Saturday, October 9, 2010

The perfect day

I know I haven't blogged all week but I've been busy working and getting ready for the trial this weekend.  Lyric has been working hard on chutes and tunnels (with some contacts and weaves thrown in for good measure) all week. 

Anyway, about the post title...today we had a perfect agility day-the girls went 4/4 and were just awesome.

Legend got a QQ today!  First one since sometime in the Spring.  I guess she finally agreed with me that she should get them both on the same day instead of one at a time.  Her runs didn't yield a lot of points though.  We were running for the first time at the new Events Center at Purina Farms and the surface is not the greatest.  The dogs were either slipping, or slowing down to compensate.  Legend didn't slip much, but she was running very conservatively and collected. 

The floor didn't bother Lyric at all, but she is a much smaller dog with less power and speed.  But she did great. She was clean in open JWW and got her 2nd leg.  She ran very smoothly except a little bobble in the weaves.  It didn't get called but she did lose her focus for a second.  Her novice standard run had a refusal at the chute and dogwalk but then she did it the second time.  She initially had an NQ for hitting the broad jump but then they realized they left in the tall boards and not the short ones so they let her rejump that and gave her a Q since she was able to do it correctly at the proper height!

And today is Lyrics' birthday!  I feel more like it was my birthday since they ran so well but then again, my birthday was earlier this week so I guess we can all celebrate!

7 comments:

Ellie said...

Congrats on the QQ! :)

Sara said...

Happy Birthday! What a great present you got! Congrats on the double Q. I know you've been striving for that for a long time.

Diana said...

That does sounds like the perfect weekend. Congrats!! What was the footing? They are having Sheltie nationals there in April.

Happy Birthday Lyric!! Diana

Chris and Ricky said...

Happy Birthday to you and to Lyric! Congratulations on such a perfect agility day!

Nicki said...

Diana, the surface is some kind of rubber matting. The traction is great for people but not that great for dogs. The bigger the dog and the harder they ran or faster they turned the more trouble they seemed to have. They were either slipping or slowing down to compensate. I will let you know more after another day of running on it. Lyric was fine on it-less speed and less power.

Sue said...

happy birthday to both of you and a big congrats on the good showing.

tervnmal said...

Congrats on a great runs, a QQ and happy birthday! I was curious about the Purina Center. It wasn't done when I was there for Mal nationals in April - so we played in the mud. Sounds like the footing was about the same!