Team Alasera attended the North Star Herding Group agility trial July 3 and 4th. It was a red, white and blue themed week-end and the Team brought home all those colors in their ribbons and more.

Abby somehow determined this was an AKC trial and stress crept in for a few runs, especially anything involving contacts. She had a break out fast Jumpers run on Sunday, and earned fourth place in a very competitive class and finished with her MXJ title to boot. Best of all, each and every run, she is learning to relax and just have fun. Glad to have my fast Abby back!

Ace also wasn’t up to all his contacts, so no elusive AX leg this week-end. But he did have moments of brilliance on the Standard course. His Sunday Jumpers run was also very nice, and he did manage to give Terry a qualifying run performance, just to keep Terry happy.

Mellie had a great week-end. She earned another Double Q (with two third place finishes) and yet more MACH points. She missed a qualifying run on Sunday in Standard due to a mistake by each of us, but still, blazing fast speed. Her JWW run on Sunday was a lesson in how fast she can run when I just let her do her thing. She took 2nd place and earned 21 points on the run. Wow. Just Wow.

Ripley decided to show off his contact skills to Abby and Ace, and he managed to get his second and third legs in Ex. A. Standard to earn his AX title. Slow but steady and I was plenty happy to get this far with him. His jumpers runs this week-end were too slow for qualifying, but all in due time. All in due time….

All in all, a fun week-end for all of us.