Good Novice/Open 25 Sept 2024
The award winners and Judge
URC Southern Area today, Wednesday 25th September 2024 were invited by the Crowborough Ploughing Match Society to hold an Unclassified Test for good Novice/Open dogs at Renhurst Farm, Mark Cross, East Sussex. This was judged today by Mr Richard Pettett.
Always a delightful test to watch, we have spectators at the Match who come over to watch us, being introduced to the world of gundog tests, an excellent showcase for our sport and this year there were plenty looking on.
We did get the occasional damping between bouts of sunshine but it didn’t affect everyone’s spirits and we could have been worse off considering the forecast.
There were exercises in the morning of marks and blinds, with the final test set across the fresh plough after the ploughing competition judging had finished – quite challenging for some of the younger dogs who hadn’t experienced anything like that before but the plough was soft which they found easier to negotiate than if it were rock hard as in other years.
The results were:
1st Julia Smith’s Lab (B) Laborie Mafadi
2nd Anne Owen’s Lab (B) Easthoath Antigone
3rd Vince Mahon’s Lab (B) Lavanthill Belle Alsaro
4th Alyson Flower’s Lab (B) Laurenbar Meadow Buttercup Of Flowdownster
As I think I reported last year too - Well done the Bitches!! They showed the Dogs clean pairs of heels today.