Chippenham

We had two lovely days at Chippenham. On the Saturday both Zara and Ruger had clears, sadly not placed but Zara's was in a combined 1-7 jumping with a fab run. Ruger's was G3 jumping and he wasn't far off a place but we lost time as he spun round between the first jump and the weaves and didn't want to go forward. Zara ran a G4-7 Agility course that was quite tough and amazingly she got faulted on the weaves by coming out at no.10, but went clear on the rest of the course, typical. Ruger managed a 2on 2off on the dogwalk without touching the contact, aaarrrrggh, the judge looked at me and apologised when he marked it with 5 faults, but he was absolutely right to do so!!
On Sunday Zara managed 15f in the ABC agility for a pole and 2 contacts, then she got 10f in her next 2 classes. Ruger was consistent with an E in all 3 runs, but I must say his stay was much better, its coming back and he got most of his contacts.
Ruger and I trained with Lee Windeatt the day before the show, and I have some new ideas to move Ruger forward with. I have written myself a training plan for the winter which I need to stick to, as Ruger does not have many shows left now this year, just TAG and Clevedon, although I may do Dig It and train in the ring.
Zara is doing well although her rate of clears is dropping, she is fit and well and probably the best she has ever been.