Aussie Acres Agility

10/12/2025

What beautiful October day. We have been treated to the most fabulous Fall weather for playing agility outdoors (there will be plenty of indoor play coming soon enough).
Thanks to the great group of handlers who came to work on the many varied ways to handle Backsides! We even had an audience 🐓 at the beginning, but then they must have gotten bored and left.
The finale for the day was the beautiful sunset 🌅 while I worked on building this week’s course. Now to rest up for another fun week of teaching my fantastic students all about the sport I love!

10/10/2025

UKI at Home entries are open- $9 per entry: Ag 1 SS 1 60x80 offered.

10/03/2025

October Happenings at Aussie Acres Agility:

Now that the weather has cooled it's time to get down to training. It may be cool for us, but it's perfect for your canine partner!

🐾🐾 Weekend Workshop are back and we are starting with
BACKSIDES!
Saturday Oct. 11- Beginning Backsides: beginning at 12:30- Postponed

Sunday Oct. 12- Handling Backsides in Sequence: beginning at 12:30 FULL

Workshop participation: 5 participants (session 2 hours), 6 participants (session 2 1/2 hours). Cost $50
PM to sign up. Payment in advance is required to hold your spot for workshops.

🐾🐾UKI Stay Home Trial October 16-27 (with judge Andre Landry): Trial opens Oct. 8 and closes for entries Oct. 14.

Aussie Acres will be providing handlers with the opportunity to do a UKI Stay Home trial. Handlers must sign up for the event with UKI in order to have the opportunity to post a video for judging and the possibility of earning points toward titles. Handlers who do not plan on posting videos for judging, do not need to sign up with UKI for this trial and are welcome to come and get the feel of Stay Home trial course for training purposes. It is important that all participants in Stay Home trials read and understand the rules for their participation.
- Classes offered Agility 1 and SpeedStakes 1: 60x80 ring size
- Students currently taking classes or are in private lessons can use their class/lesson time with no additional charge to work on getting a video to post for judging.
- All other handlers will be charged $10 to come and use the fields that hold the Stay Home trial courses, for your attempts to get a video for judging. You must PM to request time to use the course and have signed up with UKI for this Stay Home trial.
- Handler who want to rental the fields and run the Stay Home courses for training purposes will be charged a ring rental fee. PM for more information.

🐾🐾Second Weekend Workshop in October: Threadles- Learn the basics of teaching your dog the advanced technique of a Threadle Slice.
Saturday October 25 Beginning at 12:30 FULL
Workshop participation: 5 participants (session 2 hours), 6 participants (session 2 1/2 hours). Cost $50
PM to sign up. Payment in advance is required to hold your spot for workshops.

09/30/2025

📢⚠️ Reminder about Rally and Obedience classes being held at Aussie Acres Agility Indoor!

Beginning Wednesday October 8th, running for 6 weeks. Cost $180

🐾🐾12-1 pm- Rally Advanced (And Beyond!)

🐾🐾1-2 pm- Intro to Beginner Novice Obedience and Rally Novice

🐾🐾Private lessons will be available at 2pm on Wednesdays with at least 24 hours notice.

☎️💻 Contact Kate Basedow at [email protected] if interested in classes for this session, or if other times will work better for you in the spring and summer!

09/30/2025

Fall has arrived at Aussie Acres Agility

Another Summer has come and gone. Aussie Acres classes, lessons and a wonderful seminar (with our UKI judge) kept things active and busy in the agility fields. The second UKI Agility trial closed out the summer and was well attended and proved to be very successful in all aspects. It was great to watch experienced handlers working with their dogs on challenging courses as well as new handlers getting in the ring for the first time.

And exciting new addition to Aussie Acres Agility was introduced this summer as well and will provide students with new training opportunities throughout the year. The Aussie Acres Indoor has been completed and is ready for training. It will provide a training space in all types of weather. Stay posted for more indoor training opportunities to come.

As Fall moves in quickly, Aussie Acres is working to provide a variety of training opportunities.

***Rally/Obedience Training Classes will begin on October 8th. Contact Kate Basedow for more information.
More Rally/Obedience Training classes in the Spring are also planned.

***UKI Stay Home Agility Trial- Aussie Acres will hold UKI trials which handlers sign up and post videos online for judging and to earn points toward titles. More to follow. For more information on rules for UKI Stay Home Trials refer to the UKI website.

****Weekend Work shops- Aussie Acres weekend workshops will begin again. Providing single topic workshops for short sessions. Stay tuned for announced workshops, coming soon.

*****Classes and Lessons- Aussie Acres continues to provide weekly class sessions from beginner to advanced. Private lessons are available by request. Contact me for more information for availability for either.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who supports Aussie Acres; whether it is by attending classes/lessons, workshops/seminars, the UKI trial, or just with your kind words and encouragement. You all make it easy for me to provide "all things Agility" to you and your pets!

09/25/2025

Let it rain 🌧️ ☔️. We did not get wet! First class in the indoor!! So much fun playing in dirt!

