EMDAC January
Dylan’s first show! I’m very proud of him, he did far better than I expected him to. We were E’d in Power & Speed because they threw 12 weaves in and as Dylan has never done 12 upright weaves, I wasn’t expecting much! He did 8 happily but then was a bit confused, but his contacts were fantastic! In the Agility I made the decision to get eliminated after he flew the seesaw and took it again. In both Jumping classes we came away with 5 faults and very slow times which really didn’t reflect how well he’d done – the times were due to me faffing about!
Kim came home with a handful of rosettes again, she’s having a good start to the year! We had a messy start to the day in the Agility again, but still managed 4th, and we definitely got all the contacts this time! Primary Jumping was a lovely course but we had a very brief argument over which jump to do next, which obviously lost us time. Still finished 8th so not complaining too much! Power and Speed was a bit of a fiasco – Kim had clearly been watching Charlie too much and made exactly the same mistakes he did, and we were E’d in the Speed section. A lot of fun though, the course was great.
Primary Take Your Own Line Jumping (TYOL) is not my favourite class anyway, and the course was not the easiest! It remained the same for Primary and Novice Plus, which should give an idea of how difficult it was. I went in, had a look at the jumps, and decided just to try and design a course Kim was going to enjoy. The fastest route would have been to use various pull-throughs and pivots, but I picked a route that meant I could capitalise on Kim’s fabulous “out” command, and let her have some straight runs where she could stretch her legs rather than nag her round. As a result, I certainly wasn’t expecting the time and placing we got, which was 2nd place in a time of 27.57, with the winner finishing in 27.26. 0.01 between us! The dog that won is a (Maxi) KC Grade 4 with some decent placings to her name, so really pleased with Kim’s performance.
Next show is Dogs on Top on Feb 2nd with Kim, and March 1st with Dylan. Gives us time to work on a few things!