Lansdown - Idiot Mummy Day!!

Elliot

Graded 1-2 Agility
Wow, what lovely contacts!! He was very creepy but he stopped at the bottom of all of them, including the seesaw and didn't budge until I told him to go :) I managed to get him a refusal though as I tightened him up on a bit that didn't need tightening and so he came inside the jump, I then stupidly sent him the wrong way after the seesaw so instead of having one jump then 6 weaves I did four jumps then weaves so needless to say he didnt get them first time, second time he did a beautiful set though :) So, first run of the day and I was annoyed at myself as I messed it up twice for him :(

Team
He was VERY wound up by this and he was last, Lel was running him though and the course was really tricky so she just did two jumps and a-frame as we had already spectacularly eliminated ourselves and he ran to the bottom of the a-frame but didn't stop so lel put him back on and then left as she didn't want to break his contacts!!

Graded 1-2 Jumping
He made a very baby mistake and ran under the second jump which was on a short stride and before a tunnel. He did it second time though and did the rest of the course nicely, he just knocked a few poles because I messed up the handling (again!!)!!

Jemma

Graded 1-2 Agility
Now this run left me feeling like an idiot and very annoyed with myself all day and still now!! She was flying round, beautiful contacts and really tight turns (confirmed by lel) and then I did the one thing I specifically wrote on Friday that I wouldn't do and I said weave instead of steady and so she missed the second pole, to say I was gutted would be an understatement as I think she would have really stood a chance in that looking at the winners time, what an idiot!! Hopefully though it is enough of a lesson that I won't do it again!!

Team
We went third and she was well and truly wound up and so needless to say didn't get the second weave pole despite me saying steady this time!! The rest of the course didn't go too badly for saying how difficult it was, however I kept forgetting how I had walked it and doing back crosses because I forgot my front crosses, the best one being when I crossed behind the a-frame and jem looked round to check where I was as she was coming over the top and then got very confused as I wasn't where she expected to see me but then I called her, and then she looked so shocked to see where I was bless her, she then trundled happily to the bottom of the contact though :) She then had a little mishap and went out the ring behind a banner (which a lot of dogs had done), however jem managed to get tangled up in all the equipment behind it bless her!!! She did some very nice lefts and rights though :)

Graded 1-2 Jumping
Yay, our one clear round of the weekend :) She finished 8th with a time of 20.482, 1.698 seconds behind the winner, she is never going to do that well in jumping because I cannot get her to really power on because then she knocks poles, so in this course for example on the last line of jumps I couldn't really power it with her, but hey we got our one rosette for the weekend :D