In Stride Azawakh & Training

13/07/2025

Happy birthday to the D Litter (Tabiri x Amidi) - Malachi, Drama, Dev, Yufen, Quixote, and Malachi! You're the best parts of your parents and I've loved seeing who these dogs have become!

Drama and Quixote spent the day lure coursing with Dreams taking Best of Breed and Quixote going second.

Ducky had a slightly less fun day and got her eyes looked at (her accident left her with a bit of a lumpy skull so we have wanted to check) and her vision came back perfectly normal! 😊

Very proud of these dogs and their people.

01/07/2025

Happy eighth birthday to Anubi and his Haras de Crouz N Litter siblings.

This boy is my world and we've accomplished so very much together. He doesn't look eight years old at all.

Anubi
Multi-Owner-Handled Group Placing, Multi-Group Placing
BIF MBBIS BA URO1 UGRCH AmGCGB DC Naram-Sin du Haras de Crouz RE FDC MC DCAT CAA ACT1 ACT1 SCN SIN SBN THD CGCA CGCU TKP VHMA FITS ATT RATI SPOT-ON JOR SGRC2 FCh AVD

30/06/2025

Look at these two absolutely smashing it!

This is Oiseau (Anubi x Gem). He took two Group 2 Owner-Handled placements last week plus a regular Group 4.

Oiseau is ranked both in the show ring and on the lure coursing field this year.

Huge congratulations to his owners!

Oiseau
Multi-Owner-Handled Group Placing, Group Placing
In Stride Sambala Carmen'L'Oiseau Rebelle SC CAA BCAT

28/06/2025

Amalu had her C-section today. The C-section went so smoothly, we both got to help revive the puppies as they came out.

Amalu handled the anesthesia well and has been phenomenal mother already.

She had nine total and all are doing well, all puppies are very good sized.

Four boys, five girls. We'll post individual pictures momentarily.

Moss x Amalu
https://azawakh.breedarchive.com/animal/testmating?dam_uuid=de6319a2-2ec0-4398-85c8-fc4e243c087d&sire_uuid=fb8cd0e5-388d-46fd-9c65-e4c83240ba46

Koraidon x Amalu
https://azawakh.breedarchive.com/animal/testmating?dam_uuid=de6319a2-2ec0-4398-85c8-fc4e243c087d&sire_uuid=05b9960f-6a0f-4238-adc7-5f13cff80693

We promised Theresa's daughters that if there were 8-9 puppies that we would do an eeveelution puppy theme litter. And here they are! Her younger daughter is extra excited because Korai is her Juniors dog and has a pokemon themed name to suit the pokemon themed baby names.

Registered names will still start with F but we like to call the puppies something other than collar color.

Based on the color distribution it looks like both studs *might* have sired puppies, we'll know more when we see whether the dark overlay clears or not (Korai cannot sire sable puppies).

We have 2 red boys, 2 that appear to be sable boys, 1 potentially sable girl, and 4 black brindle girls. Some of the brindle appears to be less heavily patterned than Amalu is, so there might actually be some distinct stripes as they age.

We'll do DNA swabs in the next week or two.

All are nursing, all but Eevee came out screaming.

Eevee - Red boy - 16.32 oz
Vaporeon - Black brindle, white blaze, girl - 15.52 oz
Jolteon - Red boy - 17.6 oz
Flareon - Sable red boy - 17.6 oz
Espeon - Sable? red girl -13.76 oz
Umbreon - Sable red boy - 15.36 oz
Leafeon - Black brindle, minimal white - 16.96 oz
Glaceon - Black brindle, minimal white - 16.8 oz
Sylveon -Black brindle, white snip girl - 15 oz

Some of their umbilical cords have been bleeders, so pardon my hands in the pictures.

23/06/2025

My vet saw ten on X-ray (this has been the number my gut has been telling me since ultrasound). Since my vet is out of town over the weekend and it's a large litter, we decided to go forward with a c-section on Friday, June 27. This is a really important litter to us and we don't want to risk losing any puppies.

Amalu was so happy to get out in the woods even briefly for her maternity photos.

Moss (Xanadu Farms Amastan)/Koraidon (Xanadu Farms Imboran) x Amalu (Ahimana Amalu)

23/06/2025

Hey y'all, here's an opportunity that unfortunately doesn't come around very often. We have a lure coursing judges education seminar coming up in our region! There's only two lure coursing seminars in the entire country this year.

There are not enough lure coursing judges out there. If we're being honest, there's not enough judges for all events, but there's certainly not enough judges with a good eye that understand all running styles.

This is a phenomenal way to understand the sport better, even if you aren't ready to take the plunge and become a judge.

You don't need a judging number, you just need interest and passion for sighthounds doing what they love.

✨This seminar closes tomorrow so please please consider attending and get your entries in!!!✨

You can email your entry to Jamie who has the email in the link.

https://tinyurl.com/2tbxmf26

18/06/2025

Theresa and I have been working on this project for the American Azawakh Association Versatility Committee for the past couple of months. One challenge that we've consistently run into at lure coursing trials is that judges have often never seen the breed and thus don't understand their running style.

We've put this together for lure coursing judges education in the hopes that people can better understand how the breed runs.

