Author: Kovács Eszter

Last Satuday Nia and Nova competed together

Nia: A3 1st place
Nova: A3 and J3 1st place

This weekend, the Marvel boys and Nia competed together again.
Nia: 1st place Open agility, 1st place Open jumping, 1st place overall
(2X best time in all size categories)
Nova: 1st place Open agility, 2nd place overall
Fox: 1st place Open jumping (2nd best time behind Nia in all size categories), 2nd place overall

Thanks for the picures, Szilárd Simkó!

The second tryout weekend with Nia was about stabilising skills, and with Nova about experimenting. We achieved both of our goals.
Nia’s results were 2X 1st place, 1X 2nd place, and one best time in all size categories.
Some of Nova’s runs here and Nia’s here.

At the weekend we took part in the Mixed Dog Championship. The competition was open to all breeds, but the best mixed breed dog in each size category was awarded a special prize. There were two open runs, Nia won jumping (again with the best time from all sizes) and Nova came second in agility.

We are not competing for selection this year, for many reasons. The main one is that we want a litter from Nia this year, and if for some reason it doesn’t work out, we’ll have a plan B by the end of the year. Anyway, I’m not a fan of a dog running at the World Championships at such a young age with so little experience. Nova is in great shape, but the uncertainty around my legs without added pressure is stressful enough on its own, so everything this year has clearly tipped the scales to the side of not competing. Nevertheless, we will be competing in the Open and the goals we set for the first weekend have been met to the maximum.
Nia: 2X 1st place, 1X7th place, 3X dis. She was perfectly focused and kept the dragon in herself in check, she worked incredibly well all weekend! Behind the disqualifications were a misunderstanding due to lack of routine, a late cross, and a wall t in the way of the handler. Videos of all the runs can be seen here.
Nova: 4 clear runs (one 2nd place, and all of them in the top 5 Hungarians), and 2 with a single fault. He was a pleasure to run with, he compensated my physical deficiencies very well all the time, those 2 mistakes were also the result of handling errors. His runs can be seen here.

 

Nova: open jumping 1st place
Nia: A3 1st place, with best time in all sizes

We got some beautiful pictures from makura.photography! Last year SAO, this year HO. Thank you for nice memories!

This weekend we were at the last round of Lord of The Winter. Emotionally, we had a very difficult week, so mentally it was hard for both of us to be present at the weekend. Overall, we managed to make the most of the weekend.
Nia won one run and then got the second place in the final, and Nova finished fourth in the final  after a second place in one run.
Thanks to the organising team for this fantastic series of competitions!

 

Over the weekend Fox and Zsolti were at the Republic Cup, where they won the Open jumping with a beautiful run. Congratulations to them!

This year, it so happened that three Dancing on Fire shelties took part in the HO.
Fox and Zsolti did very well in their first international competition of their lives, and it was only a very little step to get to the finals.
Nova finished 10th in the final with a nice clear run in a very strong field.
Nia simply surpassed all our expectations, after winning the first qualification run, she get the first place in the final and won the mini category at the Hungarian Open 2024. You can see a compilation of her runs here.