Game changing weekend @ Amadeus Agility Worldcup

 

Alongside the yearly Amadeus Horse Indoors at Salzburg the Amadeus Agility Worldcup took place. Since 2010 agility takes place as part of the supporting program. And it attracts year over year more audience and competitors. Top handlers from Austria, Croatia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Switzerland (of course 😉 ) are represented, just to name a few. The competition is constructed in three qualification runs, a semi-final and the final in the form of an american.

What’s an american?

An american is an other form of an agility or jumping run. It’s most comparable to snowboard parallel slalom. Two identical courses next to each other. jump start, faults, refusals and disqualifications get penalized with seconds added to the time run. The faster wins the round. The typical american runs in accordance with knock-out process.

I’m so delighted about Cute’s achievements. Indeed I trashed our first run, with a split second of inattention. But with friday’s second run – it was a Open-Agility judged by Otto FrĂŒhwirth (A) – we got qualified for the semi-final. It was a course with some key elements to get rid of. Cute did such a good and fast job that we earned the 1st place!
The Saturday morning started with the third and last qualification run – a Open-Jumping again judge by Otto FrĂŒhwirth. It looks like he’s our lucky judge or maybe it could also be the one-hand-turns, who knows… I just know Cute reached the 3rd place. And got qualified a second time for the semi-final. Ok this doesn’t matter, but anyway 🙂

Then in the afternoon the semi-finals started. To get to the final this round had to be a clean-run. It was a Agility-Open this time judge by AndrĂ© Maurer (LUX). Unfortunately (huh…I hate to start sentence with this word), Cute missed the slalom entry or I forced her to much. And there was the point where our gold-journey stopped immediately. But it continues for other Swiss and ended with the gold fever for Manuela Eichenberger and Win. My congratulations!

The evenings apart from the competition were good entertainment and a lot of fun. From horse shows via dinners and xmas market with mulled wine through to room parties everything was in the program. I was looking forward to this weekend and I didn’t get belied neither from a sportive nor from a private perspective. I am more than satisfied about the weekend with two top 3 places between all those good handlers and dogs. Thx to the organizers for such a well organized competiton, to all my friends for their company and to Cute to be so amazing.

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