{"id":81,"date":"2008-01-08T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/archives\/81"},"modified":"2008-01-08T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:02:39","slug":"agility-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Agility Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kim<\/a>Finally back on form with Kim \u2013 EMDAC (Oct) and Wyre (Dec) were a bit down, just one 4th in the end despite a couple of good runs \u2013 but she decided to start 2008 with a bang. She came 2nd in both jumping classes, missing out on 1st in the Jumping by 0.3 seconds (my fault, naturally, I caused a bobble at the first tunnel). We\u2019ve never done Primary Snakes before but I did think we\u2019d at least manage to go clear; it\u2019s essentially a jumping class where there are a series of tunnel traps to be avoided. Since Kim is not a big tunnel fanatic I never thought she would be tempted off-course and she ran a perfect clear, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anywhere she could have gained any time. Having said that, I didn\u2019t think she\u2019d come quite as high as she did, there were some seriously quick Maxi dogs and it was a nice fast course, not usually the kind of thing we do ultra-well on.<\/p>\n

We also got a 9th in the agility with a fairly appalling run by our standards; Kim didn\u2019t set off with much enthusiasm and although we got around clear, it wasn\u2019t very tidy and she got a very<\/u> lucky call on the seesaw contact. Final run of the day was my favourite class; I love Time Fault & Out! However I take full responsibility for our \u201cearly\u201d exit – refusal on obstacle 20 \u2013 Kim was just going way too fast for me and I couldn\u2019t get into the right place to handle the flick flack. She came 12th (rosettes to 11th only, so just missed out!) but her time was fantastic, she had over 20 seconds left on the clock when we had to exit and<\/u> she got both<\/em> dogwalk contacts. Shame she doesn\u2019t have a better handler!<\/p>\n

All those places put her up to the top of the Primary Medium Dog of the Year tables! It\u2019s a bit early in the year for talking about the final Dog of the Year results, especially as BAA have a lot more shows this year that I can\u2019t get to, but it\u2019s certainly nice to be at the top for a while anyway. Amazingly we\u2019re also top of the Primary Jumping League (all heights!). I always think of Kim as better at agility rather than jumping, as usually she\u2019s just not quite quick enough for high places in the jumping classes. She seems determined to prove me wrong at the moment.<\/p>\n

Congrats to Katie and her hounds for their places, and especially to Sarah and her contingent of collies for their fab top-10 rosettes. Also, I just have to mention my favourite dog of the day, an amazing little Papillion who just stormed around the Introductory TFO and won it with an amazing obstacle tally \u2013 who says Micro dogs never win anything?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally back on form with Kim \u2013 EMDAC (Oct) and Wyre (Dec) were a bit down, just one 4th in the end despite a couple of good runs \u2013 but she decided to start 2008 with a bang. She came 2nd in both jumping classes, missing out on 1st in the Jumping by 0.3 seconds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[37,42,128],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-kim","tag-agility-2","tag-baa","tag-league-tables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-1j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}