Intermediate Cold Game at Renby Farm on 3rd Feb 2019
URC Southern Area Unclassified Intermediate Cold Game Test on 3rdFebruary 2019 held at Renby Farm, Crowborough, E. Sussex, by kind permission of Mr Paul Aisher,
Judges: Mr Chris Marshall & Mrs Jane Tydeman
1st Mike Tiplady's Lab (D) Bromleywood Frankel
2nd Dave Petty's Lab (D) Defreynes Surprise Boy
3rd Chrissie Thomas's G/R (D) Roughbeat Melchior
4th Kevin Fleckney's Lab (B) Minsburydell Megan
COM: Mike Fleming's Lab (B) Lavanthill Lucy
Organised to replicate a shooting day as far as possible but with cold game, most of the exercises were blind retrieves placed where the birds would normally run and hide on this shoot, or where the Gun would say that a runner had disappeared in an area, which they couldn't locate.
We were lucky enough to have a brilliant crisp sunny day and over half the field were competitors from other URC Areas, one travelling from Staffordshire to take one of the awards. That is one of the benefits of joining the URC, but I wonder where all the Southern entrants were?
Just 9 Southern members ran today out of our hundreds. Is it worth all the time and effort to organise this if there is no interest?