Another Clean Run in Novice STD .. two down one to go!

Just two runs today starting with Open JWW.  Things were going very well until 4 jumps from the end.  Stephen could tell that Sky had locked onto an off course jump and he tried to call him away from it.  Unfortunately Sky was still airborne and Stephen's calling caused him to knock the bar - to make matters worse he still did the off course jump.  With hindsight Stephen says he should not have attempted a front cross at this jump, he could easily have taken him over the jump and the next jump and then do a rear cross.  Here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6S4bGXC54A  Note that he did a funny bunny hop over the first jump as Stephen didn't give him enough room for a full stride.

Their last run of the weekend was Novice STD.  Unfortunately Stephen doesn't have any video of this run.  Sky was really flying, he did a clean run with much better contacts (still lots of room for improvement though) he completed the course in 36 seconds the standard course time was 72 seconds!  He averaged 4.01 yards per second, he came first in his class and had the quickest time of all the dogs by a big margin - he beat all the Border Collies and the Shelties :-)

The bad news is Stepphen injured my left calf muscle again (off to the physio tomorrow) on the last run of the weekend - not as bad as before but he really could have done without another injury.

Overall it was a pretty good weekend - 3Q's and 3 1st places out of 5 runs, plus he was quickest dog both days in all of Novice STD and the 3rd quickest in all of Open JWW.  Sky is developing quite a fan club, lots of people came up to me over the weekend and wanted to know how old he was, where we got him from and where we train.