PAST YEARS BRAGS

WOW - Congratulations to Christine Sapas and her boy Mario. This year Mario has had: 23 Breed wins and 11 groups placings with THREE group 1st.  He is currently ranked #11 in the country.  He will be going to the Eukanuba shows in December! GOOD LUCK CHRISTINE AND MARIO !

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to Laura Echeverria and Dude for completing their ATCH this weekend at the Zia ASCA agility trial. We're all so proud of both of you!!!

Big, BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Leslie Eide and her Tundra Tiger for winning The
Tazzy Trophy---the ZIA memorial traveling trophy for earning HIT for 2009
and to Stacie Santa Cruz and Luke (he truly is a "Lucky" boy) for earning
The Indy Award for 2009 HIT Veteran Aussie! WAY TO GO AUSSIE TEAMS!!!!

We are all happy to hear that Janelle Farkas & Taxi completed their Regular-OP title this past weekend and now only need 3 more gambles for their ATCH!!!!!!!!! :) We all hope to celebrate Taxi's ATCH at our February trial in Las Cruces (no pressure).

Congratulations to Ray Hodel & Penny for getting 6th place overall in Agility Finals (Vets). What a comeback for Ms. Penny (less than a year after knee surgery!).

And a big congratulation to Leslie Eide and Super-Tundra. They showed wonderfully in Finals and ended up 11th overall with a 12th place in Jumpers, 7th place in
Regular Rd 1 and 10th place in Regular Rd 2. In Nationals she was 4th HIT Veterans with 3rd in Jumpers, 2nd in Jumpers.

A super huge congratulations to Janelle Farkas. She was awarded the ASCA Junior Service Award.  This is awarded to one junior in the country that displays good sportsmanship on and off the field and that goes above and beyond in service to ASCA.

JANELLE & TAXI

On Saturday Sept. 26th, Taxi and Janelle took HIT Junior with 1 10 point regular leg and 1 gamblers leg, both elite. Symba and Asher got 1 jumpers JJ-N title and Asher's first title on a dog ever!!!!, 1 gamblers leg and GJ-N title.

ASHER & SYMBA
On Sunday Sept 27 Upper Midwest ASCA Pre- Show Taxi and Janelle earned 1 5 point regular leg and 1 10 point gamblers leg. Symba and Asher 2 jumpers legs, novice and 1 gamblers leg novice, HIT Junior (beating his sister!!!!).

On Monday Sept 28th ASCA Agility Finals - Taxi and Janelle earned 1 10 point regular Q.  

Ann Chernoff-Allan's little Ms. Couloir was looking beautiful for Nationals. In Saturday's Preshow and in Nationals she got 2nd in Open black bitches. Maddie got 4th in Elite vet jumpers and Gunde got a 93 in advanced rally fun match.

Shawna Davis and Sayde had quite a showing in agility, obedience and rally. Sayde finished up Nationals with: 5 Agility Q's during pre-trials (2 5th's, 11th, 12th, and 13th place)
Q that was 9th place for Nationals Novice B Obedience of 70 participating dogs. 1st place non-reg for Nationals Rally Excellent Match of 4 dogs. Q Nationals Elite Reg round 2 that was 13th place. Shawna says " It was a great week and we enjoyed our 1st Aussie Nationals (except for the windy night/day)"

...And in other news...

Congratulations to Ray Hodel and Boomer for completing their first two agility titles, AKC's NA & NF. Boomer still isn't old enough to compete in ASCA...but, he'll be making his debut in February.

Please send a big Congratulations to Ann Chernoff-Allan and the lovely Miss Couloir on their BISS...and at only 14 months of age.

Congratulations to Suzanne Pindar and her fabulous Aussie, Brinks on achieving their started sheep title!

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Leslie Eide and her smiling friend, Tundra Tiger, on attaining their AKC MACH title this weekend at the Weimaraner Club of Albuquerque show. It was a beautiful performance. Two Championships is one month! Great Job Leslie and Tundra!!!

Please send big, BIG CONGRATULATIONS to ZIA’s very own VP, Dorothy Montano, and her “Joey” for earning his ALTERED COMFORMATION CHAMPIONSHIP this past week-end!! Way to go, Dorothy and “Joey”-Alt-CH Los Suenos Not the Average Joe”!!!!