The video is from Chintimini Kennel Club's lure coursing trial in Cottage Grove, Oregon. There were seven Azawakh running that weekend. Thank you so much to Skinny Dog Photography for the amazing footage. Thank you to everyone who helped with this project- Jan, Bill, Michele, and Fabian!

https://youtu.be/PufDnWFVKW8?si=Ak2kQBGUVNaD25r8

12/06/2025

Thank you Skinny Dog Photography this was our smooth Saluki, Ash's, last Best of Breeds and last time running Best in Field.

These are from Chintimini Kennel Club at Cottage Grove last month. The courses were ~900 yards each day. Ash took Best of Breed both days and ran in BIF on Sunday. He ran with a very deserving Whippet who took Best in Field.

Mostly retired Ash from lure coursing several years ago. He was still fit to run. He has always been safe about his body when he runs and so I trust that he would stop if he couldn't handle running anymore. That combination made me comfortable running him up until he was 11.

The last couple years I have used Ash as a buy dog for the up-and-coming Salukis in the area. And I have entered him in open (open rather than veterans so he didn't have to run three times in a day) so that other Salukis have another Saluki to run with.

Ash is a super super talented runner. He has earned a Best in Field. He is a Field Champion with ASFA and if I'd ever bothered to go major hunting, I have no doubt he would have finished in AKC as well. Theresa has pointed out to me that in some ways it's actually a blessing that he never finished in AKC because he has been able to run, open and help the young green Salukis in the region.

To this day he is an incredibly honest runner who will run all the way out to the turn. He's probably certified a solid dozen plus plus young dogs to lure course.

He's aged a lot in the last couple weeks. His last trial was the Sunday of the NWRRC trial. Didn't run the entire course and let me know that it was time to retire from lure coursing for good. He'll still get to run straight racing with vet approval as he is able.

He is starting to show some early signs of heart issues. He's had an intermittent murmur which seems to be getting worse and mildly symptomatic.

He's still super happy and was chasing the puppies around the yard earlier today. Hopefully he has some good time still left. He turns 11 next week. His start in life was not easy, so I wasn't sure how long I would get with him but he has certainly made the most of his life.

12/06/2025

I have a really cool opportunity for someone.

I get contacted at least once a month asking about adult Azawakh for placement. We might have some available going forward in 3 to 4 years. However, I typically don't have anything available.

There is a 3-year-old neutered male Azawakh in need of placement. He was placed in the Western Vermont (USA) from Europe. He was born in Ukraine at the start of the war and taken in by a Polish breeder who is aware that this boy is being placed due to a change in his owner's circumstances.

If you have been dreaming of adult Azawakh on this is a very very good opportunity.

Lafayette
Male
3 years old
Crate trained and housebroken
True neutral with human strangers
Open and friendly to polite, strange dogs
Has lived in a mixed pack successfully

His owner has put a lot of love and care into him.

He would likely be very happy in a pet home. He is not a show or sport prospect unlike most of the dogs that I produce.

He has a small rehoming fee.

If you are interested, please reach out to Nicole Bartner. I am happy to offer a free virtual consultation for the person who ends with Lafayette to help them settle in.

Sharing is encouraged!

11/06/2025

Showsight did a feature on our program!

We are an AKC Azawakh Breeder of Merit focused on the breed's versatility and preservation.

Kayley Paylor & Theresa Daykin of In Stride share their achievements and insights into breeding and promoting versatile Azawakhs.

10/06/2025

Koraidon's lure coursing titles are updated. ♥️ It's been a long journey to get everything recorded but he's officially the fourth Field Champion and the second Dual Champion in the breed.

He was almost exclusively handled by his 9 year old kid (only handled by someone else when his kid couldn't attend).

29/05/2025

I feel like I need to give a shout out to the AOK9 all breed racing and lure coursing program.

We have been running just a lot of AKC lure coursing this year and I'm stuck on how inflexible it can be. Poor Truman the PPP never gets to run with competition and all the other breeds are much faster than him. In AOK9, he runs with small breeds that are much more similar to him in speed and I find myself wishing he could run with our friend's Papillon this weekend

For those who don't know, AOK9 not only has straight racing, it has oval and lure coursing too. I love that ASFA has an LCI program that is open to all dogs and is scored/competitive, but it still means dogs are running by themselves. AOK9 is so nice because it means you can run a Beauceron and a Doberman together as a lure coursing stake.

When we were running in an ASFA trial that didn't offer certification runs, we were able to run our young dogs with experienced dogs of various breeds in AOK9 (where the dogs are certified already) in order to help the green dogs get some practice with other dogs under their belts.

Add to that fact that they accept all dogs, it doesn't matter of they're AKC registered, so Azawakh imports and their offspring that weren't registered before the stud book closed can play.

When Azhidar was here, he could run as a Taigan instead of a sighthound mix (which is why they're categorized as ASFA LCI) and in lure coursing he ran with the lurchers. In straight racing be ran with everything from lurchers to Ash the Saluki to Azawakh to his sister.

AOK9 has pretty much single handedly changed my mind about allowing non-sighthounds to run together.

It's an incredibly versatile program and I'm happy that it's seen huge growth, though I'd love for more regions to adopt it. With falling entry numbers in a lot of regions, the flexibility it offers, as well as bringing in people with intact sport mixes and various other competitors can only be a good thing.

Thank you Audrey and Olivia Hsia for this really important, innovative program.