1st trial of the year!

This weekend was the 1st agility trial of the year. My club, ACT-Up Agility was the host which meant I ended up working a lot. 1st was Friday set up day. Long day but nice to see lots of club members there helping and then tunnelers fun runs at the end of the day. I had James with me so he got to run the tunnelers course twice and he had a BLAST!!! He did so well I decided to enter him in 2 runs next weekend. (agility and James is a funny thing, sometimes he loves it and runs fast and clean, sometimes he's slow as cold molasses either case he's a goof on the field)

Saturday was the only day I entered. Due to financial constraints I only entered Niche, he was in all 6 classes. We near nearly finished with his Novice Versatility Superior title so once that's done we'll be in open and then Elite to work on his NATCH. Niche and I Qed in 5 out of the 6 runs. We had a knocked rail in Jumpers I cued the switch late and he dropped a back leg on the turn. He was also ticking bars in the 1st run of the day, Chances, but none came down. I found it strange that he was ticking, as he never does that, he usually has good jumping form and keeps the rails up with ease. I'll bet most if is related to the ear surgery he had last month and how out of structural alignment that made him, which is still getting adjustments to fix.

All in all I was happy with Niche's performance. We had some really nice runs- fast and clean and connected. Next weekend we have another trial, just Saturday also. With our 1st Elite class- Elite Tunnelers.