Interstate Obedience Challenge 2011
12 May 2010
ATTENTION QUEENSLAND OBEDIENCE HANDLERS
Dogs Queensland will host the inaugural Interstate Obedience Challenge to be conducted at the 2011 State & National Obedience Trial to be held at the Dogs Queensland Showground, King Avenue, Durack on 25th & 26th June 2011.
The Queensland State Trials Working Party has set the selection criteria for those wishing to be considered as members of the Queensland team.
Interested handlers should send the six (6) highest qualifying scores from their preferred class which have been achieved between January 2010 and December 2010 to:
Sandra Strong
5 Ryan Court
BURPENGARY QLD 4505.
RULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF AN INTERSTATE OBEDIENCE CHALLENGE AT NATIONAL OBEDIENCE TRIALS:
1) The competition will be a Teams event;
2) The current, at the time of the event, Rules for the Conduct of Obedience Trials are to be applied;
3) The Challenge will be conducted in the following three (3) Classes:
Utility Dog Excellent (UDX),
Utility Dog (UD) and
Companion Dog Excellent (CDX);
4) A State Representative Team may be entered in an individual Class or in the Classes as chosen. It is not mandatory for a State to enter a Team in each of the eligible Classes;
5) Each Team is to consist of three dogs or bitches with separate Handlers;
6) The same Teams and / or individual Dogs or Handlers cannot compete in more than one Class;
7) Placings will be allocated and identified by the aggregate of the points scored by the Dogs and Handlers in each Team, Highest Aggregate, First Placing, etc. Where the aggregate scores between teams are tied then the general Rules for count-back will be applied;
8) As it is not mandatory for a State to enter a Team in each Class, the State represented by the winning team (highest aggregate) will be that Class Challenge Winner;
9) All costs associated with participation in this proposed Interstate Obedience Challenge are the responsibility of the State being represented. There is no, and can never be, any expectation on the ANKC to meet any of the funding requirements associated with this National Obedience event.