A great finish!

We ran out to Phoenix for a one day night trial, and Sketch outdid himself.  He finished his UD, won the class for his first two OTCh points, and placed Second in Open for his first UDX leg!

We are already entered in three trials, two classes, in Wenatchee plus I got overnight parking AND I have to drive Suede up to Iris as she came in season, so we will do those trials, and the NCCCRC trial the next weekend, then obedience will be on hold for awhile to see if he can get his JH next month.

 

Leg two

We are now in Richland, WA for four trials.  Two on Friday, the first one he just flat couldn't do articles because of some smell near the pile, but the second one he managed to hold on for his second UD leg and to actually win the class!  Only two dogs out of 10 Q'd and since he was third to last to go in and no one had Q'd up to that point, I was pretty nervous!

Two more trials, here's hoping he can finish this weekend!

The jinx is broken

After 11 trials of mostly just messing up one thing, we finally got it together and Sketch earned his first UD leg, with Third place only 1/2 point out of Second.  

Most of his points were lost on the go backs, which have been a chronic problem as I think he doesn't see the point of going all the way if he's just going to come back to jump!  I'm confident he will eventually see the light on that tho.

We are in Helena - today it started to snow but it isn't sticking so I guess we will be all right!

 

Woo whoo

We are in Northern California for four days, flunking Utility - the day after entries closed, directed jumping fell apart.  On the weekend, Iris came out and we did breed; one day Sketch was BW and won two points!

 Photo by Iris.

We won't talk about Sunday ...

The rest

The next day was obedience, where Sketch was First in Open B and High in Trial.

 

(photo by Iris Andre)

The next day was Sweeps, which we didn't do so we got to sit around and rest.  On Thursday he was entered in the regular breed and won the Bred-By class.

 

(photo by Victor Hewer)

No love in Winners but that's OK, since he still didn't have much coat!

 

Here he is with all his loot from the trip!  He also earned a Versatility award.

 

A trip to the midwest

We are at the CCRCA specialty, and started out by doing three trials in Monroe, MI.  The first two he Q'd with lackluster scores and no placement, but the third trial he won with a 195.  

 

 Then it was on to Ohio for the WC/X/Q test where he earned his WCX easily.

photo by Iris Andre

photo by Hannie

Tomorrow we do obedience again! 

And finished.

The last trial of the circuit, Sketch finished his CDX in fine style, winning a run off for Third place.  He is still making some green dog mistakes, but overall I like where he is.

 

We also got some field training in!