Louisville, KY

We attended our 1st ever Louisville, KY agility trial... what a fun weekend. I have heard so many great things about this 3 ring trial on dirt... and it really was a fun weekend. Lots of friends were there not to mention lots of amazing agility handlers...

Thursday: It has been a while since Dylan has done agility... boy was he all kinds of crazy! Barking and sassing at me in the ring... he was hilarious. We had a blast in both our Std and JWW runs... now Qs, but once he got the kinds out in Std the JWW run was very nice... just 1 bar. Rumor ran 26" this entire weekend and he didn't seem to have problems with it. Our 1st Std run was fantastic... just 1 dropped bar right at the end. Unfortunately, I really mishandled the opening of our JWW course and sent him into the wrong end of the tunnel. I just want to get out of ExA JWW... we only need 1 more Q!

Friday: Dylan started out the day with a great Std run... and the 1st Q for team black dogs! :) His JWW run wasn't quite as pretty, but I was still happy about Std so I didn't care. Rumor had another great Std run with just 1 error at the weaves. He didn't hold his a-frame contact and I was all flustered and really needed to hustle from a-frame to tunnel to weaves so I was much farther behind than I planned on being... but the rest of his run was just what I wanted so no complaints. Another JWW Q that was so close, but so far... a knocked bar and then I got all flustered... bummer! We also got to do our 1st ever ISC Jumpers class... how fun! Rumor did pretty well for a baby dog... only 1 refusal and the rest was clean! Mary, Polly and I were so tired we just brought snacks back into the room... was the perfect dinner :)

Saturday: Dylan's last day trialing... I only entered him in 3 days. He finished his weekend off with a lovely Q in JWW! He was such a good boy this weekend and was having a blast... yea D Dylan!!! Rumor's Std run was kind of a mess... it seemed like the wheels fell off a bit today. After the beginning we pulled it together, but it wasn't very pretty... neither was our JWW run. Oh well. We ran the ISC Std class Saturday night... a couple more errors than the ISC JWW class, but it was definitely our best run of the day so I was happy to end on a high note.

Sunday: Another Std run that was so close... totally clean except he missed the weave entrance - I over handled it and I think that was the problem... sorry Rumz! Our JWW run... we got all of the difficult parts and had a refusal at an easy 180... bummer! Oh well, hopefully we will finish our AXJ in April :)

Great trial... the footing was a little hard, but I definitely want to go back next year!