Florida Agility
a guide to dog agility competition in Florida
Pro Trial Secretaries
Trial Site List
- Adel, GA - Reed Bingham State Park
- Alachua - DogStar Performance Dog Sports
- Apopka/Zellwood - NOCIA
- Baker - Baker Area Recreation Association
- Bainbridge, GA - Cloud Livestock Facility
- Brooksville - Florida Classic Park
- Brooksville - Sonlight Ranch and K-9 Events Center
- Daytona Beach/New Smyrna Beach - Silver Sands Bridle Club
- Deland - Central Florida Dog Sports
- Elkton - St. Johns County Fairgrounds
- Fort Pierce - St. Lucie County Fairgrounds
- Fort White - Pawsitively Fun Dog Training
- Jacksonville - Jacksonville Equestrian Center
- Kissimmee - Silver Spurs Arena
- Lady Lake - NorAust
- Lakeland - Imperial Polk Obedience Club
- Marianna - Jackson County Agriculture Center
- Miami - Tropical Park
- Monticello - Misty Lakes Pet Boarding Resort
- Morriston - Trained Dog Happy Dog
- Ocala - Greater Ocala Dog Club
- Ocala - Marion-Alachua Dog Training Association
- Ocala - World Equestrian Center
- Orlando - Orange County Convention Center
- Orlando - Practice Makes Pawfect
- Palm Bay - Indian River Dog Training Club
- Palmetto - Manatee County Fairgrounds
- Pensacola - Escambia County Equestrian Center
- Perry, GA - Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter
- Punta Gorda - Bratty Paws Dog Plex
- Punta Gorda - Playback Agility Field
- Sorrento - Featuring Agility
- St. Petersburg - Dog Training Club of St. Petersburg
- Tampa - Dog Training Club of Tampa
- Valrico - Cool Critters
- Wiersdale/Lady Lake - The Grand Oaks Resort
- Williston - Paws and Ques
- Zephyrhills - Pasco Paws
Trial Statistics
These statistics are a byproduct of a spreadsheet that I use to keep track of trials. I cannot report on numbers of runs, etc. Except for AKC, the figures are just not there. Even then it takes weeks to get the numbers from the AKC.
CPE Info
CPE is the second most popular venue in the terms of trial weekends and trial days. The bulk of the trials are currently held in the main part of Florida north of Tampa. All of these sites are outdoors on grass. Recently, Calusa has been offering CPE trials at Bratty Paws (indoors on synthetic turf). Also, the introduction of CPE Speedway events that consist of hoops, barrels and tunnels and the smaller space requirements have prompted IPOC to hold some Summer Speedway events on their indoor mats.
Some useful CPE links
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Subscribe to Calendar
If you desire, you can subscribe to the individual venue calendars with your own personal calendar program. The iCal links to each of the venue calendars is located below:
The method used will depend upon each system and application. If you click on a link, it may open the appropriate application and start the process or you may have to copy the link (usually "right click" and select copy link) and then paste it into the application of your choice (this is usually the safest way if you have multiple apps that handle the iCal links).
DACOF
DACOF is a state wide agility team competition that is usually held at the end of June at a large indoor facility. It is not sanctioned by any organization but generally follows AKC rules. Teams are sponsored by clubs or can just be a group of individuals that train together.
DACOF also has a Facebook group
If you would like to organize a team, you need to start planning by January. Check the “Send a Team” title on the DACOF web site for what you need to do to send a team. Also check the “Important Deadlines” page on the site for the various deadlines. These deadlines will also be in the Floridaagility Calendar.
