We set the four hurdles up. It is important that the jumps always be set up at the proper distance to allow the dog to develop its own stride during training. The next stage of training is scent discrimination. The time the dogs spend scenting is what usually separates the winning teams from the losing ones. The training objective is to have a dog that will scent quickly and without hesitation.
Confidence is the key to a dog that scents quickly.
This can be a slow process and the handler should not test the dog on its own until he feels confident it knows the scentwork. To the Races. Now the dog is ready to do some actual racing. The dog should be run overr the hurdles and allowed to do the scent work on leash andd then off leash a few times with no competition. Then run the dog on leash with another dog running against it on the other set of jumps.