Thread: Pointer and Setter Trials

Sunday 9th March saw 2 champ trials run by the Auckland Regions GSP club at Kaipara with a reasonable turn out of 8-10 dogs .
The Kaipara grounds are what I would call pleasant with heavy dry and very hard cow pucking underfoot and one must take great caution when walking .
The first course was of good length and a nice lower cover situation which enabled good viewing for the handler .
Mac McArthur once again was on hand to judge the first event which Inti took a second place in with a very average run showing all of his ten years in the very warm day -still he got to the end with two live birds and one dead found and or retrieved to hand . Failte on the other hand just ran like a cut cat and also showed her youth but after a good find and point had to be lifted as her retrieving skills are not yet honed .Dave Sheely's Billy a 5 year old Irish Setter took the day with a commanding performance of good dog work .
The second course saw Dave Richards from the South Island come to Auckland again to judge the second event . Daves course was in a paddock with very long cover and again terrible under foot .This course was noticeably shorter than the first and on Inti's forst cast of about 20 ft he had bird scent from a perfect nose wind at hand that quick . I roaded Inti until the first point and shot once he had located and the bird was released .The dead was located and delived to hand which I dropped on delivery and retrieved myself --ooohh what a mistake that was .Second bird good find -shot -sit dog and all over --literally as the pick up to hand of the dead disqualified me -things you do while not thinking ! Dave Sheely once again took this one out with his Billy having a consistent day of solid work . I hope someone else can add to this as I didnt see the other dogs running on the course or film others for that matter .Anyway here is a clip of the day with my two ..enjoy .... excuse spelling errors as I did this late and have seen some hahaha