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Begging your pardon, UU, but I would suggest that two of the new judges I have the pleasure to have know and respect, one of whom I have run my dog against, are experienced dog men...I look forward to bringing a puppy forward to have their judgements.
yep , we must always recognize we are small so all contributions help and are appreciated where and when possibleQuote:
Originally Posted by teFerrarri
weekend trial - anyone have a report to offer -I didnt even realize it was on ...organized!!!
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was this a challenge point ?? for Helen
QUOTE from the Pointer and Setter club site -----
A great end to an action packed weekend. Helen Sansome won the braced pigeon trial with Mia. Frances Conner and Dee were 2nd, and Tony Connor and Weka third. QCs were awarded to Mia and Jutta (a huge reward for many years of patience on Greg Corbett's part!)
You quoting me there?
Just checked the schedules, both were QC trials...
no , a cut and paste from face book ! thanks for the clarification on the "QC"event also cheers
You can ask to be judged for a QC at any pigeon trial unless this has changed
buggered if I know -ive never really worried about them personally but why not not ......
A good day out today at Parakai for the Auckland Regions GSP clubs QC trial .Hats off to again to Gail Blankely who puts in a huge effort to make these trials happen and Mac McArthur who comes all the way from Otrahonga often to make sure we have a top judge casting his eye over the dogs -many thanks !!!
We ran around 8-9 dogs to day from Auckland , Tauranga and near Tauramanui .
Having never been at this course it was good to see the general layout of the land -flat with fair cover although the grass certainly was suffering the ill effects of the summer season . We picked a field to trial on which was less lumpy than the one we eventually had to use .
As I was about to go through a electric fence which Alan from the Gsp club was undoing ,the farmer turned up and didn't appear to happy - the judge had set up on his hay paddock .... all of about 8 inches if that of grass on it and to boot the fence we were undoing wasn't hot and that really pissed him off as some of the tenants had played with the on and off switches somewhere around the property lol ... still with out our good farmers we have no where to run so thanks farmer !!
After we reset the course and things calmed down a 2 bird course was set for the QC trial .A reasonably strong check wind was blowing and the sun was blasting so thank goodness it was a fairly short course .
I hadnt walked behind as the marker for a while so took the opportunity to help out and watch a few dogs run .A few of the dogs worked the land well but failed on the bird front with running in or not being steady or failing to indicate when they should have .
The ones that did get through put on a good performance with strong running and excellent bird handling .
Funnily enough my dog Inti has never had his QC so I decided to run him for a bit of start of the season practice which was well rewarded with a second place with a score of 89 or so .Rob Meridith from Tauranga arrived with his young Gordon setter which is a great looking dog and built for speed for sure . Rob took a third place with his Gordon and was very happy at the way she performed . When I turned out my young Irish import Failte for a run before the trial stated I though oh no im not going to have a good one today !!! but was pleasantly surprised with some reasonable running -not as quick as normal or as animated but good --her pointing and steadiness around the bird though was sublime .With both bird Failte had great finds and rock hard point, and when the bird took to wing she sat motionless --over the moon at the steadiness she displayed today .Failte won the day beating her mate Inti with a 90 point score from 100 .
All in all a great day and thanks to all that turned up to support the event
You need a haircut El B
gotta b about 3 hairs hanging down there Rushy lol
Judge Mac Mcarthur with Failte and Inti at today QC trial
Good job... Congrats...
Inti has had his ribbon deducted for the QC as he has won champ trials and has challenge points already ..HAHAH not a worry really
@el borracho results from ARGSP 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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEYp...ature=youtu.be
that young bitch of yours is going to be a future star.
spent some time with maya on Saturday good to see the results with a 3rd, she will only get better.
Thanks Kawhia , she runs like a little demon for sure and has so far pointed well also but no retrieve as yet .A little more time to iron out some kinks and yes we should have a very competitive little bitch to challenge the red army. It would be great to see some more people taking footage and posting of their dogs running also .Its a little hard trying to take photos and movie of other people when competing also as much as I would like to --more the better !!!!!:thumbsup:
Great to see a video of dogs running!
