Newton Heath Agility

Rum has worked really well this show, on the Friday he had the first pole down in Combined 4-5 Jumping and would have been 3rd. Then Saturday he had the odd pole in the jumping and in Novice Olympia he was 8th despite a wide almost Elmination moment! On Sunday we started with Champagne Breakfast Stakes and he had a fab round, coming 2nd. Then we got round a testing Grade 4 Agility class and I went to see if he had been placed, he had only gone and won it!! In the Grade 4 Jumping he had a pole, then Agility we made a bit of a hash so was quite pleased to train his contacts. Last class was Combined 1-4 Helter Skelter and again he had a fab round, bouncing the jumps sooooo nicely and I went to presentations thinking he probably got placed and he had won it! He has worked so well, I think the only reason for poles is possibly because the ground was quite bumpy as he doesn’t normally knock poles. I didn’t want to win out of Grade 4 yet and thought we had stopped it by holding his dogwalk but not so! His first Grade 5 will be KC festival which I am really annoyed about as it’s such a competitive show and Rum isn’t really that fast I was hoping he wouldn’t be in till Dashin, so it’s a bit of a bitter sweet win really, guess I got to really do some training with him now!

Cas was working well too, on Friday she had a clear in Combined 6-7 Jumping but was on placed, then was clear in Combined 6-7 Jump N Gamble and came 3rd – really pleased with that, she bit Lee and Jack hee hee ;-). On Saturday she had an odd pole down in each jumping (I only entered her in jumping this weekend). On Sunday she had a nice clear and came 6th in Champagne Breakfast Stakes (beaten by Rum ha ha!) and just had a pole in jumping, then was 14th in Combined 5-7 Time, Fault and Out.

Ember we won’t mention as she spent the weekend missing her A-frame (me putting her back on) or if we got far enough missing weaves grrrrrr! Then in Time, Fault and Out she had the first pole down – only she could do that!