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WAO 2013 - team Australia team Australia

Team Manager

Karen Phillips

Karen stared her agility carrer in 1998 with two border collies Lucratif Original Chill " Murphy " & " Lucratif Barbwire Babe " Soda " and already at the beginning she was very good , she won multiple State Titles , Royal Shows , Western Classics as well as making finals at every Nationals she attended . Both dogs winning onto the WA National Team , Soda in 2004
and both dogs in 2005 . Now , she ' s currently competing with five year old border collie Sonic . In 2012 she made her World Agility Open debut running in the 300 class with Cody a gorgeous Jack Russell X , loaned to her by Laura Innes from Scotland . Although she didn ' t achieve any competition success . This year she ' s back at the WAO running in the 650 height with her dog Sonic .