Performance Titles

by Tracey Fulmer

Earning a champion performance title is an enormous accomplishment. As of November 2009, there are only 6 (yes 6) Kerries in the history of the breed with an AKC performance championship. Two are in obedience (OTCH - Obedience Trial Champion) and four are in agility (MACH - Master Agility Champion.) The only time a title goes IN FRONT of the registered name is when the title is for earning a championship. Thus, a conformation champion's name starts with a CH, an obedience champion starts with OTCH and an agility champion starts with MACH. In performance, the letters after the name are for titles that are earned in classes that preceed the championship, e.g., novice, open.

Below are the Kerries that are Performance Champions. Thanks to Eve Fishell for compiling this list.

Master Agility Champions

MACH3 Keriland's Talk About Town NF
Gabby and Janet Beeby – 2004 & 2005 & 2009
CH MACH Kerigolf’s Flower Power CD RE AXP MJP NF
Daisy and Bryan Kincaid - 2005
CH MACH2 Kallehan's Blue Moon Rising RN MXF
Riley and Maggie Hall - 2008 & 2009
MACH Lynmar My Bleu Heaven OF
Bailey and Tracey Fulmer – 2009

Obedience Trial Champions

OTCH Tantara’s Cosmic Stellar UDX3
Stellar and Evelyn Gansfuss - 1995
OTCH Tantara’s Cosmic Phoenix UDX2 RN NAJ
Phoenix and Evelyn Gansfuss – 2006

Note that Gabby has earned her agility championship 3 times over! That means she had to earn 750 speed points (points accumulated for each clean, qualfying run under the standard course time) plus 20 double qualifying runs (two qualifying runs on the same day on two separate courses that test different skills -- the standard course includes the contact obstacles and the jumpers course is without the contacts) for EACH of those MACHs.