Five Flags Agility Trial

Diva and Darla both got a leg on Saturday... Diva her first leg in Novice Jumpers Preferred and Darla her second Novice Jumpers leg.

Sunday was a bust for us... I intended to run the course one way and let myself get talked into another for Darla... should have known better... she always jumps too big on the first jump.. wound up going around the second jump and back jumping... an automatic bust... but got her going and she was speeding around the rest of the course perfectly... hit her weaves perfect... oh, well, other than that bobble on the start, she was brilliant!

With Diva, I decided to run the course my original way... she was flying.. hit the weaves perfect.. I had done a front cross after the weaves with Darla.. planned that with Diva.. but she was going so fast she was already on her way to the next jump when I got to the end of the poles..Yikes! So I went for a back cross.. would have been good, but tunnel vortex syndrome got her... since she came out of the tunnel a good way from the jump, she built up too much speed and clipped a bar... automatic NQ.

The course time was 37 seconds... even though Diva went through the tunnel twice (quickly detoured to visit 2 bar setters, too)... she finished the course in 32 seconds! She was smoking!!!