Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:32 am Post subject: UGS Surrey, West Sussex & Hampshire Novice WT
Well as Kaz doesn't post too much, I better do it for her.
It was a funny old day, Lots of memories of a year ago with Alf winning this test so with Kaz running I thought it would be a nice one for the whole family including Stoney to pop down and see how the day went.
It was at the stunning Popes Oak that we have grown to love so much and this ground has been very kind to us over the last couple of years.
A friend recently said,
"Can you imagine if Kaz went and won it !!"
Well, Kaz has had a knee op recently so Logan hasn't really had a great deal of training for a few weeks. He's a talented little lad but he's a bit of a sod sometimes so can often need a little reining in to get him on form.
Well we haven't done said reining in really so as he approached the first test, He was well fired up and I think we both thought.
"lets get all 6 done and achieved and perhaps a com would be nice"
So test 5:
2 marks from the same gun, One goes left and one right.
The right one is thrown first and will basically be around a 60 ish yard retrieve down the side of a wood in a bit of a grassy glade sort of clearing.
The dummy that went left lands the opposite side to a ditch filled with spikey stuff. And you have to nominate which dummy you want first.
Kaz went for the left one, Tad odd as Logan would normally fire out in 1 go, But he got a bit caught up toward the ditch and i think both He and Kaz lost their mark. But after a few handles he picked.
The dummy that went right was then picked cleanly and they scored 15.
Someone was proper annoyed at herself after that start
Test 6:
80 yard ish Mark in a ploughed field with the dummy landing over a brow so out of site.
The wind was very kind on this test blowing straight back at the handlers.
Logan went there and back without a handle
20 scored
Test 1:
Mark and a blind down a hill, Prob again close to 80-90 yards i would think.
The wind was howling a cross wind so the shot was pretty tough to hear and also didn't really sound like it came from where it did.
Logan fired straight down the hill, picked, straight back. Then send for the blind in the same place and again straight there and back.
20 scored
Test 2:
Water, well i say water, Stinky silty pond that was too shallow to swim properly but too deep to run through.
It was a blind across the pond at an angle with shot.
The right hand bank of the pond was pretty close to the line the dogs should take so i am told a lot of dogs got out on the right hand bank when they were half way across.
Logan went over nicely with 1 or 2 drives while he jumped / swam / lept out of the silt to keep him straight. Out the far bank, Picked and then took a bit of a strange line back.
he didn't run round, Or run the waters edge, but did decide that the thick lilly pads were a better option rather than the silty sludge !! strange dog.
19 scored.
Test 3:
This was a nice one,
Heelwork with the just between 2 points. Then 2 shots and 2 marks 80+ yards away.
The dog is sent to pick one, While the dog is on its way back, The dummy thrower throws a blind into the woods approx half way between the handler and the dummies that were the orginal marked ones.
Then as the dog gets back to handler, the thrower goes and picks the 2nd dummy from the marked pair. walks back to roughly where the blind went into the woods.
So basically you send the dog out for the mark thats no longer there, Stop them half way, Left hand "out" to push them through the hedge and onto the blind.
20 scored and i am bias but watching with another spectator who is clearly a guy who knows his dogs and knew instantly when he first saw Logan that he was a dog with Craighorn Bracken in his lines, We both said
"bl00dy hell, that looked flashy"
So onto the last test,
I was keeping quiet, but i knew that several other dogs who were going cleaner than Kaz and Logan had suffered 1 testeritis and been caught out on the water, So i'm thinking, mmmmm, I wonder
Test 4:
Blind with no shot in the woods.
I didn't watch this one so i dont really know what it looked like.
Strangly for Logan he didn't go out too well, so needed a couple of handles which i knew others had done straight there and straight back.
17 scored,, Had they thrown it away at the last minute ????
So after a puppy run off,
The awards:
She only went and did it !!!!
Kaz wins, with the 2nd youngest dog there, and only getting 1 point less than me a year ago (ok ok i had to have my moment some how )
fab fab fab news well chuffed having watched the boy several times during the year and seeing how hard kaz has worked with him, they deserved to get that win
____________ Sam, Coal & Finn
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Huge congratulations Kaz and Logan - thrilled for you
and how great to be keeping the cup in the family for another year (If I remember rightly Neil (Neil77) from labforums won in four years ago, so there will be quite a few LF names on there now
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