November 2011 - It's been an ASCA year. More agility Q's for Indy, last trial of the year for her. Caper - ASCA agility Q's including his Elite Jumpers title, and then he went WD/BOW/BOB over 7 specials for a 5 point major to finish his ASCA Championship!

October 2011 - Multiple Q's in ASCA for Caper, Novice Fast and Open Standard Q's in AKC, and P1 Standard title in USDAA. Indy PGH-Bronze in USDAA and her ASCA ATCH5!

September 2011 - Indy 4th place Veteran Agility Finals at ASCA Nationals! - multiple Q's as well at the pre-shows and Nationals Agility trials. She also finished her AKC Open Preferred Standard and Open Preferred JWW titles. Caper earned an Advanced Duck Q at nationals as well as his Open Jumpers titles with a 1st place, as well as additional Q's in regular and an Open Standard Q in AKC.

August 2011 - Caper earned his OTDd and STDs titles and picked up his first OTDs leg.

July 2011 - Caper - Elite Regular title in ASCA, P2 Relay and P2 Gamblers titles in USDAA and Novice Standard in AKC. Indy multiple Qs in USDAA, ASCA and AKC and finished her PSCH and PTM-Silver.

June 2011 - Caper earned his Novice Jumpers title in ASCA, P2 Jumpers title in USDAA and his second PVP Q with Gabby, Indy had multiple Qs in USDAA and ASCA and finished her PJCH-Bronze.

May 2011 - A quiet month, mostly working on the farm, but managed to get to 1 AKC trial. Novice Preferred titles for Indy and Novice Jumpers for Caper.

4/15 - 4/17/11 - A great weekend at the BARK USDAA trial!  Indy picked up 2 gamble Q's, 2 jumpers Q's, 2 snooker Q's, a pairs Q and a Performance Speed Jumping Q the first 2 days.  That finished her Performance Snooker Champion Bronze.  Caper finished his P1 Snooker title, and got another P2 Jumpers Q both with 1st place.  On Sunday both kids ran Performance Versatility Pairs.  This was Caper's first team event.  Indy and her partner Breezon took 2nd place! And Caper and Dusty took 9th!  Awesome job for the baby dogs!

3/26 - 3/27/11- Caper's first AKC agility trial!  1 Standard Q with a 1st, and 2 Jumpers with Weaves Q's both with first places.  Indy got to play in Novice Preferred, and had a 4 for 4 weekend, with 3 firsts and a second.

3/12 - 3/13/11- Feel The Rush did an great job with their March USDAA trial.  Not as many Q's but good runs for both Caper & Indy.  Indy with a Q in P3 Pairs & P3 Standard and for Caper in P2 Pairs and P2 Jumpers.

2/26 - 2/27/11- Another awesome ASCA trial for Indy going 9 for 10.  And another new title for Caper, finishing his Open Regular.

1/15 - 1/16/11 - A fun time at ASCNE's first agility trial of the year.  Indy 11 for 12.  She is on a roll!  And 3 new titles for Caper.  In one weekend he earned his Novice Regular, Open Gamblers and Elite Gamblers.

1/8/11 - One day at the BARK trial for Indy, and it was a good one!  5 for 5 today.  Perfect start to the new year, and a new Accomplished Relay Dog title!

11/20 - 11/21/10 - A good weekend at our last USDAA trial of the year.  Indy got that last standard Q for her APD!  Caper finished his P1 Relay and P1 Jumpers titles and Z Q'd and took 2nd in P3 jumpers 1 month shy of 12 years old.

11/6 - 11/7  Another great show by BVASC!  Indy and Caper went to their ASCA agility trial this weekend.  Caper earned another Regular Q with a 1st and a Gamblers Q also with a 1st for his first ASCA agility title (GS-N).   Indy had another fantastic weekend.  She was 7 for 10 with all 1st and 2nd places including 4 perfect Regular rounds to finish her ATCH4!

10/30 - 10/31/10 - Good weekend at Y agility's USDAA trial.  Nice to have a trial close to home.  Indy Q'd in standard, gamblers, pairs and jumpers.  Z have a good time in Snooker and took 2nd in jumpers.  Pretty good for the old man!

