VCNC Quarterly Update March 2025

Quarterly Round-Up January-March 2025

February VCNC Agility Trial January 31-February 2, 2025

Congrats to the following teams for achieving new agility titles:

• Peggy Barker and “Silas” CH Menny Hegy Eros RN JH NA OAJ XF BCAT SWA SIM SEE CGC received their Open Jumpers title.
• Emily Church and “Piri” NBISS GCH CH Sincerus All A Flutter SH NA NAJ NAP NJP NF NFP BCAT ACT1 ACT1J CGC TKI ATT FTN NAVHDA NA III earned their Novice Agility, Novice Jumpers and Novice Fast titles.
• David LeCount and “Lila” GCH CH HrnCH IntCH NatCH Lila Szeret A LeCount JH NA NAJ OF BCAT CGCA CGCU TKA ATT earned their Novice Agility and Open Fast titles.
• David LeCount and “Lany” IntCH HrnJR IntJR NatJR Szivi's Kislany A LeCount JH NJP NFP CGCA CGCU TKA ATT finished the Novice Jumpers Preferred title.
• Jessica Vetter and “Nali” GCH CH AGCH MACH3 Menny Azonnali Medal CD BN RE MH MXC PAD MJS2 PJD PJDP MFC TQX T2B5 FCAT SWA SCE SIE SEE RATS DN CGCA CGCU TKI FTI earned their Jumpers Preferred title.

Congrats to Lindsey Slarve and Violet for entering their first agility trial! We look forward to seeing this

team at upcoming trials.

New Agility AGCH Title

Belated congratulations to Jessica Vetter and “Nali” GCH CH AGCH MACH3 Menny Azonnali Medal CD BN RE MH MXC PAD MJS2 PJD PJDP MFC TQX T2B5 FCAT SWA SCE SIE SEE RATS DN CGCA CGCU TKI FTI on earning their Agility Grand Champion (AGCH) title in December 2024! The AGCH, awarded by the AKC, recognizes a dog's lifetime achievement and skill in agility, requiring a certain number of qualifying scores across Master Standard, Master Jumper with Weaves, Master Fast, Time 2 Beat, Premier

Standard, and Premier JWW classes.

March VCNC Horseback Field Trial 2/28-3/2/2025 – Little Panoche

VCNC 2025 Panoche Field Trail was smooth sailing. Thank you judges Greg Anderson, Don Pool, Bruce Dickey, Jeff Rhine, Jeff Singewald, and Mike Menasco. Thank you to Adolfo Gamboa, our local wrangler extraordinaire, who provided some nice horses for our judges and for some of our handlers, Miles Eisentraut and Jeff Funk, for your fine shooting, and to all the handlers and volunteers. We couldn’t do it without all of you! Until next year - let ‘em roll!

Open Gun Dog (Non-Retrieving): Jeff Rhine/Mike Menasco

• 1st Ridgeview Frontrunner V Otto “Ash”- Corey Harrison
• 2nd DCR’s Busted Mojo “Cruz”- Don Pool
• 3rd DCR’s Tiz the Law “Lucky”- Don Pool
• 4th GRB’s Mercy Mercy Me “Mercy” - Gina Bosio

Open Limited Gun Dog (Non-Retrieving): Bruce Dickey / Jeff Singewald

• 1st GRB’s Mercy Mercy Me “Mercy” - Gina Bosio
• 2nd DCR’s Busted Mojo “Cruz”- Don Pool
• 3rd GRB’s Dirty White Boy “LB”- Gina Bosio
• 4th DCR’s Swift Justice “Jett” - Don Pool

Amateur Limited Gun Dog (Non-Retrieving): Bruce Dickey / Jeff Rhine

• 1st J and P’s Rush to the Yuba “Yuba” - Jeff Singewald
• 2nd Coppersage Firestorm’s Jager “Jager”- Kate Funk
• 3rd Tonelli’s Chaos “JR”- Greg Anderson
• 4th DCR’s Busted Mojo “Cruz” Cruz - Don Pool

Amateur Gun Dog (Retrieving): Don Pool / Greg Anderson

• 1st Sierra’s Playing With Fire “Tűz”- Sophie Quisquater
• 2nd Chips' Good Luck Chuck “Chuck”- Ben Galetti
• 3rd withheld

New Dual Champion Titles

Congratulations to the following VCNC members for earning the prestigious and highly coveted AKC Dual Champion (DC) titles on their dogs:

• Jeff & Kate Funk - DC Coppersage Firestorm's Jager “Jager”
• Pam Lambros - DC Red Dawn Tilly Running Towards A Dream SH CGC TKN “Tilly” (earned in ’24)

Upcoming VCNC events

• Annual Walking Field Trial April 5 & 6, 2025 at Hastings Island Hunting Preserve in Rio Vista, CA
• Fun Field Day: April 19, 2025, at Hastings Island Hunting Preserve in Rio Vista, CA
• Hunter Gun Dogs Stakes for Vizslas : April 6, 2025
• Woofstock Specialties and Sweepstakes: VCNC Specialties will be held on June 7 & 8, 2025 at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo, CA, with a Sweepstakes scheduled for Saturday, June 8, 2025.
• The Fall Specialty is scheduled for November 7-9, 2025, in Napa, CA.

Our events are posted at: https://www.vcnc.net/news

VCNC Member Recognition

We are extremely proud of Jessica Vetter for qualifying for the 2025 Westminster Master Agility Championship and competing in the finals in NYC on February 8, 2025, and qualifying for the AKC National Agility Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma March 14–16, 2025. Good luck Jessica, Nali and Harpy!