Chatsworth Country Fair

A great day out for all the Family!!!

Plenty for Mark and Ade to explore (including 3 Real Ale tents) and Agility for Ann and I.  What more could you want in a Day?!!

The Agility was a Limited KC Show for Large Grades 1-5 (with higher Grades able to run NFC).  Four runs were scheduled and our Judge for the Day was Rosie Pearson.

I've decided not to run Reno in Agility until his contacts are 100% sound in training and was glad I'd made that decision when I saw the course.  It really wasn't for us (more at the 5 end of the scale).

The Power and Speed was a much nicer course.  Reno's first two contacts (A-Frame and See-Saw) were great but he was drawn by a tunnel in the Speed section, releasing himself from the Dog Walk to go into it and getting himself E'd in the process.

He ran the Speed section well and would only of had a refusal on an offset jump which caught out a lot of Dogs.

I really liked the Jumping course.  Appropriate for the Grade of Dogs and well spaced out allowing the Dogs to flow.

It started two jumps then weaves so, predictably, Reno ran past the weaves and into the tunnel!  After that he ran the course beautifully until he got to the last jump. 

If you've been to one of the shows organised by Graham Taylor before you will know that he uses very "traditional" Agility equipment.  The jump wings are almost the size of horse jumps and they tend to have loads of "fillers".  Reno didn't seem to notice any of the other fillers but the last was a brush jump and it caused him to pull up like a horse and practically smack his nose on it!!

Our final run was Team Trio.  A jumping course with no weaves so we managed to persuade Sue to run Faym with Reno and Harley.  The course would have been lovely with normal sized jumps but with the horse jump wings it was quite hard for the handlers to run straight and get to the turns.

Sue went first with Faym so she could use her wait start (she ran well, just going around a few jumps but generally following the course) but this put me at a disadvantage with Reno.  I had to trust him to take the first jump on his own to give me any chance of getting to jump 4 which was a turn but set a long way out.  Reno was a really good boy, completely understanding his "Look" command but unfortunately I didn't quite make it to the top so we got a refusal on jump 4.  After that he ran clear and Harley was E'd on the last jump!!

Exciting news and quite unplanned!!  Ann and Mark now have a new addition to their household. 

Introducing Vee!!!

She's a 7 week old Working Cocker and has been breed by Shooting friends of theirs.  They know and love both of the parents so couldn't resist. 

Indi has accepted her well but Harley wants to leave home at the moment.  My Boys won't have a chance to meet her properly until her jabs are complete.

I'll finish this post wishing Paul and Pen good luck with their first Agility Nuts KC show this weekend.  Hope the weather isn't too bad for us? :-)