Salinas-Monterey Agility Racing Team

12/08/2025

The rumors are true! SMART is having a December show. After few fits and starts, we've uploaded the premiums for our December 27-29 show at Thorson's Arena to the SMART website (still waiting for the premiums to be reflected on the USDAA and UKI websites).

Saturday and Sunday feature UKI and USDAA. UKI US Open judge McKenzie Minto will be designing and judging the UKI courses on Saturday and Sunday, and Leslie Bickel will be designing and judging the USDAA courses on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Saturday's schedule includes:
UKI - Open Gamblers, S/C and B/N Agility, Masters Series Agility and Open Speedstakes
USDAA - Starters and Masters Jumpers, Snooker, Steeplechase and Biathlon Jumpers

Sunday's schedule includes:
UKI - S/C and B/N Jumping, Masters Series Jumping and S/C and B/N Speedstakes
USDAA - Starters and Masters Standard, Gamblers, Biathlon Standard, Combined Pairs and Grand Prix

Monday will feature USDAA 2-Dog Team

Event info can be found at:
https://smartagility.com/events/index.html

UKI premium:
https://smartagility.com/events/docs/20251227/SMARTUKI20251227.pdf

USDAA premium:
https://smartagility.com/events/docs/20251227/SMARTUSDAA20251227.pdf

RV sign up:
https://forms.gle/6eaFbCmBhTiKuPDd8

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07/29/2025

Don't forget that the SMART USDAA/UKI show for this coming weekend closes today! Friday we will have USDAA titling classes (Starters/Masters), two rounds of Pairs, Grand Prix and Steeplechase. Saturday and Sunday's UKI courses will be designed by UKI US Open 2025 judges Peyton Green and Sangie Brooks!

We will also have a practice ring all weekend long. Cost will be $20/day or $40 for the entire weekend

Premiums posted on the SMART website https://smartagility.com/events/index.html as well as the UKI and USDAA websites.

Look forward to seeing you this weekend!

August 1 - 3, 2025, Manzanita Park, Prunedale UKI Designing Judges: Peyton Green and Sangie Brooks UKI & USDAA Judge: Roger Ly USDAA Premium UKI Premium RV Sign Up

07/09/2025

The SMART premiums for our August show are now available on the SMART website as well as the USDAA and UKI websites. The show will be at Manzanita Park in Prunedale on August 1-3. It will be held in conjunction with the Peninsula Australian Shepherd Association ASCA show that same weekend! Friday will be USDAA followed by two days of UKI on Saturday and Sunday

Friday USDAA:
Judged by Roger Ly

We are experimenting with a change to classes offered at our USDAA shows. If you attended the June show, you will remember that we are looking at possibly limiting or eliminating the Advanced titling classes at our shows. At most shows, the Advanced classes are composed of 1-4 total dogs, and having the class ends up adding 30-45 minutes per class, sometimes for just one dog. As those who have done USDAA for a while have noticed, the Advanced class is this weird class that is either not much more than Starters, or just slightly easier than Masters, and in many cases, a lot less flowy and friendly to dogs. Also, in the past couple of years, USDAA has made it an option for dogs to enter any level that they feel prepared for -- with many dogs skipping directly to Masters since that's what they are training in classes these days.

So, for this show, we will be offering all five titling classes (Standard, Jumpers, Gamblers, Snooker and Relay), but only offering Starters/P1 and Masters/P3/V levels for these classes. This helps eliminate four classes and 2+ hours in the day. We will also offer Grand Prix and Steeplechase.

Have a question on which level you should enter? Please feel free to reach out and we can help figure it out for you.

Saturday/Sunday UKI:
Designed by Peyton Green and Sangie Brooks
Judged by Roger Ly

We are excited to have some fun courses designed by Peyton and Sangie at the show. For those who are going to the US Open in Florida this year, this would be a great time to get some experience on courses designed by two of the judges at the event. Both days will offer Agility, Jumping, Speedstakes and Gamblers at the B/N and S/C levels (Sunday's Gamblers class will be an Open class -- all levels). Also, we will be offering Masters Series on Saturday and Biathlon on Sunday.

Practice Ring:
We will be offering a practice ring at the show. Cost will be $20/day or $40 for the entire weekend. Please bring cash to pay at the show.

Volunteers needed:
We could use a crew chief for each day of the show. We could also use a course builder at the show. Crew chief and course builder will get one free entry for their dog for each day that they volunteer. Entry can be split across multiple dogs if desired. Full-timers would also be appreciated. If you would like to come and help gate, set bars, leash run or whatever for a full day, we will comp $75/day.

August 1 - 3, 2025, Manzanita Park, Prunedale UKI Designing Judges: Peyton Green and Sangie Brooks UKI & USDAA Judge: Roger Ly USDAA Premium UKI Premium RV Sign Up

04/18/2025

Are you looking for some ring time in a practice ring at a trial? Then we've got an opportunity for you!

All day Saturday at the SMART USDAA show at Manzanita Park in Prunedale, we will have a practice ring available to use. Need to practice small sequences? Work on your contacts? Solidify those start lines? Then this is a perfect opportunity to do it in a trial environment.

You can bring a toy (non-audible). You can safely use props on the equipment. You can even bring food into the practice ring.

