Category: Courses

  • Lincoln Agility

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    Started the weekend with a nice course for the Grade 3 Jumping, a little bit straightforward for my taste so I chose to take Dylan the long way around the pull thru, which gave me a chance to test his weave entry. He flicked out to it beautifully, nailed it, and then I steadied him…

  • Hare 'n' Hounds Easter Show

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    Imagine a sea of mud, stretching as far as the eye can see … Well, it started ok on Friday. A little cold, a little damp, but nice. The weekend didn’t start all that fortuitously when I ran the Combined 1-3 Jumping, Dyl popped the last 2 weave poles (setting a trend for the weekend…

  • Agility at Crufts 2010

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    Lots and lots of agility, there was no way we could watch all of it and do everything else we planned, sadly! We chose to miss most of Thursday and Friday, but earmarked the International and the Championship on Saturday and Sunday as definites. We did manage to catch some of the other competitions, like…

  • Tailwaggers #3

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    What a weird experience – no rain, no snow, no ice! Just a cool but bright day, and standing outside in the sun was lovely. Please can all the future Tailwaggers shows be like this? Power and Speed first, Dylan’s favourite class. The Jumping section was a little too Helter Skelter for me, and true…

  • Hare'n'Hounds

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    Lovely show, but South Durham always put on a good competition. No weaves in any of the classes though, but apparently they couldn’t peg them down. Some of the rings were a bit … oddly shaped, but I don’t really mind that. Anyone with a bit of imagination can put up an interesting course in…

  • Tailwaggers #01

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    Very nearly the coldest I have ever been in my life. I have only been colder once, and that was at EMDAC’s 50th Show. I actually think the temperature was lower this time (suffice to say we didn’t get above freezing), but I had twice the layers on. Dylan also thought it was bloody cold.…

  • Course Plans

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    [nggallery id=8 template=caption] Please note course plans are from memory/video/doodles on the day, and are replicated here without permission of the original course designer/judge.

  • Wyre Agility

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    This is my traditional end-of-year show now, I think! We’ve done it since 2004, it was the first show that Kim properly behaved at and I felt relaxed and we just had fun. The year after, we came 4th in the Starters Agility Challenge, her best ever placing as a Large Dog. The year after…

  • Waldridge Fell (Indoor)

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    Such an early start! This is probably the furthest show I’m prepared to travel to for a day trip, and I wouldn’t want to do it very often. Kim did not want to get up. Met up with Emma for our epic road trip at 6am. We set off in the ice and snow but…

  • EMDAC (50th Show)

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    This was EMDAC’s 50th show, and it ran as smoothly as most of their shows do. Three rings, started just after 8:30 and finished just before 5pm (although we didn’t leave until 5:30 for reasons I will explain later!). Each ring had 5/6 classes totalling around 360 runs, with the largest class size at 130…