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 we were 4 dogs down and so had been forced to scratch a team. Kim, Mollie, Jess and Archie were bumped up to join Jet and George in Div 2, and Dylan’s team was reshuffled from 6 dogs to 5.

Kim and Smoll had a blast in Div 2, especially over Jess’ 9″ height. We took almost everyone to 5 legs, I got a 0.00 on the lights for the first time ever, and everyone got lots of points. A good day, I feel! Especially proud of our 3rd team dogs, we ran a 19.93 with Kim, Mollie, Jess and Jet which isn’t half bad for 2 old ladies, a height dog who hasn’t raced for a couple of months, and Jet (of course, Jet was the fastest, but I don’t think she could have been embarrassed by her team-mates).

Dylan’s team were rubbish, and hopefully they won’t mind me saying that! We tried our best and just failed, but we had a laugh as we always do, and scratched our heads a bit as theoretically we had quite a fast team, not sure why it didn’t work out! Dylan ran really well, he does love running with CrazyBails, and he’s confident with Chip and Stripe. Some lovely turns, some not so good, but it’s something to work on!

We finished off the day by getting incredibly dirty packing everything away, Katie must be our undisputed turf-throwing champion, but maybe we’ll give her a run for her money next time.