10/2 - 10/3/2010 Indy is still flying.  A 9 for 10 weekend at ASCNE's Harvest Moon show with 7 blues.  Caper made his debut in ASCA and earned a Novice Gamble leg and a Novice Regular leg with a 2nd and a 1st. 

9/24 - 9/26/2010  Good weekend at BARK.  Indy started it off with another 1st in PVP with her partner Cady and Carol Fay-Ballou.  She had numerous Q's over the weekend with lots of placements and finished her Accomplished Jumpers Dog title.  Z showed that the old dog still has what it takes.  He also finished his Accomplished Jumpers Dog title and his Silver Accomplished Snooker Dog.  Caper didn't have a lot of Q's, but did a great job his first weekend running at 22", and finished with a phenomenal jumpers run at over 6 yps.

9/11 - 9/12/2010  Took the boys out to PENNY ASCA breed shows.  Caper was a little too excited all weekend and didn't show well.  On Saturday Race took RWD at the first show and a 2nd in his class at the afternoon show.  Sunday morning Race took WD, BOW and BOB for a 5 point major over top ranked specials!  That finished his Championship which was also the last title he needed for his Supreme Versatility Championship!

8/14 - 8/16/10  A weekend at the ASCA stockdog trials for Caper.  He did a very good job for being so high drive and so young.  He ran in 4 sheep, 4 duck and 4 cattle runs.  Ended the weekend with 1 started sheep leg, his Started Duck title and 1 Open Duck leg, and his Started Cattle title!  After playing with the cows he was a little too pushy for sheep.  Something to work on, but a great start to his stock career.

8/6 - 8/8/10  Amazing weeked at the HONYASC breed shows.  This one definitely goes down in the books.  Race and Caper took Winner's Dog at 4 of the 5 shows.  On Friday Race went WD/BOW for a 3 point major.  On Saturday it was all about Caper he took WD/BOW at the first show for a 5 point major and WD/BOS over specials for a 3 point major.  On Sunday Race finished up with WD/BOW for another 4 point major.  That leaves Race just needing 1 point and Caper needing 2 points for their ASCA Championships!

7/31 - 8/1/10  Incredible weekend at LEAP.  Z picked up another 1st and Super Q in P3 Snooker as well as 2 bumper pairs legs.  Caper was 4 for 6 with 2 firsts and 2 seconds, and Indy was just amazing.  She Q'd 8 out of 9 runs, earning her Bronze Lifetime Achievement Award, Bronze Accomplished Tournament Dog and Accomplished Snooker Dog with 2 Super Q's.

7/16 - 7/18/10  Three days at BARK's USDAA trial.  A 1st in Performance Speed Jumping and a 2nd in Performance Grand Prix for Indy as well as that last 22" standard Q to finish her Bronze ADCH!  She had an incredible weekend finishing Saturday and Sunday with a 100% Q rate.  Awesome July for the black dogs!  Caper didn't want to be left out.  He got his first agility title in P1 Gamblers, and took a 1st & Q in P1 Snooker and a 3rd and Q in P1 Jumpers.

7/9 - 7/10/10  Two days at Riverside's USDAA trial.  On the first day Indy and her BC friend Tulip with Jessica Scavetta competed in the Team Event.  They took 1st in Jess & Tulips first ever Team competition!  Z rounded out the weekend by finishing his APD thanks to a brilliant pairs run with Carol and Cady, and Caper got his 1st P1 Gamblers Q.  Indy had a good day Saturday as well with multiple Qs. (See photo below)



6/18 - 6/20/2010  Great time at BVASC.  Race had 3 Advanced Duck Q's, and took a major reserve on Sunday.  Caper took a major reserve on Friday night and made the entire trip by taking a 5 point major on Saturday morning for his first ASCA points!

6/12 - 6/13/2010  Good weekend at ASCNE's Colors of Summer show.  Indy was 11 for 11 in agility and Race had 2 awesome cattle runs and two good duck runs.

5/29 - 5/30/10 -  Off to the ASCA agility trials this weekend.  Race finished his RS-E, and Indy picked up 2 Elite Jumpers Qs, 3 Elite Gamblers Q's, and 3 Elite Regular Q's all with placements and a number of blues.  Caper made his debut in pre-novice.  He had a blast and finished each of his runs with a HUGE grin on his face.

