MACH 2 MELLIE!!

At the Greater Twin Cities Golden Retriever Club agility trial held Aug. 20-22, 2010, Mellie managed to get her 20th Double Q for her 2nd MACH title. She was smooth and fast and happy. What more could I ask from this wonderful dog? She ended up with three Double Q’s for the long week-end, 143 MACH points, and placed in every run. We are already well on our way to MACH 3!

Abby had a variety of issues that kept her from qualifying in her Standard runs, BUT, she did the teeter every time!! We have a new, unknown to us before, table issue however. Back to the drawing board. But just so I wouldn’t get too discouraged, she put up some dynamite Jumpers runs, earning three qualifying runs, two first places and one second place finish, beating out Mellie. She went over 5 yards/second on two of the runs. FABULOUS!!! She earned 83 MACH points on just those three runs!

Ripley threw me a bone and got one qualifying leg in Jumpers. No MACH points because he was rather slow. The rest of his runs had moments of accomplishment as well as moments of distraction, hence no other qualifying runs. He will be a challenge, God bless him.

Ace and Terry had some really nice runs, but just enough hiccups to prevent them from qualifying. Ace did, however, do a few teeters, leading Terry to believe that maybe, just maybe, a qualifying run is in his near future. Maybe. :-)