2023 Triple Crown Versatility Challenge
2023 Qualifiers
Owner/Handler | Call Name | Dog Name |
Lori Butler | Crush | GCH Next Generations The Object of My Affection JH, RN, CGC |
Mel Phillips | Livvie | CH Laurelwood Living the Dream CD BN RAE JH BCAT DN TKI |
Lynda Barber-Wiltse | Deshka | GCH CH Nuka Bay’s Deshka River Mexicana RA MX MXB MXJ MJB XF DJ DN CGC TKI |
Lynda Barber-Wiltse | Nelchina | CH Nuka Bay’s Nelchina Glacier Brown BN RE MX MXB MXJ MJB OF ACT1 CGC TKI |
Lynda Barber-Wiltse | Taiya | Nuka Bay Mexicana Taiya Inlet |
Lynda Barber-Wiltse | Kenni | Nuka Bay Copper Ketl Kennicott Mine |
Lynda Barber-Wiltse | Dyea | Nuka Bay Navy Blue Port Of Dyea |
Sonia Cunningham | Fisher | GCHS RACH2 Red Water’s Iron Compass CDX BN RM4 RAE3 FDC BCAT DP DEA CGCA CGCU TKP ATT VHMA WD |
Brynn McGuire | Eve | CH Coppercast’s Change in Command |
Donna Cooley & Jill Gagliardo | Bocce | Longshore’s Bocce Bear RM RAE FDC DCAT DEX DMX3 AMX2 HDM CGCA TKP |
Rebecca McGuire | Nash | Lick Creek Admiral Nash |
Danielle Greenwood | Badger | Greenwood’s Lil Bit of Honey MH |
Deb and Rick Rusz | Scaup | GCH CH Dusty Rose Aythya’s Huron Maraurder RA JH DE DM |
Laurea Griggs | Tulla | GCH CH Lauelwood Tullemore |
Dina Perugini | Music | Comet’s Sweet Music |
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Once again, we will celebrate the versatility of our breed with the Triple Crown Versatility Challenge. We would like to honor those handler/dog teams that successfully compete in multiple disciplines by offering a challenge meant to inspire more of us to get out there and accomplish great things with our dogs! We challenge you to start training now in order to meet our challenge to qualify and/or place in a minimum of three different classes across at least two different NSS disciplines.
To meet the Triple Crown Challenge, a dog might place and/or qualify in Novice B, Team Obedience and the WDX. Another dog might qualify in the WD, a sweepstakes class, and in a Bred-By Exhibitor Class.
Dogs who meet the Triple Crown Challenge will receive a special award and the dog’s Triple Crown accomplishments will be published in the ACC Bulletin.
All prizes will be presented at the banquet on Friday evening. Prizes will be presented to each dog’s owner of record, if present; otherwise, the awards will go to the handler.
Entering is easy and it’s only $25 to play, but dogs must be pre-registered by August 30th (when entries close). To pre-register, send an email to Gina Downin by August 30th with the name of the Owner/Handler and the registered name of the dog….
Then, mail a check for $25 (made out to Gina Downin and postmarked no later than August 30th) to: Gina Downin, 4007 33rd St., Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
Online payment options are available. Contact Gina for details.
Dogs that meet the challenge must submit a completed Triple Crown Record Form to Lynda Barber-Wiltse, Mel Phillips, or Gina Downin at the show AFTER competing and before the banquet.
Please, download and print a copy of the Record Form Here
Any questions? Please contact: Gina Downin
(Qualify and/or place in any three classes, across a minimum of two NSS disciplines.)
(Please note: For the purposes of this Challenge, Obedience & Rally = 1 discipline and Conformation & Sweepstakes = 1 discipline)
Agility: Qualifying score in any agility class offered.
Obedience/Rally: Qualifying score in any regular or optional titling obedience and/or rally class offered or placement in non-regular class.
Conformation/Sweepstakes: Best of Breed, Best of Opposite Sex, Select Dog/Bitch, a Judge’s Award of Merit or by making the cut in the Best of Breed competition, Placement in any regular or non-regular conformation class. (Please note: in Stud Dog and Brood Bitch classes, placements are awarded only to the parent dog, not to any of the representative offspring.) Placement in any Puppy, Gundog, or Veteran Sweepstakes class also qualifies.
Field: Any pass at any level of the Working Dog Stake (WD, WDX, WDQ).
Dock Diving: Any qualifying jump counts. (Limit of one leg earned in this discipline.)
Example 1: “Fido” is entered in Rally Advanced B, Rally Excellent B, Open Dog in conformation, and the WD for field. Fido qualified in Rally Advanced B and qualified/placed third in Rally Excellent B. In Open Dog, he did not get a placement. Since his first two “goals” were both in Rally, and he failed to get a placement in Conformation, he does not meet the Triple Crown Challenge until the field, when he passes the WD.
Example 2: “Ripple” is entered in Veteran Obedience, 8+ Year-Old Bitch in Veteran Sweeps, Veteran Bitch 8-10 Years in
Conformation, and the WD for field. She places in Veteran obedience, is second in her Sweeps class, and goes first in her
Veteran conformation class. She’s already met the Triple Crown Versatility Challenge before she hits the field!