09/23/2025

RALLY and OBEDIENCE at Aussie Acres!
Starting October 8, Kate Basedow will be offering six weeks of rally and obedience classes on Wednesdays from noon to 3pm in the Aussie Acres indoor arena. Please let Kate know what times work for you (12pm, 1pm, or 2pm) and if you are interested in basic obedience, competition obedience, or rally. Exact times for which class will be determined based on interest.
Next year we are also planning to offer sessions in April/May, June/July, and August/September. Times will change for each session to accommodate daylight and weather for each season.
Kate grew up training and showing dogs in a variety of sports. In obedience she has earned two (CDX) Companion Dog Excellent titles (and hopes to one day get a UD!), and in Rally she has earned one Rally Championship (RACH) and is working on two more. When not training for competitive sports, she and her dogs love trick training, going for long walks, and sharing snacks.

Cost: 6 week Rally or Obedience class is $180.

For more information and to sign up contact Kate at [email protected]

09/19/2025

Aussie Acres Agility benefit for Elmore SPCA update:

A couple more donations came in since the completion of the UKI trial, bringing the total to $232. My goal for this fund raiser was to encourage everyone to donate $1/run entered by each dog/handler team. There was a total of 237 for the two days of the trial, so we were close. Since I feel this is a very important cause, I added to the total and rounded up the donation to an even $300.

Upon my arrival to donate the $$$, there was a police car and mobile vet service in the parking lot. Apparently there was a neglect situation being dealt with at that moment 🥲

This was a signal for me even more, that we need to help were and when we can. Our pets/agility dogs/companions are very valuable to us and lucky to be in our care!

Others are not always so lucky!!!

09/16/2025

Photos are ready! If you purchase some, hope you show them here for everyone to see!

Thanks Victoria for being so fast!

SATURDAY CLASSES:
https://toriwestphal.smugmug.com/Aussie-Acres-Saturday

SUNDAY Classes:
https://toriwestphal.smugmug.com/Aussie-Acres-Sunday

Tori Westphal
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Online and in-person yoga (Hatha, Yin, Restorative) and personal training services. Also offering in-depth workshops for groups and businesses.

09/15/2025

Here are all the trial results from Aussie Acres 2nd UKI Agility trial held September 13-14,2025.

Again, thanks for coming!

09/15/2025

Aussie Acres 2nd UKI Agility Trial is complete! It was just the most fantastic weekend!!! The weather was perfect and what better way to spend the weekend but with a great group of people and their wonderful dogs!

The more time I spend in the Agility Community, the more I love this sport. Handlers and volunteers were supportive, helpful, friendly and FUN! Words can not begin express how thankful I am to all that came to compete, came to help, or came to cheer.

Thank you workers! The saying “Many hands makes light work” fits perfectly to describe this trial weekend. I want every single one of you to accept my heartfelt appreciation for jumping in and doing any job to keep the trial moving smoothly. My favorite words of the weekend were “how can I help”. Thanks for helping build courses, move equipment, set bars, run leashes, work the gate, scribe/time, help with trash, coordinate workers, and any other odd jobs, as well as helping to clean up and break down the site. Agility folks are so efficient and remarkable!! Thanks Again!!

Congratulations to all competitors for big or small victories!!!! Whether your dog earned a Title, a Q, had a great weave entry, completed a contact, did the teeter independently, came back when you called them, sequenced a few obstacles in a row, followed your handling, or stayed on the startline…….You are all WINNERS! For your sport you have showed up to classes, lessons, have practiced, have worked on your relationship, entered a trial (some for the first time) and worked hard through the whole course; you should be DARN Proud!!! Congratulations to you all!!!

Thanks to our Donors: Bechard Sugar House (West Chazy, NY), Miner Institute (Chazy NY), Tails of the Adirondacks (Plattsburgh, NY), Aussie Acres Agility, and Heather Gauthier

Thank you NOMAD for use of the Timers for the show.

Benefit: Thank you to everyone who donated to the Elmore SPCA. $183 was collected and will be delivered to Elmore this week.

Thank you to Shona Thirsk for being a super efficient and flexible Trial Secretary! Your work preshow, during the show and after is a huge help to me and a real benefit for competitors! You are amazing!!!

Thank you Nicki Houghton for helping me get the show at Aussie Acres Agility off the ground for a second year in the row! Your support and assistance is priceless!

Thank you Andre Landry for judging. Your courses were fun and challenging! Thanks for being encouraging and supportive to all handlers no matter their skill level!

A special Thanks to my husband who continues support me in my passion. He picked up the slack on many things that I just didn’t have time to do this week. He made multiple trips to town to pick up items to make sure we had everything we needed. He also made sure everyone had enough to eat at our evening dinners! I couldn’t have pulled this off without you!!!

I probably could go on and on, but the evening is wearing on and I must force myself to come down from this “agility high”, I want to thank the Aussie Acres Agility students who were amazing this weekend. From entering your first trial and doing your best to helping with any and all jobs necessary, I am proud and honored to know and work with you throughout the year. You make my job easy and fun and I love every moment of teaching you and your dog!! NOW, let’s get ready for next year………………………………………….Back to work, starting to tomorrow!

/themoreagilityIwanttoplay!!

09/14/2025

Running order, check in, maps and results on Nextpup Aussie Acres Day 2