5/2/10 - Race and Caper went to the ASCA breed shows today.  They were both a little silly in the first show.  Caper took a 2nd in his class and Race was the only Open Black.  In the 2nd show they remembered what they were doing and both boys won their classes with competiton, and Race went on to take Reserve Winners Dog.

5/1/10 - Indy, Race and Z went to the ACE USDAA trial.  It was exceptionally hot and not Z's day today.  Race got the last Q he needed for his Advanced Snooker title and Indy took a 3rd and Super Q in P3 Snooker, and won her Performance Grand Prix class!  Which gives her a bye in the first round at Nationals if we decide to go.

4/16 - 4/17/10  Took Z, Indy and Race to the BARK USDAA trial for two days!  What a great weekend.  Z got the last two Qs he needed to finish his Bronze Life Time Achievement Award!  He finished on his Snooker run, and not only did he Q, but he Super Q'd and won the class!  Not too shabby for an 11 1/2 year old man.  Indy had a phenomenal weekend.  She Q'd in 8 out of 10 runs picking up 2 Masters Standard Qs, 2 P3 Jumpers Qs which finished her P3 jumpers title, 2 P3 Gamblers Qs, a PSJ Q, and in getting her P3 Pairs Q she was able to help her Aussie friend Cady earn her APD.  Race picked up an Advanced Pairs Q for his Advanced Pairs title, and an Advanced Jumpers Q.  Only one more Advanced Standard Q for his AAD.

2/27 - 2/28/10  Great weekend at the ASCA trial.  Indy Q'd 7 out of 10 with all Q's a 1st place and was High in Trial Elite Veteran!  Race finished his Elite Gamblers title, got an Elite Jumpers leg and 15 points in Elite Regular.

1/30 - 1/31/10  Another good weekend of USDAA.  Indy Q'd in PSJ and P3 Snooker with a 1st and Super Q to earn her P3 Snooker title.  And Race got his first Steeplechase Q, and then Q'd in Advanced Pairs with a 2nd, Advanced Snooker with a 1st and Advanced Gamblers with a 1st.  He was one of only 3 dogs to get the gamble!

1/9 - 1/10/10 Indy had a great time at the ASCA agility trial.  It was her first trial running as a veteran.  She Q'd in 8 out of 10 runs, and took 1st place with all 8 Qs!  4 regular, 2 gamblers and 2 jumpers!

1/1 - 1/3/10  Spent 3 days at the BARK USDAA trial with Z, Indy and Race.  They had an awesome weekend.  Indy took a 4th n PVP, a 2nd in PSJ, and a 3rd in Performance National Standard.  She also picked up another P3 Gamble Q.  Race got a 4th place with his DAM team, and picked up two Advanced Standard legs with a 3rd and a 1st his first weekend in Advanced Standard.  He also earned an Advanced Snooker Q with a 1st and an Advanced Pairs Q with a 2nd.  Z finally got a P3 Pairs Q, leaving him just needing one more for his APD, and he earned a P3 Snooker Q.  He's now just 2 Qs away from his Bronze Life Time Achievement Award!

11/21 Caper and Race went to the Thanksgiving Cluster for 2 days.  It wasn't Race's weekend, but on Saturday Caper went RWD to a 4 point major from the 9-12 puppy class!

11/5 - 11/6  Took Caper and Race down to BVASC for the breed shows.  It wasn't Race's weekend, but Caper had a great time.  He won his class at all 3 shows, and got pulled for winners dog at all 3.  Never quite got the points (he was the youngest male dog at the show), but he did get Reserve Winners Dog at the Sunday show.  All he needs is a little more maturity.

10/31 - 11/1  Indy, Z and Race went to the Y agility USDAA show this weekend.  All 3 had a great time.  Race finished his AD with 2 first places in the Starters Standard Class.  He also earned an Advanced Gamble Q with a 3rd.  Z Q'd in P3 standard to earn his Accomplished Standard Dog title, and Q'd in P3 Jumpers and Snooker.  That brings him to within 4 Q's of his LAA Bronze title.  Indy was in fine form this weekend.  She took 3rd in Performance National Standard, 2nd in P3 Jumpers and won P3 Gamblers and Snooker.

