Baxter maintained his sit/stay while I led out to the chute. He had a great contact on the frame and waited for his release. He nailed the weave entry and did the jump, table perfect. He had a great dogwalk contact and I sent him to 10 and was doing a front cross from 11/12 where he took 11 down. He did 12-16 perfect with an awesome teeter contact. Rick had taken a video of this and the others of the day but I deleted them by mistake :((I decided to try the dogwalk - end again and this time I got out of his way from the front cross and he kept everything up. I then went back to do it all again and this time he had #2 down but otherwise was awesome. I couldn't be more proud of him, he didn't even think about getting in those weaves and he had a great start line.
I then brought Rip out. I decided to try to break it up and see where we got to. He did 1-3 really nice two times. I then went on to do the frame/weaves. He had a few really nice frame contacts but he is still slowly making his way into the contact and not driving down the frame. Andrea says that is how they can break their toes so I am worried about him with that. He missed the weave entry the first time but was able to get it the next time. He did have the issue about weaving all 6...I wonder how we will get to 12! lol. He did the dogwalk ok but his contact is a little less that what you would want, he likes to curl around and be off the side. He doesn't understand to drive straight and stay in that straight line. I then worked the jumps. The first time I sent him to 10 and did the front cross again from 11/12. Ripley completely missed 11 but did 12/13/14 beautiful. I tried all different ways to figure out what would work best for him. If I got in the correct position and he took the jump, we inveribly had at least 1 bar down :( I was very happy that he put some of the obstacles together, gave me sits (which he hates to do) and did contacts. I am still worried about these bars.
Next I moved over to the Masters Jumper ring. The course was still set and had 12 weaves in it (wow that judge was mean!) Here is what I remember of the course but not necessarily what the distances/obstacles were:
So it took me 3 times to figure out that the best place to stand to get Baxter into the correct the tunnel of 5 and to get him to take 6-7 (he kept going to the weaves from 6 at first) was to stand at the entrance of the tunnel at 5 and show him the line of 1-4, get to be by jump 7. It worked beautiful on his forth try and did that section really nice. He consistently took 11 down when I was front crossing to 12 but he was cutting that jump so close that I wonder if it was him hitting the standard vs the bar. He nailed the weaves each time we tried (3 times) but on the one time didn't finish them?! Otherwise I was thrilled with his weaves and his start line again. He did the final line beautiful each time but usually does, lol. Overall I think the day was a great success. I think even Rick was impressed at what he saw. Now I might have to try and get to a trial to really see how he is doing. I don't know that I can wait for another 3 months..lol. I am planning to go to the fun match next weekend so maybe that will be the next test.
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