Friday, April 15, 2011

New Standard Novice Title!!

Stephen took the day off work and ran Sky in the Manchester Terrier agility trial.

The first run was Exc FAST.  Sky came really close to doing this correctly - the send was shoot-jump-shoot.  Sky did this but unfortunately he went in the wrong entrance to the last shoot.  Like last week hardly anyone qualified in this event.  Here is a link to the run:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWqtzF-ijFQ

Next was Open JWW.  Things were going fine until jump 11.  Stephen thinks he held his arm too far out which caused Sky to go off course.  This was an odd course, it was pretty much identical to the Excellent JWW course except they had 1 fewer jump.  Stephen thought the open course was harder because the way they removed the jump meant he and Sky had a tighter course to run.  Here is the run:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTO5OKTtbKk

Finally they ran Nov Std.  They ran clean in 40 seconds and came second.  The dog that won had the benefit of running the course twice, the first run was clean but the timer didn't work - so she got to run it again and ran much quicker.  At last Stephen and Sky are out of novice!!  Here is the run:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzHrFNTJgqE  The contacts still aren't great, they are losing so much time on them.