2025 Blue Jean Specialty Show

The Rocky Mountain Vizsla Club held our spring specialty in Longmont, again in conjunction with the GSPs. This year, we had a new location a bit closer to the Flatirons show grounds and an earlier show time so we avoided the dark for our win photos! Our show chair, Ginger Sammonds, found some awesome trophies and we all appreciate her hard work to organize this show every year.

Sweepstakes was judged by Donna Jordan, a local English Setter breeder and fancier. The results of Sweepstakes are:

Best in Puppy Sweeps:

Touche ~ Kizmar Velocity Paytah Tequila Mockingbird

Breeder/Owner/Handler Sarah with Touche!

Best of Opposite in Puppy Sweeps:

Tai ~ Walden Vortex Miles High Wind Surge Tai’d to TKG JH

Owner/Handler Tad Walden & Tai

Best Veteran in Sweeps:

Gambol ~ GCH CH Gambol JH FDC CGCA TKN

Owner/Handler Tatum Duvall & Gambol

Best of Opposite in Veteran Sweeps:

Archer ~ GCHB CH Kindred Spirit Sterling M Archer Hwy2 Danger Zone MH SWN SCA SEA SHDN

And the results of the Specialty, as judged by the esteemed Linda Robey:

Best of Breed/Best Owner Handled:

Miles ~ GCHB CH 5280 Alfa Romeo Spider JH

Miles and Tad. Fun Fact, Miles was Best in Sweeps & WD/BOW at this show in 2023.

Best Puppy/Winners Dog/Best of Winners:

Tai ~ Walden Vortex Miles High Wind Surge Tai’d to TKG JH

Following in his Dad, Miles’, footsteps with WD/BOW!

Best of Opposite:

Billie ~ GCH CH Everlong’s Too Many Egos Left to Bruise FDC

Breeder/Owner/Handler Tatum Duvall & Billie also took Best Junior!

Select Dog/Best Veteran:

Archer ~ GCHB CH Kindred Spirit Sterling M Archer Hwy2 Danger Zone MH SWN SCA SEA SHDN

Archer with Owner/Handler Lindsay Tita Adams

Select Bitch:

Boujee ~ CH 5280 She Apres Skis In Spyder JH OF SWE SCM SEM SHDN CGC TKN FITB FTN

Handler Karen Livingston & Boujee who finished her Grand Champion title with this win!

Award of Merit:

Nugget ~ CH Renaissance Who Got the Gold CGC TKN

Award of Merit:

Carly ~ GCH CH Opus One N Dotsero’s Anticipation JH SWN SIE SEA TKN

Winners Bitch/Best Bred-By:

Touche ~ Kizmar Velocity Paytah Tequila Mockingbird

This major win finished Touche’s Championship!

Reserve Winners Dog;

Smash ~ Everlong’s Tomorrow’s Just An Excuse

Reserve Winners Bitch:

VeedaRoo ~ Calibre Kizmar First to the Sun

Congratulations to all the winners and another big thank you to Ginger and her show committee for a lovely outdoor show!

Inaugural Scent Work Trial

This weekend the RMVC hosted it’s very first Scent Work trial and we came away with RAVE reviews! Both judges complimented us on having an abundance of workers and running a super efficient trial. First trials aren’t usually efficient, so we appreciate the nod! The very hard working committee was Jenny Fleischer (Chair,) Ginger Sammonds, Catherine & Byron Sayers, Neeta Cope, Carol Ann McConville, Alison Rodgers, and Dylan Fleischer. We also had planning help from Lindsay Tita Adams & Becky Clippenger who were both out of town, but still helped so much! Club members Katherine Hokens, Leah & Aaron Davis also came and pitched in on Saturday contributing to the many hands making light work! Besides our club members, we had many members of the community donate a day or two to help us keep things running. One volunteer, Ron Horn, even joked that he had to BEG to volunteer, something he has never experienced! Needless to say we extend many thanks to everyone who pitched in for helping us make it a great first event! We can’t skip thanking Dr. Milan Hess for renting us her gorgeous facility for the weekend too!

The 7am Crew! This hard working team was there early both days to get the trial started right on time.

Our judges, Ginger Brayman (NM) and Maureen Baumtrog (CO) set fun searches and made great use of the space for a weekend trial! They were both so very flexible and worked with us leading up to the trial to layout search areas and make sure they liked our planning. We can’t thank them enough for the collaboration! We would highly endorse both of these judges to any club looking for a great judge!

We had much success at our trial and awarded 4 High in Trial awards!! That is something to be proud of, especially at the upper levels! Our congratulations to Cindy Cohagen & Arie, Amanda Glazar & Jax, Jenny Fleischer & Whiskey, and Trudi Shoening & River for truly shining with your consistency this weekend! What fantastic teamwork to go 4 for 4!

