Almost Qualified for USDAA Nationals...

Rumor had a very successful weekend at a USDAA trial.  Although he didn't seem to want to get a Q in Advanced Standard, he did Q in both Steeplechase and Grand Prix this weekend.  I was thrilled and so proud of him.  For USDAA Nationals (2010) he already has his DAM Team Q and he earned his 2nd Grand Prix Q so he's qualified for those 2 events.  We only need 1 more Steeplechase Q and we will be good to go in all events!  This will be the 1st time he has qualified for a national championship in agility... very exciting!

Busy weekend... USDAA & AKC... Happy Easter!

Rumor and I participated on our 1st DAM Team ever in USDAA.  We had a good team (Abby/Grant & Temi/Anne) and Rumor was definitely the 'baby dog' of the group. W e had some really nice runs and some runs that certainly didn't help out our team... but, overall, we ended up in 7th place and earned a DAM Q!  I was thrilled with that since this was the only opportunity this year I was going to be able to have to try and earn the Q which qualifies us for Team at Nationals.

The 2nd day of the USDAA trial was another long day.  Rumor had descent runs in the morning, but with a few mistakes.  I was thrilled when we had a solid (but cautious) run in Grand Prix and earned our 1st Q there -- only 1 more to go for Nationals in that tourney!  Our Steeplechase run had a couple of errors, but he was still a very good boy.

We also packed in 1 day at an AKC trial... 2 great judges were there so I couldn't miss it.  Rumor had a fantastic Standard runs with a dropped bar at the end... we are still fighting for our last ExA JWW Q... didn't get it this weekend, but hope to next weekend!