Well Saturday I was lazy and didn't do a thing except chill with the woofs, we had a lovely day on the sofa, relaxing and resting. I wasn't feeling great so it seemed like a good excuse to watch movies and hug my woofers!
Sunday we travelled to Catherson Stud which is the home of UpAndover for an agility match with them. Simon and Lorna Peachey judged and put up lovely courses for us.
I ran Hoaxey in Nursery Agility and Jumping and Boo in 6/7. Boo was up first and did a beautuful agility run with fab contacts. He hit the seesaw sooo fast and jammed his breaks on at pivot but just didnt get any grip and kept sliding right off the end poor sausage! Then Hoaxey up for the jumping- Lorna had set a blast that was a big circle round the outside then a change or direction back to an inner circle then a short sprint finish. Little Hoax flew round and I just had to steer gently- it was a quick course and you felt like they were slipping away from you but we held it together for a clear! Whohoo!
Back to Boo for the jumping- he ran ok but with a wide turn and knocked pole- ah well he worked well anyway today. Hoaxey set off fast in the Agility. She didnt even blink at the
AFrame which was the first trap after 2. The turn onto the long jump was awkward because they couldnt see the long jump and it was at a rear cross, she started to pull in a little so I had to correct her line- she took this ok. I think at jump 7 I must have begun to move becquse she started to pull off again- I corrected her line but pushed her wide towards the tunnel! Whoops! I wanted her to respond to the F/C so took her over jump 7 again- she exectuted it perfectly this time and flew accross the DW to nose target. Next trap was jump 10 to AFrame- people werent seeing this line and the dogs just needed a call to move their line. Hoax ran this well and DID see the Aframe but responded to the fact I was heading towards the tunnel and her verbal call and shifted her line towards the tunnel. Towards the AFrame I knew I wanted to get ahead of her for the last two jumps because of the angle. As I recalled her I just saw her hit the up of the A- sail over the apex and without touching a foot on the down ramp land right at the bottom holding on with a paw then reversing back to nose target- she tried soooo hard to stop I couldnt be angry LOL!
Sunday we travelled to Catherson Stud which is the home of UpAndover for an agility match with them. Simon and Lorna Peachey judged and put up lovely courses for us.
I ran Hoaxey in Nursery Agility and Jumping and Boo in 6/7. Boo was up first and did a beautuful agility run with fab contacts. He hit the seesaw sooo fast and jammed his breaks on at pivot but just didnt get any grip and kept sliding right off the end poor sausage! Then Hoaxey up for the jumping- Lorna had set a blast that was a big circle round the outside then a change or direction back to an inner circle then a short sprint finish. Little Hoax flew round and I just had to steer gently- it was a quick course and you felt like they were slipping away from you but we held it together for a clear! Whohoo!
Back to Boo for the jumping- he ran ok but with a wide turn and knocked pole- ah well he worked well anyway today. Hoaxey set off fast in the Agility. She didnt even blink at the
AFrame which was the first trap after 2. The turn onto the long jump was awkward because they couldnt see the long jump and it was at a rear cross, she started to pull in a little so I had to correct her line- she took this ok. I think at jump 7 I must have begun to move becquse she started to pull off again- I corrected her line but pushed her wide towards the tunnel! Whoops! I wanted her to respond to the F/C so took her over jump 7 again- she exectuted it perfectly this time and flew accross the DW to nose target. Next trap was jump 10 to AFrame- people werent seeing this line and the dogs just needed a call to move their line. Hoax ran this well and DID see the Aframe but responded to the fact I was heading towards the tunnel and her verbal call and shifted her line towards the tunnel. Towards the AFrame I knew I wanted to get ahead of her for the last two jumps because of the angle. As I recalled her I just saw her hit the up of the A- sail over the apex and without touching a foot on the down ramp land right at the bottom holding on with a paw then reversing back to nose target- she tried soooo hard to stop I couldnt be angry LOL!Overall both dogs worked well. Hoax won the Nursery Jumping which was great, coz not only was she competing against all heights, but the large dogs even jumped medium. She ran it in 17.91 - four seconds ahead of second place! Clever baby girl!
We enjoyed the day very much and came home tired and proud of my woofers
5 comments:
Sounds like Hoaxy's coming along very nicely! Glad you'r taking it easy some of the time. Hope you feel better soon!
Can't wait to see Hoax in action!
Thanks- she is a real sweetie- if only all courses were just jumps and tunnels with just the odd turn, it seems we would do fine! LOL LOL LOL
ps- Yes Sarah- its a great excuse to relax LOTS! :)
sounds like you had a great time with the dogs pleased that they are working so well, just make sure you take time out to continue taking it easy too x
Hoax sounds fab, you need to get some video footage!!
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