Agility Day 3

I did not take any pictures to post at todays trial -- however the same GSPs who had run on the weekend pictured earlier were still there. Today's courses by Judge Beth Godwin were incredible -- they had flow, distance, and the kind of challenges that are appropriate for a breed of our size and strength. My thanks to her for presenting the us with these wonderful courses. Despite a weekend where across all GSPs entered we recorded only 6 Qs, today was different. We doubled the entire weekend total today, recording 12 Qs across the 9 classes offered!!!!

Things started out on a down note as Stacy and Livie ran first in Excellent B, performing a flawless course. Unfortunately the entire crowd and Stacy started celebrating about 0.5 seconds early as Livie failed the final obstacle of the course, dropping the bar on a single bar jump, failing the run. This theme carried forward throughout the entire Excellent and Open standard classes were zero Qs were recorded. Fortunately the Novice Handlers came through:

Nancy Ward and CH Newpoint Southwind Let It Snow RAE JH finished a perfect 100 with a time of 63.93 for first place in Novice B.

Susan Maltby (from Colorado Springs!) and HPS Good Golly Miss Molly finished with a 95 and a time of 59.15 for second place in Novice B

FAST allowed the competitors to choose their courses and we had a much higher Q rate.

Sandra McDonald and Berlin's Bonus Points v Hawkeye CDX RE NA finished First in Novice B FAST with a score of 61 and time of 31.42.

Marscha Hubbs and CH Marvel's Imagine the Palace CDX AX OAJ finished Second in Novice B FAST with a score of 57 and a time of 23.40

In Novice FAST Preferred 20" Holly Faught and CH Onapoint's Me Myself and I CD RAE NA NAJ NAP NJP NF finished first with a time of 26.55 and score of 57.

In Open FAST 24" Susan Maltby finished First with Image of Cocoa Brown OA AXJ NF with a score of 55 and time of 31.56

In Open FAST 20" Jeri Fishack and Minnie the Mooch CD RE MX MXJ OF finished first with a score of 61 and time of 32.67

In Excellent B FAST 20" Jeri Fischak and Stills Heaven Cent CD RE MX MXJ XF finished first with a score of 62 and time of 27.13

Judge Godwin's JWW courses were very flowy and had several tunnel performances to the delight of our GSP competitors.

In Novice B 24" Nancy Ward and CH Newpoint Southwind Let it Snow RAE JH finished first with a score of 90 and time of 35.94

In Excellent B 20" Jeri Fishack and Stills Heaven Cent CD RE MX MXJ XF finished first with a time of 28.54 (and a score of 100)

In Excellent B 24" Stacy Moss and MACH Sharpmtn's OU Live to Play XF finished first with a time of 30.04 (and a score of 100)

In Excellent B 20" Preferred Dianne Nokes and Never Rayne on my Parade CDX RN AX AXP AXJ OJP finished first with a time of 41.00 (and a score of 100)

I'd like to post more, but have to prepare my Trial Chairman's report tonight since I'm going up to Denver tomorrow night and need to get some sleep for the tracking test. I do not know if I'll be able to post further until I get up in Denver, and I won't be able to load pictures until I return to Colorado Springs -- so enjoy the news as it comes in!

Thanks!

Dave

David Nauer
GSPCA 2009 NSS Agility Trial Chairman