Organizations Hosting Trials
- Atlanta Kennel Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Bratty Paws Dog Plex (UKI, USDAA) - website facebook instagram
- Brilliant Dogs (UKI) - website facebook instagram
- Calusa Dogs Agility Club (AKC, CPE, UKI) - website facebook
- Central Florida Dog Sports (AKC) - website facebook
- Central Florida Obedience Dog Club (AKC) - facebook
- Central Florida Toy Fox Terrier Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Cool Critters (NADAC, TDAA) - website facebook
- Dog Agility Competition Of Florida (DACOF) - website facebook
- Doberman Pinscher Club of Florida (AKC) - facebook
- Dog Obedience Club of Hollywood (AKC) - website
- Dog Obedience Club of Lee County (AKC) - website facebook
- DogStar Performance Dog Sports (UKI) - website facebook instagram youtube pinterest
- Dog Training Club of St Petersburg (AKC) - website facebook facebook agility trials
- Dog Training Club of Tampa (AKC, TDAA) - website facebook instagram twitter
- Dog-On-It Agility Club of Central Florida (AKC, USDAA, UKI) - website facebook
- Five Flags Dog Training Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Florida Pan-Handlers ASC (ASCA) - website facebook
- Greater Ocala Dog Club (AKC) - website
- Greater Panama City Dog Fanciers' Association (AKC) - website
- Heartland Dog Club of Florida (AKC) - website facebook
- Imperial Polk Obedience Club (AKC, SCPE, UKC) - website facebook
- Indian River Dog Training Club (TDAA) - website facebook
- Marion Alachua Dog Training Association (AKC, UKC) - website facebook
- Miami Obedience Club (AKC) - website facebook
- NorAust k9 Sports (AKC, CPE) - website facebook
- Obedience Club of Daytona Beach (AKC) - website facebook
- Obedience Training Club of Palm Beach County (AKC) - website facebook
- Ochlockonee River Kennel Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Palm Bay Agility Club (AKC) - website
- Pals and Paws Dog Agility Club (AKC, USDAA) - website facebook
- Pawsitive Action K9 Sports (CPE) website facebook
- Pawsitively Fun Dog Training Group (USDAA) - facebook
- Sarasota Obedience Training Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Shetland Sheepdog Club of Southeast Florida (AKC) - website facebook
- Sonlight Ranch and K9 Events Center (AKC, CPE) - website facebook
- Sunshine Belgian Tervuren Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Sunshine Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Tailwaggers Learning Center (AKC) - website facebook
- Tampa Bay Agility Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Tampa Bay Area Shetland Sheepdog Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Tampa Bay Boxer Club - (NADAC) website
- Tampa Bay German Shepherd Dog Club (AKC) - facebook
- Trained Dog Happy Dog (CPE) - website
- Treasure Coast Kennel Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Upper Suncoast Dog Training Club (AKC) - website facebook
- Valdosta Kennel Club (AKC) - facebook
NADAC Info
NADAC is in the bottom tier (under 20 trial days per year) of trials in Florida. All of the trials are in the Tampa area and do not have RV facilities. They are mostly outdoors on grass and a summer trial indoors at DTCT. Ileana Nadal, who hosted most of the NADAC trials recently passed and the future of NADAC trials in Florida is TBD.
- Main Page
- Trial Calendar
- Rules (link may break if they are updated - let me know)
TDAA Info
TDAA is in the bottom tier (under 20 trial days per year) of trials in Florida. Most trials are in the middle of the peninsula. They are mostly in indoor training buildings on mats.
AKC Info
The most popular of the venues. Nearly half of the trial sets and over half of the trial days. Most AKC events are held indoors on artificial turf or in outdoor covered areas on dirt. A few are held outdoors on grass. Most of the AKC sites have RV facilities or will allow dry camping. The major exception is the indoor site at St Petersburg which does not have room. AKC trials are held in all parts of the state from Pensacola to Miami. Most weekends will have at least one set of trials and I have seen as many as four AKC trial sets spread across the state.
Some useful AKC links:
- Main web site
- Agility Section
- Agility Regulations
- Event Search
- Old Style Event Search (FL only) Note, you can edit the URL to include multiple or different states by changing the “states=“ string for example, states=FL,GA. You can also change the activity by changing the abbreviation following the grouping=AG to another valid abbreviation such as SCWK, FCAT, etc. Multiple activities can be specified by specifying something like grouping=AG,FCAT. Once you get the results you like, just bookmark the page and you can repeat the search anytime you like.
- Social Media
UKC Info
UKC is in the bottom tier (under 20 trial days per year) of trials in Florida. The trials are basically offered by two clubs. MADTA in Ocala and IPOC in Lakeland. IPOC trials are indoors on mats and MADTA is usually outdoors with Obedience, etc in their building.
Links for UKC
ASCA info
The Australian Shepherd Club of America ranks in the bottom tier of agility trials in Florida. A single club offers four sets of three day trials a year. The trials are held under a covered arena (Baker, FL) in the panhandle..
Some useful ASCA links:
- ASCA main site
- ASCA event search
- ASCA agility rules (note a change may break the link - let me know)
Other Info
Each venue is actually a separate calendar. At the upper right corner of the calendar (next to the view modes) there is a little downward pointing triangle. If you click on the triangle, a list of the individual calendars will appear. You can select which organizations to view in the calendar. This can be handy if there are more events than can be displayed.
Event Sorting in the calendar The following are my observations on how the events in the calendar are displayed.
- The starting date and length of the event. A three or four day event will appear before a two day weekend event.
- Calendar name - AKC will appear before CPE, etc.
- Event title
If your calendar program can handle the iCal format, you can subscribe to these individual calendars - click here for more info.
If you use a Google calendar, you can copy specific events to your own calendar. Click on the event and click on the “copy to my calendar” link at the bottom.
For events outside of Florida, I normally select events that are at least four days long (and I would consider the drive from Plant City) or national & world championships (information links included but no active premium search). For example, I will list the four/five day trials in Perry, GA but not the three day weekend trials. If you can think of an event that I should include, use the contact webmaster link below to suggest it.
I am considering Valdosta Kennel Club a “Florida” club for agility trials held near Valdosta since it is so close to the Florida-Georgia line and likely attracts a number of Florida competitors. The premiums will be distributed but the trials do not count as Florida trials in the stats.
