Before this national started we posted pre-National Stats, which were stats of ALL the dogs that entered. Now that we are half way through, we want to take a closer look at the dogs age that are still in the 6th Series. More precisely, what we are calling the "Underclassmen!"
At the beginning of the event we had the following age groups...
"Upperclassmen"
Senior Class - 2009 - 2010 (26 dogs) going into the 6th series we are at 10 dogs
Junior Class - 2011 - 2012 (42 dogs) going into the 6th series we are at 25 dogs
"Underclassmen"
Sophomore Class - 2013 - 2014 (53 dogs) going into the 6th series we are at 30
As you can see, our field started pretty even with 68 Upperclassmen and 62 Underclassmen. As we continue the National, going into the 6th Series we are still about even between the Upper (35) and Underclassmen (31).
So does age or experience matter at a National event?
Out of the 31 Underclassmen running the 6th series, there are 12 dogs that have NOT been to a National prior to this now in Ronan, and 9 other dogs have only been to one National.
Compared to our Upperclassmen dogs, where only 3 of them has NOT been to National prior to here in Ronan, and only 5 have been to one National event.
All of the dogs who qualified, entered and has ran at this event are amazing animals to get to this point in their career, but we just want everybody to notice that we have some strong younger dogs coming up in this sport.
If you would like to see individual stats on the dogs competing go to the right side of the blog and scroll down, you will see a list of numbers, click on the draw number of the dog you want to look at and that will take you to all the posts we have published on the dog.
