Eastbourne Agility Show

This is our main club show for the year so I knew id be running around very busy helping and would probably not run my dogs very well. Cai was entered in all 3 classes, Campbell in 2 and Chico just in Agility. I decided to get Cai’s classes out the way first. We started in the grade 1 – 4 Helterskelter. This was the perfect course for Cai. Spread out and flowing, I knew I had a chance of getting him round clear. He broke his wait and was the other end of the ring before I even had chance to take a breath. Thankfully he was heading the right way so I just cut across the ring to catch up with him. Sadly he went to go in the wrong end of the tunnel and although I managed to call him back he had just put his nose in getting an E. I’m not sure why he did this as it wasn’t the obvious entrance. In grade 1 – 2 Agility he was ok but had lots of poles and was a bit all over the place. Grade 1 – 2 Jumping was last. It wasn’t the easiest course but ran well. He missed his weaves but that didn’t surprise me and went wide on a few jumps but listened so I know with a bit more training we can get it together.

Campbell was up next. I decided to run his Agility first as he is so close to winning out now and if he does I’m guessing it will be in Agility as he has always placed higher in agility as he just can’t match the speed of some collies on the jumping courses. He started off really well with perfect contacts and lovely tight wing wraps but sadly decided to miss his weave entry getting us 5 faults. I was quite disappointed as we have very few agility shows this year as we are concentrating on flyball so have much less chance to win out. I decided to just take him straight into the jumping even though he was puffing as I wasn’t expecting much. Well as usual Campbell proved me wrong. He did a blazing round that felt fairly fast and finished clear. We were one of the first few to go so I didn’t get excited when that put us in 1st. Well my boy did me proud staying in 1st until the end and winning our huge Agility club trophy for highest placed member.



Chico had fun but fell off the dog walk while checking everyone was watching him from outside the ring. I put him back over and he was fine and finished the course in typical Chico Style. Thankfully I have a sense on humor when it comes to this dog!