2010... starting off a new year...

A 3 day AKC Agility trial at McCook to start off the new year -- not bad! :-)

Fri: Dylan had 2 great runs, but knocked a bar in JWW and bounced off the teeter in Std, which he NEVER does! Besides that, he had wonderful weaves and was LOVING the 24" weave poles!!! I was very proud of him. Rumor also blew me away with his weaves this weekend... Std was a ridiculous weave entrance and I wasn't even trying to make him go for it (I was going to make the approach a lot straighter), but he got it! Couldn't believe it. Sadly, my big mouth made him drop a bar afterwards, but I was thrilled with that. Rumor also had a wonderful JWW run and I even (flying by the seat of my pants) did a rear cross at the weaves and he was great. It definitely gave me a lot more confidence in him this weekend.

Sat: Dylan wasn't feeling the weaves so much today... in both runs he went in at the 2nd pole... I think I might have been over handling them a bit and he doesn't need quite the same amount of help when they are 24" poles b/c he doesn't bounce into them. In Std he and I had a little collision and luckily I didn't go down... as Kelly put it... "Lamberson, you are not so gazelle like" -- it was hilarious! I didn't help Rumor out too much in Std -- when he actually knew where to go he did really nicely, but I was being pretty slow on my cues for some reason... oh well, he still had a blast!

Sun: Just Rumor today... he was having a lovely Std run and then I was behind him at the weaves and he popped out looking for me. Otherwise, the run was fantastic! He had a very nice JWW run too... unfortunately, my handling was less than stellar. I was thrilled that he got a tough weave entrance b/c there was a dummy jump right there and he actually went for the weaves.

No Qs this weekend, but I was so happy with how the boys performed and it gave me so much more confidence in Rumor this weekend... excited for upcoming agility trials!!!