So crazy; 4 teams on Saturday and 1 team on Sunday. Naturally, due to the laws of nature demanding that I never sleep, Dylan was on Saturday and the girls were both on Sunday.
Dylan’s team ran really well, we just had four dogs (Lucy, Dylan, Skye, and Brooke) and we thought we were going to be hugely outclassed as bottom seeds, but it actually turned out to be a bit too easy. We only took one race to 5 legs (which we unfortunately lost on a light!), the rest were straight 3-leg victories, which put us 2nd.
The girls both ran really well, they’re both very happy to be running with little 11″ height dog Bailey. It was a very closely seeded decision but this is one of our Champs prep tournaments, so we didn’t go to win but to practice changeovers and working as a faultless team. Which worked very well, our team looks fantastic, but I find it incredibly frustrating not to play to win and I ended up having a bit of a moan on the way home, sorry to drivers and passengers! The Barking Owlers team came 4th in the end.
Off to the 4-day EMDAC today! I’m currently most excited about running Kim in Pawsability classes tomorrow, as I opted out of Novice Plus and decided to let her run some dead-easy baby classes where I can take a toy in with me. I’m also pretty excited about Duo Pairs (One dog, two handlers!) and Brace Pairs (Two dogs, one handler!) with the gang, we tried running Mollie in Duo’s last year and much hilarity ensued. Let’s just hope the weather holds! (And good luck to Katie, I hope Jet gets her wins to move up!)