Oh Yeah, You Blend

I just love it when my weekend is made on the Friday! Nina qualified in Master FAST (in her first Master FAST run after earning her Excellent title at the last trial), AND Master Standard for 26 points AND Master Jumpers for 16 points to earn double Q number 8 AND her first TRIPLE Q! (10 triple Q’s earns the Triple Q Excellent title or TQX).

Saturday one bar down in jumpers and popped weaves kept us out of the Q’s.

Today we got Jumpers but my paranoia about her making an unsafe entry to the dogwalk got us an off-course in an otherwise awesome Standard run. We hadn’t done particularly well showing under Linda Kipp before, but we sure did nicely this weekend! Nina ended up with a 50% Q rate on the weekend, which we have only managed once before, so a good weekend!

Zhora made her Open Standard debut and did SO well! Fast, happy and confident and did most of the weaves (I elected not to go back and fix them). I didn’t handle the last jump clearly and she ran past it and I didn’t fix that either. So proud of her! She started out well in jumpers but a fit of reverse sneezing stopped us. I think I fed her a too-dry treat too close to starting to run.

Nina Friday Standard (part of triple Q #1 and double Q #8, 26 points):

Nina Friday Jumpers (part of triple Q #1 and double Q #8, 16 points):

Zhora Saturday Open Jumpers debut:

Nina Sunday Jumpers (14 points):

Nina Sunday Standard (no Q but a nice run):

Nina’s 2015 Nationals tally: 3/4 double Q’s, 22/20 legs, 440/500 points

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