PERFORMANCE EVENTS: HAVE FUN WITH YOUR RIDGEBACK!!

Performance activities like lure coursing, tracking, obedience, oval track and straight racing are fun ways to get out and do something with your Ridgeback.  Owners who do activities with their pets are more likely to have well-behaved and well-socialized companions.  Lure coursing and straight racing are also wonderful ways to exercise your "couch potato" and no training is required of the owner - what could be easier?  Lure coursing, tracking and obedience trials are sponsored by the American Kennel Club - more information can be found on the AKC's website.  Straight racing is sponsored by the Large Gazehound Racing Association (LGRA), and  the American Sighthound Field Association (ASFA) also puts on lure coursing events. The National Oval Track Racing Association (NOTRA) sponsors oval track trials for sighthounds.

Sophie . . .

Cleo earning her Junior Courser Title . . .

Sophie (right) and Cleo patiently waiting their turn to run.

Buzz's (in yellow) first ASFA trial - he gets Best of Breed after this run!

Annie . . .

Buzz, doing a little tracking work . . . .

Getting Sophie off the field can be a challenge!

Lola wins Best in Field at the Afghan Hound Club of Dallas trial on Jauary 7, 2006.  Lola also earned 7 points that weekend, along with a 5 point major.  It must run in the family!

Annie wins Best in Field at the USRCC lure trial in Evanston, WY on Sept. 2, 2002.  Then she won BOB at the TVRRCOT Regional Specialty lure trial in Ft. Worth, TX on Sept. 15, 2002.  She finished her Field Championship in style with 3 majors and easity earned her ASFA Field Championship.

Sophie, in pink, just barely getting by Tunza, Annie's brother.

Aspen winning Best in Field, Albuquerque, NM April 2007

Faster than a speeding bullet . . . It's Nika!  Straight racing near Cheyenne, WY -- Summer, 2004.  Nika won Best of Breed that day.

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