{"id":212,"date":"2010-04-18T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-04-20T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T00:52:25","slug":"ukc-rally-double-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/archives\/212","title":{"rendered":"First round of UKC Rally double qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213 alignleft\" title=\"2010-04-18-weekend\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2010-04-18-weekend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>We are finally back home after a loooooong weekend. I&#8217;ve never driven this far for a trial. 315 miles each way is just too long, and Modesto isn&#8217;t exactly a destination that has much to offer. But it was an UKC show, a lot of fun, very nice judges and a really friendly, welcoming group of people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Friday, 4\/16<br \/>\nURO2 &#8211; 92\/2nd place, URO3 &#8211; 95\/1st place,<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, 4\/17<br \/>\nURO2 &#8211; 90\/1st place, URO3 &#8211; 91\/2nd place,<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, 4\/18<br \/>\nURO2 &#8211; 86\/2nd place, URO3 &#8211; 90\/1st place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Saturday and Sunday Quigley was a lot less cooperative than on Friday, so even though the scores were ok and the placements very nice, we only earned 8 points towards our UKC Rally Championship. No big deal though, I knew before we got started that this would be a long haul &#8211; it&#8217;s not as easy as &#8220;just&#8221; getting 10 double Qs for a RAE in AKC.<\/p>\n<p>Since Quigley did so well on his out of sight exercises in Open last weekend in San Diego, I did two day-of-show entries, Friday and Saturday. As expected, we didn&#8217;t qualify (we have issues still to iron out before there&#8217;s a chance of a Q), but he stayed put in both trials on both out of sight exercises, and even without seeming worried about me leaving him.<\/p>\n<p>It was a really nice, quiet park and I wanted to give him a chance at another low-stress opportunity as soon as possible to get a little more used to the Open routine and OOS, and this was definitely it, with two very green Open A dogs making up the highest class of the obedience trials &#8211; everyone else was in Novice A, B or C.<\/p>\n<p>I decided that I do want to pursue that Open title in the long run (well, if possible both U-CDX and AKC too), but I&#8217;m not going to try again until at least towards the end of June, at the Great Western Terrier Association&#8217;s (AKC) specialty show in Long Beach. That&#8217;s a low-pressure show since they usually have very few obedience\/rally entries, last year there was no Utility class (and no qualifiers in Open I think), and a relatively low-distraction environment. I&#8217;d feel less discouraged over bombing out there.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to kill our progress by asking for too much entering him in a typical local show with a fairly big all-breed conformation circus with obedience squeezed in somewhere in a not so nice corner with lots of distractions.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, barring another UKC show popping up somewhere, we&#8217;ll continue working on our stuff until the September show in Santa Maria. Maybe I&#8217;ll try a run of AKC Graduate Novice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are finally back home after a loooooong weekend. I&#8217;ve never driven this far for a trial. 315 miles each way is just too long, and Modesto isn&#8217;t exactly a destination that has much to offer. 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