10/23 -10/24/09  It was once again time for our annual Harvest Moon Mania ASCA show.  Race and Caper were showing in breed all weekend, and Race and Indy did agility.  Caper did well for his first time in the ring with mom taking a 4th and 2 seconds in the 9-12 month class.  On Saturday, Race went Winners Dog for his second ASCA major!  Race also picked up an Elite Jumpers Q with a 4th place this weekend.  The trial was cancelled on Saturday due to weather so there wasn't alot of agility.  On Sunday Indy won the Elite Gamblers and Elite Jumpers classes, and picked up the last Q she needed in Elite Regular to finish her ATCH-SP!  Still beating the younger dogs at 8 1/2 years old.

Also, Congrats to Jessica and Casey for finishing their Started Sheep title in the pouring rain Saturday, and making a good attempt at Open Sheep on Sunday.

9/11 - 9/12/09  Indy and Z went to Riverside's USDAA trial this weekend.  Z picked up a 1st and Super Q in snooker as well as a second snooker Q and a jumpers Q.  Indy earned a snooker Super Q, a Performance Speed Jumping Q, and two Jumpers Qs.

9/6/09 Jessica Scavetta and Casey who come over to work sheep earned their AKC PT today!  They qualified in two runs this weekend, with some very nice work on both their parts.  Congrats! (See photo below)



9/5/09  Indy and Z went to the Arff USDAA agility trial today.  Indy earned a Performance Speed Jumping Q, a P3 Pairs Q and a P3 Snooker Q.  Z had some weave pole issues early in the day, but came back for a 4th and Q in P3 Snooker and a 1st and Q in P3 Jumpers!  Not too bad for a boy who is almost 11.

8/1 - 8/2/09 Race and Z went to LEAPs second USDAA trial.  Not too bad of a weeknd for the boys.  Z earned two P3 snooker Qs, one of which was a Super Q with a 1st place to earn he Accomplished Snooker Dog Bronze Title.  Race did well in the games finishing his Starters Gamblers, Snooker, and Pairs titles all with either 1st or 2nd places.

7/18 - 7/19/09 Race went to the Collie Club AKC trials this weekend.  He Q'd in both standard runs with a second place in each to finish his OA. 

7/10 - 7/11/09  Indy, Z and Race went to Riverside's USDAA trial this weekend.  On Friday they all competed in the DAM team.  Indy had a phenomenal day.  It was her first time running in P3, and she placed in every class and earned 4 Lifetime Achievement Q's.  Unfortunately her partner didn't have as good a weekend so she missed out on a team Q.  Z and Jenny showed that old dogs can still show the youngsters what for.  Their Performance Team not only qualified, but came in 5th.  Z also picked up 2 Lifetime Achievement Q's.  Race was on a championship team with his brother Rumor and their friend Tailor. The youngsters also managed a Q in team.  This was their very first time competing in a team tournament!  Indy also picked up a Masters Standard Q, and Race got a Starters Gamblers and Starters Snooker Q.

7/3 - 7/5/2009  On Friday and Sunday Z, Indy and Race went to BARK's USDAA trial.  Z picked up another P3 Super Q in Snooker, Indy picked up a Master's Gamblers Q and a Master's Jumpers Q to finish her Gamblers Champion Bronze and her Jumpers Champion Bronze.  Race had a phenomenal weekend.  He earned a Starters Standard Q with a 2nd place, a Starter's Pairs Q with a 1st place and 2 Starter's Jumpers Q's both with 1st places which finished his Starters Jumpers title.  His first USDAA title!

6/20/09 - Race went to the UKC breed shows today.  At the first show he took BOB and a Herding Group 3 to finish his UKC Championship!  In the second show of the day he earned another Herding Group 3!  Race finished his Championship in just 3 shows all with group placements.

6/19/09 - Race attended his first ASCA farm trial.  It was an interesting day and he earned a leg towards his Open Farm Dog title. 

