Category: Crufts

Crufts 2025 – Northern Ireland IR Team Application

Inter Regional Obedience Competition on Friday 7th March 2025

I have been appointed by Crufts Dog Show Committee to manage the Northern Ireland Inter Regional Team for Crufts 2025.

Please can you use this form to kindly list any places you have achieved (at Kennel Club (KC) shows only please) this will help with the selection. We will also have a selection day (one each in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man) which will give you the opportunity to show off your dog and both things will be taken into account during selection. 

The 2025 Inter Regional team will consist of:

1 Beginner Dog

2 Novice Dogs

2 Class A Dogs

1 Class B Dog

1 Class C Dog

1 Beginner Reserve Dog

**Please note: The following breed restrictions apply to the Inter Regional Team.  The team may consist of:

  • a maximum of three BC/WSDs,
  • three Crossbreeds (one of which must not be a Collie/Working Sheepdog type)
  • and up to three any other single breed.

The tests for this event will be as per G regs for each class.

ELIGIBILITY DATE: 31st OCTOBER 2024

Team Manager: Helen Boyde

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CRUFTS 2025 DATES FOR THE DIARY

Crufts 2025 will take place from the 6 – 9 March at the NEC, Birmingham. Groups are scheduled as follows:

6 March  –  Terrier and Hound

7 March  –  Toy and Utility

8 March  –  Gundog

9 March  –  Working and Pastoral

Online entries will open on 19 November, but in the meantime The Kennel Club would like to announce that the following competitions will take place at Crufts on these dates:

Thursday 6 March   

Crufts Novice Cup Agility

Crufts Agility Championship (large and intermediate height dogs)

Junior Warrant competition final

Breeders competition

Heelwork to Music competition

Young Kennel Club (YKC) Agility Jumping Cup

Flyball team competition – Last 16

Inter-Regional Rally competition

Obreedience competition

Friday 7 March 

Joe Cartledge Memorial International Junior Handling competition

Crufts Medium ABC/Intermediate and Large Novice ABC Agility

Crufts Singles Agility

Vulnerable Breeds competition

Flyball team competition – Last 16

Freestyle Heelwork to Music competition

Inter-Regional Obedience competition

Saturday 8 March

Crufts International Agility competition

Scruffts semi-finals and final

Freestyle Heelwork to Music International competition

YKC Agility Dog of the Year finals

Flyball – quarter finals (including YKC Finals)

Obedience Championships (Bitches)

Good Citizen Dog Training scheme Special Pre- Beginner Obedience Stakes Grand Final

Gamekeepers competition final

Sunday 9 March

Crufts Agility Championship (small and medium height dogs)

Flyball – semi-finals and finals

Good Citizen Dog Training Scheme Special Pre- Beginner Obedience Stakes final for YKC members

Obedience Championship (Dogs)

The Kennel Club Hero Dog Award

Best in Show and presentation

Further competition times and events are still to be announced. Up-to-date information can be found at crufts.org.uk.

The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Training Scheme Special Pre-Beginner Obedience Stakes – Crufts 2025 qualifiers (up to 31.07.24)

The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Training Scheme Special Pre-Beginner Obedience Stakes – Crufts 2025 qualifiers (up to 31.07.24)

Thank you to everyone who has supported the heats. Congratulations to all the qualifiers to date.

KCGCDTS SPBOS Grand Final

List of qualifying teams up to 31.07.24 (in qualifying order)

Megan Hyndman & Twinan That’s Exactly Right -Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Jodie Parry & Susie Que of Valgrays – Crossbreed

Beatrice Rolf & Fressinghill Spitfire -Cocker Spaniel

Goldie Chandler & Wispa’s Magic Minstrel -Cocker Spaniel

Kelly Harris & Illori Camiyah -Staffordshire Bull Terrier

Janet Wilson & My Belladonna -Australian Kelpie

Jenny Howe & Howz that Axel -Chihuahua

Laura Lloyd & Iceni Queen -Crossbreed

Gayl Sadler & Somanic It’s Now or Never -Standard Poodle

Lisa Sergiew & Izzabella Tinkerbell -Shetland Sheepdog

Francessca Grimshaw & Miss Wizzabelle Wisp – Border Collie

Sarah Kelly & Ankercanis Gruffalo – Belgian Shepherd (Malinois)

Anika Mckenzie & Hawkenhurst Road to Morrocco – Labrador

Diane Bruce & Johnasta Jus Chalkie Among Launatzarben -Papillion

Jo Town & Eanie Meanie My Boy Mo -Miniature Poodle

Nick Burchell & Oryxes Kissing The Waves On Tivalake (Imp Can) -Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever

Ruth Braithwaite & Martha Mendips – WSD

Michelle Bean & Lightning Lex – WSD

Katy Green & Messano Mister Ed – Golden Retriever

KCGCDTS SPBOS Final for YKC Members

List of qualifying teams up to 31.07.24 (in alphabetical order)

