Triumph competed in his very first Regional Event in Perry Georgia - we had a blast! Our "team" was a young dog training team named appropriately - No Pressure! And that was a good thing as team jumpers was first thing Friday morning with the 26" dogs first in and Triumph was like the 5th dog in the ring. The course was pretty challenging and a number of dogs did not make it through clean, including Triumph! His jumping started out big and early but then he settled in and it was actually pretty good!
Next was team snooker. I love snooker but haven't quite gotten comfortable running Triumph in that game. Our opening was pretty nice doing a 4, 5, 6, and 7 and then he went off course in the closing at 3 - oh well it was still points!
Team gamble was fun - Triumph's contacts were good and his jumping was pretty nice as well. Team standard was a very challenging course that like jumpers, a number of dogs did not make it through clean - Triumph ran it clean and ended up in 10th place!
Here is our relay run which was actually quite fun - although I have to say I am glad that I got to run the half that I did as the second part was very tough!!!
Grand Prix round 1 was Saturday - I thought it was a really fun course! I really did not plan to layer the judge and the jump at the dog walk but he was kinda in my path and I wanted to get down that line to the poles and I did! Triumph was a good boy for getting the entry but just couldn't hold on to it...it was more or less a training run as he had the bye and would be running in the finals on Sunday!
Steeplechase round 1 was a REALLY FUN course!!!! Not sure why he turned the wrong way at the jump after the second aframe - I saved it but it gave him a bad line to the broad jump and he stepped on it and incurred a 5 second fault which did not allow him to run in finals on Sunday - too bad because that was a very fun course as well!
But I was most proud of his Grand Prix final run on Sunday...I had been told on Saturday morning that I looked like a dweeb running my dogs on Friday...maybe it was said in fun, but it bothered me such that I was bound and determined to do a better job and we did...so to the person who called me a dweeb, thank you!
Unfortunately, by this run Triumph had started to push his start line and ended up under the tire - stinker! Had he not got the refusal at the tire, and had all the other results stayed the same, he would have placed 4th in a very large and very competitive 26" class!
At not even 2.5 years of age and his very first regional, I think he did a pretty good job!
oh yeah, excuse my friend's finger while she video taped :)
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