12/4/25
- Maureen Woolley & Duck
- Dec 4, 2025
- 1 min read
Duck did stair step style track; S5W20F10 and turns 1 & 2 had scuff 5 out of the turn; turns 3&4 had walk out of turn with a food drop at 5 steps.
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Positives:
Duck had nice down indications.
He had nice start on the the track. He held fairly straight on the track for the entire track.
He did turn around to get his food drops as the track continued.
Not sure if he had flag awareness. I will extend his SWF pattern as he handled the current one easily.
S5W30F15
As Anne and Judi have said, work on the 'leave it' off track. His turns looked very nice each time here. How old was the track? Have you done a starts in the rotation recently? In addition to increasing his reinforcement pattern, be sure to be doing aged starts too. Nice job
He's so happy to be tracking! Love it...while you work on your start article pickup smoothness, remember, you can be feeding the line out a bit if he looks like he did in this video. That way you are inadvertently give that minor "correction" for a strong start. At the turns he clearly has no problems telling you, this way, damn it 😁! If you are worried about flag awareness, maybe give the clips a try for some of the turns or if you have other really great natural ground markers, use those to not have a flag or clip, but only if you are certain you'll know where the turn it. His article indication looks GREAT! Just remember…