Home from a quick 1 day of trialing! I am pretty sure this was Gusto's third time trialing outdoors, and with his tendency to get sniffy when he stresses, I was pretty concerned (his first ever outdoor trial, we didn't get off the start line in the first two classes). After a really crappy start to the day (my carpool buddy bailed on me, so I drove down the night before instead of in the morning; the motel was a dump and I barely slept; looked my keys in the car as soon as I got to the trial with the dogs still in it...), Gusto came right out and did a very nice, conservative PIII snooker run with no leaving me or anything. He missed a really tough weave pole entry in Standard, and completely fell apart after that. I still need to work out what I need to do with him when he makes a mistake. But I was super proud of how well he came back out for jumpers and had a nice, clean run there as well. Things are slowly coming together.
Meg ran in jumpers and standard as well (I won't let her run Snooker until Gusto has his super Qs, because she would kick his butt
). She just makes me so, so happy. She was crazy fast and happy and kind of play-bowing her way around the courses, but was clean and accurate and qualified in both runs. I said she was done titling after she got her 3 bronzes, but if she keeps going this strong, she may wind up with a silver or two before she retires!
Our next trial is a month away, but I'm so excited. 3 days on nice air conditioned sprint turf. The dogs and I are both going to be in heaven!