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AJ was High Scoring Doberman in the Excellent class at our Rally trial twice with scores of 100. In the first trial, he was also fourth place in the All Breed of 18 dogs and earned his RE title.
I'm not great at Rally, as AJ is the only dog I took past RN. I remembered what I was told years ago that I shouldn't go any faster than the pace at which I'm comfortable. That way I minimize the chance of a stupid error. Time is the tie-breaker, but the slowest 100 beats the fastest 99.
We took the course very deliberately. In the second trial, the handler of the second place Doberman told me she would have beat me on time if her dog hadn't gone on the wrong side of a sign. I remember her run. She hustled through the course and was too close to the change direction sign. Her dog had room to pass either side of the sign, but since she was crowding the sign, the dog decided to pass on the wrong side. If she wasn't in such a hurry, she would have stopped far enough away from the sign that the dog wouldn't have had the opportunity to make the wrong choice.
I'm not great at Rally, as AJ is the only dog I took past RN. I remembered what I was told years ago that I shouldn't go any faster than the pace at which I'm comfortable. That way I minimize the chance of a stupid error. Time is the tie-breaker, but the slowest 100 beats the fastest 99.
We took the course very deliberately. In the second trial, the handler of the second place Doberman told me she would have beat me on time if her dog hadn't gone on the wrong side of a sign. I remember her run. She hustled through the course and was too close to the change direction sign. Her dog had room to pass either side of the sign, but since she was crowding the sign, the dog decided to pass on the wrong side. If she wasn't in such a hurry, she would have stopped far enough away from the sign that the dog wouldn't have had the opportunity to make the wrong choice.
