Category: Flyball
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Gap Farm Flyball
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The All-New Singing-Dancing Matting: Was good. It’s like yoga matting, kind of. Very grippy, no slipping, very nice. My only complaint was that I’m not sure it works all that well on sand/equestrian surface. It was very “dead”; there was plenty of give but there was very little bounce back. It didn’t seem to affect…
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Freezing Something Off
I was stood in a field at 9:10am this morning, setting up flyball jumps and holding a tape measure on the snow covered ground. The weak winter sun was just coming up over the bare frozen trees, and all the sensible people in England were in bed, warm and snuggley and not losing touch with…
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Doncaster Flyball
Doncaster hold their winter tournament at the Northern Racing College, and I’ve been to this venue plenty of times, but I’ve never seen any Thoroughbreds until this weekend. They didn’t seem all that bothered with us, to be honest. Bit of a disasterous start to the day, when we arrived at 8:15 and found out…
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Stocksbridge Flyball (November)
Love the Sheffield tournaments, they’re a friendly bunch. Kim and Mollie were both in the same team, and they were storming all day. Mollie’s haircut apparently made a difference, she was particularly crazy! Kim was running anchor and she gets hilariously competitive. You’ve not seen a competitive dog until you’ve seen Kim coming over the…
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Mud Mud Mud
I may have mentioned this last year, but Dylan cannot run in mud. I find this both frustrating and kind of funny, I have to admit. He feels so slow, because he really isn’t going anywhere when his legs move, which is incredibly frustrating for both of us. On the other hand, he is clearly…
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Stocksbridge
Stocksbridge on Saturday, and it seems like such a long time since we lasted visited this tournament. I suppose it is a long time, actually. Stocksbridge is always the tournament that marks the start of the winter season, because it’s cold and you arrive and leave in the dark. I’m perhaps a bit weird, and…
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Rotherham Flyball
Days like this remind me why I do flyball. I was pretty excited about Dylan’s team anyway, they’re a fab fast bunch of dogs who were on a very comfortable seed time, and both Dylan and Skye love running over 12″. Perfect conditions! Anyway, the last race against Marnicks was down to the wire stuff,…
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Redcar
Flyball at one of my favourite ever venues, walks on the beach and beautiful weather. Can’t ask for much more! Dylan and his best redhead girl Skye were up with the Barneys in Div 2, and we came 1st, just pipping the lovely Monsters gang, and most of the racing went to 5 legs so…
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Sad Sick Dogs … and Happy Flyball
The collies have both been ill this week, which has meant I haven’t had much time to post on the blog, however much I intended to! Dylan picked something up last week and we thought it was his unfortunate eating habits (a towel, this time!) but since Mollie came down with it too, it seems…
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British Flyball Championships 2009 – Photos
Some odds and ends photos from the BFA Flyball Championships 2009. You might also spot a few pics cropping up on my Twitter feed. You can view them as a whole on Twitpic (or just type “a #champs snapshot” into search on Twitter).