High in Trial Excellent: Cindy & Arie
High in Trial Advanced: Amanda & Jax
High in Trial Novice (Sat): Jenny & Whiskey
High in Trial Novice (Sun): Trudi & River

We also offered a special award for Vizslas in competition and created a scoring system where points were awarded for Qs at all levels and then extra points for placements. Our High Scoring Vizsla teams this weekend were Jenny Fleischer & Boujee on Saturday, and Catherine Sayers and Nelli on Sunday! Huge congratulations to these teams!

High Scoring Vizsla Boujee & Jenny
High Scoring Vizsla Nelli & Catherine

We had so much fun and can’t wait to do it all again next year!

2024 August Specialty Show

The Rocky Mountain Vizsla Club held our August Specialty in conjunction with the Greeley Kennel Club show on August 17, 2024. Thank you to Ginger Sammonds and her committee for organizing this specialty and rounding up some beautiful prizes for our winners! The results of the specialty, as judged by Nancy Liebes follow:

Best of Breed: GCHS CH KOPPERTONE’S CHICKS DREAM ABOUT ME ~ Clooney BREEDER: Mark & Bonnie Goodwein & Martha Williams. OWNER: Stacie Ryan & Mark Goodwein & Katelyn Ford

Winners Dog/Best of Winners: FC AFC FIRESTORM’S RARE VINTEDGE ~ Edge

Cheeky and club member, Jenny Fleisher (breeder/owner/handler)

Best of Opposite Sex: CH KIZMAR 5280 SOMEONE’S HALO SLIPPED JH OA OAJ XF BCAT ACT1 ACT2J SWM SCME SIME SEME SHDM RATN CGC TKA ~ Cheeky

Breeder/Owner/Handler and club member, Tatum Duvall with Rev

Select Dog/Owner Handled: GCH CH EVERLONG’S REVERE SH CGC ~ Rev

Select Bitch: GCH RENAISSANCE-N-BRITTANIA’S CHANGING THE GAME JH ~ Parker

Ryder with club member, Erica Sparrow, her breeder/owner/handler

Winners Bitch/Best Bred By: SOLTERRA TACO RYDE ON THE WILD SIDE ~ Ryder

Award of Merits:

GCHG CH KIZMAR LIVE FOR TH’APPLAUSE ~ Manning

CH RENAISSANCE WHO GOT THE GOLD ~ Nugget

GCH CH OPUS ONE N DOTSERO’S ANTICIPATION JH ~ Carly

2024 Blue Jean Specialty

Results of the Rocky Mountain Vizsla Club ‘Blue Jean’ Specialty Show on May 30, 2024 as judged by Breeder/Judge Carol Sommerfelt:

Best In Specialty Show was Boujee, CH 5280 She Après Skis in Spyder JH SWN SEE SIA CGC. Owned by Jennifer Follett & Dylan Fleischer, bred by Jennifer Follett & Marc Spencer, MD.

WD/BOW – Walker – Everlong’s Walking After You

BOS/OH – Leo – GCH CH Boulder’s N Solterra’s Cimb Ev’ry Mountain

SD – Manning – GCHG CH Kizmar Live for Th’ Applause 

SB – Poppy – GCHB CH Rhapsody Pop N’ Circumstance DS TKN

AOM – Quila – CH Rhapsody Pop a Top at Solterra TKN

AOM – Maker – GCH CH Kizmar Velocity Whisky Business

AOM – Cessna Jean – CH Alpine’s Up, Up, and Away! JH

Rocky Mountain Regional All Breed Championship

The RMVC held a 2 day event this week where 16 dogs competed in 1 hour long braces off horseback – all competing for the Regional Championship title.

Spring 2024 Rocky Mountain Regional All Breed Championship Placements
Congratulations to all! Thanks you to our committee, and our judges Sarah Hayes and Jeff Hoskins!!

1st Place – AFC Lambourn’s Surface To Air Missile “Sam”, Handled by Josh Nieman, Owned by Robin Lambourn
2nd Place – Osage Earth Shaker “Brutus”, Handled by Josh Nieman, Owned by Jake Phipps
3rd Place – FC Fusion’s Make No Mistake TKN “Reckon”, Handled and Owned by Brooke Flavin
4th Place – FC Llano’s Game on Greta “Greta”, Handled by Josh Nieman, Owned by Chad Inderman

2023 Greeley Specialty

Results of the Rocky Mountain Vizsla Club August Specialty, as judged by Linda Clark.

