Western Classic 2006

Well the Classic is over and done for another year - we had some very nice judges over for the agility - a Mr Michael Vigor, Brian Fielder, and a Mr Des Coyles from South Australia. Raven held her own again and won first place in Open Agility - 32.43seconds on a 59 second course. The Masters Course in Agility was extremely controlled and whilst we managed a hard part she popped the last two weavers - I certainly wasn't disappointed though as literally only 2 dogs went clear out of the field of 50. Masters Jumping we stayed the course but she knocked two bars. Open Jumping we knocked a bar just before the weave entry. So luckily we redeemed ourselves in the Open Agility. The Teams event - well I completely stuffed our chance in jumping - she dropped a bar and I just completely forgot the course at that point - went literally blank in the head! We got through to the finals in Agility - she decided that on the table the judge saying "1" was just as good as the judge saying "Go" so she left and we had to get back on the table - we ended up 6th out of 19 teams so not too bad. She was pushing the envelope the whole way with me over that event though - not doing two on two off, and pressuring the table count. I find it hard to fathom how a 6 year old fluffy black and white 16 kilo wisp of a girl Border Collie can intimidate me so much - I feel her eyes just staring straight at me daring me to look her in the eye so she can wind herself up even more and break her table! Anyway three more weekends till our next trial now *sigh*