It is amazing how easy life is when you have great running hounds! You just go to the field and they run clean and hard and well. That is the way it should be. But then it would not be special.

On the other hand, when you go through the frustration of hounds that provide challenges, lure coursing can be quite difficult and you understand that the field champion title does have very significant meaning.

This past weekend, we finally certified Blazer on Saturday and ran him in competition on Sunday at Tristate. It all went very simple. He just went out and ran well, as we expected he would. He is over two years old so is reasonably mature. He is not the dominant the male around the kennel. His brother Tuxx is. Blazer tends to be a bit mellower so that concern was not an issue.

Actually, the bigger concern with Blazer is that a plastic lure is only so interesting because he has had experiences with squawkers and more interesting coursing than plastic. But right now running is fun to him so we will have some fun!