The premium is now posted for our ‘Bringing in the New Year’ trial at the Oriole Dog Training Club in Halethorpe, MD. This trial as usual is all about the team tournament. This year we are offering a Two Dog Team format; look for our cool prizes as usual including the “Rookie Team” prize (picture below is of the 2025 prizes). Other class offerings include a Grand Prix, Steeplechase, and several titling classes.

Our officiating judge is Ashley Anderson and our designing judge is Meagan Johnson.

Don’t have a team and not sure who to ask? Look into the Facebook group Dog Agility Team Finder.

Entry fees for the titling classes are the typical low cost of $15 per titling class. “But wait, “, those of you with a dog still early in their skills journey say, “the only titling classes are for Masters!”. Please note – dogs of any level may enter ANY class at this trial, including those Masters titling classes. Per USDAA policy, if you are not yet showing in Masters and you ‘Q’, that ‘Q’ will be ‘banked’ for you.

RV’ers note: Oriole DTC now allows a limited number of RVs to stay overnight on the grounds, by pre-arrangement only.

As usual, this trial provides a nice warm way (climate controlled on artficial turf!) to get those tournament Q’s needed for the regionals and for Cynosport (aka the USDAA Nationals).

Haven’t been keeping up with the current state of USDAA? There’s a summary of the latest changes here:

The premium is now posted for our annual fall MADness trial at the Oriole Dog Training Club in Halethorpe, MD.

NOTE! Online entry is available for this trial. If you have not done that for a USDAA trial (it’s just rolled out as of this summer), see instructions specific to our trial here

Our judge is Rebecca Hill.

Entry fees for the titling classes are $15 per titling class. There are plenty of classes for newbies (see the low priced Intro classes!) as well as all other titling levels.

If you are looking to enter two of the same games class this weekend and see that only one day has the level you need and the other day has only a Masters level of that game: Please note – dogs of any level may enter ANY class at this trial, including those Masters titling classes. Per USDAA policy, if you are not yet showing in Masters and you ‘Q’, that ‘Q’ will be ‘banked’ for you. So if you are not happy for example with just once chance at earning a games Q, you can try for that Masters Q and/or use the training options available to use such as Fix and Continue, FEO, and Mulligans**..

Something (relatively) new for trials at this location: Oriole DTC now allows a limited number of RVs to stay overnight on the grounds, by pre-arrangement only.

Haven’t been keeping up with the current state of USDAA? You’d probably be surprised to know that your dog can jump and climb the heights you been doing for other organizations. There’s a summary of the those type of changes here:

The premium is now posted for our annual spring ”March MADness’ trial at the Oriole Dog Training Club in Halethorpe, MD.

Our judge is Randy Holford.

Entry fees for the titling classes are $16 per titling class. There are plenty of classes for newbies (see the low priced Intro classes!) as well as all other titling levels.

If you are looking to enter two of the same games class this weekend and see that only one day has the level you need and the other day has only a Masters level of that game: Please note – dogs of any level may enter ANY class at this trial, including those Masters titling classes. Per USDAA policy, if you are not yet showing in Masters and you ‘Q’, that ‘Q’ will be ‘banked’ for you. So if you are not happy for example with just once chance at earning a games Q, you can try for that Masters Q and/or use the training options available to use such as Fix and Continue, FEO, and Mulligans**..

Something (relatively) new for trials at this location: Oriole DTC now allows a limited number of RVs to stay overnight on the grounds, by pre-arrangement only.

As usual, this trial provides a nice warm way (climate controlled on artficial turf!) to get those tournament Q’s needed for Cynosport (aka the USDAA Nationals) which is back in Murfreesboro, TN this year.

Haven’t been keeping up with the current state of USDAA? You’d probably be surprised to know that your dog can jump and climb the heights you been doing for other organizations. There’s a summary of the those type of changes here:

**What’s a Mulligan? That’s a chance to run the course again (or just go train for 60 seconds) for a small fee of $5. It’s an option available for most, but not all courses at the trial if they entry size isn’t too large 🙂