6/13 - 6/14/09 This weekend Race, Indy and Caper attended ASCNE's Colors of Summer show.  Race and Indy competed in agility and Caper played in the breed ring in the non-regular puppy classes.  Race earned his Elite Jumpers title and his Open Regular title and picked up 10 points towards his Elite Regular title.  Indy picked up another 10 regular points towards her ATCH-SP, only 30 more to go!  Caper had a great time with Jillayne and Morgan in the breed ring.  On Saturday won his 4-6 month class and took Best of Opposite Puppy and on Sunday he won his class again. 

6/6 - 6/7/09  Z, Race and Indy went to Riverside's USDAA trial this weekend.  Z Q'd and placed in P3 Gamblers and P3 Jumpers to finish his P3 Jumpers titles, just two pairs legs for his APD!  Indy also Q'd in Masters Gamblers, Snooker and Jumpers taking a 2nd and Super Q in Snooker to finish her Snooker Champion Bronze title!  Race didn't want to be totally outdone as this was his first USDAA trial.  He earned a Starters Gamblers, Snooker, Pairs, Jumpers and Standard Q.  He took 3rd in Pairs and won all of the other classes he Q'd in.

5/23 - 5/24/09 - Race and Indy went to ASCNE's May ASCA agility trial.  Indy picked up another 15 points towards her ATCH-SP and Race earned his Open Gamblers and Open Jumpers titles.  Just missed his Open regular by 5 points. 

5/16 - 5/17/09  This weekend Race went to the ASCNE Herding trial in New Hampshire.  He was the second dog in on Advanced Cattle and the cattle were not cooperative.  He did a fantastic job of getting the cows all the way around the course to finish his Advanced Cattle title and his Working Trial Champion!  Not bad for a boy who hasn't seen his 2nd birthday!  He even got a bumper leg on Sunday.

4/18/09 - Indy and Z went to an USDAA trial this weekend.  Indy Q'd in Steeplechase to finish her Tournament Master Bronze title!  She also Super Q'd in Snooker and Q'd in Gamblers.  Z Q'd in Standard, Snooker and Performance Speed Jumping bringing him to just 22 Q's from his Bronze Lifetime Achievement Award!

4/5/09 - Fly Away Field put on an AHBA HTAD sheep/duck trial.  This was our first try at AHBA.  Race did a great job, qualifying 3 out of 4 to earn his HTADIs.  One more leg to go for his duck title.

4/4/09 -  Race went to the ASCA sheep and duck trials put on by BVASC this weekend.  He started the weekend earning an ASCA Advanced Sheep leg to finish his ATDs!  At 21 months old that leaves him with needing 1 advanced cattle leg for his WTCH! 

3/21 - 3/22/09  It was a pretty fantastic weekend at the AKC trial.  At 10 years old Z double Q'd to earn the points he needed to finish his MACH2 in spite of his mother getting lost on the jumpers course.  Once again Z saved the day!  He also managed a 3rd place in both classes.  Not bad for one of the oldest dogs in the 24" class!  An exciting day, but also a sad one as with this title Z will be retiring from AKC agility.  He's still jumping well at 24", but I want him to be around and sound for many years to come.  Race didn't want to be totally outdone by his big brother.  He came home with an Open Standard Q and an Open Jumpers Q both with 2nd places.

3/7/09 - Race went to an AKC agility trial this weekend. Race finished his NAJ! 

2/14 - 2/15/09 - Race and Indy went to an ASCA agility trial this weekend.  Indy got down to needing 55 regular points for her ATCH-SP, and Race had a 9 for 10 weekend to earn his Novice agility titles in Regular, Gamblers and Jumpers!  

1/31 - 2/1/09 -   I took Race and Z to an AKC agility trial this weekend.  Race finished his NA with a 3rd and a 1st and picked up another NAJ leg with a 1st.  Z pulled to within 11 points of his MACH2!

1/17/09 - Race went to his first AKC agility trial and earned a NA and a NAJ leg. He placed 2nd in both classes.

1/10/09 - Race went to his first UKC shows today.  At the first show he took BOB and a Group 4, and at the second he took BOB and a Group 2 to earn 70 points towards his UKC CH and 2 wins with competition.