{"id":446,"date":"2011-08-11T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/?p=446"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T22:48:03","slug":"front-finish-2010-rally-combined-rating-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/archives\/446","title":{"rendered":"Front & Finish 2010 Rally Combined Rating Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

They made us wait a long time this year, but finally the report for 2010 was posted yesterday.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t a surprise to see that my little guy is #1 Parson Russell Terrier for this year, as I couldn’t stand the suspense and started tracking results myself on the AKC website, but it is still nice to have it published as official. We beat #2 by only two points, too!<\/p>\n

It was a lot of hard work, as a team only gets ranking points for placements 1-4 and dogs defeated, e.g. if you win a class of 10 dogs, you get 9 points, but if you place 4th in a class of 4 you get none. We have such small entries in Southern CA (about 8 dogs per class average), and some very fierce competition from high-precision teams who also show in obedience a lot, so earning points is difficult.<\/p>\n

Just for comparison, the #2 ranked PRT (who is an Obedience Trial Champion and UDX3 – how awesome is that??) earned 55 points from only 3 runs, but defeated 19, 18 and 18 dogs in each, whereas Quigley and I collected points piecemeal, about 2, 3 or 5 at a time, with our very last run of the year adding a 4th place and 10 points – otherwise we wouldn’t have managed our #1 rating position. It was also a little frustrating that in an additional 12 runs we placed 5th, often because we lost the tie for 4th place by time.<\/p>\n

I have no idea how I became so competitive, but (and I say this feeling like a broken record!) if AKC finally gave us some higher level rally titles to work on, I’d rather do that instead of focusing on placements and points.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to sum it all up, I am immensely proud of my little guy’s accomplishment. I’ve said it before, when we started competing in 2006 I had no idea what was in store for our future. 2010 was our 5th year of competition, and I hope we will have many more.<\/p>\n

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