Agility at Crufts

QuCrufts Logoalifying heats for the series of prestigious agility finals at Crufts are held at Agility shows across the country and throughout the year. Crufts is one of the three most important 'showcase' events for agility in the UK - the others being the Kennel Club Olympia Agility Stakes finals which take place every December at Olympia's London International Horse Show, and the Discover Dogs Agility finals and semi-finals which take place in London each November.

There are finals at Crufts for Large, Medium and Small dogs, for Teams, for Novice handlers and for ABC dogs as well as for flyball teams.  The  finals take place across all four days of Crufts, in the Arena at the NEC.

The Kennel Club Agility Championships – for large, medium and small dogs which haveCrufts 2007 Day 3 - International Agility 1 won an Agility Certificate at a Championship Show in the previous year. The winner of this event at each height immediately gains the title of Agility Champion

Kennel Club 'British Open' – International event - for the top large, medium and small dogs from different countries which have qualified by competing at the KC International Agility Festival (Grades 6 or 7, or the equivalent)

KC Festival Novice Agility – for the top large, medium and small dogs from the Novice Cup competition held at the KC International Agility Festival (Grades 3, 4 or 5)

Kennel Club Team Agility – for large, medium and small teams from KC registered clubs which qualified at a series of heats in the previous year

Kennel Club Singles Agility – for small, medium and large dogs which qualified at heats in the previous year

Kennel Club International Agility – invitational events for large dogs from GB and overseas

Agility Olympia Stakes

New Finals  introduced at Crufts 2013

Kennel Club Large Novice ABC Agility – for large dogs other than border collies and working sheepdogs (Anything But Collies) which qualified at heats held during the previous year. Semi-finals at Discover Dogs in November 2012.

Kennel Club Medium ABC Agility - for large dogs other than border collies and working sheepdogs (Anything But Collies) which qualified at heats held during the previous year. Semi-finals at Discover Dogs in November 2012.

Agility border collie goes through the weaves at Olympia

Details of qualifying heats to be held during 2013 (for Discover Dogs 2013 Olympia 2013 and Crufts 2014)

 

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