Meeker Classic, 2017: Coup wins the final

Key facts

Final date

10 September 2017

Judge

Peter Gonnet

Champion

Dennis Edwards and Coup, 137 points

A final with its own scoring order

The published final-results document dates the decisive round to 10 September 2017 and identifies Peter Gonnet as judge. Dennis Edwards with Coup won on 137, Joni Tietjen with Star was reserve on 125, and Barbara Ray with Stella finished third on 117. The table keeps preliminary, semifinal and final scores in separate columns. This matters because Star’s stronger semifinal figure did not determine the final winner. The championship was decided in the last round, and the published final placings should be used rather than adding earlier scores into an invented cumulative result.

Several handlers had two dogs in the final

The twelve listed finalists include two dogs each for Tietjen, Ray and Angie Coker-Sells. Tietjen’s Star appears second and Ben twelfth; Ray’s Stella appears third and Maverick seventh; Coker-Sells’s Soot and Andy appear fifth and sixth. Those pairings show that the final field cannot be counted as twelve different people. The document also uses additional figures alongside some tied scores in earlier rounds. Rather than treating those notations as ordinary fractional points, a historical summary can retain the official ordering and the clearly stated main scores without manufacturing a new tie-breaking formula.

Stella’s place in a wider working family

The organiser’s separate profile of Ray and Stella gives background to the third-place partnership and connects Stella with other dogs in the Meeker record. That kind of biography complements the result sheet without replacing it. It is particularly useful here because the same handler also qualified Maverick, but the names still represent separate dogs and separate performances. The edition’s history therefore has two layers: a precisely dated final led by Coup and an account of established working partnerships returning to the event. A handler profile’s later publication date should not be substituted for the September competition date.

Common questions

Sources & further reading

References for this guide. Rules and services can change; check the responsible organisation for current details.

• Meeker Classic — 2017 final results and special awards (opens in a new tab)
• Meeker Classic — Barbara Ray and Stella, third in 2017 (opens in a new tab)

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