Sunday, March 24, 2013

St Patrick's Day Trial

Well, as we mentioned in Keltic's birthday posts, Beckett and I had a trial at Dream Fields on St Patrick's Day. The luck of the Irish was not with us and we didn't get any Q's but we did have some really nice runs, unfortunately there are no videos.

We ran two Gamblers, two Standards, a Snooker and last up, a Jumpers. First up was a Gamblers, I didn't try any of the minis, just went for points. I know Beckett is fast enough to get the points so if I'm not sure that he'll do the minis I don't waste precious seconds trying to get him to do them. I was really happy that he did the first four obstacles of the main gamble, quite a few dogs didn't get this gamble. It was very hard to get them back out the far tunnel mouth.


In our first standard, we got five faults. I wanted to make sure that Beckett took the frame after jump 7 so I did a front cross which kept him out of the tunnel mouth I was worried about but very nearly put him in the other tunnel entrance but in almost doing the other tunnel entrance we got a refusal on the A-frame.  The rest of the run was just great. Beckett ran the course in 45.99 seconds, going 3.91 yards per second (yps). The Standard Course time was 61 seconds.


The Snooker run was another nice run. We did the red near the far end of the weaves, then the weaves, then the red near the start/finish line, then the weaves again, then the red by the tunnel followed by the A-frame. Then we started our opening, Beckett did 2 and 3a and took off for the obstacle 3b, the tunnel like a little streak. I was going to try to run 3c and 4a like a straight line with Beckett on my left, unfortunately I got a little ahead of Beckett and never cued him to take 3c so he came right by the standard of 3c. Good boy, Beckett.  We needed to get through 6 to qualify. On the course map, the reds are the single jumps with no numbers, they're not even red, they are blue lattice jumps.

Our last run of the day was Jumpers. Having NQ'd all of our other runs I was hoping this would be the one but nope, we came up empty handed. Well I did anyway, Beckett still got his hot dogs as he was a good boy and ran very well all day, hardly any spinning.  Jumpers went very well right up to nearly the end of the run. I wanted to front cross between 17 and 18 but Beckett was so far ahead of me that I shoulder turned him over 18 and rear-crossed but I knew I didn't want to go too far to the tunnel so I hesitated on course as to what I should do. Beckett not receiving any information as to what he should do, back jumped 18.  The course time for this Jumpers was 48 seconds. Beckett ran it in 35.30, for him a very fast 4.9 yps. How can you not be happy with that!


Our next trials are in April, 7 April at Dream Fields again and 14 April at Absolute Agility.  I hope the agility gods will be with us then as the leprechauns weren't with us last weekend.


8 comments:

  1. Well Beckett, just keep working at it, before long you will be the standard for oter poochies to chase!

    Your Pals
    The Mad Scots

    Pees; Bites just laughs at this, cause he would just stand there and shake his head!

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    1. We're working on it, Susie. There are some dogs that probably inside are just shaking their heads; I hope Beckett isn't one of them.

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  2. Little stuff....you guys will get it next time! Beckett sure is a little speed demon.

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    1. He keeps getting beaten by a Parson Jack Russel named Foxee. Luckily Foxee is from Quebec so he won't be one of our competitor at the Ontario Regionals.

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  3. We don't know anything about agility. Looks like in the second picture jump seven is a rolling pin. The rolling pin seemed to have moved from picture one and picture two. Guess someone wasn't finished using it for baking when it was time for the third picture because we didnt see the rolling pin in that picture.

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    1. Lassie and Benji, you're right it does look like a rolling pin. It's a double jump. Beckett sometimes has trouble with those. He knocks the second bar.

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  4. His times are good. Good to hear he's calmed down with the twirling lol! Such a clever boy!

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  5. We always seem to be running on Saturdays when you're running on Sundays! Sounds like Beckett is running really well though! :)

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