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February 28, 2010

Rockland County Kennel Club, Suffern, NY:  Lylah struts her stuff in the confirmation ring ... Handled by Margaret, Lylah earns Winner's Bitch (WB), Best of Winners (BoW) and Best of Opposite Sex (BOS) for 2 points under judge Edeltraud Laurin. Keep piling up those points Lylah!  Great things are in your future.

February 6 - 7, 2010
Ladies Kennel Association of America agility trials - Secaucus, NJ: A new title for Crystal !!!  After 2 flawless runs each in Standard Excellent and Excellent Jumpers, Crystal earns the third leg of her MXJ title and is now known as, TLC Starlite's First Gleaming CD RE AX *MXJ* NAC TN-N RL1 CGC. For the weekend Crystal and Margaret earned two double Qs and more MACH points. Yay Crystal ... don't stop now!
February 1, 2010
Another birthday party at Islandflats. Happy 8th birthday Crystal!  Islandflats wishes all the puppies in the TLC Starlight litter another happy birthday. New toys and celebrations all around!
November 19 -  22, 2009
2009 Thanksgiving Classic, W. Springfield,MA - Leap Agility Club trials - A busy agility weekend for Crystal, who earned her first QQ, her 7th and 8th MXJ legs, her 1st MX leg, and 8 MACH points!  
South Windsor KC dog show (NEFCRC supported entry) - Lylah finishes 4th in a large open bitch class under judge Sandra Goose Allen.
Islandflats good friend Chance, CH TLC Carry the Torch Chance CD *NAP* RA  earns a new title in Novice Agility Preferred. Crystal is very proud of her older brother.
October 31-November 1, 2009

Back Mountain KC Dog Shows - Bloomsburg, PA:  A busy weekend for the Islandflats crew ... Sat, Oct 31:

A NEW TITLE FOR Lylah !!!  With another qualifying score in the obedience ring (handled by Terry), Lylah earned her third leg in Novice Obedience and with that comes the title: Companion Dog (CD). She is now known as Islandflats American Pie *CD* RN CGCLogan showed in best of breed, but he wasn't chosen this time.   Sun, Nov 1: Lylah won Reserve Winners Bitch to a 5 point major! Still no points, but avery impressive conformation showing. Afterwards, she earned another qualifying score (an insurance leg) in obedience! 

Also,Crystal earned high qualifying scores in Rally Excellent (handled by Terry) and in Rally Advanced (handled by Margaret) to earn another leg towards her RAE title. Dog juggling in PA. - WOW!

October 17, 2009

Skyline Agility Club of Northern New Jersey agility trials, Yorktown Heights, NY:  Another qualifying score in Excellent Jumpers for Crystal. That's 6 legs towards her Master's Jumpers title (4 to go). Keep jumping Crystal!

October 11, 2009

Ramapo KC dog show - Augusta NJ: It's Crystal's turn in the Rally ring again. Handled by Terry, Crystal earns a qualifying score in the Excellent class, and then earns another qualifying score and a third place finish in the Advanced class! That's another leg towards her RAE title - only 8 more to go ...

October 10, 2009

Palisades KC dog show - Augusta NJ: After a long hiatus, Logan enters the conformation ring and wins Best of Breed under judge Betsy Yates. He strutted his stuff flawlessly, in a large entry to get the rosette. Speaking of large entries, Lylah won  Reserve Winners Bitch to a 4 pt major. That means that although she didn't earn any championship points, she beat a lot of other dogs in the ring. We're so proud of our "L" dogs!

October 4, 2009

Ladies Kennel Association Agility trials - Old Westbury, NY: Crystal earns another leg towards her MXJ with a qualifying score and a sixth place finish in the Excellent Jumpers class. Keep it up Crystal, the next title is just around the corner ...

September 14, 2009

It's Logan's Birthday! The Logan-ator is now 5 years old (wow ... how time flies)! The Islandflats crew wishes a Happy Birthday, and great things for the future to our boy Logan and all his littermates.

September 12 - 13, 2009

Princeton DTC Agility Trials - Jamesburg, NJ:  Crystal got her Agility Excellent title with a  clean run score of 100 and a first place in her class! Crystal is now TLC Starlite's First Gleaming CD RE *AX* AXJ NAC TN-N RL1 CGC.  She also got 2 more legs towards her Master Jumpers Excellent title and 4 MACH points -- giving her a total of 4 MXJ legs and 13 (!) MACH points.

August 23, 2009

Staten Island Obedience Training Club's NADAC trial - Staten Island, NY:  Crystal became TLC Starlite's First Gleaming CD RE OA AXJ NAC *TN-N* RL1 CGC  achieving her Novice Tunnelers Title in NADAC; she also got her 7th O-NAC leg (Outstanding Novice Agility).

July 3-4, 2009

The Yankee Classic, West Springfield, MA:  Friday, July 3: Kennelworth KC Obedience Trial: Lylah enters the obedience ring with Terry, for her first ever obedience trial and earns a qualifying score in the Novice class! OK, so the performance was sloppy, and her score was a bare minimum qualify but we'll take it. Maybe we'll do better next time ...

Saturday, July 4 (Happy Birthday America)  Farmington Valley KC Obedience and Rally Trials: Crystal sets out on a new venture; the RAE title in Rally O. Handled by Margaret, Crystal earns a qualifying score in Excellent, and a qualifying score in Advanced, with a fourth place finish!  She just missed a perfect score. Only 9 more QQs needed for the new title.  At the same time, in another ring, Lylah was doing novice obedience with Terry. They did better than yesterday and earned their second qualifying score for the CD title. One more to go ...

Later that night the Islandflats crew celebrated with fireworks, barbeque, and cool libations (what else)!

May 31- June 5, 2009
2009 Flat-Coated Retriever Society of America National Specialty - Warwick, RI:  The Islandflats crew heads to our breed nationals. All our dogs were entered in several events. Crystal in Agility and Veteran Sweeps. Logan in  Brace Conformation (with Lylah), Rally-O, and BOB. Lylah in Obedience, Brace Conformation (with Logan), and Open Bitch. The minute we arrived, Lylah goes into season ... scratch obedience and brace conformation. Crystal has problems running agility, but she does earn a Special Veteran's medal in veteran sweeps. Logan earns a qualifying score and rosette in Rally; and that's about it. Even though the judges didn't favor our dogs in the conformation events, we all had such a great time! Kudos to the NEFCRC for planning and organizing an event that will always carry happy, long lasting memories at Islandflats.
May 23, 2009
Monmouth County KC dog show - Freehold, NJ:  A new tiltle for Crystal!  Handled by Terry, Crystal earns her third leg in Rally Excellent and with that comes a new title ... TLC Starlite's First Gleaming CD *RE* OA AXJ NAC RL1 CGC.  What to do next? More Rally? Agility? Something else ...
May 9, 2009
Port Chester OTC Agility trials - Yorktown Heights, NY: Crystal and Margaret doing agility again ... This time Crystal earns a few more MACH points as she earns another qualifying score in Excellent B Jumpers. She still needs only 1 more qualifier in Standard to complete her AX title, but today wouldn't be the day. Maybe next time ...
April 19, 2009

SOTC Agility Trials, Yaphank, NY:  After a long winter with limited training, Margaret & Crystal are back in the agility ring. Today, Crystal earns her first ever MACH points with a qualifying score in Excellent B jumpers. OK so we don't exactly have aspirations to go MACH, but Crystal showed she has what it takes by placing fifth in a tough class, on a difficult course. We definitely see more such points in her future!

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