Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject: Working Test Running Orders
A question prompted by quite a number of different threads that I've read recently.... It had never occurred to me to include a SAE for a working test running order, other than for those less frequent ones that have a limited entry. Am I the only one that doesn't do this? I always just pick one up when I get to a test.
However, I do know that quite a few entries have been going astray lately. I think there were a few at the Leicestershire one that you judged, so I guess at least people would know in advance if this has happened.
I have entered scone test and had been told to include an sae to return the order, but to be honest thats mainly for the tickets to enter the fair to be included if lucky enough to be drawn.
Otherwise for other tests I have never been sent a draw before hand
I am a real saddo then, I always send my SAE , and enjoy studying who else with be there, and looking at their dogs breeding (not that I know much, but it is interesting to look!). Also fretting about where I will be in line in the walk up, who I will be with in the groups, whether I will be able to watch many other people run . . . . . all part of the anticipation! (OK, I warned you I was sad!!)
On several occasions I have had to change venue, advise that a different entrance to a ground is to be used, change start time by anything up to an hour or add in or change judges. All stuff you need competitors to know. Anyone without an SAE or has not put an email address on has to be boringly rung and informed one by one.
What do you do Matt et all if you haven't been to a venue before? For me a running order is more about getting directions than who i am going against....
Di
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On several occasions I have had to change venue, advise that a different entrance to a ground is to be used, change start time by anything up to an hour or add in or change judges. All stuff you need competitors to know. Anyone without an SAE or has not put an email address on has to be boringly rung and informed one by one.
What do you do Matt et all if you haven't been to a venue before? For me a running order is more about getting directions than who i am going against....
Di
Oooh yes, Di, I forgot that bit - the hours of trying to work out where the venue is, how long it will take to get there, how many possible hold ups there may be on the way, where the nearest loo (or big hedge) is close by to the venue ..... all has to be worked out in advance!!!
I can feel my wrist being slapped from two hundred miles away!
All of the test schedules that I get always seem to contain sufficient detail to get me to the venue. I haven’t had an issue with change of venues or entrances etc before, but then I don’t really run in that many tests. (I can see your point though)
Honestly Di this isn’t some kind of macho not caring who I’m running against, it genuinely hadn’t occurred to me that the secretaries would prefer it if I did put a SAE in. That’s why I asked really, as I do try my best not to upset the people that do the hard work behind tests and trials and having read a number of posts relating to test schedules I thought I check to see if I was out of the ‘norm’.
I do wonder if (once again) it’s a geographic difference?
MIND YOU....... On the other hand... what I REALLY hate are those who send an SAE roughly akin in size to a fair sized postage stamp, and, expect a WT Sec, usually after a few drinkies, to have a degree in Origami and get two decent pages of A4 into it and it still seal!
Some have to be folded about seventeen times till the damn envelope won't fit through the 'small envelope' slot at the post office and look like they have a bomb in it!
Agggggghhhhhhhhhh .... and breathe.....
Di
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Read: Wylanbriar Dog Blog on the website: Updated! 1st February 12´!
I did hear last season that one Society didn't put entries into the draw for the field trials if the wrong sized SAE had been used. (Many societies do specify a minimum envelope size) I think it caused a bit of a stir!
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, and enjoy studying who else with be there, and looking at their dogs breeding (not that I know much, but it is interesting to look!). Also fretting about where I will be in line in the walk up, who I will be with in the groups, whether I will be able to watch many other people run . . . . . all part of the anticipation! (OK, I warned you I was sad!!) 
