End of Season

The Promotion tables have gone up for the 2010/11 BAA season, and Dylan is happily into Graduate in both Jumping and Agility. This doesn’t bother me since he’s going to be doing Novice Plus classes all winter anyway. He finished 3rd in the Novice Maxi Dog of the Year, which I’m thrilled to bits about, I thought he had no chance! He only moved up to Novice from June, so got most of his points in Primary. Primary points are worth less than Novice, so it just shows how well and how consistently he’s done. Good boy! He was 10th in the Novice Agility League and 9th in the Novice Jumping League, so very respectable there too.

Kim has gone into Graduate Agility on wins, which I couldn’t avoid, but she’s fallen into the Voluntary Promotion section for Jumping – we haven’t got any Novice Jumping wins – and I’m not going to apply to move her up. It means she will get a few runs next year at Novice, thankfully! She finished 8th in the Novice Medium DOTY League, which was reasonably good considering she amassed all her points over the summer since I don’t do the winter BAA season with her. Despite getting her wins in Agility, she has generally done better in Jumping, and finished 13th in the Novice Jumping League, and 18th in the Novice Agility League.

I did hesitate about doing anymore BAA shows after this season – I’m not happy with various things, which I’ve gone on at length about before – but I’m at least going to do the winter season with Dyl and then see what happens. I like the four day summer show just because it’s a good training show, and if I think he’s in with a decent shot at qualifying for Finals or even the Dog of the Year, I’m not sure I’ll be able to resist. It’s kind of difficult because there aren’t many other Finals for us to go for; in KC terms, Olympia and Crufts aren’t suitable venues for Dylan to run at even if we could qualify, and I don’t fancy chasing the Adams or CSJ Qualifiers up and down the country.

Maybe I’m just lacking in ambition!