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 Surry P&R. Short grass, 53degrees, 15mph gusty wind, 45% humidity. Track laid at8:25 & aged 65 min.

This is an excellent location for training road obstacles (2 lane paved road with almost no traffic), so I decided we should finally take advantage of it. See google earth photo for details, but did some paralleling of the road, crossing it, bouncing of it, etc. In addition to fabric start & leather end articles, I put a metal one on leg 2 & a plastic one on leg 5. Food drops 30 yds after 1st turn, 10 yds after intermediate articles, immediately after road crossings, at 25 & 70 yds on leg 3, & at 15 yds on last leg.

Realizing that this track was only an hour old, I was pretty impressed with Seren’s performance here. Start & all articles excellent. At 2nd turn (the ‘bounce off’ one) after she lost the scent she checked into the road a few feet, didn’t find it, then checked left along the edge of the road, then caught the scent to the left going away from the road & jumped on it. Made both road crossings without hesitation. Although the wind was stronger than yesterday, it seemed to have less effect.



Same conditions for Dylan’s track, which was 2 turns aged 25 min. S5,W12, F, W12, S5….. Scuffed in & out of turns with food drop in middle of each scuffed part of the turn

Dylan tracked beautifully, had to be reminded to lie down for articles 




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  1. Jack's JourneyJanuary 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM

    great layout on track. super obstacles and sounds like she nailed it!!

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  2. JudiJanuary 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM

    What a beautifully laid track! I know the site, and am SO impressed at how you used it. And equally impressed that you ran it at an hour (ok, probably cuz you wanted to continue home, LOL). This is the kind of work that teaches her to work out problems, which will pay off in spades at an X test. WELL DONE

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  3. JudiJanuary 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM

    And good boy Dylan. TD #4 for you……

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