Lightspeed BCs in English

Lightspeed successes: Darla third in Swiss Open trial, Flyte and Julie doing well in A3 and GH3!

January 17, 2012 at 7:33 am · Filed under Uncategorized

On the first December weekend 2011 Wolfgang and Lightspeed Darjeeling acchieved a great trialling success, coming third in the Swiss Open Trial in Haselhoff, where International competitors competed in 6 Open trial runs on three different fields.

First and second was Serge van der Zweep with Gary and Jim, and third was Wolfgang with Darla, ex equo with Luca Fini and Dan! Wow!!

Lightspeed Fire Flyte and Lady Julie are running in Agility 3 now. Flyte has also passed two Obedience 3 competions with very good results: here are some videos:

Flyte heelwork with positions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zd7sUm48AA&feature=autoplay&list=UUgyFViE5Va0Ahz8L5Cn7vAQ&lf=plcp&playnext=3

Flyte heelwork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXrv6A7elQk&list=UUgyFViE5Va0Ahz8L5Cn7vAQ&feature=plcp

Lady Julie has hit a personal Obedience highscore: She passed an Obedience 3-exam with the near perfect score of 315 points! I am very, very proud of her!!!! Sadly there is no video of her fantastic work!!

Lightspeed Frodo has won an Obedience 2 competion and has a lot of placings in Agility 2. Congrats to Erika, his handler for the excellent work!

Lightspeed Fire Flyte

Here is a little video clip of Lightspeed Aragorn, Flyte’s and Frodo’s father at the big Agility Amadeus Cup (sadly a dis but nice anyway, I think!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eng4HLQjFBA&context=C2d203ADOEgsToPDskKutP5okN1KAdNPJLDWIVy_

And this Aragorn’s very successful Agility brother Lightspeed Antares: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVXraK5nxwI

And his sister from the repeat mating ZonyX Celtic: Lightspeed Candy (nice run in spite of a small misunderstanding): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDMVB1HMdA

And for all who like watching Agility-videos: Here are some from the new year’s competition in Ebreichsdorf on the 11.th of January 2012:

Lightspeed Aragorn (Cedric), A3, 1 fault:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSohEv6nsSM

Cedric, Jumping open, clean run, 9th place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75K2KSOrn4o

Albena (Lightspeed Blitz X Lightspeed Aragorn), Jumping open, 1 fault

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3wt-kRSOgU

Fly (Lightspeed Blitz X Lightspeed Aragorn) A3, clean run, 2nd place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecSDmU5bSvc

Fly: Jumping Open, 1 fault

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2tUft_piU

Lady Julie, A3, clean run, 5th place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4lgavlv7xc

Flyte (Lady Julie X Lightspeed Aragorn): A3, 1 fault

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxhd4R7xuLo

Flyte Jumping, clean run 15th place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_VS947QuwQ

Lighspeed Candy (Canyonland Arizona Dream X Whenway Celtic Tradition), Jumping Open, dis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY6v0klwTys

Belly (Lightspeed Candy X Quincy vom Thurnhof): Jumping open, clean run, first place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRfjMSezAR8

Also in Agility 3 are most of the Lightspeed E’s now. Here for example a first place in Agility 3: Lightspeed Elaine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-B5Y4l-Qhs

Congratulations!

In Switzerland her brother Lightspeed Express to Coldstream is running in Agility 3, too. He also had some excellent show results this autumn! Congratulations for:
19.11.2011 – International Show Genova – CAC, CACIB, Best Male
20.11.2011 – International Show Sanremo – CAC, CACIB, Best Male, Best of Breed

And here are some pictures of the Lightspeed family and the grazing “family sheep” “Graue Heidschnucken”.

above: Flyte, eying the grazing sheep, below: Julie in full winter coat, looking lovely, I think!

Her daughter Guin is as smooth-coated as an officially rough-coated Border Collie can possibly be!

Above: Grandmother Zony (Canyonland Arizona Dream), at 10 years still full of energy, working drive and stamina!! She would hate to be left out from work! She thinks, she is absolutely indispensible!!!

Below Flyte and his mother Julie and sister Guin.

Guin’s brother Glenby Julie and Bobby Dalziel’s Supreme Champion and Dual Scottish National Champion Joe is a fully trained open class sheepdog and also available at stud now. He is running in trial class 3 and is full of energy, humour and fun!

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The J-puppies have moved out!

January 17, 2012 at 6:48 am · Filed under Uncategorized

At the beginning of the new year, 2012 the J-puppies by Guin and Blackie of Conquest have all moved out! We wish them all very happy and eventful lives!!! They were such a nice and cute bunch of very well behaved and cuddly pups, and a real pleasure to bring up!

