Blenhiem

Amy and I left unusually late to travel up to Blenhiem show held at the Shrewsbury Showground, leaving at 5:50 on a Friday evening, but I'm very pleased to say we didin't hit any traffic and arrived safely at just after 7:30, luckily Jo had arrived much earlier and had saved us a brilliant space so we were happy and relaxed.
Saturday was Mine and Ruperts 1st grade 6 classes, my first round didn't go very well, I crumbled under the pressure and ended up leaving the ring after a few jumps, Rupert was great but I kept sending him over all the wrong fences!! after that I watched a few rounds and realised that actually some of these grade 6 handlers aren't really as good as I have thought which settled me a bit and we really enjoyed the remainder of our classes, Rupert was really working well and we did some great stuff.
Summer and Amy were really flying this weekend, and managed a brilliant 4th place in the combined 4-5 agility, we got a great video showing how tight and focused she is getting, still plenty to work on over the winter but great handling by Amy bringing home a great place against some great opposition.  GREAT lol.

We had a lovely celebratory meal with Jo and Sheila on Saturday night to celebrate Zippy winning into grade 7, Rupert into grade 6 and Summer into grade 4, this time it was Jo's turn to make the cake!! it was brilliant, I think we may need to get the experts in for the next one!

Annual Review

Well last year was a bit of a wash out, lots of shows cancelled due to the awful weather meaning we only managed to get to a handful of shows, however in hindsight we were quite pleased to have a more relaxing summer, I think sometimes we took it all a bit seriously, so we have decided to not do as many from now on.

My goal with Rupert was consistency, although I know Jo had other ideas and it seemed so did Rupert flying us into grade 6! so for 2013 I'm going to relax and work specifically on my handling and Ruperts jumping technique, so that hopefully we can get more clears.

Maisy hasn't done much and at 9 years old I have decided to put her in veterans and anysize, she isn't struggling at all with the height but I'd rather do it now than wait till she gets injured. she is still as mad as ever, so hopefully she may even get a few places.

Amy and Summer have had a great year, Summer still isn't the most driven dog but her tight turns gained her many top 5 places in grade 3 so we decided to put her into grade 4 at the end of the season and hope that the more tricky courses are more her thing.

2013 will hopefully see Amy with a new puppy, she has expressed an intrest in a couple of exciting litters so look out for some news on that front later in the year.