The puppies all got hand slipped on on Monday. They chased the lure, kept their heads down and weren't out of breath at the end. In fact, Bill told me that he put 4 out together (Windy, Sophie, Flippy and possibly Daisy) and at the end of the race when the lure stopped, they flew past the lure and kept running without it! Not once, but twice! So they ran a track and a half at full speed, and an oval as a cool down or as I call it "victory lap" speed.

Yesterday he actually put them in the starting box, and they got timed. None of them had exceptional times, but the track hadn't been watered down since it was so cold and therefore it was deep and slower than usual. Now Bill has a guage to measure their progress. He said across the board, the Carlas are faster out of the box. But he said Casey (yep, big man Casey who never ran at home) and Arawen ran the fastest time of the morning.