This was little JInx’s Christmas foto shooting:

And all the puppies in their Christmas video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U7NsEytAOQo

The puppies’ favorite toy in the world were: cardboard boxes!! They loved playing “king of the hill”, occupying a box and trying to defend it from the others that were trying to pull the box-king down from it’s box! They even slept on or in the boxes!

Of course all the vet-checks went well, and all J’s are free from hereditary eye diseases.

Exited new owners, that still have to wait to take home their puppy!!

And a little Christmas clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=worfOOmkUII&feature=related

Five weeks, and already ferocious little wolves!

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Guin’s puppies by Blackie of Conquest

November 18, 2011 at 11:43 am · Filed under Uncategorized

The Lightspeed J-litter was born on the 30th of November: There are three girsl and one boy, all black and white.

Lightspeed Jet, the big cuddly dark girl

Lightspeed Juniper, light of build and extravagantly marked

Lightspeed Jinx, the cool split-face-surprise

and the sweet little Lightspeed Jeremy

One of the girls, eitehr Jet or Juniper, is still looking for a very active home

info@lightspeed-bordercollies.at

Here is a little video clip of the pups at two and a half weeks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l14-JXByVc

Mummy Guin’s youtube-clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxsIO08fo88&feature=related

And here is a little clip of the puppies’ grand-mother Julie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYAwgXA7fZk&feature=related

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summer results 2011

September 18, 2011 at 5:56 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

On the 10. and 11th of September the Austrian National Championship took place in Scheibbs.

We are very happy to tell that Lightspeed Darjeeling won the title National Champion 2011 in Open Class.

Lightspeed Fire Flyte took the title of National Champion in Intermediate Class, and Lightspeed Glenfiddich was Vice-Champion in Intermediate class!!

Lightspeed Guineveere finished 6th in class 1.

On the 3rd of September 2011 Guin won two medals at the Frisbee Disc Crushers Cup 2011, a second place in Dog Dartbee and a third place in Mini Distance!

here is a video-news-clip of this fun event: http://www.krone.at/Videos/DiscDogging_Zwei-_und_Vierbeiner_und_eine_Scheibe-Frisbee_auf_4_Pfoten-Video-295160

On the 1st of September Lightspeed Guineveere was mated by Vice-World-Champion Ron Snoeck’s Blackie of Conquest.

The Continental Sheepdog Championship, held in Sweden, this year, is over.

Here is Darla’s run on the difficult field full of small hills:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13nTsh4Hrc

Norwegian top handler Jaran Knive took the title as well as the second place with Maico and Eddie! Congratulations!

Congratulation to Lightspeed Eliott who finished his Austrian Show Championship, and Lightspeed Express to Coldstream, who won into the highest Continental Agility class, class 3! Brother Lightspeed Everest participated in the Para Agility World Championship in the Dutch town Nijmegen and came 2nd on the 3rd of Sept. with this run:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q24xH0L7rr4

Everest at an Agility show in his country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr08Q30wafI&feature=related

Flyte, Guin, Julie

Julie

Guin

Flyte

Guin

Some summer pictures from the lovely Austrian mountains!

Congratulations to Bobby Dalziel and Joe (father of our Glen and Guin and the rest of the Lightspeed-G-litter)

who took the title Scottish National Champions 2011 (for the second time. They were also Scottish Nat. Ch.2009 and Supreme Champion2006) Pic: Sine Robertson

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LS Candy, her daughter Belly, LS Elaine

This is a video of Lightspeed Elaine, winning in Agility on the 23t of July 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV5q2t_daeI

Continental Qualification Trial Langenlois:

Winner class 2: Lightspeed Glenfiddich

Continental qualified: Lightspeed Darjeeling (2nd place)

Lady Julie (4th place)

Hohe Wand Trial: Open Class:

1st place: Lightspeed Darjeeling

2nd place: Lady Julie

Intermediate class (class 2)

1st place: Lightspeed Glenfiddich

4th place: Lightspeed Fire Flyte

1st class (beginners)

4th place: Lightspeed Guineveere

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Trial successes

July 4, 2011 at 8:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

On the 11th of June 2011 Lightspeed Fire Flyte passed the intermediate Obedience class GH2 with an Excellent (281,5 points) He also collected his third placed clean run in Agilty class 2, so he is now allowed to pass into the highest class 3.

The Lightspeed team was very successful at two more trials:

At the big International Rebenland CSC qualification trial on the 25th and 26th of June 2011:

Lightspeed Darjeeling came third, Lady Julie second in Open Class

In class 2 Lightspeed Glenfiddich came first, Lightspeed Fire Flyte fourth

In class 1 Lightspeed Guineveere came second.

