September 30-October 1-October 2
The Tutty Sue Trophy
Awarded to the winner of the WRA National.
Written by Gregg Gammie
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The
WRA was founded in 1996, rising from the ashes of the AWC's defunct NPR
program. At that time we inherited the trophy that they had been
presenting for the past several years. The "Ogden Nash Memorial
Trophy", and a very nice trophy it was, however it belonged to a
different time and race organization... So... In 2003 the WRA commissioned artist Ron Myers to do an original, one of a kind, bronze to be used as a perpetual trophy, given each year to the National Race Meet winner. Then we started thinking about a name, I mean the WRA trophy seems kinda lame. But, as fate would have it, the whippet racing world had lost one of the truly great racing dogs of our time. Kenro's She's Tuff Too WRCh II, SRCh, ORC had died in February that same year. And, as chance would have it she had won the first two, 1996 & 1997, WRA national meets. So the "Tutty Sue Memorial Trophy" was born. The "Tutty Sue Memorial Trophy" is an original bronze mounted on a step base. There are 8 names on the first tier, which contain the names of all the dogs that have won the WRA national race meet, from 1996 to 2002. The second tier contains 12 plates and the third tier contains 16 plates. Past Winners
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