RAE Leg #1
To my dismay I have not found any notes on this trial in my old records, other than the scores of 78 in Excellent and 87 in Advanced, but I’m convinced there was an IP in that Excellent run. What … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Rally – Venues
AKC RE, part 3 – we got our title today!
It’s been a long time since we managed to get two qualifying scores in one weekend, but we did it! Our run wasn’t the best, I had to re-do two exercises plus got points off for accidentally touching my dog … Continue reading →
AKC RE, part 2
We had a nice, calm run today, competing on a surface other than grass for the very first time. The ring was set up in a parking lot near the Queen Mary, directly on the water, and had rubber matting. … Continue reading →
Moving up: AKC Rally Excellent, first leg
Yesterday Quigley and I competed in Rally Excellent for the first time. To me it’s a big deal, since this was the anniversary of our first-ever AKC Rally Novice and Novice Obedience legs last year. We got a score of … Continue reading →
We got our RA today!
After flunking out yesterday because I missed a sign (what else is new???), we earned our third RA leg today, with a score of 98 and a first place. Quigley did well, there was very little sniffing and he didn’t … Continue reading →
Starting the new competition year: first leg in UKC Rally Level 1
I’m beginning to think Quigley and I just aren’t meant to finish a title in one weekend. :p In our Saturday run we scored an 88, a pretty average run. The first run on Sunday was beautiful, nice heeling, no … Continue reading →
First and second legs in AKC Rally Advanced
Saturday I’m happy to report that the Terrierhead cooperated at least partially today and we got a very decent 86 points for our first Rally Advanced leg. We won’t discuss the abyssmal heeling performance in Novice Wildcard. After all that … Continue reading →
New AKC Rally Novice title
We got our 3rd leg with 86 points and a 2nd place! That makes my little guy UCD FO Mordanna’s Quigley RN, RL1 CGC. Alas, no ribbon photo. Of all things, it just had to start raining 5 minutes before … Continue reading →
Second leg in AKC Rally Novice
I was so tired after the show that I didn’t take a photo with the ribbon, but I did want to report our progress. We scored 87 points, which got us 4th place out of 12 entries. I’m a bit … Continue reading →
AKC Rally and Obedience
With Bari along for company, Quigley and I went to an obedience and rally trial at a large all-breed show today. It was fun to see all those different dogs, but I definitely prefer the smaller events for competing. The … Continue reading →