Judges Report on 12 Dog Open Stake: Rise Park, East Yorkshire
By kind permission of Mr Hugh
Bethell
Judges: Di Arrowsmith and Mr Mark Firmin
Steward of the beat: Mr
John Naylor
The Competitors
The weather
was cold and cloudy. Scenting poor. Game shot- woodcock, pheasant, and
rabbits.
John told
us that all game was to be shot including ground game and that, due to the
recent cold winds coming in from the east, there were rather a lot of
woodcock on the estate!
There were
2 awards for the day, which was very difficult. We saw some very good dog
work but the woodcock played hard to get in poor scenting conditions.
1st, 2nd, 3rd Not awarded.
4th
place Bryantscroft Bergamont of Paddysworth GWP Handler: A Gray.
COM:
Eely Rags Poplar GSP Handler: L Loveridge.
Bryantscroft Bergamont of
Paddysworth. GWP b
This dog
ran her first run in thick bramble with a cheek wind. She came on point,
lost the bird, relocated and held a good staunch point. When asked to
produce she did so and flushed a cock pheasant which was shot. She was
steady to shot and fall and did a quick clean retrieve to hand.
On her
second run she ran with some pace in woodland coming quickly on point on a
rabbit which was not shot. She worked on along a road and pointed 2 woodcock
which did not hold and were not shot. A woodcock was shot out on the left
flank.
She was
sent for the retrieve and picked it and delivered to hand.
She the
completed the water to finish the day.
Eely
Rags Poplar GSP d.
On his
first run this dog ran in open woodland with banks of bramble on one side.
He ran with pace and soon got into game with pheasants running on in
front. He came on point and produced a hen bird which was not shot; a
second bird lifted and was shot. He was steady to shot and was then sent
for the retrieve which was delivered to hand.
His second
run was also in woodland. He soon came on point and a rabbit was flushed
but not shot. He ran on and again came on point. A rabbit was flushed and
shot; the dog was steady to shot and was sent for the retrieve. The rabbit
was delivered to hand.
He
completed a good water to finish the day.
The Guns
Award
David
Pilkington’s Wei. Bitch F.T. Ch. Quadet Caterin.
Got off to
a good start with a blind retrieve of a running cock pheasant that had been
produced off the previous dogs run. She had to go a long way back through
the wood to locate him and bring him back, head up and eye bright, to hand.
She went on to point and produce a rabbit which was not show. She then
repeated the exercise to another rabbit which was shot, retrieved and again
delivered cleanly to hand. She had a point to a pair of woodcock which were
not shot. She subsequently pointed and produced a woodcock which was shot by
the gun at the end of the wood. She was hunted through the virgin ground
where she pointed another woodcock which ran away. Having cleaned out her
beat she was given a mark to the shot woodcock to which she was handled
quietly. She located it without fuss, picked it cleanly and delivered this
also to hand. On her second run again in sparse woodland she drew her
handler down the side of her beat to a running cock bird which was flushed
to fly over a road which not shot. It was unfortunate that her handler
failed to bring her back far enough to thoroughly cover the other side of
her beat from where a brace of pheasants lifted from behind the dog.
