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- Cloudy, cool (13°C), no wind. Track aged 2:55 h:mm.
- Track distance = 0.55 mile, she ran it in 20:36 mm:ss, while covering
0.87 mile (1.6 ratio).
- She was 5 days in season. Seemed to get the turns, wanted to go off at
spots, possibly scents from other animals. Got all of the articles.
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- Sunny, clear, warming, no wind, the rain yesterday made the conditions
good.
- The track was 7 legs, 816 yards. All hills.
- She went into season on the ride out there the day before, so she was
assigned track #4. Retro had come in the Sunday before that.
- Cruiser did wonderfully, I screwed up. She completed 605 yards/5 legs
out of 815 yards/7 legs. She got the start article and the second
article and got thru both sets of cross-tracks.
- I stopped her from going in a direction where I thought the track could
not go. She indicated the correct direction before going straight and
off to the right, see “A” on the track map.
- After we were blown off, I put her right back on and she kept
going. She got the third article after going back into the woods.
When we came out of the woods, there was a guy walking his yellow Lab,
off lead (which isn't allowed in this park). He walked past us from
“B”. It was pretty much a fluke that he was there, it was far from the
walking paths that most everyone else takes. Anyhow, Cruiser saw them
and started flipping out.
- We were not far from the end. After they went by, she went back to work.
When she got to the finish article, the guy and his dog were
back in view and she walked right over it. She's never done that
one before...
- It took her 10 minutes to run the 605 yards and another 2-1/2 to finish,
even with the distraction. She rocked.
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- The test was judged by Carol Parkinson and Michael Clemens.
- The track length was 925 yards. The track as aged 3:15 h:mm, the
tracklayers ran 1:45 before us.
- Sunny, cold (1° C), with a slight, steady wind out of the Northeast.
Very nice conditions. Most of the legs were on steep hillsides.
- She did great. Started just a little slow, but went through the first 5
legs (about half the track) with no problem.
- The cross-track work we did in the previous 2 weeks definitely helped.
She stopped briefly to check out each of the 2 cross-tracks, ruled them
out, then continued on.
- She got the second article.
- The 5th leg was downhill through a hedgerow. Right after the
hedge, it turned left. I was tiring and I allowed her to continue past
the turn, which took her off the course. She worked it to the left, but
never made it back up to where the track was, so she missed that
article. We were in tall reeds (at A) when the whistle blew.
- After being put back on track, she finished the course. The corn stalks
on the last leg were cut to about a foot high, but they were really
tough to get through.
- The hedgerow acted as a wind funnel.
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- Cloudy, cool.
- Track Distance = 0.51 mile
- The purpose of this track was to work cross-tracks.
- The track was layed by Rose Mary Laubach, cross-track by George Laubach.
A guy with a Pit Bull crossed the track just before our cross-tracker
left.
- I didn’t hit the GPS button on Cruiser’s run, so I didn’t capture her
actual track.
- The tracklayer got confused by the terrain, so we went off track.
- At A, Cruiser picked up on the cross-tracker’s scent and wanted to
follow it. This probably wouldn’t have happened if we were on the track
at the time.
- At B, Cruiser picked the tracklayer’s scent back up and wanted to follow
the track. We were confused, so I stopped her. L
- For the most part, Cruiser did just fine. She ignored
the cross-trackers on the first leg, which was good. J
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