Today we went to Argus Ranch for the NW Bearded Collie Club of Puget Sound Agility Trial. Kohl and I were just spectating but Stephen and Sky had 3 runs starting with Novice B FAST.
You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ghostyboyster#p/u/5/mJxDb0j7610
Slightly untidy but Sky did everything Stephen asked him to do, so he can't complain. They avoided the contacts and Stephen made sure he did the Send early in the run. Sky did some killer weaves too. Sky scored 57 points, qualified, came first and got his FAST Novice Title. Stephen says he didn't time the run very well as they completed the course in just 21 seconds and they still had 11 seconds available, problem was the only remaining obstacles were the A-Frame and Teeter and Stephen didn't want Sky missing contacts at the start of the day.
Novice B JWW http://www.youtube.com/user/ghostyboyster#p/u/4/fpdMExJeaNo
This was a really nice course and Sky made a right mess of it, starting by knocking off the first jump and then not paying attention to Stephen for most of the rest of the run. He did finish nicely though.
Novice B STD http://www.youtube.com/user/ghostyboyster#p/u/3/sesyOwkViFY
This was Sky's best standard run and everything was going fine until he reached the A-frame where he had a refusal. Sky made the contact by the skin of his teeth, but we think the judge was actually a little lenient. Then two obstacles from the end Sky launches himself off the end of the dog walk and Stephen retired him. A least they made 2 of the 3 contacts (they didn't make any last weekend) and Sky did a really good job of the Teeter and the Weaves.
Overall, a good day was had by all and I'm very proud of 'my boys'.
Just STD and JWW tomorrow (no FAST).
