Tally-Ho

Lure Coursing is a wonderful and fun event that you can enjoy with your Ridgeback.

1. Your dog has to be over a year old;
2. Your dog must have a ridge;
3. Your dog can be neutered or spayed;
4. You must have 1 run with a dog that has already run in the Open stakes to get your QC;
5 2 qualifying runs will earn the Junior Courser (JC) title; however, this does not mean your dog can run in the Open. You must complete #4 above;
6. To earn a Senior Courser (SC) title, your dog needs to run in 4 different AKC field trials under 4 different judges.
7. For a Field Championship (FC) title, the hound must accumulate 15 points with 2 majors (3 points or more).

ASFA Coursing is much the same. You must qualify to run in the Open Stakes. However, their Field Champion requirements are a bit different.
You need to have either 2 first place finishes, or 1 first place finish and 2 second place finish. You need to accumulate points up to 100 points. The first 4 placements get points based on the number of dogs of the same breed entered.

September 12 & 13, 2009

The Sunshine State Coursing Club held AKC tests and trials on 9/12/ and 9/13/2009. 5 Ridgebacks went for their JC titles and all 5 got them.

On Saturday, Finn ran in his 2nd open trial and is headed towardgetting his SC title. To make matters more exciting, he was Best of Breed in Ridgebacks and ran for BIF late in the afternoon. No competition there. He was running against the #1 Whippet in the country, but he did come in 2nd in the field that day.

On Sunday, once the other RR's qualified, there was a lot excitement out on the field when all the new JC's headed in to the open and there was a major for points at stake. After the first run, Esme was in first place. You go Girl!! In the end, after the 2nd run, it was Esme as BOB and Finn in 2nd place. Esme got 3 points toward her FC and Finn got one. We decided not to run them anymore and left Altoona very happy and exhausted.

September Coursing

September coursing

Esme on her first run for her JC

Finn waiting for his Open run

Finn running in the BIF. He came in 2nd to the #1 coursing hound in the nation - the Whippet, Junior

Finn's BOB ribbon.

The Ridgebacks are there to course on Sunday

Circling the bunny. Tala (yellow) Esme and Finn

Esme in her first Open run after she got her JC

Finn in his 3rd open run for his SC

Strider (pink) and TC.

Finn's half brother, Strider

Esme (blue) and Finn waiting for their last run of the day.

TC (blue) and Strider (pink)

Esme and Finn at the line. Esme got BOB abd a 3 point major. Finn got 1 point toward his FC title.

February 26 & 27, 2011

AKC Lure Coursing Week-End

TALLY HO!!
Finn becomes a Senior Courser and earns a new AKC title

We finally had a FUN week-end of AKC lure coursing and boy did we have fun!!! On Saturday. Bindi got her Qualified Courser (QC) but we forgot to move her in to the Open Stakes, so got to chill for the rest of the day. After the first run in the Open, Finn was in FIRST place! Wow!!! But, his cheatin' nature took hold and he ended up in 2nd in the open and added another point toward his Field Champion title as well as getting his Senior Courser title (SC) Whooo hooo. All the Ridgebacks did great. Lilly was first in Open and got 2 points. Way to go Lilly.

On Sunday, the new Coursers hit the field - Nixie, Bindi and Deja. Wow did they do great. Deja won a 3 point major, followed by 2 points for Esme and 1 for Strider. Bindi and Nixie tied for 4th place. No run off for those tired girls.

There will be more coursing in April and we can't wait. It was great to be out there with all our good friends having a great time with the dogs.