I want to thank U-FLI for the Dream Team Challenge at the U-FLI Championships being held this weekend in Memphis. I’ll get to the Challenge in a moment but first I want to thank Fetchin’ Frenzi for hosting the Championship events. Along with the Dream Team Challenge (24 teams) and Singles (23 singles) and Pairs (6 pairs) Championships on Friday, the 2008 U-FLI Championship (36 teams) is being held today, along with the Barkin’ in Memphis Flyball Tournament today (41 teams) and Sunday (51 teams). The events this weekend will be the largest in the Showcase of Dogs history bringing together teams from across the country to run in 3 rings. The net proceeds from this large event will be donated to the St. Jude Children’s Research.
The Dream Team Challenge was truly a fun event for me. With names like Dash Hounds (all Dachshund team), We’re Golden (all Golden Retriever team), A Bunch of Bull (you can figure it out), Aussome Aussies, We Are Family, and many others it was really a unique and fun event. I raced with the We Are Family team and had a great time.
The We Are Family team consisted of Promise, Sue Ethier (Rude Dogs), Future, Sharron Nevens (Rude Dogs), Snitch, Russ Helganz (RPM Dog Sports), Legend and Relay, Sue Rogers (RPM Dog Sports), and Dice, Larry Worrilow (Rogues Gallery). Legend was the sire of Promise, Future, Relay, and Dice and Snitch the height dog was a half sister to the siblings.
We Are Family
For not ever running together, the dogs just fell into step with one another. No one planned to take 2nd place in division 1, but the dogs ran so well together turning in a best time of 17.2 seconds. It was really great fun for me and I want to thank everyone that participated. I’m looking forward to next year.
Larry
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I had a great time in Memphis. I ran on the all borderjack team and Riot got to run with his brother Remus which was cool. They ran well but did not place but who cares.
We had two teams entered in the Championship plus 2 teams in the regular tourney each day. One team did not place and one team took first in the championship this was also the case for our Saturday teams. On Sunday we took 2 first places with our regular teams.
Racing ran later than I expected but then again it always seems to in U-Fli which is one of the rare dings I have with U-Fli.
The only other issue was a few team dogs came home with fleas which is quite annoying since none came to Memphis with them. I can’t treat my dogs with medication so I am praying the couple fleas I am finding are not breeding but I know that is not the case. A couple other teammates ended up with many more fleas than my dogs.
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