The group shot is of the 4H members who showed in the RallyO and Grooming/Handling classes on Thursday, August 20th at the NY State Fair. The second picture is Catherine Oag with her Sheltie, Tye
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4-H DOG MEMBERS DID A SUPER JOB AT STATE FAIR!
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County’s 4-H Members participate at State Fair.
JAMESTOWN, NY (September 4, 2012) – –
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County 4-H Dog Advisory Committee and leaders are proud of the excellent representation of its 22 members and 24 dogs at the 2012 New York State Fair on August 29th, and 30th. Receiving the highest achievement of Grand Champion was Catherine Oag with Tye, her Sheltie, in Obedience Beginners B. Impressive Reserve Grand Champion titles went to Elise Schack with Tucker, her West Highland Terrier in Obedience Novice B and to Taylor Young with Lilly, her Sheltie in Agility Pre Novice.
The exciting moment came when the Chautauqua County Drill Team performed a lively six minute, choreographed routine to the “Grease” movie theme, complete with a variety of obedience elements. Ten participants and two coaches spent months planning and practicing for this event.
Members competed with the best in the State; some classes had over 40 competitors. Handlers were awarded one of the following: a white ribbon for being worthy of fair, a red ribbon for doing good, a blue ribbon for excellence, or the most coveted purple ribbons for Reserve and Grand Champion. The State Fair Dog Program results for Chautauqua County are as follows:
On Wednesday, August 29th, it began with the Obedience Classes. In Beginners Novice A Obedience: Joseph Cerrie received a Blue with Sanderson, a cocker spaniel and Anna Valone received a blue with Buddy, a Black Lab. Beginners Novice B Obedience: Logan Holthouse was awarded a Blue with Tip, a Lab Mix; Maggie Jones received a Red with Honey, a Cockapoo and Dalton Holthouse received a White award with Smeagles, a Beagle Mix. In the Graduate Beginners A Class, Taylor Young received a red award with Lilly, a Sheltie. Our highest performer in Obedience Class was Graduate Beginner B where Catherine Oag took the only Grand Champion title for Chautauqua County with her Sheltie, Tye. Also receiving awards in this class were Hannah DeFries, a Blue award with her Jack Russell, Louie and Emma Wiggers taking a Red with Pokey, also a Jack Russell Terrier. The Novice A Obedience members, Cristen Lookenhouse and Kayla Nefedov placed 3rd and 4th with their dogs, Buddy, a yellow lab and Lily, a Golden Retriever, respectively. In the Novice B Obedience Class, Elise Schack received Reserve Grand Champion with Tucker, a West Highland Terrier and Alexandria Anderson received a White award with her Cocker Spaniel, Toby.
Chautauqua County was represented by one Four Person Obedience Teams: Receiving a Red, was the team of Hewitt Meeder, Cristen Lookenhouse, Bryan Tenpas, and Kayla Nefedov. Elise Schack received a 4th place Blue award for her Obedience Brace Team of West Highland Terriers, Tucker and Bella and Cristen Lookenhouse received a Red award for her team of Yellow Labs, Buddy and Bruno.
All State Fair Agility Classes are Off-Lead. In Pre-Novice Agility Taylor Young received her Reserve Grand Champion award with Lilly, a Sheltie. Cristen Lookenhouse received a Red award with Buddy, a Yellow Lab and Nicole Schack was awarded a White ribbon with her West Highland Terrier, Bella. In Novice Agility, Megan Clark received a 5th place Blue with Molly, a Lab Mix and Hannah DeFries received a White award with Louie, a Jack Russell Terrier. In Open Agility, Hewitt Meeder and Elise Schack both received White awards with their dogs, Boe, a Border Collie Mix and Tucker, a West Highland Terrier. Mandy Swanson, while earning a perfect score with her Australian Shepherd, Josh received a White Award in the Excellent Agility Class due to a timing malfunction that resulted in a heartbreaking, zero score.
On Thursday, August 30th, many Chautauqua County members returned to compete in Rally and Grooming and Handling competition. In Grooming/Handling Open A Catherine Oag took a 5th place Blue with Tye, her Sheltie. Logan Holthouse also received a Blue award with his Lab Mix, Tip and Emma Wiggers took Red with her Chihuahua, Susie. In Grooming/Handling B Jr. Kayla Nefedov received a Blue award with Lily, her Golden Retriever and in Grooming/Handling B Sr., Cristen Lookenhouse and Danielle Yotpolis received Blue awards with their dogs, both named Buddy, but are a Yellow Lab and Golden Retriever, respectively! In Open C, Chance Meeder won a Blue ribbon with Bailey, his Australian Shepherd; Nicole Schack received a Red award with her West Highland Terrier, Bella and Bryan Tenpas was awarded a White ribbon with his Golden Retriever, Snowball.
In Rally Obedience Novice A (On-Lead): Hannah Hornyak received a Red award with WinnDixie, a Jack Russell Terrier; Maggie Jones was awarded a White ribbon for her Cockapoo, Honey and Anna Valone also received a White ribbon for her Black Lab, Buddy. In Rally-O Novice B (On-Lead), 3rd place Blue went to Taylor Young with her Sheltie, Lilly and Dalton and Logan Holthouse were both awarded White ribbons for their dogs, Smeagles and Tip. In the Advanced Class (Off-Lead), Hannah DeFries took a Red ribbon with her Jack Russell, Louie and so did Cristen Lookenhouse with her Yellow Lab, Buddy. Rebekah Anderson received a White award with her Cocker Spaniel, Katie. The most difficult class is the Excellent Rally-O Class (Off-Lead); where Hewitt Meeder, Alexandria Anderson and Megan Clark received Red Ribbons with Boe, the Border Collie Mix, Toby, the Cocker Spaniel and Molly, a Lab Mix; respectively.
4-H at the NYS Fair 