Spike got a 12th in jumping, and we got 5 eliminations to go with it.
Ben is really trying his hardest, but too eager and needs better, more careful handling from me really. E.g, jumps one and two straight up the A-frame. I could have stopped him and got him over jump 3 instead just by calling his name. Of course with Spike I would have had a longer lead out and it would not have happened.
Ben is grade 3 and Spike grade 4. They only shared one class, and that got split due to numbers. So I have 6 different courses between the two of them. Spike blew his weaves twice which was unexpected, but in each case the weaves were set very close to the netting. I really thought he got them on the second failure and would have been a good run, but talking to someone who was watching it sounds like he came out of the wrong side (RHS), so must have gone wrong somewhere.
Ben did not do any silly flying contacts, and got them all, albeit some he ran just off the end of. He also had weavie trouble, but then he has not seen 12 weaves much in competition (or at all in fact). The others were only 6 and he ran down the side of them, schoolboy error due to the excitement I think.
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well done Ben on joining the big boys and girls in Grade 3 :-)
That was a really lovely run I saw with Spike, you could be right about the weaves being so close to the netting.
Well it's thanks to you I have a clue what happened, I really thought he got them.
Well I was really studying why...he looked to get them all to me and it was only the exit gave it away...
Next dog did exactly the same thing so wonder as you say, if the weaves so close to the netting was putting them off?
Spike's run was ace though, what a good lad :-)
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