Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Shepherds at On The Run: 3/29/13 - 3/31/13

Friday 3/29/13

Time 2 Beat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYebpndSbY
Q: Officially clean, "stuck" on aframe - 2 pts
Decent speed to start with a blind cross early.  She did lose focus very briefly on approach to aframe, looking toward the door area.  Then she had a very slow, unsure descent of the aframe.  I don't know if it had to do with her last Fargo one being "shamed" or not.  Her second aframe was much better.  Slow weaves but she did all 12.

Saturday 3/30/13
Jumpers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-ZWgeQxeI
100 - Leg #3 Title - 1st Place

There was a fair amount of distance from jump 2 to jump 3 and so she needed to do 2 a little independently for me to get the cross after 3, which she did.  Slow weaves but then really good speed on everything after weave.  I thought sequence to front cross was especially nice.  The run, however, included a number of ticks of the bars that only I could hear.  At least three, maybe four or five.  Fortunate that none of them came down.  Strange in that I haven't heard many ticks in all her other runs.
Standard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDQyXgnfcIs
95 - Leg #3 Title - 1st Place

Big puppy sit on the start line.  A big delay in dogwalk release but she was again coughing up a treat that again, fortunately did not hit the ground.  I need to look at changing up our pre-run routine if coughing up treats continues.  OK speed on descent of aframe but I asked her to release before she was stopped!  Bad me, I'm guessing slow dogwalk release influenced me there.  She then looked hard at me coming off aframe and didn't see me push her to broad jump until the last second.  She had very little speed for the broad jump, I'm surprised she cleared it.  Coming out of the tunnel she wanted to take the broad jump backward.  My position kept her from it but also kept her from approaching teeter so she could get on it.  She ran a bit by it but had good response to come back.  She did a nice auto-down on the table and over-jumped a tiny bit in clearing the double. 
Sunday 3/31/13

Open Standard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJEU0gKVlLA
91 - Leg #1 - 4th Place
Visisted stewards in ring twice.  The speed off the start line was good.  It was followed by an early wrong course, our first sign of a little distraction.  I led out from table and she was fine with that.  After good speed taking double-triple combo, she briefly visited a bar setter.  She got off the aframe without an official release but I basically let it go.  A little later she was taking a set of jumps to the weaves and veered off to go visit another bar setter.  This one was a longer "visit".  I really don't think it was weave avoidance, I don't think she saw them, but I'll have to keep an eye on that.  She then approached her weaves and did them well with good speed for this point.  Finished fine including a nice dogwalk contact.

Open Jumpers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83j9CmjPOIA
NQ - Two bars and one wrong course

Not a good run although not awful.  Jumping was off.  Kris claimed later that she pooped a big pile, don't know if that was it or not.  Started with a big puppy sit and first two strides out of it was slow.  Opening line was slow with a drop bar on 3, mostly just because of lack of effort.  Picked up speed after blind cross but that was followed by wrong course.  Then hit triple when she left a bit early.  Finished ok after that including doing weaves without hesitation.
 
 
 

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