Power Paws were seeded 4th in Div 5. After being disappointed with the dogs (and handlers!) at the champs i was hoping we could get it together this weekend. We always seem to loose our first few races then win the rest. I think this is partly down to nerves (handlers) and inexperience on the dogs part as 3 of the dogs have only raced in open this year at less than 5 shows. Well as normal we lost the first race! we then seemed to gel better as a team and ran some really good races with consistent times rather than slowing by 1 - 2 seconds in the afternoon. We ended up running the best time of the division and winning the race against the eventual winners so not a disappointing day. We also ran our best time ever of 20.23 seconds. We finished 3rd so improved on where we were seeded too.
Cai and flea entered the pairs and finished 2nd. It was run over 11" which obviously suits Cai and quite a few people came up to me after and said he had been running 3.8 seconds which i think is down to us going back onto the boomerang box. On the combi box i could really see him sticking to the box but he is not able to do this with the boomerang and his turns have really sped up.
Sunday
Our open debut for Power Paws Flyers today. only one dog had run in open before and kept dropping the ball so i had no idea (or expectations) on how we would do. All the dogs ran very well. Charlie our start dog ended up running some of the best times of the weekend earning himself a promotion into the top team. His average was well under 5 seconds and his starts were 0.00 - 0.06 so as near to perfect as we will get! The other dogs did well although both height dogs slowed considerably but Skye didn't drop the ball so very pleased with her progress. Storm who has only been out of netting for one week ran perfect all day with some respectable times.
Dream Team Supreme were seeded in division 1 as normal. It was an interesting division as there were some different teams than we usually race but all with the potential to do well. Breeze was missing from the lineup this week due to injury and Flo was back from injury taking her place! We had to go up one inch to 13 so i expected some slower times as the dogs adjusted. Well how wrong was I! Cai ran 6 legs in a row under 4 seconds and stayed under 4.1 all day. Flash and Skye ran some cracking times too and Flo was back to running 4.2. We went on to win the division and get a new best time ever of 17.32 which I'm so happy about as we have had a disappointing year getting a few 2nd and lots of 3rds and 4ths. We also ran 16.99 with a light that was only just a light so next weekend we are really going to push to go sub 17 seconds... things are getting exciting!
