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9th USDAA Sanctioned Trials Programme Schedule is now available for downloading at http://usdaa.pups.sg/

Versatile Pair!!

Versatile Pair are Performing Tournament Event, and we will be organizing as a local qualifier to 2011 CYNOSPORT WORLD GAMES in OCTOBER this year.

Versatile Pair as the name imply will be a team of 2 dogs. Competing in classes such as Standard Agility, Jumpers, Snooker, Gamblers and Relay.

It will a blast!

Haze is back!

The terrible haze is back. Yesterday morning on my drive to work, the haze has blocked my beautiful views of Singapore. Singapore Flyers, Marina Sands, Marina Barrage, Singapore River and Sky line of Singapore Business district all disappeared into the think cloud of haze.

Last night, even with the heavy downpour, the weather was hot, humid and misty. And you can smell the air of the burning haze. I heard from some of friends in KL, the haze is bad and they are experiencing more hazy problem than us in Singapore.


We will need to take special attention during training this weekends. Poor air quality will affect both the health of our dogs and owners.

Have fun and stay positive!

9th USDAA Sanctioned Trials on 30, 31 JULY 2011!

Hi All,

We are please to confirm our long awaited 9th USDAA International Dog Agility Sanctioned Trials has been confirmed. Please see below for more details;

Event - 9th USDAA International Dog Agility Sanctioned Trials
Date - 30, 30 July 2011
Time - 9am to 6pm
Venue - TBA
Judges - TBA

Programme Schedule -

30 JUL, SAT - Performance Titling
- Performance 1/2/3 Standard Agility
- Performance 1/2/3 Jumping
- Performance Snooker
- Performance Gamblers
- Performance Pairs Relay

31 JUL, SUN - Tournament Local Qualifier
- Performance Versatile Pairs Championship
- VP Standard Agility
- VP Jumping
- VP Snooker
- VP Gamblers
- VP Pairs Relay

OR
- Performance Grand Prix Championships
- Performance Speed Jumping Championships

Let's all get into actions and prepare for a wonderful USDAA Sanctioned Trials!

Cheers
Dexter Sim
Event Secretary
PUPS LLP
USDAA Affiliated Group

USDAA Announces New Programme

USDAA announces new programme,

http://www.usdaa.com/article.cfm?newsID=1740

New Certified Measuring Judges

New Certified Measuring Judges Posted Date: February 12, 2011 USDAA welcomes 16 new CMJs! Due to significant growth in USDAA agility over the past few years, we've added 16 new Certified Measuring Judges (CMJs) to our current list of 25, for a total of 41 CMJs that are now available to serve competitors. The new CMJs can begin measuring dogs immediately and the USDAA website will soon be updated to show the complete list. We appreciate the hard work our CMJs perform in the field. We thank them for their service! USDAA Certified Measuring Judges:

Wishes All A Happy Lunar New Year!

Wishes All our Chinese Friends A Fruitful, Eventful, Prosperous & Successful Chinese New Year!! May the Year of the Rabbit brings you health, wealth & prosperity to your family & career.

As always, have fun & stay positive!

Cheers

Dexter, Debra & My Household of Champions)

Our lovely Border Collies!

2010 Cynosport World Games Qualifiers in Singapore

This Year 2010, we have a total of 9 qualifiers for the Master Dog Agility Steeplechase World Championships for the Cynosport World Games. Even though we didn't have any qualifier for our Grand Prix Dog Agility World Championships event, our results in Master Dog Agility Steeplechase is amazing.



U$10K Master Dog Agility Steeplechase

1. Jazzmine Ng & her Shetland Sheepdog PRINCE,

2. Lucas Bong & his Border Collie BAILEY,

3. Dexter Sim & his Border Collie BENJI,

4. Jazzmine Ng & her Shetland Sheepdog METEOR,

5. Elsa Soo & her Mini Schnauzer WHISKY,

6. Lucas Bong & his Border Collie JEANNIE,

7. Jenny Yong & her Samoyed SHIRO,

8. Elsa Soo & her Border Collie SIRIUS, &

9. Darren Tham & his Border Collie SPARKIE,



Well done to all this 9 qualifiers, all have a chance to compete in this year Cynosport World Games.

8th USDAA Sanctioned Trials last Weekends!

Last weekends, Our 8th USDAA International Dog Agility Sanctioned Trials was a blast! Two full days of action-packed activities. We wanted to thank the Judges, Mr Rowel De Guia from the Philippines and Mr Dexter Sim from our home country Singapore, for judging our events.

On Saturday dated 11 September 2010, we had our Championships Titling Events such as Starters Standard Agility, Advanced Standard Agility, Starters Jumpers, Advanced Jumpers and our games such as Starters Gamblers, Starters Pairs Relay & Starters Snookers Classes. And on Sunday dated 12 September 2010, we had our Performance Titling Events and our International Tournament. The Performance Titling Events are P1 Standard Agility, P2 Standard Agility, P1 Jumpers, P2 Jumpers and the Tournaments Classes are Grand Prix of Dog Agility World Championships qualifier and Master Dog Agility Steeplechase World Championships qualifier.

We had a total of 154 runs on Saturday and 58 runs on Sunday. Out of 212 runs, we have 29 that earned a qualification of the classes they enrolled in. What is worth commenting is that we have 2 qualification in Starters Gamblers, 3 qualification in Starters Snooker and 6 qualification in Starters Pairs Relay Classes. We are seeing more qualification in our game section. Traditionally we are strong in the Standard Agility & Jumpers section.

