A long overdue update......

Must be a thing with blogs. I just never get around to updating them. On the other hand we have been super super busy with next to no time for anything. Late nights, early mornings and lots of adrenaline. We had our first real run under trial conditions on Thursday for the regional grand Prix qualifier and steeplechase. Raya did great and we got 2 qualifys and she placed 4th in the GP and 5th in the steeplechase. We made the finals and has a problem when I hooked her the wrong way over a jump but it was a good course to figure that out on. Yesterday was day 1 of the WAC and we had a great day. We will call yesterday the "one hit wonders" as we got. Fault in each round. Round 1 was snooker and she did great. She did decide after she Wrapped a jump that apperently I may Ned that jump later so she literally ran back behind the jump and took it. She is so considerate. We still placed 9th with only half a course completed. Second run was agility. Well what can I say. AWESOME run. Super fast and clean, until the judge ran towards her on the contact to judge it and she stopped dead still. The judge moved to the end of the contact to watch the contact and she just didn't like her so jumped off sidewards. She picked up the rest of the course fats and clean. The results showed that even with he dead stop and time wasting that she was only 2 secons behind 3rd place and 3 seconds behind 2nd place. So a should a, could a , would a run. But what a great feeling going into the next 2 days with that's sort of performance. Then as a last minute addition, she was needed for a team jumping run and there was a huge long straigh that we had to run. The problem was my mind was telling my body to stop but my legs were going so fast they didn't hear and I encroached on her path so she mised the weave entrance. Still, only got 1 fault and the team is sitting really well. It's day 2, we have just been handed today's courses which are gamblers ( I hate gamblers) agility for teams and jumping. So I'll log off, look at the course and get ready for day 2............ Today I learnt that give it 100% no matter what you do, and you can walk with your head held high. Sorry for any spelling mistakes but I am on teh iPad so I am not going back to change them.