Well, we had an interesting weekend this weekend. Six VERY nice runs, but only 3 Qs, and only 1 per day, so no QQ. BUT, the Q in Std on Friday gave us our MX, and the Q in JWW on Saturday (with a 4th place) was our MXJ. We got another Q in Std today.
The NQs were for just one little thing each time; we are coming SO close to getting those QQs!! On Friday, Cin passed a jump that even the video looks like I was clearly directing her to, but obviously there was something missing. On Saturday, I was not in my "planned" position for the weaves, so I stopped for a bare second, and Cinder popped out to follow me. And today's JWW course LOOKED fantastic; we were the 15th dog in the ring, and there wasn't a Q until 3 dogs AFTER me!! Cinder took the outside of 2 jumps and was supposed to take the inside; I tried to call her off while running; should have stopped running all together to stop her.
But the NQs were being caused by many different issues, nothing was obviously causing all the problems. I've never heard so many groans and laughs, all at the same time! Only 9 dogs out of the 40 dog class Q'd. And it WAS a nice course!! Was there a full moon or something last night??
We'll finish the year at MSU in December, then we're done until probably late January; next year we will get serious about QQs and picking up the speed (oh, and we'll actually start that quest at MSU).
WOW! What a nice weekend Deb and Cinder had. I know she's frustrated at not getting those QQs (I know how it feels since I experienced kind of the same thing in my QQ quest for our UDX). But the Masters titles are nothing to sneeze at either!
Congratulations to Deb & Cinder!!!
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