YKC Agility Competitions & Qualifiers

The YKC features 5 special
agility classes at Crufts that
our members can qualify for.
Each of the classes will have
something about them that is
unique to that class, you can
read all about it in our
descriptions below:

YKC Agility Rules 2024 (Crufts 2025)

Agility Dog Of The Year (A)

The YKC Agility Dog of The Year competition is the YKC’s flagship agility event, and seeks to find the best of the best young agility talent in the UK. YKC members need to complete two rounds per competition, with their overall score coming from the two rounds combined. Winning this event not only qualifies you to Crufts, but also into the YKC Team GB Try-out squad for the Junior Open World Championships.

Click here for the rules to the Agility Dog of the Year competition in 2024 (Crufts 2025)

Click here for the rules to the Agility Dog of the Year competition in 2025 (Crufts 2026)

Jumping Cup (J)

The YKC Jumping Cup removes the contact equipment (A-Frame, See-Saw & Dog Walk) focuses solely on the jumping obstacles and weaves to determine who is the winner. This class is a Crufts Qualifiers where the semi-final takes place in the YKC ring and the Grand Final in the Main Arena.

Click here for the rules to the YKC Jumping Cup competition in 2024 (Crufts 2025)

Click here for the rules to the YKC Jumping Cup competition in 2025 (Crufts 2026)

Graduate Agility (G)

The YKC Graduate Agility competition is for dogs competing in Grades 1-3. This aims to give those dogs who don’t have the same experience as those competing at the highest levels a place to hone their skills.

Click here for the rules to the YKC Graduate Agility competition in 2024 (Crufts 2025)

Click here for the rules to the YKC Graduate Agility competition in 2025 (Crufts 2026)

Pairs Agility (P)

The YKC Pairs competition aims to get YKC members working as a team, two YKC members (with dogs that compete in the same height category) team up and complete the course as fast as possible, one member does an agility course, the other does a jumping course, and in the middle there is a baton change over!

Click here for the rules to the YKC Pairs Agility competition in 2024 (Crufts 2025)

Click here for the rules to the YKC Pairs Agility competition in 2025 (Crufts 2026)

ABC Agility

The YKC ABC (Anything But Collies) competition is for Non-Border Collie or Border Collie Crossbreeds to compete against one another.

Instead of specific competitions for YKC ABC, you instead gain points by competing in YKC Jumping Cup & Agility Dog of the Year competitions. Your placings in these will give you points to use when applying to qualify for the ABC competition.

Click here for the rules to the YKC ABC Agility competition in 2024 (Crufts 2025)

Click here for the rules to the YKC ABC Agility competition in 2025 (Crufts 2026)