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After a couple of weeks of work Venus is now doing all three jumps and coming back over the scale. At the moment the return can be a bit hit and miss, although she always gives it her best, but she doesn’t always get her positioning on the other...
The Southern Alsatian Training Society (SATS) held their trial against all odds this year. Despite losing their ground to flood and then having the worst possible weather at their new venue the trial went ahead and judge Anne Collen as well as the...
I’m sure many people will already know about the change to the Inter-Regional Obedience Competition at Crufts 2014 and it has been interesting to listen to the various opinions.
Trying to put one routine together and remember it is bad enough, but three is a nightmare. This year I had to prepare three routines for Crufts as I had qualified two dogs in the freestyle final and I was partnering Mary Ray again in her final...
After looking forward to our first trial of the year for so long it turned out to be a bit of an anti-climax. The Lincoln trial is always a favourite of mine, both because I have had quite a lot of success there and also because it is one of our...
To kick of my second column I thought I would start with a little more information about me. I’m 24 years old and live in Brinkworth, Wiltshire. I only came into agility eight-and-a-half years ago so, for a sport, I haven’t really been doing it...
Last weekend it was the turn of the champion PD dogs and handlers to come out for the first time this year. The Yorkshire WTS were the hosts and Wakefield was the venue with Lorna Cottier judging the ticket.
After Crufts was all over and my visitors had gone home, I started to look back to when Bruce and I first began our annual visit to the greatest dog show in the world.
For a while now I have been disappointed with the standard of freestyle that I see in the UK. I have mentioned this many times to others who seem to agree that the routines from ten years ago could easily win outright in the advanced classes now.
HAVING known since 2009 that I was being given the honour of judging the agility at Crufts ’13 it was a very long wait for it to actually happen!
Although the decision was not made until the very last minute, the ASPADS Oxford Championship TD trial did go ahead on what was almost bare ground.
By the time this column goes to print many of us will be travelling to the NEC for the worlds greatest dog show – Crufts.
