2003 ADRK VPG Championship in Ober

Dog	HF	A	B	C	Total	Note	Ranking
Cash vom Schloss Rastede	Dirk Bäcker	97	93	94	284	SG	1
Troll vom Hause Anin	Andreas Piepgras	98	92	94	284	SG	2
Dark vom Schloss Rastede	Georg Brune	92	93	97	282	SG	3
Ira vom Brandenburger Tor	Susanne Steiner	98	94	90	282	SG	4
Max vom Türnleberg	Marin Jonietz	98	91	90	279	SG	5
Bronco von den Ellwanger Bergen	Karl-Heinz Nieratzky	99	83	96	278	SG	6
Fax von Tengen	Oliver Neubrand	100	85	93	278	SG	7
Cismo vom Schönberg	Friedrich Mol	90	89	97	276	SG	8
York vom Salamandertal	Xaver Meixner	97	89	90	276	SG	9
Cäsar von der Rotmainquelle	Jürgen Müller	92	94	89	275	SG	10
Eddy vom Hammerbachtal	Walter Sonntag	100	84	90	274	SG	11
Brutus von der Dynamit	Lothar Grzesczick	98	91	83	272	SG	12
Asko von der Veste Liupoldsdorf	Marek Karkowski	92	85	94	271	SG	13
Dolf von der Weilerei	Amalia-Maria Rebmann	93	90	88	271	SG	14
Dusty vom Herrenboden	Franz Mikesch	97	87	87	271	SG	15
Attila von den Ellwanger Bergen	Anton Bopp	95	89	85	269	G	16
Lutz vom Hein	Ulrich Bergmann	96	90	83	269	G	17
Heiko vom Hause Karg	Petra Wolf	93	90	85	268	G	18
Mirco von Graf Babo	Claudia Ullmann	96	87	85	268	G	19
Ivanhoe vom Türnleberg	Thomas Weber	95	82	90	267	G	20
Zonk vom Kümmelsee	Karl-Heinz Nieratzky	98	82	86	266	G	21
Darko v. Hexenbusch	Helga Küsters	97	83	84	264	G	22
Aaron von Münchhausen	Susanne Köhls	91	85	87	263	G	23
Attila vom Salisberg	Willi Röhmann	94	85	83	262	G	24
Odin vom Hause Neubrand	Rolf Kübler	90	90	80	260	G	25
Coyote aus dem Grosstadt-Dschungel	Roswitha Messinger	89	82	88	259	G	26
Perle vom Sternbogen	Manfred Mayer	91	81	82	254	G	27
Moritz vom Türnleberg	Ernst Kalbacher	86	83	73	242	G	28
Gwen von der Bleichstrasse	Markus Schlee	71	79	88	238	B	29
Paul vom Türnleberg	Willi Ruderisch	59	89	96	244	M	30
Arec vom Enztal	Lothar Schweiger	67	85	80	232	M	31
Cäsar vom Tempelsee	Holger Volkmar-Weis	60	88	80	228	M	32
Sachsa von Wölpinghausen	Ludger Stärk	23	86	86	195	M	33
Alex vom Hause Perrin	Matthias Jödicke	18	71	88	177	M	34
Hero vom Hünxer Wappen	Iris de Jong	83	89	0	172	M	35
Chico vom Laimer Schlösschen	Klaus Kröber	68	80	0	148	M	36
Chris von Baskerville	Birgit Roth	13	84	0	97	M	37

Good weather on both days considering the season and location, allowing for consistent and fair work for all dogs involved. On Sunday the tracking grounds were a little bit more dry, with a few gusts of wind now and then, but nothing too drastic for such dogs.

This year's contest had another heart-stopping final hour with the two best competitors, Cash vom Schloss Rastede and Troll vom Hause Anin, tied with (284 points) similar C part scores, the final ranking on the podium coming from a 1 point difference in the B part score. Troll was last to go in C-part on Sunday, and needed a 95 to sweep it all home. He fell one point short and had to let it go. Needless to say his C-part took place in complete silence on the part of the spectators, as everyone was holding their breath... the thrill of dog sport at its best !

Judging in the B-part, was very harsh, as in the C-part. Of coure severe judgment is to be expected at such a high level, and it really took a good dog/handler team to score 90 and + in Obedience and Bitework. Many dogs fell short as you can see in the full results.

The helpers did correct, standard work, nothing too hard, nothing too soft. Yet we have seen a couple of dogs getting eliminated in bitework after failing to frankly engage the 2nd helper, which is pretty surprizing, considering it's a Final and that all those dogs had fared very well before in their regions of origin. Well, there might be no accounting for what happens inside a dog's head on the day of a major competition.

I was impressed with the two "Schloss Rastede" males' overall performance, very nice work in all parts. Troll was of course as pleasant as always, with very consistent, accurate work.

Ira vom Brandenburger Tor and Fax von Tengen performed very nice bitework. Paul vom Türnleberg was for me, the most impressive dog in the C-part, with explosive, enthusiastic impact in the helpers, very spectacular work indeed. The Türnleberg kennel alone, had 4 dogs entered, among which a father - son situation with Ivanhoe and Paul competing one against the other.