Tara's first agility trials

It's been a long time since Tara and I have trialed, 2.5 years ago actually, when we got our 2nd and 3rd RAE legs. Anyway, this weekend we finally tried competing in agility. What an excellent weekend we had!!! We entered 8 runs at Gemini this weekend - 4 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday and managed to qualify in 3 on Sat and 3 on Sun. She was fantastic and we received lots of compliments. She was focused, super-fast and listened so well to my cues while we were running the courses. The Q we missed today was on her standard run and was totally my fault: I accidentally touched her when I was directing her to a jump. Yesterday we missed a Q in snooker, when I wasn't clear enough in my handling her around a jump. She finished the weekend without any faults on her qualifying runs. She was also 27 secs under time on her wildcard, 20 secs under on her colors, and 24 secs under on her standard run. I guess we don't need to worry too much about time! She is such an amazing collie girl! She finished her level one Handler games and Fun games titles.

Tara is now: Tamarack's Autumn Rain RE RL2 CL1-H CL1-F CGC