Doncaster Flyball

The first show of year for us and what a way to go! We got up at 3.30am to make it to Doncaster for 8am. We actually did it in far less time than i thought and arrived at 7.30am so had lots of time to spend with the dogs before our busy day started. I was only racing Cai today so didn't have too much to think about. He was fantastic even though he is really not fit at the moment and hasn't done much training over the winter.

It was his second time on matting and he was running around 4.2 seconds so nowhere near what he can do when fit but he was consistent so i cant complain. I just couldn't get the lights right all day though and ended up being 0.1 second late every time which is not much but its annoying when you are consistently getting it wrong by the same amount but cant seem to get it right! Cai is really better running from 50 foot but these lights only allowed us to go from 40 foot so maybe that's why we struggled. We were seeded 1st in div 1 on a time that was really a bit too fast for us but even though we didn't come close to our submitted time we still won every race to finish 1st with a best time of 18.44 seconds.

He finally got his Flyball Dog Intermediate award certificate too which i was very pleased with. My only goal for 2009 with him was to get him running in open, i never thought he would finish on well over 1000 points. We are back off to Doncaster next week lets hope we do as well.