COM: Kenmilquin Larsson - Peter Childs - Howfold Leo x Blackcurrant Beech
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2nd!!! In our first All Aged! I was absolutely thrilled and ecstatic!!!
A wonderful trial at a ground I hadn't been to before.
A Driven trial on Partridge in the most horrendous howling gale and driving rain you could imagine. Standing in a drive at a trial i tend to shake and sway anyway, but literally you had to hold your hat on AND your nerve together as partridge came swooping in low trying to miss the wind between you and the next competitor, and even smacking into one lady!!
We seem to be building a habit of doing well when its blowing a gale! I have a trainer who drums in what a difference a dog that will run into the wind makes and I practice it constantly! And so he does! But it was definately the difference in some of the placings and how the dogs ran.
It also goes to show that getting 7 straight A retrieves can both win you a trial (OR get you second! Grin) when others behind you have eyewipes and flashy shows on runners if ither stuff they did was slightly less breathtaking.
Both Robert (the winner) and I were lamenting the fact that the dogs had done everything we asked, and nicely, but neither of us had actually had a chance to set the world on fire with a good runner or an eyewipe so we were SO shocked to be 1st and 2nd! But credit to the dogs they just did everything with little fuss and hopfully looked pretty good doing it!
The company was fantastic, a great atmosphere.
Everyone sat in the first drive and we only lost one in that drive for getting restless.
I had an unusual first retrieve. I was sent to an area in a grass field of longer grass, and told there was a runner in there. He went well, flushed it, it took flight and roared off into the distance, coming down a good 600 yards away. The judges told me to call him up and credited me with the 'retrieve' because the dog did all that was asked and the picker up was sent for.
Time limits me in my usual lengthy report, but we had a nice bird in a ditch through a hedge for our second first round. We were one of the four dogs under the judges for the second drive, and so sat a second next to a lovely lake. My second round was one at an angle OVER the lake to the bank and he took a good line on it.
Third rounds were after a third drive on plough. partridges in plough, never an easy thing. We had two nice straight line retrieves of about 65 and 90 yards, the second directly into the wind.
We were thrilled to be called forward into the fourth alongside 6 others. We lost two in this round but completed our, again, plough retrieves, again, directly into the wind pretty cleanly. you could of knocked me down with a feather when he came back with a definately dead hen pheasant, but we will just smile and charge that gun a big penalty (well, when they come at you THAT fast....)
To say I am thrilled doesn't even start to touch it. Other than some pigeons a friend shot for us the other day we haven't yet had a day on birds this year to 'warm up', so the relief when he picked perfectly straightforwardly, especially after being called off his first bird, was immense!
Thank you to everyone involved, and we have another beautiful trophy for the sideboard, and when I read that Brindlebay Butler was the name on it two and three years ago, whilst i would never compare, it seems a great omen!!
Di
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The boys!
Read: Wylanbriar Dog Blog on the website: Updated! 1st February 12´!
What a great start to the season for you Di, I`m assuming that, as you`ve been waiting for the Partridge season to start, that Pheasant should have been picked up well before your trial on that ground?
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I bet you're well pleased.
