OMG. Agility Champion Rujaff Red Hot Scandal.
Just
so happy. I can’t believe we have done it. She debuted at Hinckley show
at exactly 18 months old, 3 years ago. I always love Hinckley show.
Only 5 rings so fairly small, loads of qualifiers, and the biggest champ
entry I have seen this year (156 dogs). She was 11th in the champ agility, clear in the champ jumping, although I don’t know where she finished. We qualified in 5th place so she ran 16th
out of 20. I knew there had been several clear rounds. The only dog I
watched was Dave and Boss. Boss has been putting some amazing times in,
so I wanted to see his run. I say I watched his run, but that was from a
distance, as Garth wasn’t at the show, so I had to deal with a crazy
Scandal who was taking it in turns to a) chew my fingers off for her
Chihuahua food, and b) bark and jump about and try and drag me to the
ring. Boss did a lovely clear round in 35.something. So I knew it was
going to be an all or nothing run in order to beat him. Which I prefer.
All or nothing runs are the best.
I
love champ finals with Scandal. She runs differently, she knows it’s a
final (ok… maybe she doesn’t know it’s a final, but she knows it’s
important :)). She saves all her extra speed up for them. I liked the
course. Hard, and a few things to work extra hard on, plus it had some
big distances in there, which suits Scandal down to the ground.
She
was awesome. She went round in 34.something (so I’m told, I have no
idea myself) about a second off of Dave’s time, and went in to the lead.
Again, so I was told, coz I had no clue of ANYTHING, I had been soooo
focussed on Scandal. There were 4 more dogs to run after us, and then
Greg was running 19th and 20th. He messed up with
his first dog, so it was all on the second. They (so I’m told, lol) went
round in 36.something, which meant SCANDALSAURUS WON HER THIRD
CHAMPIONSHIP. Woah, over a week later and I’m still bouncing around on
cloud nine. We’ve achieved 2 out of 3 of our goals this year, the third
one was related to Crufts 13 and we part achieved it, and took a tonne
of experience home with us.
Now
we have a couple of weeks off, lots of time to reflect, and then get
more excited about the European Championships which are in 7 weeks time!
I can’t wait to go out there, I have asked Scandal and she said she is
looking forward to it too.
