The weather forecast for last weekend looked great for so long – sunshine and temperatures in the 70s. When I got up Saturday morning it was quite cold, but I had no idea how cold it would be over in City of Industry. The drive was nice, I got to see a beautiful sunrise that lit up the clouds, and the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains were covered in snow. Snow!!!<\/p>\n
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When we arrived at the trial site, I saw immediately that the grass in and around the show rings was covered in frost. I didn’t even bother to unpack anything and decided to just work out of the car, so that at least Quigley could stay warm while I was checking in and doing walkthroughs.<\/p>\n
Our Excellent run (including a Honor down in the frosty<\/strong> grass) wasn’t so great, we had some sloppy heeling, two retries of exercises, and a deduction on the Honor exercise for the elbows coming a little bit off the ground for a moment over halfway through. In my opinion it wasn’t very nice of the judge to demand a down in this situation – my poor dog was shivering the whole time. We scored an 87.<\/p>\n Our Advanced run went better, we managed a 92 and 4th place. By the time Advanced A and B were finished, there was still frost on the grass.<\/p>\n Since things didn’t go so well last time we had a trial in the rain (February this year), I wasn’t sure what to expect. During out potty walk and warm-up Quigley didn’t seem too concerned about the rain and wet grass and did all the sits and downs I asked for promptly.<\/p>\n The Excellent course didn’t look too difficult, but I was still a little worried about the many sits in the “Call Front – 1, 2, 3 steps back” and anything involving a down. At least the Honor exercise was a sit.<\/p>\n What can I say, my little dog never ceases to amaze me. No major issues on the course, he even held the Honor sit perfectly, squinting at the rain all the while. We finished with a 95 and won the class. (Video<\/a>)<\/p>\n Advanced is another story. Let’s put it this way, my dog scored a 96, but I scored an 86. I did an exercise wrong, which cost us 10 points and first place. One exercise was a “Halt – Sit – Down” and then further along on the course a “Halt – Down – Sit”. I did a\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 “Halt – Down – Sit” and didn’t notice that was wrong until it was too late, so I couldn’t do a retry. (Video<\/a>) What a shame, this could have been our first double win – Quigley would have deserved it for being such a trooper in the rain!<\/p>\n For the record: these were RAE legs #43 and 44!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The weather forecast for last weekend looked great for so long – sunshine and temperatures in the 70s. When I got up Saturday morning it was quite cold, but I had no idea how cold it would be over in …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[5,13,29,30,10],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-akc-rally","category-rally-venues","tag-akc-rally","tag-embarrassments","tag-lesson-learned","tag-rae","tag-ring-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mordanna.com\/quigley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-06akc-rae_leg44-300x225.jpg\" "\\"2011-11-06akc-rae_leg44\\"")
As much as I am complaining about Saturday’s weather, Sunday was worse. Not quite as cold, but it was pouring rain. Again I didn’t bother to unpack anything from the car, and most of us were crowding around the stewards table under the canopy to stay at least somewhat dry. As bad as the weather was, only two people were marked absent though. The judge kept teasingly calling us “crazy people”, but he was there too, so what does that say about him? <G> (He’s a really nice man and I enjoy showing under him in rally.)<\/p>\n