Acremead update

The rain held off this year, and it was not too cold either.

Added to the venue this year was a cake stall and mobile bar (same again next year please, I quite liked the Mansfield smooth ale !).

Rebounds - CJ, Maya, Freya, Chewy and Milly got 4th place... Freya is coming along in leaps and bounds, while my Chewy regresses into being a lazy dog and not coming back over the jumps (sorry team !).

Rugrats (Starters team)- Breagh, Lexi, Ollie and Paddy were joined by a dog called Izzy from the Somerset Scrumpys as poor Pippa twisted her leg on Friday (get well soon Pippa).  All the dogs did great and did very well to get a 3rd place rosette out of 7 teams !

Rascals - Lacy, Harry, Ruby, Radley and Jace get another 1st place (2 weeks in a row now!) ... nice going !.

A long day (as always) but fun as (as always!) ... me falling over the flyball box proving to be most peoples highlight of the day :-)

See you all at training on Saturday.

Andy

Quick update

1) BBC2 tonight, wonder of dogs starts !.. keep an eye out for us (although the first programme appears to be about Golden Labradors) spot our jump, and Harry, here  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gvysk

2) No movers from Padworth, but Lacey is close to getting her Flyball Dog Advanced award.

3) Ozzie hits 500 points, can Maya, currently on 415 points, close the gap this weekend at Acremead in the race for Flyball Dog Intermediate ?!.

4) Rooky Rascals get 1st at Southridge last weekend, well done Lacey, Ruby, Jace and Radley ... some great racing at this venue, which is new to the Rooky Racers... and against some teams we never / hardly race.  Easy to get to, this might make our list in 2014 as a regular venue (along with Padworth which now has much more space to park).

5) Remember, last race of 2013 is indoors at Newbury on 23rd November, think about if you want to go ready for when I send the email.

Cheers,

Andy

No training 21/09

Just to remind you there is no training this Saturday as both Open and Starter dogs will be racing at Acremead.

Normal service is resumed after that, and Andy has fixed his car so he can tow again !

No training 21/09

No training on 21/09 as we are away competing at Acremead.

Yay CJ ! (sorry it is late !)

Some how young CJ slipped under my Movers and Shakers radar for Fairview Farm.

So better late than never, well done CJ for moving out of starters by getting 200 points and your Flyball Dog award !.

Andy

Post BFA Champs movers and shakers !

Are you ready.... drum roll !!!....

Freya gets Flyball Dog!, well done Freya you are a natural !
Evil Chewy makes Flyball Dog Intermediate! lol! Yay Chewy :-)
Darcy makes Flyball Dog Graduate.. awesome progress !
Harry makes Flyball Dog Advanced ... again, great work !

Excellent stuff !

Our next future shaker is Lacey with her eyes on Flyball Dog Advance by the end of 2013.

Then it all goes quiet for a while.

Lots of dogs in "no man's land" trying to build points between 1000 and 3000.  3000 and 5000.  5000 and 10,000.

Alfie is progressing well towards "Silver" and should get this in 2014, while Maya and Ozzie are racing to become the next "Intermediate" dogs with only 35 points between them.

Great going all.... keep it up, just Acremead and Frogmore left in 2013 (email re Frogmore coming out this weekend).

Andy