Quick post on Ribble Agility! I went to one of Ribble’s shows about 4 years back with Poppy, I remember that we couldn’t find the venue (and we nearly turned around and came home – but swiftly bought a satnav later that week!) and it was in a field somewhere. However, Poppy did get her first ever clear there I believe. Anyway, 4 years on and in an equestrian centre, that was remarkably easy to find. A fab venue, room for four (fair sized) rings and a tannoy that you could hear well into the parking. All the rings ran quickly, we were home by 4pm – a rare luxury!

First run was G1-4 jumping, she had a fabulous run and really felt like she’d stepped it up a gear. I pulled her off a jump and got her E’d, but the ringparty said it was a real shame – I was like “Oh god it must have been decent then!” lol!

Next run was Graded 1-4 Agility. A pretty straightforward course by Stuart Harmes, just a pull through at the end. Jet flew around like something possessed, nailing her contacts and weaves – just a bit wide on the pull through, and she nearly backjumped when I crossed behind. She was the fastest I’ve felt her run in a long time though. I recognised some of the dogs who kept pipping me to 1st place at Dashin, knowing they’d still be G2, and thought with those mistakes I’d yet again have to face being so “nearly G3″. I went to check the results, and to my amazement she had won in a time of 27.18s! The next G2 dog was 44s, and there were no dogs in the G3 or G4 sections who had run under 28s. I think the next closest was 28.6something….so she’d have won any of the parts! I was sooo pleased with the crazy little thing.

Either to wins had gone to her head, or Jet wanted to bring me down to earth with a bump, but her last two runs were a bit disasterous. In H/S, she chose the wrong tunnel (the least obvious one!) and proceeded to nearly plough down the judge who was stood at the other end of it (why?!). Her combined 1-3 agility was a fab course, that I really liked. She set off like a rocket, I started doing a front cross to the line of jumps parallel to that which we’d just done, and when I looked around she was on the end of the aframe (at the other end of the ring?!). God knows how she got there, but we carried on at crazy Jet speed and reminded me that we still have plenty to work on!

Huge Congrats to Emma and Bailey, who are now Grade 5! Winning both G1-4 Agility and G1-4 Jumping!

So, we ended the weekend Grade 3 Woohoo.

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