January 2024 News 

Lure Coursing, Club Events, and Dog Shows.  EVERY weekend in January and then some!  

GCH DC Amber Trace Bring It On SC BCAT - Torey  went Coursing and came home with a Best Of Breed win and 1st place in Specials.  She also ran FastCats at the SSRRC events in Brooksville.  She was in the Top 25 the last 2 years in FastCat times so maybe another good year for her in that.  

Amber Trace Burn So Bright ATT - Nina showed at the Brooksville and Ocala shows winning a Reserve Winners placement,  two 4 point majors going Best of Winners and then the next day Best of Opposite over Champions and a Bred By Group 1.  

Amber Trace Pretty Amazing - Liza also showed at the Brooksville and Ocala shows winning her class regularly and earning a Reserve Winners placement also.

January 2022 

January 2022 - Torey and Silas earn their BCAT titles for running FastCats in Brooksville.  Silas also picked up his second major win at the AKC shows and needs only 3 single points to finish his Championship.  Silas just turned 1 years old.  Torey picked up a few Grand Champion points in January.

2021 Going Fast 

Haven't updated our dog news since May!  Wow this year went fast.  Heading into the AKC National Championship shows in a few weeks already. Torey worked on her Grand Champion title and her Field Champion titles and is doing well.  She has all her GCH majors and one FC major.  She is growing up nicely.  She LOVES to run so we hope to have fun on the field with her.  

Puppy Silas started his show career and already has 9 points and one major towards his championship.  He has placed every time he has been in the ring.  Only 3 weekends of shows.  So proud of this boy.  Lots of compliments on him on his looks and his great temperament.  I set him up his own page on the site.    

April News - A New Champion! 

Mazey snagged that final point to complete her championship at the Elkton show on 4/10/21.  Our good friend Raul handled her to the Winner's win.  She showed well for him.  This girl has completed everything we have asked of her and is super sweet.  

Her half sister Torey was in the breed ring and received a 3 point major towards her Grand Championship going Select the same day.  Proud of this young girl too. 

Baby Silas visited his first show and had a blast.  Silas is our singleton puppy from Scarlett born on Christmas Eve.  He is the newest addition to the pack.  One spoiled baby boy!

Great Start to 2021 - 3 New Titles! 

The girls hit the field and the show ring are doing so well.  

Torey (Amber Trace Bring It On) won back to back 5 point majors in January at the Brooksville shows.  So, we now have a new Champion!  At 11 months old this girl likes to strut her stuff and finished easily with 4 majors and 19 total points.  She also completed her JC (Junior Courser) title March and so far LOVES the chase. 

We celebrated with an Ad that will be coming out in the RRCUS magazine soon.

Mazey (Amber Trace It's Amazing To Be Me) also earned her JC (Junior Courser) title.  She was competitive in shows too picking up some class wins and a Reserve Winner's placement at the Lakeland shows in February.  Still chasing that one point to complete her conformation championship.  Sooooo close!

SSRRC Regional Specialty - Orlando  

This year we went to the Ridgeback Regional Specialty show but did not participate in the AKC National Championship shows on the weekend.  COVID limited events and being able to watch the judging on site.  I watched from the live stream and stayed home.  However, on Friday we brought Mazey and Torey to compete.  The entry was 81 Ridgebacks! 

Torey (Amber Trace Bring It On) won 9-12 month puppy girl class and Mazey (Amber Trace It's Amazing To Be Me) won the Bred By Exhibitor girl class. That means I have two girls to show in the Winners class at the same time!  Luckily we have friends to help out and Rhonda (daddy Turk's breeder) showed Mazey for me.  They received a Reserve Winners award.  Here is the official win picture.

Last show of the year for us. 

 

The 3 Sisters in Ocala - October & November 2020 

We finally had some dog shows to go to!  There were multiple weekends of dog shows in Ocala for the young Amber Trace girls to attend.  Lots of Ridgebacks entered and lots of professional handlers here for this circuit of shows.  Sometimes I was the only non-pro in the ring!  All three Amber Trace bred girls managed to pick up a major each from these events.  

Zynga - (Amber Trace SoUnique at Ropasa) was the first to win and get her first points.  Handled by Sweetie Kay and it was a 4 point major.  She was also Reserve Winners the day before.  She is settling nicely and her owner Robyn and I are pleased with her progress.  This wild red head is growing up!  She also has her OFA certifications passing hips, elbows, and cardiac.  

Next was Mazey (Amber Trace It's Amazing To Be Me) who went Winners, Best Of Winners AND Best of Opposite over a special for a 4 point major.  She needs 1 point to finish her championship.  

Then the baby, Torey, (Amber Trace Bring It On) placed as Winners for a 4 point major.  Torey has 9 points now with both her needed majors.  Great for only 9 months old!  

Very happy with all 3 of these girls!

 

Puppies and a Winning Debut 

We welcomed the Zoey & Huey litter on September 17th.  4 boys and 4 girls.  All active and healthy.  We already see pretty heads and colors and nice ridges.  Zoey is the BEST Mom and really enjoys her babies.  

We went to our first dog show 9/26 since January and puppy Torey (Scarlett & Turk) was a rockstar!  She handled all the hustle and noise of a big show well and was curious and outgoing.  Great for my COVID under socialized puppy.  Her very first time in the show ring she won her class then went on to beat all the class girls and go Best of Winners over the boys too!  We were also awarded Best Puppy and Best Owner Handled.  What an awesome start! On the second day, she won her class too. Mazey wasn't as impressed about being back in the ring but she is always easy to show.  She only needs 5 points and is still young too.  We will show in Ocala in October and the outside shows are more fun for the dogs.  

Raul Lopez's puppy Sora from our bred by girl ZsaZsa (Amber & Brody litter) had her ring debut too.  She was Best of Breed 4-6 month puppy and earned a hound group 3 placement.  So fun to watch the next generation growing up. 

So proud of baby Torey!

Mazey Wins at Greenville Shows July 2020 

What an AMAZING trip for our girl Mazey!  She traveled to Greenville, South Carolina with her daddy Turk's owners and was shown by Frank Murphy.  Mazey won Winner's Bitch all 4 show days!  She earned 7 more point towards her championship.  Best of all she was happy and traveled well.  She enjoyed camping in a motorhome and playing with other dogs.  At least one of us went on a vacation this year.  Proud of our girl.

Amber Trace It's Amazing To Be Me