Trax in the Spotlight
2023-2024
~ December 2024 ~
Peak Performance
Leading the charge Kenni notched multiple AKC and CKC all breed Obedience High in Trial awards and an AKC Utility Dog title and then switched gears to win an all breed Amateur Gun Dog stake with an extremely wide ranging race and high class birdwork, the rookie Georgia alternated accruing conformation show points with back to back all breed Puppy Field trial stake wins, Tess put the hammer down afield to win a pair of all breed Derby stakes as well as her first broke points/retrieving credits and looped around the show ring for conformation points including a 5 point Specialty show major win, Bonnie, just 2 years old, earned a Master Hunter title and also a Tracking Dog title and the little’un Filly, in her rookie field trial debut, demonstrated range, groundspeed, independence and maturity of application to score her puppy points in an all breed Open Puppy stake.
~ November 2024 ~
Surf’s Up
Sterling sizzled to a Westminster Masters Agility 24″ division win. Mike listened up for his first CKC Obedience High in Trial award, the uber handsome Dex finished his AKC show championship with a 5 point major win at a specialty show. Tecate put on a real show to win back to back all breed Open Derby and Amateur Walking Derby field trial stakes.
~ October 2024 ~
Field Trippin’
On successful field trips lately Raffi won an all breed AKC Open Gun Dog stake and also passed Shooting Dog Excellent and Retrieving Dog Ratings, Wyatt passed both Shooting Dog Excellent and Retrieving Dog Excellent Ratings tests, Mercer won an AKC Amateur Gun Dog stake and earned a NAVHDA Utility title as did Lola, Avy passed the Shooting Dog Excellent test, Bonnie won an AKC Open Gun Dog stake and Rubi earned her CKC Field Dog test title with an impressive top score of 96/100.
~ September 2024 ~
Cutie Pies
& Handsome Guys
Leading the charge Kenni notched multiple AKC and CKC all breed Obedience High in Trial awards and an AKC Utility Dog title and then switched gears to win an all breed Amateur Gun Dog stake with an extremely wide ranging race and high class birdwork, the rookie Georgia alternated accruing conformation show points with back to back all breed Puppy Field trial stake wins, Tess put the hammer down afield to win a pair of all breed Derby stakes as well as her first broke points/retrieving credits and looped around the show ring for conformation points including a 5 point Specialty show major win, Bonnie, just 2 years old, earned a Master Hunter title and also a Tracking Dog title and the little’un Filly, in her rookie field trial debut, demonstrated range, groundspeed, independence and maturity of application to score her puppy points in an all breed Open Puppy stake.
~ August 2024 ~
Leaps and Bounds
Sterling leaped her way to a Master Agility Championship 4 title and Tacoma to a Master Agility Championship 2 title. Bounding afield to great success in NAVHDA competition, Luke attained a Utility Test prize 1 maximum 204 score and, at the Natural Ability level, Prize 1’s were notched by Riggs with a 110 score and attaining maximum 112 scores were Tecate, Tess and, at the tender age of 7 months, Georgia.
~ July 2024 ~
Home Run Hitters
After impressive hunting application with four stylish and mannerly finds along the way the already very decorated Avy has added to her list of accomplishments with a new AKC National level title, that of National Walking Gun Dog Champion. Kenni also has many previous accolades and in completing her CKC Field Championship, added to that list the title of CKC Dual Champion. Big congratulations to everyone on team Avy and Kenni!
~ June 2024 ~
Blue Ribbon Bonanza
At all breed field trials Ronon won both AKC Amateur Walking Puppy and Open Puppy stakes and Miles and Valkyrie notched Open Derby wins. In the show rings Emz, Dietrich, Storm and Rexx all completed AKC Conformation Championships, on track Luke earned a CKC Urban Tracking Dog title, in obedience Ocean earned the challenging Utility Dog Excellent title with a number of High in Trial and High Combined awards and Kenni completed an AKC Companion Dog Excellent title with a score of 198 and an all breed High in Trial award. Showing great versatility the youngster Bonnie was decorated the WCA 2024 Most Versatile Weimaraner (Junior) by qualifying in Shooting and Retrieving Ratings and Rally and Obedience and taking Reserve Winners Bitch at the National show. In Hunt Tests Briar earned a Master Hunter pass with a full slate of perfect 10 scores and her daughter Katie did the same at the Junior Hunter level and Ellie and Pink both earned Senior Hunter titles. In Agility competition Ocean earned herself MACH number 5.
~ June 2024 ~
Blue Ribbon Bonanza
The results from 2023 AKC and CKC competitions have all been tabulated and this month we celebrate the Trax-ters making it to the top. The versatile workaholic Ocean heeled, jumped and fetched her way to the AKC #1 Weimaraner in Obedience spot and Mick averaged a 197.5 score en route to the CKC #1 Weimaraner in Obedience spot, the very athletic and speedy Tacoma attained the top Weimaraner spot in the Bad Dog Agility Power Score 24″ year end rankings with a blistering 6.01 JWW average yards per second, Ivy ranged and pointed her way to the CKC All Breed #1 spot for Amateur field trial stakes, and Spiffy listened up her way to the CKC #1 Weimaraner in Rally Obedience spot, congratulations all!