Cost for ring usage will be $25 for the day. If you are entered in the show or are just showing up for the ring, you can pay Katrina when you arrive.

The ring will be converted into a competition ring when Saturday's classes are complete, and will only be available on Saturday.

Also if you forgot to send your entry for the weekend and wanted to enter, I'm sure we could figure something out!

Hope to see you there!

09/04/2024

Steven Rice Photography has just posted photos from the SMART show at the end of August on his website.

https://gallery.stevenricephoto.com/smartagility-aug24/

If some are too dark (taken at the end of the day), they will be fixed/brightened after purchase. Please contact him via his website or via Messenger if you have any questions.

Photo collection by Steven Rice Photography

08/27/2024

Happy and tired. Fire's face captures how I feel right now. Stopped in Southern Oregon on my way to the Canadian Open but I wanted to thank everyone who came out to the Salinas-Monterey Agility Racing Team show this weekend.

We tried something a little different to get a little bit of everything for those were were looking to try different flavors of agility. For the most part, it went well, but we may have been a tad bit ambitious with the schedule, especially Sunday when the last dog finished running after 6pm. After teardown, a few of the hardcore people left the park at 9:15!!!

Anyways, I wanted to first thank Dave Grubel for designing some fun courses this weekend. I spent Saturday afternoon and Sunday judging one of the rings so I got a front row seat for some challenges I would've loved to run. Fire did play on a fast and run Speedstakes course as white dog and gave it four paws up.

Thank you to everyone who helped out to keep things moving all weekend. Everyone who set a bar, ran a leash, helped build a course -- you all are appreciated.

Thank you to Katherine Lai, Laura Hartwick and Kathy Quiroz for helping staff the rings, and Erika Maurer for helping with the ribbons. Big thanks to Kelly Chaffin, Dustin Kerwin and Mike Scannell for all your help building courses. And thanks to our full timers Karey Krauter (on Saturday) and Mardee and Raymond Jang.

To everyone who stayed to help pack the trailers, thank you sooooo much! I'm afraid to miss anyone, and if I did, it was completely unintentional: Jennifer Carlisle Voelkel, Kelly, Mike, Debbie Ogg, Julie Craig and everyone else.

And as always, thank you so much Katrina Parkinson and Tracy M. Duncan for everything you do to make the show run, before, during and after it is over. And for keeping me sane. And for being there until the bitter end (and having the chance to look at the stars afterwards)

One night in Oregon, another in Washington and then crossing the border to BC and Chilliwack for the Canadian Open this weekend!

Photo credit to Sarah Hitzeman

07/29/2024

The premiums for SMART's August shows at Manzanita Park have been posted to SMART's website (as well as the USDAA and UKI websites). We will have two days of UKI AND USDAA on August 24 and 25 in beautiful Prunedale.

Dave Grubel will be designing courses for the weekend and he and Roger Ly will be judging in two rings.

Saturday will be a tournament day for those looking for last minute tournament Qs/byes for the US Open or Cynosport/Regionals. We will have GP, Steeplechase, Biathlon and Masters Series on Saturday as well as some young dog USDAA titling classes (Starters/Advanced USDAA titling)

Sunday will be titling for USDAA and UKI.

Also on Sunday, we will be bringing back the Bar None Jumpers class for your veteran dogs who might want to run around on a jumpers course with bars set on the ground. It is a ton of fun to see some of the older dogs get a chance to play the game that they have loved but may not be able to physically perform the sport like they used to!

Get details for everything (including premium, RV sign up, bar none sign up and a tentative schedule at https://smartagility.com/events/index.html

06/10/2024

We wanted to let you know that we are cancelling our July SMART show next month.

There are a variety of reasons for the cancellation, including the competing UKI Festival in the PNW followed by a USDAA Regional in the same area. In addition, there are a number of recent and upcoming USDAA/UKI shows that we worry would lead to burn out from competitors and hurt overall entries to a point where we couldn't likely hold the show without an overall loss, financially for the club.

We are going to focus our energy on our August show in Prunedale and our big NYE show at Thorson's.

Stay tuned for information about both shows!

12/07/2023

Hey, can whoever is currently the admin of this page remove me as an admin? I can't figure out how to do it, and I am extremely unlikely to ever be acting as admin here anymore. (signed, Ellen Finch)

11/13/2023

Events Calendar Event Type* Click on a column heading in the table below to sort by Dates, Host Group, Event Location, or Event Type. Dates Event/Host Event Location Event Type 11/10/2023 - 11/12/2023 Dog-On-It Agility Club of Central Florida FL, Apopka Titling & Tournament Classes 11/10/2023 - 11/1...

11/13/2023

Our New Years trial premium is available!!!!

Events Calendar Event Type* Click on a column heading in the table below to sort by Dates, Host Group, Event Location, or Event Type. Dates Event/Host Event Location Event Type 11/10/2023 - 11/12/2023 Dog-On-It Agility Club of Central Florida FL, Apopka Titling & Tournament Classes 11/10/2023 - 11/1...

10/24/2023

NEW YEARS Trial!!!
Friday Dec 29 UKI - ONE DAY
Sat/Sun Dec 30-31 USDAA - two days.
Judges Paco and Meagan!

Mark your calendars! Premiums coming out in November.