We had a good day. Trip was clean BOTH runs–I’m so very proud of her. She had a super standard run, with only one AAGGHH moment. At the end of the course, she didn’t read my rear cross, and headed straight for the weaves instead of the chute. I knew it would be a problem, but that’s why I chose the rear cross. Not enough, apparently. She called off and avoided a refusal, to earn 15th place in the class.
In JWW, we weren’t connected. I got had two head checks that almost caused a refusal, and a wide turn at the end. I think I was overhandling in an attempt to tighten her up, since she has the ground speed to really excel in jumpers. It ended up costing us, but she still managed a respectable time.
We are currently 14th overall. The top 11 dogs make it. So, we need to be clean, and have some help tomorrow. I will do what we need to do, and see where the chips fall. No matter what happens, I’m ecstatic with the way Trip is running this weekend. It’s also great to see all the super world team dogs, former world team dogs, and dogs’ that have competed at tryouts, in person. It really emphasizes how the tiniest thing can be the difference between a placement and not.
Anyway, more updates tomorrow or Monday.
It was officially announced this morning–the 2010 AKC agility nationals will be back in Tulsa!!! I’m so excited, Mardi will be able to go!
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Well, day one wasn’t too bad. Trip smoked the JWW course, I made all my front crosses, and she looked great. Unfortunately, she dropped the last bar. MORE unfortunately, that fault wasn’t on her scribe sheet, so she was a clean run scored, and placed 3rd. I found out about this much later down the line, when someone congratulated me. I went and checked at the score table, they checked the scribe sheet, no faults recorded. According to folks who saw the run, the judge did call it, so apparently it was missed by the score table. I talked to the Rep in our ring, they had been recording the scores of all the dogs running, and had the fault on their sheet, and so corrected the scribe sheet.
I went to a lot of trouble to fix it, but I didn’t want anyone mad at me because we got a “gift” or anything like that. And if I hadn’t done it, I would have been obsessing about it all weekend. So, I’m hoping karma is on my side the rest of the weekend, when it really counts.
In standard, Trip ran great again, but I called too hard coming off the dogwalk and pulled her around the jump after the dogwalk. Bad handler. I found out later she got her aframe called, which was completely bogus, but I don’t have good video to remove it. Great dogwalk and teeter contacts.
Here’s hoping for some clean runs tomorrow!
