Each Spring, we load the Sprinter to the gills with clothes, equipment and four or five of our best dogs, and head to the National Specialty, wherever that may be. This year it was Hunt Valley, Maryland, a suburb north of Baltimore. The first event was ASFA lure coursing, with Pico our sole entrant. Between our busy travel schedule and the high temperatures of April and May, he was not in the hard condition needed for his very best performance. Still, on a water-logged field,