UKI Info
UKI lies in the middle tier of organizations in Florida. Not as many trials as AKC or CPE but significantly more than the organizations in the bottom tier. The UKI US-OPEN will reside in Jacksonville for the next few years. Anyone can attend the US OPEN but you can earn byes into the later rounds at UKI trials. Most of the trial sites are on grass with some trials on artificial turf at Bratty Paws. The US OPEN is held at the Jacksonville Equestrian center using the Indoor arena, the outdoor covered arena and some open arenas as necessary.
UKI Links
- Main Page
- US OPEN
- Event Calendar
- Rules Due to the nature of the link it will break if it is updated - let me know
- Facebook - Main
- Facebook - US Open
Welcome to the new Florida Agility
Note: The address has changed to http://floridagility.com (only one a in the middle). Floridaagility.com will redirect to this page for a while. The email address is changing to floridagility@gmail.com but the old one will work for a while.
This new site makes extensive use pop up windows like this for displaying information, sub menus, etc. For example, clicking on one of the organizations in the beginning of the page will open a pop up window with information for that organization. To close this and all the other pop up windows just click the “X” in the upper right corner. The text in most of the pop up windows is scrollable.
The old site will remain available at http://floridaagility.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/index.html for a limited time. This is mostly so I do not have to relink all the calendar entries. If there is something from the old site that you would like to see on this site, let me know. Old links to premiums in the calendar to the old site will also get you into the old site structure.
This pop up will set a cookie so it will appear once (actually, it will appear again a year from now if I forget to remove the code!) . If you want to see it again, click on the New Site info link at the bottom of the front page. If you use a private/incognito window or different browser or regularly toss your cookies this will pop up again.
The general philosophy of this site is to open documents not within the Florida Agility navigation structure in a new tab/window.
Do let me know if you spot any errors or bad links.
USDAA Info
USDAA lies in the middle tier of organizations in Florida. Not as many trials as AKC or CPE but significantly more than the organizations in the bottom tier. Most USDAA trials are held in the north half of Florida. Most of the trials are on grass but Pals & Paws does them on dirt indoors at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center or outdoors on dirt under cover at the St. Johns county fairgrounds.
USDAA Links
Notification Options
The following are the notification options. In general they are the easiest (and most invasive) to the most difficult (and least invasive) order:
- Social Media - Just click on the Twitter or Facebook icons in the footer and like/follow the Floridaagility page.
- Email - Every day at 6 am there is an email robot that will generate an email if any activity has occurred the previous twenty four hours. This would be my favorite since it is focused (no additional clutter to wade through). The following is the process
- Click here (after you have completed reading the following steps)
- You will be taken to a form to fill in. Enter your email address and optionally your name.Click on subscribe. If you do not provide a name, it will be addressed to Agility Enthusiast (a real name would make it less spammy). We once had a woman named Candy who only provided her first name. Guess who her emails were addressed to!
- Receive email to confirm your email address (Check your spam folder if you do not receive it in a few minutes) Click on the link to confirm your email address.
- Receive an email confirming your subscription
- RSS Feed - This is the most anonymous of the options. I do not know who is subscribed or even how many are subscribed. The feed is used to feed the posts to social media and email. There are numerous news readers that will handle RSS feeds (blogs). Often, when a reader is offered on multiple platforms, they will sync between the various devices so you can pickup on a device where you left off on another device. I currently use Feedly on my Macs and iDevices. Either click on this link or copy the feed link address. (if you utilize this type of service they will have to keep track of the sites that you visit) If you have a reader on your system and it has told the system to route the request to it, it should be activated and you will be requested to add the feed to your news feeds. Otherwise, copy the link address and paste it into your news app.
FEED LINK: http://floridaagility.com/premiums/premiums-index.xml
Trial Status
The trial status is represented by an emoji as the first character of the calendar entry. The following is a list of the emojis used and their meaning:
⚠️ A tentative or corresponding event. I create these events for the next year around the time of the current event. Clubs own a weekend and the licensing organization enforces a mileage restriction on other clubs holding trials on the same weekend without permission from the club that owns the weekend. Weekend number one is the first weekend in January unless Saturday falls on the 1st or 2nd (AKC and most others USDAA is January 1 only) in which case the next weekend is weekend number one.
✅ The trial has been scheduled on the licensing organization calendar. At this time I add additional information to the calendar entry and enter it into the trial tracking spreadsheet.
😀 The premium or test schedule is available and the trial may be open for entry. I add a link to the calendar entry to the page on this site that has the summary information and a link to the premium.
🚫 The trial has been cancelled. A tentative event may or may not be scheduled for the following year.
🏁 After the trial status on a CPE trial indicates that this is a Speedway event.
🌐 After the trial status on an AKC trial indicates an ISC ONLY event.
Other indicators in the event title
🌖 - Indicates an evening trial
(BS) - Indicates a Breed Speciality or restricted breeds trial Note, not all days may be breed specific, check the notes in the calendar entry.
m/d-m/d - For an AKC trial these are the month and day of the opening and closing relative to the trial.
O/N - Open and Novice only trial - Standard & Jumpers are Open & Novice only. Other classes like T2B and FAST may also be offered. FAST may allow all levels.
