A great start to 2010

Canberra Royal 27 & 28 February - new slideshow on the menu bar

We fielded a single team at the Canberra Royal, where we debuted our new Canberra X-Factor T-shirts: Jaci & Jasper, Claire & Humphrey, Des, Marianne & Max, Kathleen & Boomer, Catherine, Neil & Russell and Peter & Russ outperformed all expectations and finished 2nd in a big division of 7 teams.

Peter's fantastic poem sums up the weekend:

‘THE RUN THAT COUNTS’

The Canberra show and flyball was what we were about

Us dogs had put in the training for many weeks before

We all knew what we had come to the Show for,

That Us dogs being Jasper, Russell, Russ, Humphrey, Boomer, Max

Could get the job done over the next 2 days

Saturday opened bright and clear and we launched into the fray

The little dogs ran hard being without fear

Russ and Humphrey held their form

Jasper and Max did the rest with wins coming Oh so fast

Saturday racing finished, a brilliant win in race seven, we could be in first place!

A good nights sleep and plenty of fooood, what would Sunday hold?

What a start on Sunday we had! Wins coming thick and fast

3 heats to blot, time and again…did the heads begin to swell?

Then it was lunch or was it not? A time breakout occurred of 23.2.

OH No, No, I heard some humans say

We lost that race with 2 to go, could we still do it though?

Another 3 blot, a sigh of relief, the title was still within our grasp

We all held our breath for the last, would our hearts explode?

It was one heat each all, or was it two?

Time stopped still, Russ crossed the finish line

AH, the ball dropped out of that ever safe mouth to the other lane

And, as you can guess, ‘That was it!’

For it was ‘THE RUN THAT COUNTS’

And for those who are more visual, Jaci's photographic record as usual captures the spirit of the event.