Keystone Winter USDAA trial

this was our last trial before the juniors agility competition and I have to say after this trial I really couldn't be more excited about going! Both Trixie AND Scooter were awesome and qualified in all of their runs! (3 for Scooter and 5 for Trix) The best part is that Scooter was RUNNING! like running running not jogging/moving kinda quickly. Trixie also was awesome in the weaves! Like basically eating them for breakfast awesome - okay I'm having trouble believing I just said/typed that... but she was that fast :) I felt bad for Trixie though because she was sliding around on the turf all day and did at least 1 face plant in 4/5 runs... granted two of the runs wouldn't have happened if she had stopped contacts! Well, we're getting there...

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNvmgkFRJuQ

Trixie -

PII Gamblers (Q and 1st) :

Awesome  - yep this one was awesome :) great weaves, great running dogwalk, good send to the a-frame. I'm also happy the judge didn't call her teeter in the gamble - I know I would have called it a fly off - but then again we were due for a call to go our way... Only one more Q until PIII Gamblers!

PI Standard (Q and 1st):

 flawless on Trixie's part (at least I think it was...it wasn't filmed so I have trouble remembering these things...) - except for her face plant at the end of the dog walk, but thats okay! hopefully it'll get her to slow down a little at the end of the board

PI Pairs (Q and 1st):

another great run, not sure why she ran around the teeter though...so happy with how it looked, she ran all the way down the plank and everything, and no hopping like in gamblers! We also got our Starters Performance Relay (SPR) title!

PI Snooker (Q and 1st):

I don't usually try and get like 12621986 points in snooker and because she was sliding around so much before this run I just kept it really simple - she did great and we got our Starters Performance Snooker (SPK) title!

PII Jumpers (Q and 1st):

Yes! We finally broke 5 YPS! we finished the course in 23.67 seconds making our speed 5.11 YPS - my front crosses were A LOT better, still a tiny bit late but much better. I finally just stopped babysitting all the obstacles at the trial and let her just do what she does best! it was also a really easy course for PII so there wasn't a whole lot that could go wrong :D


We are officially knocking on the PDCH's door now!

Only...42 Q's to go! ...okay that sounds like a lot ... but we're a lot closer than we were 6 months ago when Trixie first started trialing! I still can't believe how far she's gotten in only 6 months - she already has 16 agility titles!

Scooter!

PI Gamblers (Q! and 1st too :) ):

SO happy with this! she was running!!! she had a beautiful gamble - I'd forgotten how easy gamblers is with her, she's just so darn obstacle focused!

PI Standard (Q and 1st again!!)

GREAT :D really I was just blown away - She did stop on the teeter and took quite a bit of coaxing to finish it but she did it! and kept running the whole course - not one patch of walking or even jogging!!!

PI Pairs (Q and 1st!):

This was literally the best run she's ever had - need I say more?

PI Jumpers:

well we scratched because it was the very last running and even Trixie and Scooter were shivering... also I wanted her to leave happily and on a stress free note and not push my luck


Before this trial I was pretty apprehensive about doing the juniors agility competition with Scooter but now I'm actually looking forward to it - but we will definitely be working on her teeters!