June 15, 2008

First times a charm!!

Off today to MaCann's for our first trial since the Ontario Regionals. The first half of the day was a Master's AAC trial, followed by CPE. This was Tink's first time competing in CPE. It was also Tink's first time doing Master Snooker! None of the dogs before us made it to the closing... not giving me a lot of hope. Things went a little haywire near the beginning, but we held it together and didn't get whistled off! The closing went pretty well... until we got to #7 which were the weaves. She ran past the weaves and got whistled, we were 4 points shy of a Q, but still pulled out a first place! Not too bad for a dog I thought would still be in Starters!!
With only 2 more Q's to go for our Steeplechase Title, the countdown is on... though this week we knocked 2 bars and had an off course... so 2 more still!
Another countdown is Master Gamble... only one more needed, and we'll get our first Gamble title... but again, no Q today... Tink was too eager in the main gamble, and wasn't quite listening.
Then CPE began... two Standard runs and one Colours run. Tink's first Standard run was greather time was less then half of the SCT! We Q'd and got first place.
Standard 2 wasn't quite as pretty, but only 5 faults (for a knocked bar) so we still Q'd, and got second.
The last run was Colours. She ran it very well... in under 15 secs! One more Q and first for CPE. Now I need to figure out what I'm going to do with my CPE ribbons... my AAC ribbons have almost filled up their alloted space...

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