Youngstown All Breed Training Club AKC Agility Trial
Zhora seems to LOVE this trial site in Niles, Ohio! She went 3 for 4 last time, and 3 for 4 this weekend, including pulling off double Q #7, and working through a reverse sneezing fit at the start of her Jumpers run today! Her work ethic really impressed me, she also worked through a stupid handling mistake I made and saved the Q (I would never have gotten away with the mistake if she’d been running at her normal speed).
Judges Sandra Moody (LOVED her!) and Howard Etzel set some tricky but fun courses with subtle traps.
Nina had three JOLT (Just One Little Thing) runs, including what would have been a Standard Q yesterday that I STOLE FROM US by screwing up a front cross placement and ending up having to jump a jump, Nina was perfect, I was….less so. Her last run today had two bars down so I took her off (an experiment I am trying).
Takeaway pluses from this weekend (other than Zhora’s QQ of course!): Nina had PERFECT contacts, Zhora got 4/4 weaves and didn’t even blink at the teeter after bailing off it at Countryside a few weeks ago, plus really getting a concrete example of her work ethic.
Nina Saturday Standard (in which I entertain the crowd and throw away an all-too-rare Q):
Zhora Saturday Jumpers (Q and 11 points):
Nina Saturday Jumpers (JOLT!):
Zhora Sunday Standard (Q and 21 points and part 1 of QQ #7):
Nina Sunday Standard (JOLT!):
Zhora Sunday Jumpers (Q and 7 points and part 2 of QQ#7, work ethic to spare, she is slow because she is reverse sneezing, bad handling error that she saves, you can see she starts running more normally once we reach the triple):