“Vita” and I have good news to share after slogging through a long and frustrating agility season! He finished his OAJ on Sunday 11/15 at the Capital City Cocker Club’s trial in Dale City, Virginia with a second place. He got first place in his height division 11/14 at this trial in the Excellent Std A class…and on 11/8, the Sunday prior, he got first place in his height division in Excellent Std A at the National Capital Bearded Collie Club trial in Leesburg, VA. So we’re one leg away from finishing his AX and finally finished that OAJ! He is now Ch Blazin’s Doppelbock CDX JH OA *OAJ* WCX.” Congrats, Tina and Vita!

A good time was had by all at the 2012 National in Wi.  ‘Freddie’ GCH. Athercroft Not For A Melon Bucks, made cuts in Sweeps, Veterans and was placed fourth with his get (GCH Blazin’s Krazy Glue and Blazin’s Kiss Me Kate) in the stud dog class.  ‘Levi’ Athercroft Haute To Trot, was third in AOH class. 

11/2 CH Hy-Tymes Virginia Reel CD OA JH WCX “Ginnie”, handled by Judy Delventhal, completed the Open Agility title.

1/24 – Blazin’s Cosmic Thing “Junebug”, owned by Dawn Buttion and Marty Archambeault, handled by Dawn, won Best of Breed and second place in the Group ring at the match sponsored by the Northeastern Maryland Kennel Club in Churchville, MD.

Ch. Rainbow’s Autumn Classic, “Simon”, finished 2002 with enough confirmation breed points to be ranked #1 and all-breed points to be ranked #4 in the nation! His #1 breed point ranking made it possible for him to win the Pedigree Award for flatcoated retrievers for 2002! To add to this, Simon was awarded a Judges Award of Merit (JAM) by judge Michelle Billings just recently at the Westminster KC dog show, which was a special honor in a field of some very nice flatcoats!

We feel very lucky to own a dog like Simon and are very proud of his accomplishments, and as always, we are very thankful to his breeder, Lauren Weidner.

Erica Wallace & John Evenson

“Brook”, Ch SR Bertschire’s Avalanche CD SH WCX, earned her first Master Hunter leg, owner handled by John Bulger!

Victory Retrievers had a good Specialty this year. Freya won her big 12-15 Sweeps class and placed 4th in the Reg 12-18 class.

CeCe won the Am Bred class and not to be left out…

Blue was awarded a JAM in Best of Breed, VERY COOL!!

Athercroft Hell or Highwatermelon “Melonee” owned by Ruth Marsh/Dee Turkelson is a new champion!  Mel was WB, BOS and Best Bredby to complete her championship!

11/16  CH Lyric Athelas Sing the Blues CD NA JH WC “Blue”, owned by Marla Stoner, earned the Novice Agility title at the TIdelands Poodle Club trial.

1/25 – Light Foot’s Eclipse CD JH FDX CGC “Tanner”, and Sandy Bulger won the Oriole Award!  The Oriole Award, given by the Oriole Dog Training Club in Baltimore, is a HUGE trophy (30″tall) given for the first time obedience exhibitor achieving the highest average of the three
scores required for an obedience title. 

Tanner also won an Oriole “Performance Dog Excellent” award for achieving three
performance titles this past year, (CD, FDX, and JH), of which two are
activities offered by the Oriole club.  Yea Sandy and Big T!