Finally Ready To Play With The Big Boys!

Yep! This last weekend, Tractor officially moved out of Open and is now in Excellent across the board. I was only able to run him on Thursday and Friday, but he had gorgeous runs both days. Kept his focus and was just a very good boy. His handler on the other hand.. well, let's just say I'm the one who needs to get back to class/training! Yesterday, Whitney ran him in his first Excellent JWW course as well as an Excellent Std course and he Q'ed in both!!! (Thanks Whit for taking him.. I'm sure he had a blast!)

Next up is a NADAC trial - next weekend in Kansas with our friends Cesily and Charley. After that, we'll be taking a couple weeks off at home before we hit the road again traveling for work! I'm very excited to see what 2010 has in store for us.. going to be hard to top 2009 for sure.

I'll upload videos soon!

Another Title For T!

Thanksgiving weekend, we headed to Merrillville, IN to trial with some of our mid-west friends at their annual Turkey Day trial. The day started off with Open Jumpers and I was expecting some focus issues as we have not trained but one or two private lessons at all in the last few months. He had a beautiful run, nailed his weaves and kept his head together the entire time. He knocked two bars, so no Q.. but a nice run! I was hopeful for Standard after seeing how focused he was, and he rocked the entire course and came up with a Q and a first place! Such a good boy!

We are now spending some time with our friend Whitney in downtown Chicago and then next week, we'll be back in Cleveland for a trial there. Hopefully an Open JWW Q is waiting for us there. I'll be running him Thursday and Friday and Whitney will be running him on Saturday, since I have to be in Boston for work.

I have video uploaded, will work on the video and try to get it online this week. Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day!