Alejandro Morín from Lanzarote took third place in the 1st National Tracking Championship, held from February 27th to March 1st in the Valencian town of Bétera, organized by the Royal Spanish Shepherd Dog Club (RCEPPA), with his dog Nemo de Tabisguán scoring 98 points in the general classification, just one point behind the first place.
The competition included the participation of 45 dogs, classified in the different regional championships held throughout Spain. These same dogs competed in parallel in the XXVII RCEPPA National Work Championship, in which Nemo -second classified in the Canary Islands in this modality- occupied the tenth position while Otto de Tabisguán, the other dog that Alejandro Morín put in competition and current champion of the Canary Islands of the modality, occupied the 14th place.
The Lanzarote trainer highlights the "equality and rivalry" with which the latter Championship was developed, with the first positions not being decided until the last moments of competition, with his dog Nemo being only three points away from qualifying for the World Championship, scoring 284 points out of a total of 300 and only 3 points behind the second classified.
Alejandro Morín became in 2008 the first Canary Islands trainer to participate in a World Championship of the German Shepherd Dog (held in Cincinnati, USA, under IPO regulations), being called to be one of the five members of the Spanish team.
