Perth Royal Teams Run Off

Raven on her flying way around a jumping course.




























PERTH ROYAL SHOW - TEAMS EVENT 23/09 (Jasper above - 1/2 brother to Tag)
Well today was one of the most exhausting (yet fun at the same time!) days I've ever had at the Show! Raven is in a 4 dog team named THREE'S A CROWD (yes ok I know 4 dogs and threes a crowd doesn't compute but the "Three" refers to number of handlers - sometimes we're also known as Two's Company because it is just Robyn and myself), and thanks to several factors today I ended up running 3 out of the 4 dogs in this team! Plus the agility and the jumping were TWO rounds each! 16 rounds in total for one four dog team and I ran 12 of them! The team - Raven, Saffi (CH WINPARA ICEE RED ADX JDX), Tag (CH WINPARA SECRET OBSESSION ADX JDX) and Deb Hyde's Jasper (OB CH BRYNBANK DANGEROS LIASON ADX JDX). Tag has NEVER run with me in a trial and at best we've had about 4 practices together at training, however I had to end up running him for 3 out of 4 runs! Luckily Robyn made it back from the Breed ring for 1 of the runs and ran him clear, and I managed a clear in Jumping with him, however we had more than a couple off courses in our other runs! I ran Jasper for the 1st run in Agility and he did very well, we had one wrong tunnel entry and one bar down and that was it - Deb ran him the other 3 runs with only a bar down in 2, and a couple of missed weavers in the other. Raven was a star pretty much all day apart from her very first run where she was more than a little amped up by the crowd and just couldn't wait till the judge said go on the table! She got called for a slightly suspect colour on the dog walk in her next run and in jumping she was an absolute star - I over handled her in one area (must keep mouth shut!) and caused her to take a bar down and in the last run of the day we both were in sync and ran a clear and very fast round. I am very pleased and proud to say that Threes A Crowd made the cut this year and got into the finals with the top 6 teams for both Agility and Jumping. More than a little surprised about the jumping since poor Saffi is having difficulty with the spread jumps of late due to middle aged spread creeping up on her! But she tries her heart out for me and that is something I will always be proud of with her.
Saffi is directly below and her son Tag is underneath.