Ohrt, Guylaine Doyon, Randy Miller, Melody Lynn, Nancy Ross, Tom Thompson, Lynmarie Thompson, Carol Mancini, Katie Trachte, Debbie Hunt, and Bill Gore
• Rhode Island: John Nys, Mark Caron
• Maine: Anne Andrle, Tracey Lacasse
• Vermont: Kathryn Stein, Ellen Phaneuf
• New Hampshire: George Baker, Lauri Baker, PAtti Gagnon, Carolyn Hess, Lauren Mitchell, Joanne O’Brien, Jane Bronson, Karen Kinnan, and Ray Latno
• Massachusetts: Anna Ericsson, Ben Philibert, Jocelyn Kurdzionak, Anne Timson, David May, Meghan McCarthy, Leland Perry, Paulette Swartzendruber, Suzanne Walsh, Terri Arnold, Nancy Bishop, Ann Derby, Karen Gorman, Janet Harris, James Jayko, Paula Orcutt, Annie Pyle, Amanda Shyne, Belinda Schutz, Sherry White, Joanne Williamson, Elaine Gianelli, Susan Usher, and of course Karen Hocker

If I’ve missed you, my apologies! Please let me know so I can add you.

Congrats to Jane and Beamer for being one of the top 5 Golden Retrievers invited to the AKC Agility Invitational!

Congratulations to Jane Bronson and her Golden Retriever MACH Fast-Trak’s Laser Flash OF “Beamer” on being on of 5 Golden Retriever teams to be invited to the AKC’s Agility Invitational! We’re so proud.

Other Goldens in the top 5 include: OTCH MACH8 Coppertop’s Live Wire VCD3 UDX MH MXF, MACH6 Flashpaws Runaround Sue MXF, MACH7 Golden Buckwheat XXVII UDX, and MACH Honors Miss Racey Lacey XF.

And a round of applause for our own MACH2 Pine Run’s Photo Finish JH, XF, CGC,MAD,WCX,ADHF “Nikon.” Rumor has it he was included in the top 10!