3-7-25

 Judi’s field & woods. When track run, sunny, 50 degrees, 9mph, 39%. Track laid @9:00 & aged 4 hrs.

This was a woods entry (or not) track. Seren had a good start, entered the woods readily, made the 1st turn just fine after briefly considering cutting the corner. Turn to along edge of woods lovely, as was indication of article on leg 3. She had a hard time turning away from the woods edge out into the open field for leg 4, which gave me the opportunity to play with slightly & gradually increasing line tension when she was going the wrong way. If I remember correctly, she did actually pull into the harness a bit at one point, but it remains a fine line with her. Indication of metal article on leg 5 was great. Last turn was better than 3rd, but I think she still would have preferred to go back into the woods🙂.

This was a good exercise which I think we should repeat fairly regularly.



Dylan’s track was laid @9:25 & run at 30 min. At that time it was overcast, 46degrees, 5mph, 40%.  I scuffed in & out of turns, with food at end of out scuff. Rest of track S5,W15,F,W15,S5

This was a 3 turn track in the hilly part of the field. There were no distractions other than a deer bone on leg2, which he gave up more readily than I would have predicted. Today he overshot both right turns (but not left) by a couple of feet, & showed a very clear loss of scent indication. Both articles good

Next: Put food after turns ~2 steps past the end of the scuffed area. Then if that doesn’t create any problems, try 40-45 min. age.





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