Trial Weekend - Trial in Dixon, Saturday dry, breeze and cool. Sunday - Rain!!!
Because of the rain Sydney and I decided to stay home, inside where it was dry. We have done our share or rainy trials, and decided to not do this one. On Saturday, Inc and I had two good runs. No Q but good runs. In standard we did all of your contacts, our not qualifing was Inc not picking up on my rear cross. Actually that is what happened in both classes. I need to watch the video to see what I did. I repeat what I did. After I watch the video, if I see anything worth posting I will add it to the post. Sydney can comment on Echo's run.
But Jeniffer and Kerry came home with the BIG GREEN. They worked together as a team, and qualified in Novice Standard. This is the teams first of many green ribbons. Good job, Jennifer and Kerry.
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Congratulations to Jennifer & Kerry. I understand it was a very long day for the novice dogs!
Echo held both start line stays without moving a muscle. In the past she has anticipated my release so I was happy with that. Standard's opening went well until we got to the tunnel under the dogwalk where we almost collided out of it. We will set that up for practice. In JWW we had some knocked bars.
All three dogs were quiet while waiting in the car ringside! Yeah!
Congratulations Jennifer and Kerry on the Green yesterday. I got to see your jumpers run, but we left before the standard class started for Novice.
I was really pleased with Magnum and Merlot yesterday since it was the first time out this year and they really haven't gotten a lot of work with me stumbling along behind them. Actually had their handler not forgotten the course and consistently given them the right guidance they would have done better for sure.
Looking forward to the Vallejo trial in two weeks. Hopefully better weather and great performances for all of us!!!
Helen Marie, Magnum, Merlot and Mindy (the groupie)
Had a fun weekend. I decided to try the rainy Sunday scratch if I thought it was unsafe. When I got there I heard a lot of begging for volunteers so I decided whether or not I run I will pay my dues and volunteer. After watching the 20" excellent dogs run fast and have no problem on contact equipment I decided to feel the contacts to determine if mud had made them slick. They weren't slippy at all so we gave it a go. We had a good run except after 4 counts on the down on a wet table I turned to get a feel for where we were going next and he sat up and would not do the last count. JWW went well - one dropped bar but I the run felt good and like we were more in sinc than we have been.
Thanks for the congrats
Jennifer
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