Val, Chris, Jan and Shannon took part in this trial of American format racing with dogs Harry, Lacey, Ruby, Freya and Breagh. We came 1st place on the Saturday!
Our 20.5 team ran on Saturday and were running faster than their normal seed. Fastest time was 19.77. Most of the heats we ran under 20. Our dogs would normally run slower in the afternoon on grass. Saturday afternoon , every single heat was faster than the morning times - we got consistently faster thru the day. Each of the 4 dogs was as fresh for race 5 as they were for race 1. From a pure dog perspective - they ran better and faster in this format. The Flyball Geek website was an enormous bonus and we were able to easily track when we were due to race. (Though my smartphone had a glitch on Sunday and we were a few mins late). 3 of the dogs from Saturday also ran on Sunday with the same seed time and they maintained their time of sub 20 secs with a slower 4th dog and consistently so. Kristian and Katie and the High Flyers did a great job. Our team had a great weekend and would like to thank Wuff n Ready on Saturday for box loading for us, and Time Flyz for box loading for us on Sunday and High Flyers for ball collecting. Would do it again and would recommend anyone who didn't try it, to give it a go next time and have an open mind.
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