Leela Craig-Thompson & Traethdu Thebe -Cocker Spaniel

Lilah Dunlop & Peggy Power – Crossbreed

Katy Green & Messano Mister Ed – Golden Retriever

Francessca Grimshaw & Miss Wizzabelle Wisp -Border Collie

Kiera Leslie & Stripehead Impact -Wirehaired Visla

Bonnie Lloyd & Bonnie’s Biscuit – Cocker Spaniel

Kelsey McHenry & Night Flight -Border Collie

Anika Mckenzie & Hawkenhurst Road to Morrocco -Labrador

Reuben Parrish & Epsilon Clara Stelo -Crossbreed

Reuben Parrish & Proserpina Yamari -Border Collie

Beatrice Rolf & Fressinghill Spitfire -Cocker Spaniel

Beatrice Rolf & Pippilotta Starflight -Crossbreed

Chloe Sissons & Simbella The Great – Labrador

The Grand Final will take place at Crufts on Saturday 8th March 2025 and the Final for YKC members on Sunday 9th March 2025. Both finals will be held in the GCDTS ring Hall 3, NEC, Birmingham, West Midlands.

For further information about the heats please email gcds@thekennelclub.org.uk

Crufts 2024 South East & East Anglia Inter Regional Obedience Team Applications

TRY-OUT DATES AND VENUES FOR South East & East Anglia Team

Inter-Regional Obedience COMPETITION CRUFTS 2023

We have chosen two venues & dates in different parts of the SE&EA area for the try-outs and hope that all potential entrants will be able to get to one or other of the venues.

TRY OUT 1 is on Saturday 4th November 2023, starting 9.30am at:

Knowl Hill Village Hall
 (Thames D.T.C Hall)

           The Terrace                                                                                               

          Bath Road

           Maidenhead

           RG10 9XB

TRY OUT 2 is on Sunday 12th November 2023, start 9.30am at:                                2

           Pebmarsh Village Hall (Halstead D.O.C. Hall)                          1                                                                          

           The Street

            Pebmarsh

            Halstead

            Essex

            CO9 2NG                                                                                                        

THE FINAL SELECTION DATE AND VENUE

At the above two try-out days a number of handlers and breeds will be invited to attend a final    selection day when the SE&EA team will be chosen.

This will be held on Saturday 9th December 2023, start 10.00am at:

           Flaunden Hall

            89, Birch Lane

            Flaunden (Near Bovingdon)

            Hemel Hempstead

            Hertfordshire

            HP3 0PW

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Crufts 2024 Midlands Inter Regional Obedience Team Applications

Midlands Area Crufts Inter Regional Obedience Team Selection Day Sunday 26th November 2023

at Tomlinsons Canine Center, Markfield, Leicester. LE67 9RJ

Applications to: Lou Jackson, Comox, Harrisons Lane, Gailey, Stafford ST19 5PS

or to email johnjackson123@btinternet.com

More info from Lou on 07831397080, please leave a message.

Applications closing 12th Nov. 2023.

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Crufts 2024 Wales Inter Regional Obedience Team Try-out

  • Try Out Day for all Welsh candidates for Crufts 2024 is :- 

Sunday 26th November 2023 

Ysgol Trefonnen Community Hall, Ysgol Trefonnen, Llandrndod Wells, Powys LD1 5EP 

Time: 10am to 4pm 

  • • A contribution towards the cost of the hall would be much appreciated from candidates on the day. 
  • • Any interested candidates to complete the application form (below) and return to :- 

Gill Walker : By post to 6, Heol-y-Felin, Rhiwbina, Cardiff CF14 6NB or by email to gill.walkerbrae@gmail.com Tel: 07748665641 for any further details 

  • • Applications should reach me by Tuesday, 31st October 2023 please, to enable my Assistant Managers and myself to organise a suitable programme to ensure everyone gets a satisfactory time slot that will enable you all to show off your teamwork at its very best! 
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Crufts 2024 Scottish Inter Regional Obedience Team Try-outs

Please can you let us have your completed forms before the Try Out/Selection Days, (preferably by 31st October 2023)
The closing date for calculating your eligibility is the last day of October 2023
We are holding 2 “Try Out/Selection Days” this year:

The first on Saturday 11th November 2023 at … Galrigside Farm, Ayrshire KA2 9AZ 12pm

The second on Sunday 12th November 2023 at … Rio DTC’s Training Hall, Rio Community Centre, St Mary’s lane, Newport-on-Tay, DD6 8AH 09:30 for 10:00  

You only need to attend one of the above “Try Out/Selection Days” to be considered 

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BORDER COLLIE FROM WIRRAL CROWNED CRUFTS OBEDIENCE CHAMPION

Kervi, a six-year-old Border Collie, and her owner, Kathy Russell from Bromborough, Wirral, took home one of the top obedience prizes at Crufts on Saturday 11 March after winning the Obedience Championship (Bitches) final. The judge was Lou Jackson.

Kervi (Ob Ch Ruskath Klassified Image) came first in the final held at the world’s greatest dog show, Crufts, after competing against some of Britain’s best dogs for the coveted title. Kathy also secured second place with her ten-year-old Border Collie, Kafna (Ob Ch Sarkam Explicit Image for Ruskath), who is the mother of Kervi.

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