WOOLBAILS-SPANIELS

Waldridge Fell Agility Open Tests.

Date: Saturday 6th February 2010.

We ran 2 of our dogs in the Agility Open tests at Waldridge, Lilly and Bailey were competing, Bailey ran well but unfortunately was eliminated in his first run as he missed the entrance to the weaves, this would have just been logged as a refusal but because I pulled him back and tried again he simply did not want to enter and lost the momentum. His second run would have been an excellent run but unfortunatly for Bailey I guided him the wrong way and thus we were eliminated again, however he performed well and with great speed, His third and final run was near on perfect and very fast but again we surcame to the dreaded weaves. Bailey has only recently perfected his weaves at agility training so maybe we need more time and I certainly need to perfect my handling skills as my eagerness to finish quick will forever be my downfall lol.

Tony ran Lilly and had a very good day in all, the first run did complete with 2 faults to Tony's Joy, Their second run was also very good however again tiny mistakes on the fences added penalties to them, they finished overall out of around 40 dogs 13th, Considering the course was from grades 1 to 7 this was actually not bad at all for Lilly's first competition. Their 3rd and final run was not as fortunate as lilly refused the weaves 3+ and was eliminated, Tony was also very tired by now (he is nearly 50 afterall) lol so I put it down to nerves on the day and weariness of the bones by now, and as Tony said "well she is nearly in season". OK Tony I believe you lol. More info on our agility endevours will no doubt be added as the year progresses.

We have added some terrible quality pictures below we do apologise beforehand for the quality as none of us are photographers, hopefully this will improve with time and experience.

  John (me) running Bailey.                            

             A very blurred Picture of John and Bailey.                   

             Tony Running Lilly.      

           Tony running Lilly through the Weaves                        

  Jacqui who also owns one of our pups (Jasper) running her older dog Meg.