Well… first off we survived the heat. It has been very cool here – in the 60’s on a warm day…. that is until the weekend of the USDAA Super Regionals which gave us temperatures of 100+ on the field on Saturday afternoon. Needless to say my black, muscled Stafford didn’t fair too well. She had the Stafford Community Pool to use – provided by our friends and neighbors Karen, Kersten, Prot & Idgie – and she had fans, cool pads, etc…. but it was just not enough for my girl. We bombed the Grand Prix run and scratched the Steeplechase run. I do have to say that Rowan does have a marvelous work ethic – all things considered. I think my favorite run was this gamblers run… she had nice contacts and good speed. The gamble itself was brutal. No dogs in our class got the gamble – I’m not sure how many in the whole class were successful.
Rowan is still a young dog in lots of ways and we will take forward building steps to get us back there next year! Her overall performance and work ethic in the Advanced runs on both days were wonderful… she’s such a good girl! You will note that I did choose to run off the line with her in most runs… I have found that she has lost some confidence coming up to the line in competition and I want to build that confidence. So we are back to the games up to the line and I am getting toys back into training. She is very receptive!
Here are some more of our weekend runs:
Standard
Jumpers – 3rd place an a Q
And Pairs… my half and I think we qualified!
Nowhere in the list of cooling mechanisms was ‘icy cold margarita’, and I’m thinking that was the problem. I was nearly overheating just watching these videos (and I’m blaming it on the fact that there’s not an icy cold margarita in my hand). Great job at your trial!
You have not idea how bad I wanted a beer at the end of that day…………………. oh………………………….
Sure was fun watching your runs again. It was fun being there. You guys did a super job@
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