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! 

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 

ACCREDITED TRAINERS FOR OBEDIENCE NEEDED FOR JUDGES’ TRAINING PROGRAMME

The Kennel Club is calling for anyone interested in becoming an Obedience Accredited Trainer for the judges’ training programme to get in touch.

This judges’ training programme has been developed over a period of time and follows the requirements already in place for those involved in judging other canine activities. It underlines The Kennel Club’s commitment to maintaining and improving the standard of judges and judging at official Kennel Club licensed events and, in so doing, ensures the quality of dogs and the value of awards they receive at these events.

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FIND A CLUB SERVICE RETURNS TO THE KENNEL CLUB WEBSITE

The new and improved Find a Club service has now been launched on The Kennel Club website and is online at thekennelclub.org.uk/FAC.

The new Find a Club service now includes listings for: agility, dog showing (ringcraft training), breed clubs, field trials, gundog working tests, heelwork to music, obedience, rally, working trials and The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Training scheme under one area. It also clearly displays where a Kennel Club Accredited Instructor is training at a club.

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THE KENNEL CLUB RECEIVES ROYAL PREFIX ON ITS 150TH ANNIVERSARY

The Kennel Club is delighted to announce that it has been granted a Royal Prefix to mark the 150th anniversary of its existence. Henceforth, the organisation is named The Royal Kennel Club. 

Chairman of The Kennel Club, Tony Allcock OBE, said: “We are honoured that as of the 4 April 2023, the date the club celebrates its 150th anniversary, The Kennel Club will be known as The Royal Kennel Club.

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THE FUTURE OF DISCOVER DOGS

The Kennel Club has announced that the London Discover Dogs event will not be taking place in 2023. It will take a break for a year, with the aim of bringing it back with a refreshed and reinvigorated new look in 2024.

Discover Dogs has been a feature at Crufts since 1991 and will continue to be so. In 1996 it was brought to London as an additional event in its own right. The event grew in numbers and popularity over the years and moved location from Earls Court to London ExCel in 2015. In more recent times however, numbers attending the London event have declined and regrettably it sustained a significant financial shortfall in 2022.

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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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