March 20 – 21, 2010
Nikon had a great weekend at the USDAA trial this weekend in NJ at Dreampark. On Saturday he Q’d in all five of his regular master classes and Q’d in Steeplechase in the first round taking 9th place out of 40 competitors in the 26″ class. I will say he has a great attitude all day, he was barking again at me on the start line and out side the ring. Sunday brought us another great day with 4 out of 5 Q’s in his regular master classes (popped his weave poles in Standard), a Q in Grand Prix and he went on to place 5th in the second round of Steeplechase. He was the only non BC in the Steeplechase finals!
Snapshot did not have the weekend I was hoping for. On Saturday she did Q in 3 out of the 4 classes I ran her in just missing the gamble because she was over time.
Trey was a star too. He Q’d in 7 out of his 8 runs this weekend — he earned his first two Novice/starters Qs, this last 2 Novice/starter Jumpers Q, his second Novice/starters Snooker Q and his first two Novice/starters Qs (one with his litter brother Cash!). On Sunday he ran a 19 second jumpers course. In his snooker run he was blistering the course I set for him but at one point he just did not send ahead to the red and I nearly tripped over him. Then he barked at me on course. I need to work on his DW though he’s running the contact nicely but that’s not what I have trained the little bugger.