WORKING TEST PROGRAMME 2024


 
                                                Kennel Club I.D 712  

   

United Retriever Club Border Counties and Cotswolds

RETRIEVER WORKING TEST SCHEDULES 2023 

(held under Kennel Club Limited Rules and Regulations ‘J’)     

All our tests are kindly sponsored by Skinners Pet Foods

Please note that only members of URC, including those from other areas, are eligible to enter URC tests.

      No in-season bitches to be brought onto the ground.

Handlers running two dogs must bring someone to hold their second dog.

Handlers must not ask club officials to hold a dog.

ENTRY DEFINITIONS

Puppy:                      Any dog or bitch under 18 months old on day of test.

Special Puppy:            Any dog or bitch between18-24 months old on day of test.

Junior Handler:            Handler 18 and under on the day of test.

Novice Dog, Novice Handler:      Neither dog nor handler to have won:-

a)     1st in a Novice Dog, Novice Handler Working Test.

b)     Any place in any other Working Test or Field Trial.

Novice:                            Any dog or bitch of any age not having won:

                                   a) a place or COM at a Field Trial.

                                   b) 1st 2nd or 3rd in an Open Working Test                 

                                   c) 1st in a Novice Test

Open:                         Open to all.

Veteran:                     Over 8 years old on day of test.

Please enter on-line using FTMS and pay using PayPal, or download an entry form and forward a cheque with your entry to:-

Working test sec. Miss Aileen Jones.

1 Stable Cottages, Bread Street, Ruscombe, Stroud, Glos. GL6 6EG

Tel. 07761 611374. Email aileenjones42@gmail.com

Entry fee £12 per class.

Running order, directions and standing instructions will be emailed to all  competitors a week before the test.

Raffle prizes will be gratefully received.

DOWNLOAD A WORKING TEST ENTRY FORM HERE

 

TEST SCHEDULES

Novice and Open Qualifier Working Test

Open Qualifier for the Area Finals

Date: Sunday 21st April 2024

Venue: Gatcombe Park, Hampton Fields, Glos, GL6 9AT

  Meet: 9.00am for 9.30am start.

Open, not before 1.00pm

Hosts: HRH Princess Royal

Judges:  Clare Baker (A3700)  Philip Bruton (A2718)

         David Godding and Tucker Munday

Closing date for entries: To be received by Saturday 13th April 2024

 

Intermediate and Veteran Working Tests

Date: Sunday 19th May 2024

Venue: The Elms, Rockhampton. Glos.

   Meet: 9.00am for 9.30am start.

Hosts: Mr & Mrs M. Goode

Judges: Denise Smith, Elizabeth Davis

         Karen Handley (4084) and Clare Gould

Closing date for entries: To be received by Saturday 11th May 2024 

 

Area Finals

Date: Sunday 30th June 2024

Venue: Snowshill, Glos.

       Judges: Jayne Coley (A1850) Philip Bruton (A2718)

      Helen Goodwin (A3595) Lisa Harris, Nigel Probert (3675) and Reuben Mort (2977) 

 

Novice and Open Working Tests

Date: Sunday 21st July 2024

Venue: Snowshill, Glos.

   Meet: 9.00am for 9.30am start.

Judges: Linda Partridge (A2334), Francesca Prentice

         Killy Pennell and Julian Morgan

Closing date for entries: To be received by Saturday 13th July 2024 

 

Novice Dog Novice Handler, Junior Handler, Puppy, Special Puppy

Date: Sunday 18th August 2024

 Venue: Glewstone, Hereford.

Hosts: Mr & Mrs A Jackson

Judges: Helen Cripps, Carolyn Jenkins, Lucy Mixture

and Julia Redpath (3719)

Closing date for entries: To be received by Saturday 10th August 2024

 

 

 

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