Kelso - the agility show
3 Comments Published by Gussie on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 6/24/2008 06:56:00 PM.
Maybe it was the faboulous steak in the Buccleuch Arms the night before. Maybe it was having a day out / restful evening instead of a gruelling day at work / frenzied preparation / early start. In any case, we had one of our best shows yet, getting clear runs in three out of the four courses we ran and even placing 5th in the graded 1-3 jumping class. Wow!
Not that we're complacent - we did some of the slowest weaves ever (I forgot to hissss) and there were some great scrambled moments. And our rosette-winning run was preceded by a lot of stress in the queue. Oddly enough I was proudest of how we ran the course in which we were eliminated - a graded agility 1-5 class that was by general consent more at the grade 5 end of the spectrum. I had a split second of forgetfulness about how I was going to handle a particular section and froze thinking must send him 'out' - so in the absence of any direction, Jake took the first jump in front of him ... Have to say I was elated that we ran the course as fluidly as we did; I had never expected to get round it. Once the adrenaline ebbed, and I saw the results (only three grade 1s got clear rounds, so even with faults, teams were placed) I started to think rats! we were sooo close. But that's one of the fun things about agility. It can go well, it can go badly.
This week we'll be working more on that pesky OUT command. It's been our undoing more than once now.
As the rosettes and points are definitely more for the humans than the dogs, Jake got some new toys from the stall. Current favourite is his small honking pheasant, a reminder of the full-size live pheasants that stolled round the garden in the B&B without so much as a by-your-leave.
Labels: Agility shows
That out command can be a bugger. Chase is good with distance, too good sometimes he confuses me. Levi, however, is a velcro dog and has no out at all! ;)
my bad runs are mostly me being running off the ring...LoL
rosette aren't yummy...we dogs couldn't be bother...wonder why human love them so much.
but winning is great and we can be so proud trotting up to the podium... congratulation, jake
Great runs! Congratulations! Feels so great when things run smoothly, doesn't it!
Woofs, Johann