Darbi at Red River

I'm at the Red River field trial in Texas. Having a great time.

Darbi did a very nice job on the combined 1st/2nd series.

She pinned the flyer and then had to pick up a blind before getting the remaining two marks.

For the blind, she had to slice the corner of a pond and then come out under the arc of the flyer to the blind. She got in the water way fat and needed 3 whistles to get back on line and then finished off the blind nicely.

She then nailed the last two birds of the test. I thought she may be dropped for her poor initial line on the blind, but Kenny was hopeful she'd get carried as her marks were so good.

She got dropped. Oh well. She had a ton of fun.

Here's a video of Darbi getting the go bird. I originally posted a video of her smacking the long retired and then I tried to post a video of her getting the short retired, but you couldn't see anything but a moving dot on the horizon if that, so I switched to this video. Hopefully it works better. It shows a bit of the test anyways.
(PS-Yes, she crept a bit...it was too funny for oh-so-serious Darbi to do that).




Libby is having a grand time at the trial too! Everyone, of course, is asking about the blue bandage on her leg. She's meeting lots of new people and is a very bright, animated and happy puppy. Someone put it best when they said "she is SO expressive!"