And at the Hohe Wand Trial 2nd and 3rd of July 2011

Lightspeed Darjeeling won Open class 3, followed by her mother Lady Julie on second place

In class 2 Lightspeed Glenfiddich came first, Lightspeed Fire Flyte fourth

and in class 1 Lightspeed Guineveere came fourth

Lightspeed Fire Flyte Hohe Wand trial

Rebenland trial-field (inspected by Julie and Flyte)

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Julie first, Darla second in big international open trial

June 6, 2011 at 5:12 am · Filed under Uncategorized

On the 4th and 5th June 2011 Fritz Maierhofer, ex-club-president of the ASDS and organizer of the first (1998) Austrian Continental Championship organized a big international trial in Upper Austria in honour of his 70th birthday.

Big because we had a never-heard-of starter-field of 38 open class dogs, international because Fritz had invited most of Germany’s top handlers and some of the Swiss top handlers, to make for a very high standard of competition!

Fritz is a jewellery artist and had hand-crafted lovely prices for the best three on Saturday and Sunday respectively!

I am very proud to tell you that Julie’s daughter Darla (by my old Celtic) came second on Saturday (in-between Claus Börner’s two top dogs Snip and Del on first and third place) and Julie won the Sunday trial, being placed before the Swiss top handler Ruedi Roth’s on second place and Anita Hermes on third place.

To give you an idea how prominent the other handlers were: Ruedi has been a Continental starter for Switzerland 18 times, coming second 1987, second again with another dog in 1990 and third in 2006.

Claus Börner was 3rd in the Continental Championship once in 1994 and second in 1995, and has all his dogs trained to a wonderful standard!

Anita Hermes has been a German Continental team member 13 times and finalist 4 times.

All of the mentioned people are travelling Europe as judges and clinic trainers.

It was a realy lovely trial, and Julie had the best run of her life, with points in the 90-es I would say (of 100, no single). Sadly the score list was lost (!!!!!) by judge Simon Mosse, but maybe someone can tell me the exact points anyway. We tried to film, but of course, the camera gave up after the outrun and fetch!!!!! I would have loved to have that run to watch again!!!

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Lightspeed successes

May 30, 2011 at 1:53 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

At this year’s first Austrian sheepdog trial, 21., 22.nd of May 2011 in Kettenreith our dogs were very successful again:

Class 3: 1st place: Lightspeed Darjeeling

Class 2: 2nd place: Lightspeed Fire Flyte

Class 1: 1st place: Lightspeed Glenfiddich

this is a link to Glen’s run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZL8AbzQSs

And at the Agility show in Korneuburg on the 27th of May, Lightspeed Eliott came first in class 1, Lightspeed Frodo 2nd and Lightspeed Fire Flyte 3rd in class 2!

As my little Guin is showing a lot of talent for spectacular Frisbee-jumps, I am currently trying to learn this new sport, too!

So: all the time we have lots of exciting activities for our Lightspeed Border Collies!

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Lightspeed Fire Flyte’s puppies by Avita

May 30, 2011 at 1:42 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

This is the beautiful landscape, where the Vulcano Country Border Collies, three happy horses and a little herd of goats live in the very south of Austria! Lightspeed Fire Flyte’s 8 lovely puppies from the J-litter from Vulcano Country (born in the middle of March 2011) have moved out! One very energetic boy that looks a lot like Flyte has come back to the breeders and is looking for a new home, as the older dog in his supposed new home was not willing to accept him!

Mummy Avita and Granny Fly busisly at work teaching the puppies good manners!

This little girl is showing some herding style already!

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The 3 Lightspeed I’s have opened their eyes!

May 7, 2011 at 10:57 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Ian, full of good ideas allready!!

Little Ice

Baby-girl Ivory

The three Lightspeed I’s have opened their eyes and started to play! They are so cute!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurQKMFn8DU

Little Guin, halfsister to the I’s is a dedicated puppy-minder, and officially authorized by mother Julie to baby-sit as much as she wants!!

Here the puppies are being visited for the first time!

Little video clips from the first puppy visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkekrmgGsV8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNx_UPBknFQ

Lush green grass on the hills above Königstetten. The sheep love it, and we and the dogs love watching them!

Can you spot the sheep? Guin can!

Julie, happily sheep-watching, and her children, Glen, Guin, Flyte and Darla working them!

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Puppies and lambs

April 25, 2011 at 5:19 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

A litte video clip of Julie’s puppies by Blackie. All of them are doing very well. As there are only three pups, they have more than enough milk and round, sound and happy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA3P6cny1sc

Just for fun a little training clip of Guin (14 months old, Julie X B. Dalziel’s Joe) training some Obedience exercises and having fun with her favorite toy, the Frisbee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew9PFdqnOIk&NR=1

And this is how Guin is doing on sheep at the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNSkhnBWCgU

Brother Glen is already working on whistle commands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ClnNNf5pY

And some pictures of the little black Heidschnucken-lambs that are populating our little sheep hill at the moment!