Chloe & Sasha

The Annual Canine Tournament

The Doggy Daily newspaper had just arrived as Chloe awoke that morning. She fetched it and went back to her bed. She opened it out and the front page article court her eye.

Test Your Sporting Talents at the Annual Canine Tournament!

All dogs are invited to come and see the events or participate in any of the many. Hurdles, sprints, relays, swimming, anything you can think of. So don't miss out, come and sign up today!

Sign ups on 18th June to 20th June at the Canine Sports Centre.

"Sasha! Sasha! Wake up! there's something in the newspaper about the Canine Tournament!" said Chloe in a hurried voice.

"What?" asked Sasha still asleep.

"There's something in the newspaper about the Canine Tournament," said Chloe in a normal voice.

"Really?" said Sasha sitting up. "I want to see," she continued as Chloe pushed aside the newspaper from her bed to Sasha's.

It took Sasha only a couple of minutes before saying, "I want to enter!"

"You do?" asked Chloe. "I do!" answered Sasha.

"Then why don't we go sign up!" said Chloe.

"You want to do it too?" asked Sasha. "Yeah, if your doing it!" answered Chloe.

*

They went to the sports centre and saw a really big line up. Every dog in the town was there.

They waited all day to sign up, meanwhile the line got longer and longer.

They finally made it to the sign up booth. 

"Two to sign up please," said Sasha. "What are your names?" asked the dog at the booth.

"I'm Chloe and this is Sasha," answered Chloe. "Okay girls, what events would you like to be in?"

"I'd like to be in hurdles," answered Sasha.

"Okay," said the dog at the sign up booth.

"And, I'd like to be in sniffer dog," said Chloe.

"Okay, got that. Would you two like instruction sheets for the events?" asked the dog at the booth. "Yes please," they both said as the sheets got handed to them. They then went home.

The next couple of days they spent training for the big day. Hours and hours of training it took, but they didn't have anything to say.

The day then had finally came, the Annual Canine Tournament was about to begin.

They made their way down to the Sports Centre and started to warm up.

Many other dogs were there, some big, some small, but champions, most of all.

There was a whole gym where they could warm up. Chloe took the runner and Sasha took the stretcher.

*

The first event that too place was the Hurdles. Sasha went to the starting line confidently.

"Go Sasha, go Sasha," Chloe whispered to herself in the audience before the race had even started.

"On your marks!" said the stater dog. All the dogs stepped forward. "Get set!" he said as the dogs went low. "GO!" he yelled and the dogs flew past.

"The dogs have had a marvellous start with our remanding champion, Abby Testos in the lead followed by Tessa Strut and Sasha Tapscott close behind nearly catching her as they come to the first hurdle," said the commentator.

Sasha leaped over the first hurdle and continued on still catching Tessa.

"Come on Sasha, come on Sasha," Chloe said in the audience.

"Sasha Tapscott is on Tessa's tail and... yes! She has just passed her on the second hurdle and she looks as if she's gone on to win this as they get to the second hurdle," said the commentator.

"Oh, yeah! Go Sasha! Your the champion!" yelled Chloe from the audience.

"Sasha has just court up to Abby Testos but will she be able to beet her?" said the commentator.

Sasha pushed herself harder.

"Ladies and Gentleman, we might have a new champion!" said the commentator as Sasha was neck and neck after the seventh hurdle.

"Just metres away from the finish line with the last hurdle to go, will she make it?" said the commentator again.

Sasha leaped over the last hurdle and went straight to the finish line.

"Has she done it? Has Sasha won?" the commentator paused a moment.

The judges re-looked at the photo and pointed to Sasha as the winner.

"She did it! We have a new champion!" yelled the commentator. Chloe let out a loud "YES!" that everyone must've heard.

Sasha and the other dogs went up to the stage and got their awards.

Sasha got a blue one, Abby a red and Tessa a green.

Once the dogs had gone back to their seats Chloe said to Sasha, "You won Sasha! You won!"

"I know! It's so exciting," said Sasha with a smile.

"Want to get some lunch?" Chloe asked. "Sure," answered Sasha.

They went to the Burger House and got two giant burgers.

*

The dogs stated to warm up for Sniffer Dog.

Sasha watched from the audience as Chloe began to stretch.

"On Your Marks!" said the starter dog as the dogs stepped up to the line.

"Get Set!" he yelled.

"GO!" he yelled and all of the dogs started sniffing for their item.

Chloe sniffed all around as she walked. Her item was a doll.

"Tina Migam is starting to dig but has found nothing yet. Chloe Tapscott is doing quite... she's found something! So has Angel Grouth! Chloe has picked hers up and is heading toward the finish line. Angel is following," said the commentator.

Chloe ran to the finish line with Angel on her tail.

"Quicker Chloe! Quicker!" yelled Sasha in the audience.

"Chloe ran over the finish line and got a new record for finding her item!" said the commentator.

They all went to the stage and Chloe got the blue ribbon Angel got the red and another dog named Tom Parker got the green.

"Great job Chloe!" said Sasha congratulating her.

"Thanks Sash," said Chloe.

"Do you want to stay and watch the rest?" asked Sasha.

"Actually, I think I want to got home," answered Chloe

The End.

Rachel Tapscott