I missed out on a few weeks of blogging but we have been extremely busy in preparation for a strong finish to our winter trip here in Georgia. Team Hidden Acres has place THREE dogs on the national derby list and we currently sit in 3rd place nationally for derby points by a professional kennel!! This is HUGE for us since we are only running 4 dogs. The top two kennels have 14 and 9 dogs respectively. We are competing against the toughest competition week in and week out. I think we are all ready to head back to Minnesota and get that success flowing back home! It will be great advertising cleaning up those ribbons in MN!

I have been running Kirby in the qualifying stakes and he is doing fantastic. Me on the other hand... Not so much. The last 4 trials we have run I have screwed up on the water blind and we haven't made it back to the 4th series. A lack of experience is all it is and we will work through it. Much more a team game than people think. We both have to be firing on all cylinders to make it happen.

I have been accumulating a lot of training pictures of our set ups that last couple of weeks and will share a few with you.

These are some marks we ran last week. Been doing a lot of cheaty water work. Dogs are really showing how hard we are working in training come trial day. The dogs never lie.