BOB/BOBOH: Parker – GCH CH Renaissance N Brittania’s Changing The Game

WD/BOW: Miles – 5280 Alpha Romeo Spider JH

BOS: Manning – GCHG CH Kizmar Live For Th’Applause

SD: Sterling – GCH CH Everlong’s Revere JH CGC TKA

SB: Cheeky – CH Kizmar 5280 Someone’s Halo Slipped JH NA NAJ OF BCAT ACT1 ACT2J SWM SCME SHDM RATN CGC TKA

AOMs:

Boujee – CH 5280 She Apres Skis in Spyder CGC

Maggie – GCHG CH Sincerus Magnificent Obsession Of Latierra

Dani – GCHB CH Solterra’s N Boulder’s Tru-Ly Inspired MH

WB: Collins – Valhalla’s Three Finger Pour at Vortex JH

Congratulations All!

2023 Blue Jean Specialty

The Rocky Mountain Vizsla Club held its early summer Specialty Show in Longmont, Colorado, on June 1.  We share the evening with the German Shorthair Club of Colorado at a great outdoor location and have a fun evening watching beautiful dogs strut their stuff.  Thank you to our Show Chair, Ginger Sammonds, for all her hard work!

Check out the exciting results below, and be sure to put this Specialty on your calendar for 2024!

Final Sweepstakes line up

Our Sweepstakes judge was Kit Goodrich. 

Best in Puppy Sweepstakes was 5280 Alfa Romeo Spider JH owned by David Trow, Jenny Follett, and Tad Walden. 

Best of Opposite in Sweepstakes was his sister 5280 She Apres Skis in Spyder owned and bred by Jenny Follett.   

Best in Veteran Sweepstakes was GCH Kizmar Live For The’Applause owned by Sarah and Michael Luther. 

Best of Opposite in Veteran Sweepstakes was GCH Gambol JH FDC CGCA TKN owned by Tanya, James and Tatum Duvall and Mary Grant.

Best in Sweepstakes ~ Miles
Best of Opposite in Sweeps ~ Boujee
Best of Opposite in Veteran Sweepstakes – Gambol with owner Tatum
Our youngest handler, Cami Sparrow, in the final line up for Best of Breed with Quila

Our Conformation Judge was Tim Catterson. 

Best of Breed was GCHG Sincerus Magnificent Obsession of LaTierra owned by Laraine Clark and Kelly Park. 

Best of Breed ~ Maggie

Best of Opposite Sex/ Best NOHS was CH Rhapsody Turn Up The Toon owned by Leah and Aaron Davis and Michelle DeLucia. 

Best of Opposite / Best Owner Handled ~ Elroy

Best of Winners/Winners Dog was 5280 Alfa Romeo Spider JH owned by David Trow, Jenny Follett, and Tad Walden.  

Winners Dog / Best of Winners ~ Miles

Reserve Winners Dog was Jen’s Penny Finnley Champagnadanga owned by Kelly and McKenzie Abdon. 

Winners Bitch/Best Puppy/Best Bred By Exhibitor was Everlong’s Pacific The Good Fight owned by Tanya and Tatum Duvall, Mel Reveles, Brooke Flavin. 

Winners Bitch / Best Puppy / Best Bred By Exhibitor – Sloane

Reserve Winners Bitch was Solterra Solo Cup owned by Erica and Cami Sparrow, Corey Garrett, Hannah Westbrook.

Select Dog was GCH Happy Tails Finn McCoom McConville owned by Carol Ann & Robert McConville.

Select Bitch was GCHB Solterra’s N Boulder’s Tru-Ly Inspired MH owned by Shannon Buckvold, James Hrusovsky, Judy Hetkowski, Erica Sparrow.

Award of Merit/Best Veteran was GCH Kizmar Live For The’Applause owned by Sarah and Michael Luther. 

Award of Merit was CH Kizmar 5280 Someone’s Halo Slipped NA NAJ OF JH SWM SHDM RATN TKA owned by Jenny Follett, Marc Spencer MD, Tad Walden.

Award of Merit ~ Cheeky (left) posing with her kids, Miles and Boujee

Best Junior Handler was Tatum Duvall.

2021 Novice/Open Agility

Hard working club volunteers! L to R: Dale Hokens, Alison Rodgers, Katherine Hokens, Jenny Follett, Ginger Sammonds, Lindsay Adams, Neeta Cope, Rod Cope

Well, our first agility trial in several years is complete! Back in January, we decided to host a Novice/Open agility trial as big trials were still canceling due to the pandemic. Colorado Veterinary Specialty Group offered up their facility, and we figured if we crated out of cars we could meet all the requirements for holding an event during the pandemic. What we thought was going to be a small trial actually filled to our limited 250 run capacity! Seems as if there were a lot of Novice and Open dogs who got stuck behind during the pandemic.