~ April 2024 ~
Playing the Field
Lotta Traxters have been crushing it in the field of late. Leading the pack at the WCA Western Regional Classic field trial Radar won the Open All Age stake, a win that completed the requirements for his Field Champion title. At the same event Tess put on quite a show in a win of the Field Futurity stake, Soda won the Open Derby stake and Kenni won the Amateur Gun Dog stake. At the WCA Eastern Regional Classic field trial Valkyrie won the Open Puppy stake. Both Rush and Mercer motored their way to AKC Senior Hunter titles. Not ones to rest on their laurels, Tess, Soda and Kenni continued their field winning streak in Canada where Kenni put on high class performances to win a pair of all breed CKC Open Shooting Dog stakes, Soda won an all breed Open Derby stake and Tess smoked to wins of two all breed CKC Open Puppy stakes and an Open Derby stakes, in the process earning her entire juvenile point allotment undefeated.
~ March 2024 ~
National Agility Champion
At the AKC National Agility Trial the very speedy Sterling notched one super fast and clean run after another en route to a win of the 24” height division to become a National Agility Champion handled as usual by her teammate Lori.
~ February 2024 ~
Sport Stars
Showing high talent no matter what the dog sport recently were: the yearling Tater, who notched a Show Championship with a slew of major wins, Sterling for zipping to a Mach 3 Agility Championship, Kenni who completed the Companion Dog obedience title with an all breed High in Trial award and monster 199/200 score, Rush for accurately nosing his way to a Tracking Dog Excellent title, and lastly a couple of youngsters really made their mark afield – the yearling Bonnie for a Shooting Dog Excellent rating and the kiddo Emz who literally aced a Junior Hunter test with a perfect 40/40 score!
~ January 2024 ~
Nailed it!
Nailing it at the Weimaraner Club of America National Field Trial were, Esme whose application, style and manners netted her a National Amateur Championship win and Vaughn, who crushed it to win National Field Futurity stake, following that win up with a 4 point major all breed Amateur Gun Dog stake win a few weeks later. Nailing it for the blue ribbon in a large all breed Open Derby stake was Raffi. Congratulations to everyone involved in the development of these contenders with with special thanks to Amelia Wright for guest handling Vaughn.
~ December 2023 ~
Showin’ Off
Katy and Storm looped successfully around the show ring recently to AKC Show Championship titles and showing off in the tracking field 7 month old Tess snuffled her way to a CKC Tracking Dog Excellent title. On the agility field Audrey Rose leapt bobbed and weaved to add a Preferred Agility Championship to the Masters Agility Champion title she had earned previously. Hearty congratulations to all of these fine dogs and the handlers who got them there!
~ November 2023 ~
Wing Commanders
These keeners can’t hide their crazy for the birdies. Leading the charge Lola earned both Shooting Dog Excellent and Retrieving Dog Excellent ratings, Briar and Mercer notched Shooting Dog Excellent ratings, Bonnie won herself a pair of AKC all breed Open Derby stakes, Esme won a 4 point major CKC Open Shooting Dog stake and in CKC Field Dog Junior competition, Franka, Wesson, and Auggie notched monster scores of 96/100, 99/100 and 100/100 respectively. Congrats to all of these wing nuts!
~ October 2023 ~
Winning Ways
Congratulations are in order to Ivy, who left the competition in the rear view mirror en route to an AKC Field Championship title, to Kenni who knocked it out of the park with back to back CKC all breed Obedience High in Trial wins scoring 198 an 198.5 in the Open B class. Danny earned a CKC Show Championship, Katy an AKC Show Championship and the very keen-nosed Dezzi passed a very difficult CKC Tracking Dog Excellent test.
~ September 2023 ~
Dual Fuel
A number of Trax youngsters have recently demonstrated having both show looks and talent afield. Billie, Dezzi, Bonnie and Vaughn all attained Weimaraner Club of America Dual Futurity awards, Rhiannon has a lot of AKC show points and scored a maximum 112 in her NAVHDA Natural Ability test, Soda has a lot of CKC show points and won a CKC all breed Open Puppy stake her first kick at the can, Raffi has AKC show points as well as all breed Open Puppy and Open Derby stake wins to her credit, Emz has won a 5 point AKC Show major, an all breed Derby stake and notched a maximum 112 on a NAVHDA Natural Ability test and Dietrich attained a CKC Show Championship with Best of Breed wins and Group placements and NAVHDA Natural Ability Prize 1 award. Congrats to all!
~ August 2023 ~
The Airborne Division
Some very agile and speedy of the Trax crew have been making agility hay this summer. Hearty congratulations are in order to both Opie and Sterling for attaining their second Masters Agility Championship and to Ocean for notching a MACH 4 title. Way to fly!
