Excellent!

Triumph had a pretty good showing at the AKC trial this past weeknd in Arcadia, Florida earning his open standard tile and his open jumpers with weaves title!  He qualified in 4 of the 6 runs and came home with three blue ribbons and one yellow.


I ran him in 20" for the first time all weekend and while he over-jumped a few jumps and left early on a few as well, he did seem to settle in to the height and he seemed to be thinking a little more about his job instead of mindlessly blasting around the course. 

But, oh, do we have so much to train and so much work to do!!!  He is still diving into his contact position and is still not shifting his weight back on the teeter and he definitely could have a faster table position!  However, his start line stay was much improved and he never missed a weave entry and never came out of the poles in the 6 runs.


His first standard run was going nicely until he decided it was time to do a running aframe right into the chute...I marked it and asked him to sit and we were eliminated for training in the ring...yeah but...he knows better!


He earned his open jumpers title on Saturday and so I moved him in to excellent for Sunday - he was the last dog to run.  I now had two dogs to run in 20" excellent jumpers so I moved Burn to run first.  Burn had a great run going but ended up taking off way early on the triple, which he has never done, totally crashing into the middle of the jump and ending up in a horrible tumble and fall...it was truly horrifying.  Thankfully, he was okay. 

I almost scratched Triumph from running this course as I was concerned about how he would handle that line to the triple.  I did run him but decided not to get too far ahead of him on that line.  He took off a bit early and cleared it but then I was not where I needed to be and was very tentative so he took an off course...all in all, he did pretty good his first time in excellent.




Sunday's open standard run and title...






Saturday's open jumpers run and title...

Burn's crash...

And Triumph's first excellent jww run...