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Europe Trip 2007 - Individual Jumping
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This was our first run at the trial. There was no warm-up jump and the surface was very deep sand,
like the soft part of the beach. There were lots of knocked bars all weekend. (but none for Hemi!)
Suzi and I sat in the bleachers and watched the first 50 or so dogs run this course. It was not a pretty sight!
I think we only saw about 5 clean runs. There was certainly an advantage to being later in the running order.
There were problems with off courses on the way to #7, lots of missed weave entries, lots of back jumps at #13,
and a few off courses at #17.
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As I was leading out, I felt my shoelace come untied. Dilemma! Do I run with the lace undone and hope I don't trip? Do I go back to the start line, tie it and start over? (not sure if there is a delay of start penalty, etc…) I decided to give Hemi an extra "stay" command, then just tied it while standing in the middle of the course!!
Hemi had a great run although we lost some time as she got hung up in the chute exit, which was secured to the ground. I thought she was clean until we crossed the finish and someone told me that she had run past jump #4. It never occurred to me she would have a problem there and I was already working the discrimination in the very tightly spaced box of obstacles. So I never saw her go past it. Such a shame...
In retrospect, I wonder if she hadn't figured out how to turn yet on this surface. The first three jumps were basically a straight line, so this was her first time to try to turn in the soft sand. It's so rare for her to make a mistake like this,
that's the only thing that
makes sense to me.
Even though we were
scored Elimination,
I felt like this was a great run!
Watch it here!
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