This was the first trials in Singapore that we didn't get wet, both days we were blessed with great weather, well it rain for just 1-2 minutes in both days. All thanks to our God whom we trust. We also wanted to thank all our volunteers, photographers, video-men, competitors and helpers in lending a hand or two to make last weekends trials truly a blast! We all had fun and we look forward to yet another Successful USDAA Sanctioned Trials in the near future.

Our next 9th USDAA Sanctioned Trials will be in March/April 2011. Keep watch on the upcoming event coming your way.

For the trials results please visit http://usdaa.pups.sg/ for details.

Last but not least, we wanted to thank all spectators who make their way there to support our competitors in action. I'm sure they have enjoyed watching the top dog teams in Singapore competing last weekends.

Congrats to all Winners, a well deserved wins for all.

Many Thanks

PUPS Hosting Group

8th USDAA Sanctioned Trials last Weekends!

PUPS the hosting group will like to thank our Judges for the 2 days, Mr. Rowel De Guia from the Philippines and Mr. Dexter Sim from Singapore. Thank you Judges for making our trials a success.

Not forgetting our Volunteers, Competitors and Helpers all lend a hand or 2 to make our trials a smooth and seamless one.

Last by not least, we want to thank god for giving us an excellent weather, a little rain and breeze to help us through these 2 days events.

Results and Photos of the trials will be available shortly.

What is Pairs Relay?

What is Pairs Relay?

Team, Pairs, or Relay: Two or three dog-and-handler teams each execute a portion of a Standard agility course, with the handlers exchanging a baton between sections.

What is Snooker?

Snooker: Loosely based on the billiard game of Snooker. The course has at least three red jumps, each numbered 1, and six other obstacles numbered 2 through 7. The dog accumulates points based on the obstacle's number. This also has two parts, an opening sequence and a closing sequence. In the opening sequence, the dog must complete a 1, then any obstacle numbered 2 to 7, a different 1 and any 2 to 7 obstacle (including the one already performed), and yet another different 1 and another 2-7 obstacle. For example, the dog could perform the red on the left for 1 point, the 7-point obstacle, the red in the middle for 1 point and then the 7-pointer again, then the red on the far side of the course and the 7-pointer one more time, for a total of 24 points in the opening. After successfully completing this, the dog must complete the obstacles 2-7, in order, for an additional possible 27 points. Failure to follow these rules exactly (such as knocking a bar or taking 2 reds in a row) results in the dog and handler being whistled off the course.

Strategy and entertainment value: The dogs might have to negotiate between other obstacles without taking them or make a difficult entry to the obstacle, often combined with a longer distance between the reds and the 7 so that it consumes more time to do the higher-point obstacle in the opening.

Important Announcement!

Hi USDAAsg,

Please take note of this important announcement! The 8th USDAA Sanctioned Trials dates will be postponed to 11,12 September 2010!

Due to unforeseen circumstance, we are force to postpone our USDAA Trials Dates to 11, 12 September 2010.

Appreciate your kind attention.

Cheers

Report on our 7th USDAA Sanctioned Trials!

7th USDAA International Dog Agility Sanctioned Trials on 17,18 April 2010!

The last trials was an interesting and full of unexpected situations. On 17 April 2010, Saturday was very dramatic. We had a very hot 7 hours where our Judges, helpers, timer, scorers, competitors all cooked, almost like a over walking toasted breads.

We started off with our Championships Titling Programs and all went into a full swing as competitors all geared to conquer their respective classes.

At about 3.30 to 4.00pm, the weather sudden changes, from a Bright day to heavy thunderstorms with lighting. Due to safety of our dogs and competitors, we decided to call-off the competition at 4.00pm. We have to push to the next day for the balance events such as Starter Snooker, Starter Jumpers, Advance Jumpers and Beginners Jumpers.

On the next day, we started at 9.00am sharp and we managed to squeeze all Championships programs, run our Performance programs and our International Tournaments on Sunday. We can also have our Dog Frisbee Competitions for the Single-Disc and the Longest Throw Events. However the heavy rain came again at about 5.30pm and we have to stop our prize presentation.

We have excellent results to report, we have 45 dogs qualified for the Q ribbons. That makes our International Titled Dogs to 17. And we have 8 Teams qualified for the Master Dog Agility Steeplechase World Championships. A very good results to report from us in South East Asia, Singapore.

Our Prize Presentation will be reschedule to sometime these 2-weeks to rewards the winners their prizes and also a BBQ or something to thank all for their continuous support and thanks to the kind sponsor of Rusty's Favourite for making this Prize Presentation Possible.

DIAMONDISLE LOCH-N-LEGASI, BENJI

DIAMONDISLE LOCH-N-LEGASI, BENJI

I am very proud to present to you, Diamondisle Loch-N-Legasi (Benji) PS1 (Performance Standard 1), PJ1 (Performance Jumping 1), AD(Agility Dog) titles under his belt......he is one good & successful boy!

USDAA Singapore it's Success & Achievements!

USDAA Singapore & it's Success & Achievements!

We are very happy to announce our USDAA Success and Achievements to-date!

1. 8 International Qualifiers to compete in 2010 Cynosport World Games World Championships in October, Kentucky Louisville.

2. 17 International Titled Dogs titled under our USDAA International Titling Programs.

3. 45 earned a Qualified Ribbons for their Success in our 7th USDAA Sanctioned Trials last weekends.

Congrats to all!