SOJAC AKC Agility Trial

First AKC Trial of the year! I love AKC agility, it's so much fun. This was Trixie's first official trial at 8" and I think she was a little confused as to why the jumps weren't at 12 but never the less she Q'ed 5/6 times, not too shabby. The first run of the weekend was Open FAST and, as usual, Trixie was nuts but she managed to get it together and Q! I'd been thinking about not entering FAST until Trixie's back in regular next year but I still love FAST because Trixie and I need some time to get it together in the morning. A little while later I walked the Excellent JWW course and I was a little disappointed. I've never run an excellent course before so I was really hoping the judge would bring it, but it was basically a big loop... wish Scooter could have run it for an Excellent Q! As I went to get Trixie to do our run I noticed there was 30 seconds left to walk Open Standard which I didn't even know they built! I quickly walked it then grabbed Trixie and was back 2 dogs before our run. Trixie was good and Q'ed but was pretty slow, about 4ish YPS...what was that Trixie?! Soon after when we ran Open Standard she had a fantastic run at 4.3 YPS, one of her fastest standard times and our last Q for her Open Standard title :D

Sunday I woke up before 6 (ugh!) and ran Excellent A Standard, it was basically the open standard course from saturday because the judge was the same. Trixie had a great run but didn't stop on the table. At first I thought it was my fault but now I'm thinking Trixie was being silly and not trying hard enough to stop. She was about 4 YPS with the table fault. Soon after we ran open FAST and Q'ed again!! Now we only need one more FAST Q!! Our last run was another nice jumpers Q for our second Ex A JWW Q! I love how reliable Trixie is in JWW, this time she was running at 4.54, still not our best but better. Today when I was grooming her I find a small sore on her left rear leg and a tiny bit of blood on her fur, she seems fine though so I don't know if that was affecting her at all.

Our runs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfvKyHvlQM&feature=youtu.be