Rally 2017 or BUST!

Flyers 1st Advanced course at the match on Saturday, he qualified. :) qualified in excellent too!

And our novice run thru

I'm still nervous about showing him in June. We entered 2 days in hopes of earning his RN, and first title. :)
 
We have another show and go in the morning, and just learned that our obedience club is having a match at the trial site the evening of the first trial. This is unprecedented to have so much rally practices! Lucky Flyer! (I suspect the reason for the matches is that a few locals are applying for their Rally Judging licenses!)

Maybe someday, I'll apply to judge too! (have met some of the requirements)
 
very lucky to have access to so many matches. seems that around here, only obedience matches are offered- hardly ever see anything with rally....
 
If we qualify this year, we're going to have to sneak the scores in. Thanks to people throwing their dumbbells into jumps multiple weeks in a row, Olive is terrified of anywhere that looks like our training facility- which is pretty much every show venue within a reasonable drive. We have one mediocre Q, so we'll maybe try a weekend or two in the fall but if Olive's still terrified then she may just retire from rally and obedience.
 
Greenepony said:
If we qualify this year, we're going to have to sneak the scores in. Thanks to people throwing their dumbbells into jumps multiple weeks in a row, Olive is terrified of anywhere that looks like our training facility- which is pretty much every show venue within a reasonable drive. We have one mediocre Q, so we'll maybe try a weekend or two in the fall but if Olive's still terrified then she may just retire from rally and obedience.
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oh no Greenepony, that is a huge stroke of bad luck. My Bobby couldn't handle any movement or wave in the ring gates, having them topple over him as a pup on a down stay - well, that was a challenge, and we struggled with it his entire career. We did get to a UD though, but he was always hyper aware of those nasty gates!

Wish you were in this area, we have stand alone rally trials, no obedience dumbells allowed! :)

Flyer was good at the show and go, I however, blew his excellent run by missing a station - cost him an IP in the Advanced run... and fumbled through novice alright. Back to reading the signs, and "how to walk a course" 101... humbling! Flyer said if I do that to him again, he's trading me in for a handler that can read. :blush:
 
2GoodDogs said:
oh no Greenepony, that is a huge stroke of bad luck. My Bobby couldn't handle any movement or wave in the ring gates, having them topple over him as a pup on a down stay - well, that was a challenge, and we struggled with it his entire career. We did get to a UD though, but he was always hyper aware of those nasty gates!

Wish you were in this area, we have stand alone rally trials, no obedience dumbells allowed! :)

Flyer was good at the show and go, I however, blew his excellent run by missing a station - cost him an IP in the Advanced run... and fumbled through novice alright. Back to reading the signs, and "how to walk a course" 101... humbling! Flyer said if I do that to him again, he's trading me in for a handler that can read. :blush:
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There are couple of places that have Rally only days but they're usually Fridays or Mondays and my museum is in a major project that makes taking time off a little problematic. Upside, the herding judge this weekend we should stop obedience training anyway- Olive's too smart for it :lol:

I haven't missed a station yet in Rally but I've definitely done that with horses in dressage- I tried to make up forgetting a serpentine that we tail spun around the corner, not a good look when the horse is as long as a boat! There's one rally judge I've been told to be very careful with her courses, she's known to making them "challenging".
 
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