I really hate clips of dogs just roading and pointing.
yes its great to see the range of attributes from the pointing dog rather than just one area .Quote:
Originally Posted by cmore
Apologies but a correction to the scores on this video --Kevin 3rd place and Helen 4th place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEYpphHjfM&feature=youtu.be[/QUOTE]
El B,
Is one of those dogs your Gortinreagh dog. Gerald made up another, Excel, on Saturday. Best I could do was third but at least that's me qualified for opens now.
Des.
Hi Des , yes the first little bitch is one of Geralds "Gortinreagh Failte .She has an wonderful nature and easy to handle with lots of natrual ability which makes life easy --only the retrieve needs to be perfected which the UK is not required obviously .Man she runs like the wind when she goes and makes my older dog look OLD lol
high speed trial dog
El B,
I don't know Failte's pedigree but I presume there's imported blood in there just one generation back so the retrieving should be in there to some degree already.
des.
Hi Des , only my lack of input toward the retrieve holding up the game plan to be honest !!! here is failte's breeding
Holes in a five generation pedigree would worry me, El B!!!!!
holes you say, there was an abbreviation in them that i deleted .."LBA" pretty sure it stands for lazy bloody handler.........:P
Have you got any fotos of Queen...she shows up quite a bit on the dam's side...
none myself but i did just find this
Johnny Geoghegan – LEFANTA | The English Setter Club of Ireland
Some interesting stuff about the Lefanta lines
Heegaards V Kody was imported from one of Denmark's leading setter breeder/handlers. His father Sletthallens Knock-Out was bred on two US imports by using frozen semen from legendary stud Equimark. Mother Heegaards II Randi is a mix of Danish/Swedish/Finnish/Norwegian lines.
Storeskar's G Snorre was Geoghegan's superb import from Norway. He was behind Woody imported to NZ. Storeskar's II Odin was a later import from the same kennel but not in the same league as Snorre. Behind Odin there's some blood from the Italian Dianella kennel but it turned out fairly disappointing. Perhaps not very good individuals because I've seen a lot of very appealing setters from that kennel. Behind both of the Storeskar dogs you again find the US import Equimark. He is also found behind my Norwegian import Moulin, through her grand-sire Sletthallens Raijo and behind Earl Bonnar's import Gus on maternal side.
The Irish kennel Club only work on a three genreation pedigree when registering.Quote:
Holes in a five generation pedigree would worry me, El B!!!!!
I'm not sure where the foundation for the comment that Odin was less of a success comes from. Johnny decided that he wasn't going to miss his young daughter growing up and had more or less decided to retire form trialling so Odin was used a few times and then re-exported when he did decide to retire. I'm sure had Johnny decided to stick at it Odin would have been as much of a success, if not more.
Apart from H'gaards Kody back I have seen or run against nearly all the dogs in the last three generations and quite a few further back as well. Hardly surprising you have a good'un.
Yes Des ,I agree she a goodin and only the daily city regime of work and lack of time would be the reason if she doesn't produce some good wins rather than her breeding which looks first class. Johnny appears to have been a very good breeder and its a loss that he went to the bigger earning grey hounds !
Under gggg, colum on the right end down towards 3/4 mark it says lord of the rings. Is that the dogs name or the owners name?
All dog names @Toby
Then I have to say those are some stupid names for dogs but whatever floats there boat
Pedigree names @Toby , usually not call name
Eg my pointer "danny of riverbend", you know him as patch
Well, that's more speculation on your part than on mine. For a start Odin was not as well bred as Snorre was, not by a long shot! Even so, Snorre had a greater impact at stud than anyone in Norway could have imagined. That Odin should in any way replicate that was probably wishful thinking..Quote:
Originally Posted by des oneile
