Scent Work Trials December 2024

AKC Scent Work Trials

NKC hosted its last event of the 2024 at Werner Park in Sarpy County on December 6-8, 2024. We couldn’t have had nicer weather for December! Our judges (Johnnette Ulch, Sharon Dowell, Brenda Bruce, and Jeff Hartzler set fun and challenging searches for our teams to conquer. This trial was the biggest trial we have had at Werner Park and required some class juggling to keep our judges under their maximum judging times! Overall, we had 70 people showing 99 dogs in 637 runs. There was a 60% pass rate for the entire weekend which included the Detective classes. The fastest run of the weekend was 2.40 seconds in Novice B Exterior. Zarah, owned by Dahna Huddleson, achieved this fast time.  

Friday, we held our detective and buried trials with 65 teams competing.  For the first time our detective trials filled with 20 runs in each trial.  We even had a waiting list!  

Saturday and Sunday, we had one trial each day consisting of handler discrimination, interiors, exteriors and containers.  There were 84 competing teams on Saturday and 81 teams on Sunday.

Six dogs and handlers achieved super title this weekend. On Friday, we had two dogs and handlers achieve their Detective Titles. They were Riley, owned by Lori Tranmer and Rayna owned by Gerianne Darnell, both club members!!. That was a trifecta for Rayna this year. She also earned her Obedience Trial Championship and Rally Championship earlier in the year (not to forget that she also got her TD too)!  Thank you to Judge Jeff Hartzler for presenting badges to our new detective dogs.  We also had four dog and handler teams finish their Overall Master Titles. They were Pip, owned by Trish Burbach; Quincy, owned by Teresa Barney; Caper, owned by Jenny Vincent; and Smash; owned by Jen Howell. Congratulations to these six exceptional teams!

AKC Scent Work Trials

NKC hosted its last event of the 2024 at Werner Park in Sarpy County on December 6-8, 2024. We couldn’t have had nicer weather for December! Our judges (Johnnette Ulch, Sharon Dowell, Brenda Bruce, and Jeff Hartzler set fun and challenging searches for our teams to conquer. This trial was the biggest trial we have had at Werner Park and required some class juggling to keep our judges under their maximum judging times! Overall, we had 70 people showing 99 dogs in 637 runs. There was a 60% pass rate for the entire weekend which included the Detective classes. The fastest run of the weekend was 2.40 seconds in Novice B Exterior. Zarah, owned by Dahna Huddleson, achieved this fast time.  

Friday, we held our detective and buried trials with 65 teams competing.  For the first time our detective trials filled with 20 runs in each trial.  We even had a waiting list!  

Saturday and Sunday, we had one trial each day consisting of handler discrimination, interiors, exteriors and containers.  There were 84 competing teams on Saturday and 81 teams on Sunday.

Six dogs and handlers achieved super title this weekend. On Friday, we had two dogs and handlers achieve their Detective Titles. They were Riley, owned by Lori Tranmer and Rayna owned by Gerianne Darnell, both club members!!. That was a trifecta for Rayna this year. She also earned her Obedience Trial Championship and Rally Championship earlier in the year (not to forget that she also got her TD too)!  Thank you to Judge Jeff Hartzler for presenting badges to our new detective dogs.  We also had four dog and handler teams finish their Overall Master Titles. They were Pip, owned by Trish Burbach; Quincy, owned by Teresa Barney; Caper, owned by Jenny Vincent; and Smash; owned by Jen Howell. Congratulations to these six exceptional teams!

Detective Trials July 2024

AKC Detective Trials

Sunday, July 28, 2024
Margre H. Durham Student Center
Bellevue University
1000 Galvin Road S, Bellevue NE 68005

The Nebraska Kennel Club will be holding Detective Trials in July at Bellevue University on Sunday July 28, 2024! Entries open Wednesday, June 12 at 9am. Click the links below for the Premium List and Entry Form:

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Click here for the Detective Trials Entry Form

Scent Work Trials July 2024

AKC Scent Work Trials

Friday through Sunday, July 12-14, 2024
Iowa Western Community College
2700 College Road, Council Bluffs, IA 51503

The Nebraska Kennel Club will be holding Scent Work Trials in July at Iowa Western Community College, Friday thru Sunday, July 12 – 14, 2024! Entries open Wednesday, May 29 at 9am. Click the links below for the Premium List and Entry Form:

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Scent Work Trials December 2023

AKC Scent Work Trials

December 8 – 10, 2023
Werner Park
12356 Ballpark Way, Papillion, NE 68046

The Nebraska Kennel Club will be holding AKC Scent Work Trials December 8 – 10 at Werner Park.

On Friday Dec 8 there will be two trials with the Detective class and the Buried element (N-M) offered in each one.

On Saturday and Sunday December 9 & 10 there will be one trial each day with the following elements offered: Containers (N-M), Interior (N-M), & Exterior (N-M); plus Handler Discrimination (N-M).

Click the following links to view and download the Premium List and Entry Forms:

NKC Scent Work Trials Dec 8 – 10 2023 Premium List
NKC Scent Work Trials Dec 8 – 10 2023 Entry Form

Scent Work Detective Trials July 31, 2022

Scent Work Detective Trials

There were two Scent Work Detective Trials held on Sunday July 31. 2022 at the Dowell Farm, in Glenwood, IA.

Both trials had 13 entries. Trial #1 had 2 passes, Trial #2 had 4 passes. Congratulations to each of the passing teams!

The Scent Work Detective Class offers an integrated search environment with an unknown number of hides in a variety of elements. The intent of the Detective Class is to emulate as closely as possible the work of a true detection dog.

Scent Work Trials Dec 10 – 12, 2021

December Scent Work Trials

Dec 10 – 12, 2021
Werner Park

We’d like to thank the judges, volunteers and exhibitors for making our Scent Work Trials were a great success! Photos now available! Click the links below to view photos from the event.

Photo Galleries

Gallery 1 – Friday (Detective Class)

Gallery 2 – Saturday Morning
Gallery 3 – Saturday 12:45 – 3pm
Gallery 4 – Saturday 3pm – Close

Gallery 5 – Sunday Morning
Gallery 6 – Sunday Noon – 3pm
Gallery 7 – Sunday 3pm – Close

Photography by Devin Garvey of Devin’s Purple Poodles