Oh Yeah, You Blend

Great trial under our favorite judge Mary Mullen. Excellent host club, wonderful courses, deceptively tricky but so fun to challenge yourself on! Some of the nicest Premier courses I have run so far. Nina ran beautifully, and had a killer Premier Standard run with just one bar keeping her from a Q. Zhora picked up QQ #17, the last she needed for 2017 Nationals (down to less than 50 points needed now!), plus a Premier Jumpers leg, and they finished the weekend going one-two in Standard. Zhora is running faster and faster, driving ahead, getting tricky weave entries, I could not be happier with how she is running, and the mojo really feels like it’s working for us. My girls were just wonderful to me this Easter weekend.

Nina Friday Premier Standard (NQ but wow what a nice run, one bar down, only error):

Nina Friday Standard (first place, 33 points):

Zhora Friday Standard (QQ#17, third place, 31 points):

Zhora Friday Jumpers (QQ#17, first place, 21 points):

Zhora Friday Premier Jumpers (second place):

Nina Saturday Standard (NQ, nice run):

Zhora Saturday Standard (second place, 30 points):

Nina Sunday Standard (first place, 34 points):

Zhora Sunday Standard (second place, 31 points):

Zhora earned double Q #16 on Saturday, that was four in a row! Today was…less good. Nina got the walk of shame for a teeter bail, and Zhora, who doesn’t knock bars, knocked a bar in jumpers and missed her weave entry in both runs (tough courses, low Q rates). Judge Tom O’Brien.

Zhora Saturday Jumpers (QQ #16! Second place, 18 points, 4.826 yards per second):

Nina Saturday Standard (Q, first place, 33 points, 4.191 yards per second):

Zhora Saturday Standard (QQ #16! Second place, 31 points! 4.05 yards per second, new personal best!):

…in which Zhora had a PERFECT WEEKEND! The first perfect weekend I have ever had with any dog, in any venue, ever! (Now, of course, any weekend I get to spend with my dogs and my wonderful peeps is perfect in its own way, but I digress…). Judge Abbie Hanson designed some tricky courses, some had low Q rates, but they seemed custom made for Zhora, she couldn’t seem to put a foot wrong. Nina had two Jumpers Q’s with gorgeous runs, but I cost us a double on Friday and Saturday…a double just wasn’t happening.

Zhora is now just 5 double q’s from her MACH (Masters Agility Championship)!

Zhora Friday Jumpers (QQ 13! Second place and 16 points):

Nina Friday Jumpers (Q, first place and 18 points):

Zhora Friday Standard (QQ 13! First place and 25 points):

Nina Friday Standard (I said “tunnel” while she was jumping and cost us the Q, training mode after that):

Zhora Saturday Jumpers (QQ 14! Fourth place and 16 points):

Nina Saturday Jumpers (Q, second place and 19 points):

Zhora Saturday Standard (QQ 14! Third place and 28 points):

Zhora Sunday Jumpers (QQ 15! Fourth place and 15 points):

Zhora Sunday Standard (QQ 15! First place and 30 points!):

Nina Sunday Standard (naughty dogwalk!):