The morning briefing. This is just Novice competitors — check out that crowd!!

A huge thank you goes out to our trial Committee — today wouldn’t have happened with your dedication and help planning! Our thanks to: Jenny Follett (Chair), Dale Hokens, Katherine Hokens, Alison Rodgers, and Ginger Sammonds. This group not only worked from start to finish both days but also held several conference calls to plan for the day. They thought of every detail needed, and kept a fun and upbeat atmosphere even though the majority were not competing.

Additional RMVC club members were able to pitch in and help this weekend, or leading up to the event. Couldn’t have done it without Lindsay Tita Adams, Neeta Cope, Rod Cope, Christi Uhrig, Laurie Olson Edwards, Leah Davis, Spencer Sparrow, and Erica Sparrow. This group either came and worked during the weekend, or helped with execution like supply shopping, bringing coolers, check signing, etc. It’s the little details and running around that make these events successful! Thanks to our volunteers, we had plenty of cold water and shade tents. Couldn’t have set up or torn down all the canopies without the help!

Cheeky patiently waiting at the start line — the sport turf at this facility is second to none!

We are also lucky in Colorado to have one of the best trial secretaries in the business; Deb Lewis of Lookout K9 Trials. Our judges this weekend were just amazing! Beth Godwin and Kitty Bradley are both VMOs (special judges that can do official height measurements) and had dozens and dozens of dogs to measure in addition to their judging duties. And they totally did it with a smile! Their courses were very well designed for young dogs and they smiled along with us all day. For the debut at the facility, Dr. Milan Hess was so kind in facilitation the use of her facility . For the equipment gaps, Derrel Manceaux (Front Range Dog Agility Equipment Rental) not only brought the extra equipment, but he stayed and worked with us all day on both days!

There were so many community members that worked all weekend; instructors who came to support their students, people who chipped in when they weren’t running, and unentered enthusiasts who wanted to come give back to the community for a day. We so appreciated all the the help; please know you are appreciated and your efforts did not go unnoticed.

The feedback from the community was so fantastic that we just might have to do this again! Thanks again to everyone that contributed, we couldn’t have pulled it off without you!

Introduction to Scent Work Clinic

Today we held our Beginning Scent Work Clinic, and it was a smashing success! We had a great group of dogs that all made noticeable progress before leaving. Our clinic was taught by AKC Scent Work judge, John Fisher. John did a background on Scent Work, a quick highlight of AKC Scent Work, facilitated the hands-on portion, and rounded everyone back up at the end for a Q&A. Before leaving, everyone received a Scent Work kit that included some birch odor and different hide materials, courtesy of the RMVC.

The cute box contains the birch kit everyone received, along with a folder containing a RMVC sticker, resources to continue the Scent Work education, upcoming RMVC events, and a flyer to join the club!

After the initial introductory information from John, attendees got to watch some advanced dogs in practice! Neeta with Revi & Rumble, Ginger with Kili, and Jenny with Cheeky demonstrated an interior search. Everyone enjoyed watching the advanced dogs do their thing and we were inspired to tackle the drills with all the new dogs!

Revi nailing the scent on the top right corner of the cabinet door.

After seeing what our end goal would be, we learned about the drills we would start today. After a demo by Lindsay and Archer, we broke out into rotation groups and everyone starting training!

By the fourth rotation, the dogs were already scenting more for the odor than the cookie! It was so cool to watch. We had dogs as young as 5 months and as old as 14! It’s truly a sport for all and anyone who owns a Vizsla knows how much they love to use their nose!

We can’t wrap without thanking Perfdog for organizing our entries and paperwork. It made putting on the clinic so much easier! Another huge thank you to Jenny Follett, Neeta & Rod Cope, Ginger Sammonds, and Lindsay Tita Adams, for not only helping to plan the clinic, but for being there to demo our exercises, facilitate the rotation groups, take pictures, and fill our welcome bags and hospitality table. Thank you to Leah Davis for coming early and staying late to help with set up and tear down. John Fisher, thank you for building out the birch kits and running a great clinic! We definitely got a few people hooked on a new game today!

Finally, thank you to all who joined us! We were so pleased to have such a great turn out and hope everyone had fun watching the light bulbs turn on for your pups today! We hope you will use your birch kits to keep practicing and take your skills to the next level.

Fall 2020 Horseback Field Trial

The RMVC had an awesome turnout at our three day fall field trial, September 11-13, 2020. Thank you to all of our judges, committee members and participants for all of your hard work and support. It was great seeing everyone, dogs and horses included! Congratulations to all of our winners!

Link to results
“Wendy” handled by RMVC member Daniel Brooks picked up 4th place in Open Puppy
“Ellie” also with Daniel Brooks took 3rd place in Open Derby