Agility Trial

We had an agility trial today.

The trial is three days but we only entered for Friday mostly  because I was not sure Joey had his weave poles and didn't want to spend 66 dollars and find out he did not have them.(I did that last year). For the last two weeks we practiced the weave poles every day and since last Monday Joey seemed to have them down pat. However, when we went though this morning, Joey decided to keep me worrying and skip a few poles. So I was pretty nervous all day. Once in the ring though Joey did very well. He was a little sticky and didn't want to go far from my side but his weave poles were excellent. We ran the last few obstacles and finished with about 31 seconds and I was thinking "Yes, our first Q!" But I quickly got the bad news. Handler error. I took a short cut and missed two jumps. Errrr, sometimes I want to shoot myself. But I'm happy with Joey today. He preformed very well. We didn't Q today but I plan to enter in the spring and maybe even try standards. Who know, we might even try some USDAA.