Great Day at Perth Trial!!

WOW!!! What a fantastic day of trialling I have just had with my 2 very special BC's Raven and Cypher. Bunbury last Sunday didn't go too well - with a silly error by me stuffing up Cypher's chances of a pass in Novice Jumping (I did what can only be described as very bad attempt at a front cross causing Cy to round the jump), and then in Novice Agility he just hit the weave poles very fast and got out of time missing the 3rd weave pole. Raven did nice contacts in Bunbury - but that's about it LOL!! She had a bar down in both Open and Masters Agility. Luckily in Masters Jumping she held it altogether (unlike her handler who stressed out about some mid course equipment failure - ie tunnel came completely out of the hoops holding it when she went through it - I could have ignored that except she had to go back in the tunnel again at that exit point!!!) she was able to find the tunnel entry dodging around the now free standing hoops and ran on well leaving me eating her dust trying to get down the course to tell her where to go!! Needless to say we used alot of our course time up but we managed a clear after all that - good girl!

But today! Today was fantastic - I went back and did some focused jump work with Raven during the week and it has paid off she kept her bars up in ALL FOUR runs today - good girl! She came 1st in Masters Agility, 1st in Open Jumping and 2nd in Open Agility (to her Strategic Pairs partner BC Nifty owned by Sue Hogben so that was good!!). Her Masters Jumping run was great up until we had a lack of communication about a rear cross. Actually I probably was trying to do a rear cross in the wrong place as that is usually what causes these sorts of things LOL!! But she kept her bars up - good girl!!

Then to top it all off Cy boy goes out and wins Novice Jumping again!!! This time the course was a little more challenging but he again handled very well for a lovely run 4 seconds faster than the 2nd place dog. Plus he handles a distance challenge very well in Open Jumping and comes 7th out of 12 qualifiers all dogs who are in Excellent or Masters. What a good boy!! So very happy with my runs today - still got stuff to work on during the week of course but I'm glad with the form we're showing 6 days before we fly out to the Sydney 1st BC National.