~ July 2023 ~
Triple Play
A lot of the crew have been playing successfully in show, field and obedience lately. Afield the pupster Raffi notched all-breed AKC Open Puppy and Open Derby stake wins, Kenni won an AKC Open Gun Dog major, Esme won a pair of AKC Amateur Gun Dog stakes, one of those an all-breed major, the pupster Emz volunteered fully broke birdwork en route to an all-breed AKC Amateur Walking Derby stake win, Ivy and Luke both won AKC all-breed Amateur Limited all breed stakes and Vaughn ran steady to wing and shot in an Amateur Walking Derby stake for the blue ribbon. In the show ring Rocco and Thor finished AKC Show Championships and in obedience Mick finished his CKC Companion Dog Excellent with a monster top score of 199/200 following up with back to back High in Trials.
~ June 2023 ~
Nationality
The Canadian Trax contingent made quite a splash at the Weimaraner Club of America National Specialty week. Starting with marvellous Mick who won High in Trial in Obedience with an Open A monster score of 199/200; he also passed the Tracking Dog Urban test and Novice Shooting and Retrieving Ratings. Next up, Kenni, who was awarded Most Versatile Weimaraner for combined event results that included passing Shooting Dog Excellent and Retrieving Dog Ratings, qualifying in Novice obedience and winning Triple High Combined in Rally Obedience, Billie was awarded Junior Most Versatile Weimaraner with a Show Futurity placement and qualifying scores in Rally Novice, Novice Shooting Dog and Novice Retrieving Dog, Spiffy was the High Scoring Dog in Novice level Agility competition and also qualified in Novice Shooting and Retrieving Ratings and passed the Tracking Dog test. Lastly, the yearling Dezzi really stepped up all week long, passing the Tracking Dog Excellent test and Novice Shooting and Novice Retrieving Ratings in style, earning her Rally Novice title with a perfect score of 100 and winning her show Futurity class. Kudos all!
~ May 2023 ~
Badda Bing, Badda Boom
Several of the Traxters have been flexing their muscles afield lately: Esme attained both CKC Field and Amateur Field Championship titles with a 5 point major Amateur Shooting Dog stake win, Frances finished an AKC Master Hunter title, Pie and Tilde got themselves AKC Senior Hunter titles, Kenni and Beck got themselves CKC Field Dog Excellent titles with top scores of 96 and 99/100 respectively, Kenni iced the cake with back to back CKC Amateur and Open Shooting Dog field trial stake wins and a three point major in a CKC Open Shooting Dog stake, Ivy got a pair of three point majors in CKC Amateur Shooting Dog stakes, Luke won an AKC Open Gun Dog stake and the yearling Dezzi garnered a maximum 100/100 score en route to a CKC Field Dog Junior title. Swell done everyone!
~ April 2023 ~
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
This month we recognize Opie on the occasion of achieving his Masters Agility Championship title, Bodie for completing an AKC Show Championship, Sterling on making the finals at the AKC National Agility Championship, the pupster Soda for a big CKC Open Puppy field trial stake win her first kick at the can, Reign on a 3 Point Open All Age field trial stake win, Ocean with near perfect scoring and a sea of blue ribbons en route to an AKC Rally Championship, Rush for an AKC Tracking Dog title and Mick for notching a CKC Open obedience leg with a simply monster score of 199/200. Way to go!
~ March 2023 ~
Sniff, Sniff, Hooray
Putting their noses to the grindstone recently, search dog Olive certified as a Human Remains Detection specialist, the yearling Jax went 5/5 en route to an AKC Senior Hunter title, Avy won a 3 point all breed Amateur Limited Field trial stake, Luther won 2 and 3 point Amateur Gun Dog stakes, Kenni passed an AKC Tracking Dog Urban test and Billie earned an AKC Tracking Dog title. Way to sniff!
~ February 2023 ~
Top of the Charts
The results of events held in 2022 have been tabulated and a number of the crew have earned some national level bragging rights. Leading that charge is Esme, who attained the all-breed #1 spot in CKC Field Trial competition for both Amateur and Open Shooting Dog categories and to top it off she was also the #1 Weimaraner in CKC Rally Obedience competition: Ocean heeled, fetched and jumped her way land in the #1 Weimaraner spot in AKC Obedience competition for 2022 and Prim listened up with many High in Trial wins to attain the #1 Weimaraner in CKC Obedience competition.
Esme’s No.1 Rally Performance
~ January 2023 ~
Pitter Patter Getting At ‘Er
Looking sharp in the field, the six month old rookie Bonnie notched a NAVHDA Natural Ability Prize 1 score. Audrey Rose zigged, zagged and soared to an AKC Masters Agility Championship, Prim heeled, fetched and obeyed her way to an AKC Utility Dog title and Kenni, Saba, Rubi and Vaughn all looped around the show ring to AKC Show Championships.
