We went to Germany to judge a working test for the RTT retriever club , four levels Puppy/beginners(this can be anyage of dog that has not acheived enough points to go up a level) novice,intermediate and open . I judged three of these groups about 80 dogs !The standard in the open was very high especially the golden retrievers i think the top 5 dogs were all goldens very popular over there.... the hospitality was superb and i was very impressed with the amount of very willing helpers,WE had a good weekend enjoying the company of our fellow judges .
At the end of the month we went to Scotland for a week with Pip and Peter , we were lucky enough to stay on the Novar Estate which is beautiful , a brilliant week was had by all .
Sam Liz and i represented the Eastern Counties Utilities at Fred Braceys charity test always a great day and even better as we won with all our dogs going really well.
In the middle of July Mike Phil and i went to Holkham for the team event representing the Suffolk Gundog club , i think to say it did not go to plan is a understatement !! Our dogs did not want to play they certainly are great levellers !!
Now we are into August and we are doing a few training days in the sugar beet for different groups of people of all standards ..very interesting !
Last weekend we both ran our dogs in the Suffolk cold game test which our dogs enjoyed and ran very well Mike winning it with Butler and me 2nd with Gertie ...much more their thing than Holkham !
(Gizmo loves training days the sugar beet)
Gertie came into season the next day which is great as she will be clear for the trial season
