We had 1 team entered into the starters at Wimbledon today. Only 5 teams were entered so we had 4 races in total. Brea came with Poppy who is always such a consistent dog. You can really trust her to get on with it. Brea went on the lights and did a great job getting quite a few 0.01 second starts. This was there first show with us this year and although Poppy is getting on now she is still a great little flyball dog. Shelly also with Poppy has been training with us for 7 weeks now and Poppy is proving to be a good flyball dog. She is already running under 5 seconds and was really well behaved all day. Definitely a star of the future and one i cant wait to get into open. Then we had Kila with Barney who are getting back their confidence now and running really well. Penny with Skye. And Sam with Onyx who is going to be a great height dog when she gets a bit more confident as she can drop the ball at the moment when she gets distracted. I put Campbell down as reserve as he is Mr plod but reliable.
Most of the team got lost on the way and turned up just as we were due to go into the ring for our first race so i decided to run Poppy (with Brea) Skye, Campbell and Barney first so the other two could warm their dogs up and watch one race without being throw in at the deep end. We won the first race 3-0 so a pleasing start.
The next race in i pulled Campbell and we either ran Skye or Onyx with new Poppy going last. Again we won only dropping one leg due to a dropped ball. We then had a break and i went to check the two teams we were still to race. The next team had posted some good times so we really needed our fastest dogs to beat them so i ran Poppy, Campbell, Barney and new Poppy. We won 3-0 again with our best time of the day 22.33 seconds. I think this is our best ever starters time as we normally run 24-26 seconds in starters.
The last race of the day was against a team who had posted very slow times so to make it fair i let Skye and Onyx run. Unfortunately Onyx dropped her ball on the first leg and then went looking for it on the second leg so i had to pull her and put Campbell in. We then won the next three legs so came 1st overall. A great day overall and some fun racing. I'm really pleased with our times as we ran under 25 seconds all day (when we didn't have a light) and had three 22 second times. And Campbell actually seemed to be enjoying himself!! shock horror!