Congratulations to New Mexico's own Pam Smith and her "Black and Blue" herd of Aussies who swept the USASA's agility nationals yesterday!

OAKLEY-HIT Preferred FAST; HIT Preferred JWW
JETTA-HIT Regular FAST
BECKETT (aka "The Baby Boy")-HIT Regular JWW

Congratulations from everyone at Zia ASC to our very own Leslie Eide and her fabulous Tundra Tiger on getting their ATCH this past weekend in Prescott, AZ under Judge Roger Coor! Way to Go, Leslie and Tundra!!!

Congratulations to Robin Dettman and Stellar took A-BOB at two recent shows-one in January over 16 other dogs and again in Feb. over 9 dogs. Stellar is also an accomplished agility dog. She picked up her 6th MXJ leg this last weekend in Belen (only 4 more to go for that MXJ title).

Congratulations to Ann Chernoff-Allan and Gunde for completing the Started Duck title, StdD.

Great Big, Huge Congratulations to Dawn Hamilton with Lexi and Stacie Santa Cruz with Jesse for achieving their ATCH titles (on the same day!). What a great show of teamwork and dedication.

Huge, huge congratulations to Carol Roberts and her Del Sol Australian Shepherds ---“NEW” ASCA HALL OF FAME KENNEL!! Her ASCA 2008 Nationals Best in Show boy, Sirius, did it all by achieving the advanced herding title needed to give her and her Del Sol Kennel this most distinguished honor!!

Congratulations to Jane Winkler on being hi-lighted  in this month’s edition of “Clean Run” magazine.   “K-9 Kudos: Seeing Spots”  recognizes Jane’s devotion to her numerous rescue Dalmatians (over 120!!) and giving all these deserving dogs a “job” to do whether it be in agility or obedience.  Besides those spotty bodies, Jane is also  the proud owner of a Boston Terrier, BC, and of course Surya, a rescue Aussie who is setting the AKC agility world on fire.

  • 2008 ASCA Nationals
    • Congratulations to Carol Roberts' Sirius for his BOB win at ASCA Nationals in Las Vegas!
    • Congratulations to Ann Chernoff-Allan's Couloir 1st place in 6-9 at Nationals Pre-show and 3rd place in 6-9 at Nationals
    • Ken Shoemaker's Jazz got a 2nd place Q in Regular and two Jumpers Q's at agility Nationals
    • Dawn Hamilton's Streaker got two 3rd places in Nationals---one in Regular vet and one in Jumpers vet. And, Lexi got two Jumper's Q's at Nationals
  • 2008 Agility Finalists
    • Dawn Hamilton with Streaker (9th place vet overall) & Lexi (24th place overall)
    • Pam Smith with Oakley (12th place vet overall) & Jetta (did not compete due to injury)
    • Stacie Santa Cruz with Luke (13th place vet overall) and Jesse (23rd place overall). Luke got 5th place in Vet Jumpers and 10th place in Vet Gamblers.
    • Linda Shoemaker with Indy - Indy had her Retirement run at Finals
    • Ray Hodel with Penny (did not comptete due to injury)
    • Leslie Eide with Tundra Tiger (25th place overall). Tundra got 4th place in Gamblers.
    • Laura Echeverria with Dude
    • Carol Roberts with Shania, Rori & Dylan
  • Congratulations to Pam Smith and Jaxon for achieving their MACH!!!
  • Super Congrats to Ken Perlmutter and Shayna, Simone and Pepper on all their accomplishments this year:
    • Shayna got 3rd overall 20" elite at the NADAC champs finals
    • Simone got 2nd overall 20+ pre elite at the NADAC champs finals
    • Simone was on the winning pre-elite team at the NADAC champs finals
    • Pepper got his NATCH-2 in 2008
    • Shayna got her Versatility NATCH in 2008
  • Congratulations to Carol  and her “Rori” for earning their ASCA agility championship---ATCH---on Sunday 10/19/08 - Great Job!!!
  • Congratulations to Stacie and her “Jesse” for winning the “Tazzie Trophy” for 2008 ---a cumulative High in Trial for an Aussie at the Elite level
  • Congratulations to Jane and Surya for finishing all of the P-1 titles in only 1 year of competing