Boston Terrier Club of Western Washington March 20,21 2004 (AKC)
600 Runs per Day and the trial was full
Saturday's JWW qualifying run was at 9:30 AM right after Al had gotten into the cooler while I was walking the course and in my absence he managed to devour my lunch (a large turkey cheese and lettuce on whole wheat sandwich), and was about to begin work on his meatball treats when I arrived back at the van to ruin the party!!! So I took a rather sick, and heavy IG (now 13 lbs instead of 12.5) to the start line. He enjoyed the run but was slow for Al, and got a Q and 3rd place.
Al’s Saturday Std. run was really a breakthrough; 2nd place, a perfect score of 100, and 12 seconds under course time (2.47 yds/sec). He had the second fastest time of all the qualifying scores and was only beaten by 2 seconds by another 12” dog (Border Terrier).
Al's Sunday Std course was not a Q like I had dreamed of, but not terrible either considering the temperature was in the 30's inside the arena and it was a "down" on the table, which he did, but it took longer than it does in practice. A couple of mistakes by me allowed him to get wrong courses, but I was really happy that he did a down, and his weave poles were good and most of all he was a happy guy.
Al saved his best for the last run of the weekend. Al’s Sunday JWW run was 12 seconds under course time, He Q'd placing first in 12" dogs, with a score of 100, and he flew!!!. (4.15 yds/sec). Al beat the Terrier he placed behind on Saturday because he was feeling much better, and much lighter!! In the field of 38 dogs only two were faster (both 20” Border Collies also with scores of 100). We kicked some Shelty Butt!! And Al made a lot of believers out of him.
So it was a great weekend!! Three Q's; a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place score, and a Double Q! One more leg in Open Std and then we’ll be moving up to Excellent A. I have held him back in Open JWW as he now has earned his Open JWW twice, with 6 qualifying scores.