CH OTCH MACH Polesitter’s Absolute Victory UDX8 OGM VER RAE JH MXG MJB MXP MJP
– AJ –
Owned by Kimberly Berkley and Mike Buckhorn
- 2012: Champion of Record
- 2013: Obedience Trial Champion
- 2014: Master Agility Champion
- 2015: Junior Hunter
AJ (CH OTCH MACH Polesitter’s Absolute Victory UDX8 OGM VER RAE JH MXG MJB MXP MJP) born 11/11/2010 is the very picture of a versatile Springer, with major achievements in obedience, agility, rally, and the show ring, and success in the field as well. In perhaps his crowning achievement within the breed, AJ won the prestigious Irondog award not just once but twice, at the 2014 and 2015 ESSFTA National Specialty shows. The Irondog award exists, the ESSFTA says, “to recognize the versatility of English Springer Spaniels.”
AJ earned his breed championship in March 2012, his OTCH in January 2013, his MACH in September 2014, his Obedience Grand Master (OGM) title in January 2015, and his Junior Hunter title in October 2015. He’s one of the youngest CH OTCH MACH dogs in AKC history.
AJ has 18 High in Trial and 18 High Combined awards earned by excelling all others in the obedience ring. He’s been honored before by the ESSFTA, as Open and Novice B Obedience Springer of the Year in 2012, as Obedience Springer of the Year and Utility Obedience Springer of the Year in 2013, and with numerous Multi-Titlist Certificates and Medallions and Special Recognition awards.
AJ’s first big competition was the AKC National Obedience Championship in 2013, when he was just 2. He finished ninth among all breeds and first among English Springer Spaniels. He qualified for the NOC that year by ranking in the prestigious Top 25 qualifying dogs of all breeds.
AJ also finished 9th in the 2013 Obedience Classic, with all clean runs. AJ is not only spectacular, but very consistent as well! He competed in the Obedience Classic for the last time in 2014 and won the breed medallion for top-scoring Springer by posting a near-perfect 199 in Utility.
And AJ accomplished all this before his fifth birthday! But it’s hardly all work and no play with this world-class Springer.
“AJ is my big lap dog,” says his owner/trainer/handler, Kim Berkley. “He loves to play with his jolly ball in the yard. Swimming is his very favorite activity, and if birds are involved, so much the better!”
AJ comes from the highly successful Polesitter line bred by Mike Bockhorn, as does AJ’s sister Dani (CH OTCH MACH4 PACH Polesitter’s Danica Dazzles VCD2 UDX9 OGM VER RAE MXB2 MJB2 MXP3 MXPB MJPB PAX OF). AJ and Dani’s mother, CH Polesitter’s Victory Party, has produced four CH OTCH dogs, three of whom are CH OTCH MACH dogs.