Saturday, June 12, 2010

Regionals - Day 2

It went really well today, I'm almost afraid to say anything in case I jinx us for tomorrow.  You are required to get 350 points to qualify for Nationals, and Jake has approx. 280 already, and we are only half way through.

It was a bit of a rocky start with our first class and first obstacle.  It was a Gamblers class, and I started with the dogwalk which was worth 5 points.  I purposely started him at an angle to it, as he has reoccurring teeter issues, and I was hoping that he would be able to see enough of it to realize it wasn't the teeter (even though I call it something else).  Anyway, I raced to the other end, obviously NOT keeping my eye on my dog.  I heard the spectators gasp, and he had bailed off the up plank of the dogwalk.  That kind of threw me for a loop, but we continued on and it went well for the most part after that, with him doing an awesome gamble. 

The next class was Standard, and I thought I was really going to have to baby him over the teeter and dog walk, but he was okay with them.  A clear round and 14 seconds under time, so we got 14 bonus points.

Jumpers was the last class, and he got a clear round there also, and more bonus points for being well under time.  Good boy Jake!  Let's hope we can continue the success tomorrow.

2 comments:

  1. Hope you quailfy! Sounds like you're having a whale of a time!

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  2. Good work. We sure hope you do qualify. Sounds like it is all going well.
    Have a great day.

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