The 2025 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is in full swing!
The Masters Agility Championship Finals helped kick off the first day, when a familiar breed took home the title.
Vanish the border collie won the Masters Agility course on Saturday to continue the breed’s dominant reign in the competition. It marks the ninth time that a border collie has won the competition in the 12 years of the event.
Vanish the Border Collie is named as overall winner of the 2025 Westminster Kennel Club | FOX Sports
“I’m completely speechless,” Emily Klarman, Vanish’s handler, told FOX after the win.
Vanish, who represented the 16-inch division, sped his way through the course, completing it in just 26.49 seconds. Just as impressive, Vanish didn’t slip up once, making a clean run to victory.
Still, that time was less than a second better than the runner-up in the competition. Swindle Celebration, a Shetland sheepdog, completed the course in 26.91 seconds, just 0.42 seconds slower than Vanish.
Vanish the Border Collie wins the 16″ class
Both Vanish and Swindle Celebration completed the course in a quicker time than last year’s winner, Nimble. Nimble’s 28.76 time. It was also quicker than Truant’s victory in 2023, with the border collie’s 28.68 time in that race previously being the fastest since at least 2014.
Sterling the Weimaraner, representing the 24-inch division, completed the course in 34.67 seconds.
The Masters Agility Championship Finals was the highlight of the Canine Celebration Day on Saturday. Agility is a timed competition that tests a dog’s ability to complete an obstacle course — including any combination of tunnels, seesaw, bar and wall jumps, weave poles and more — following the commands of its handler. Participants are not given the course map ahead of time, and agility is judged by time and completion (minus faults) of the course.
Best of 2025 Masters Agility Championships from Westminster Kennel Club
The WKC donates $5,000 to honor the winner to the AKC training club of their choice or the AKC Humane Fund, along with a donation of $1,000 in the names of the four remaining first-place dogs in their height classes and the highest-scoring All-American (mixed breed) dog.
The 2025 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show will pause for the Super Bowl on Sunday and continue again on Monday and run through Tuesday, with events taking place at Madison Square Garden and Jacob K. Javits Convention.
The 149th annual WKC Dog Show airs on FOX, FS1 and FS2 this week. You can also stream the event on FOXSports.com and on the FOX Sports app. Find a full schedule of events and more info on how to watch here.
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