Knaphill Manor Chobham
Judges: Roger Wade Robert Worrall Mary-Jane Opie Dan Higgs
1st FyrlewalkWinstonStirlingDavis
Awarded the Entonlee Trophy
2nd LongcopseRippleSusan Wood
Awarded the Hoopwick Trophy
3rd LakesfarmMartini JeanBaveystock
4th Denbrig Daydream of CountrywaysJohnBoyle
COM KeepersholmeBeckett Kirsten Gaisbauer
Held at Knaphill Manor near Chobham. An impressive Estate and the owners very generously allowing a wide variety of Tests to be devised. Five judges, five Tests, The organisation was the very best and we were finished by 1.30pm. Well done Sheona and her team. Sheona also apparently organised the weather so it was a glorious Spring day. Unlike poor old Hampshire who all got very wet running their Open the day before.
Test One. Robert Worrell was judging. Probably the Test that most people enjoyed the best. Over a decently constructed jump between fields. Two shots, two dummies. One near and one further back. Didn’t matter which dummy was retrieved first. Mixed bag of marks on this one, but with 8 Twenties and quite a few 19’s and 18’s Robert enjoyed seeing a lot of dogs achieve competently.
Test Two. Colin Pelham was judging. A track up between the woods with a crossroads at 200 yards. A gunshot with blind somewhere on the right at the crossroads, but first there was also a gunshot with mark immediately to the left in the woods in an open space. With 11 Twenties given, Colin had to go home as everyone’s favourite judge of the day !
Test Three. Mary Jane Opie was Judging. Mary Jane drew the short straw and was walking up and back all day on very unlevel, wet, marshy ground. Two dog walk up. One dummy each, then swop sides and one dummy each. Tough judging here with only 3 Twenties given.
Test Four. Roger Wade judging. Hey Ho – another tough judge with no Twenties and only 2 Nineteens given. We had a mark to the left and a blind to the right (with two gunshots). Over a bit of water, waist high, to the other side. The mark on the left first and send back to the blind to the right. It was made more difficult by the sun in your eyes and the fact that when the dog was over the water it was almost invisible due to the dark woodland background and the bulrushes obscuring your view.
Test Five. Dan Higgs judging. Hmm, even this one only resulted in 4 Twenties. A blind without gunshot. The dummy was between two markers in the open woodland bordering the side of a field 250 yards across. The dogs had to go beyond the dummy in order to wind it.
The able winner got 3 x Twenties, a seventeen and a sixteen. As Sheona said – it is probably the first Test of the New Season for many of us and as Robert Worrell, in his status as nominated Judge, said – the rest of us now know what our ‘homework’ is !
A very impressive runner was Kirstin Gaisbuaer with her 13 month old Lab on their first ever Working Test. Excellent scores Kirstin. It can only get better !
Thank you organisers, helpers etc. for a great day out.
Judges: Roger Wade Robert Worrall Mary-Jane Opie Dan Higgs
1st FyrlewalkWinstonStirlingDavis
Awarded the Entonlee Trophy
2nd LongcopseRippleSusan Wood
Awarded the Hoopwick Trophy
3rd LakesfarmMartini JeanBaveystock
4th Denbrig Daydream of CountrywaysJohnBoyle
COM KeepersholmeBeckett Kirsten Gaisbauer
Held at Knaphill Manor near Chobham. An impressive Estate and the owners very generously allowing a wide variety of Tests to be devised. Five judges, five Tests, The organisation was the very best and we were finished by 1.30pm. Well done Sheona and her team. Sheona also apparently organised the weather so it was a glorious Spring day. Unlike poor old Hampshire who all got very wet running their Open the day before.
Test One. Robert Worrell was judging. Probably the Test that most people enjoyed the best. Over a decently constructed jump between fields. Two shots, two dummies. One near and one further back. Didn’t matter which dummy was retrieved first. Mixed bag of marks on this one, but with 8 Twenties and quite a few 19’s and 18’s Robert enjoyed seeing a lot of dogs achieve competently.
Test Two. Colin Pelham was judging. A track up between the woods with a crossroads at 200 yards. A gunshot with blind somewhere on the right at the crossroads, but first there was also a gunshot with mark immediately to the left in the woods in an open space. With 11 Twenties given, Colin had to go home as everyone’s favourite judge of the day !
Test Three. Mary Jane Opie was Judging. Mary Jane drew the short straw and was walking up and back all day on very unlevel, wet, marshy ground. Two dog walk up. One dummy each, then swop sides and one dummy each. Tough judging here with only 3 Twenties given.
Test Four. Roger Wade judging. Hey Ho – another tough judge with no Twenties and only 2 Nineteens given. We had a mark to the left and a blind to the right (with two gunshots). Over a bit of water, waist high, to the other side. The mark on the left first and send back to the blind to the right. It was made more difficult by the sun in your eyes and the fact that when the dog was over the water it was almost invisible due to the dark woodland background and the bulrushes obscuring your view.
Test Five. Dan Higgs judging. Hmm, even this one only resulted in 4 Twenties. A blind without gunshot. The dummy was between two markers in the open woodland bordering the side of a field 250 yards across. The dogs had to go beyond the dummy in order to wind it.
The able winner got 3 x Twenties, a seventeen and a sixteen. As Sheona said – it is probably the first Test of the New Season for many of us and as Robert Worrell, in his status as nominated Judge, said – the rest of us now know what our ‘homework’ is !
A very impressive runner was Kirstin Gaisbuaer with her 13 month old Lab on their first ever Working Test. Excellent scores Kirstin. It can only get better !
Thank you organisers, helpers etc. for a great day out.
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