Letchworth

Next and last show in August was Letchworth which was at huntingdon racecourse. Id never been there before as last year the show was at Shuttleworth college. I was really suprised how nice it was the exercise area was right in the middle of the race track with a nice little lake/pond in the middle. Really nice. Where the rings were was also really nice and flat, it was a bit of a walk from the car park but still really nice.

I had entered all 3 days of Letchworth with Rommy so I knew I had lots of time to practise our contacts in a show environment. Hes been getting so much better but theres always room for improvement because sometimes hes just so wild he just cant slow down enough. bless him. The first run was G 3-5 jumping which went Rommy ran well but I left him too soon on a 180 from a long jump over to a normal jump and he pull off the long jump I thought hed get a refusal for it but for some reason he didnt and just wasted loads of time but ended up in 2nd place!

I had heard there was a practise ring there on the friday which i thought would be perfect, unfortunately when it came for our go there was a massive gust of wind and my little man got blown off the dogwalk :(. Its never happened to him before so we were both really shaken up by it. I was really worried hed hurt himself but luckily our amazing physio Sally was at the show to check over him and said he was fine. So we went in for our agility which I really didnt expect anything from him given his accident and i thought his confidence was knocked a bit so I just wanted him to have fun. He was definitely slower than normal and more clingy but he went clear and got a 3rd place. SOOO proud of him.


The rest of the weekend we spent working on contacts, he got a place (cant remember which) in a helter skelter class and our last run of the weekend was pairs with Chantal and Savannah. Rommy and Sav are both nuts and had never run together before so we didnt really know what theyd do but they were amazing we had a bit of a bad batton change but they got a double clear and got 2nd place! Clever little shelties!! They loved it!

Im getting good at all this catching up stuff. I'll have more for you soon little blog. Then we can get onto the fun of winter training :D


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