Westminster agility champion

Amber McCune won the 2026 Westminster Masters Agility Overall Championship with Prove-It, a young Border Collie, at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. (showsightmagazine.com) The Westminster Kennel Club said Prove-It won the 13th Annual Masters Agility Championship on January 31, 2026. FOX Sports reported the winning run came in the 20-inch height division and finished in 29.81 seconds with zero faults. (westminsterkennelclub.org; foxsports.com) McCune told Showsight Magazine on April 15 that the title felt especially meaningful because Prove-It is “my young Border Collie.” She said the dog’s ability to read her body language “in milliseconds” was central to the win. (showsightmagazine.com) Westminster’s agility event is a timed obstacle-course competition, not the breed judging most viewers associate with the dog show. The club says dogs first compete by height class, and the 10 dogs with the highest combined scores in each class advance to a 50-dog Championship Round. (westminsterkennelclub.org) That format helps explain why one clean, fast run stands out: speed alone is not enough if a dog misses contact zones, drops a bar, or takes a wrong obstacle. FOX Sports said Prove-It’s run was both the fastest winning time cited and fault-free. (westminsterkennelclub.org; foxsports.com) The result also fit a longer Westminster pattern for the breed. FOX Sports said Border Collies have won 10 of the 13 agility titles since the event began, extending the herding breed’s hold on the competition. (foxsports.com) Westminster said nearly 500 dogs took part in its January 31 canine events at the Javits Center, which included agility and flyball. The club also said the overall agility winner is honored with a $5,000 donation to an American Kennel Club training club of the winner’s choice or to the American Kennel Club Humane Fund. (showsightmagazine.com; westminsterkennelclub.org) For McCune, the clearest number from Westminster was still 29.81. For a young dog in a sport decided by fractions of a second and a single mistake, that was enough. (foxsports.com; showsightmagazine.com)