Hi all
I just spoke to Allan Bartram by phone. Here is a report from the first day of the 2006 WA State Championship.
34 dogs started the trial. 16 dogs sucessfully completed the four runs held on day 1.
The runs:
Run 1, judged by Lynne Strang, was a double mark and a blind
Run 2, judged by Allan Bartram, was a triple mark with two of the birds in line. The shorter of the inline birds fell among decoys in shallow water which apparently caused problems for some dogs.
Run 3, judged by Lynne Strang, was a triple blind with a distration two-bird which was not retrieved.
Run 4, judged by Allan Bartram, was double rise and a blind.
The leading 10 dogs after day 1, listed in catalogue order, are:
2. Heather Ellis' RT Ch ELLISHEA ASKS GYPSY ‘Gypsy’ (GR B)
3. Russell Whitechurch's TOCKATUNGA LITTLE RASCAL ‘Rocket’ (Lab B)
4. Gareth Tawton's Gr RT Ch KADNOOK PRIDE OV CORK ‘Monty’ (Lab D)
6. Russell Whitechurch's TOCKATUNGA SLICK WILLIE ‘Sydney or Syd’ (Lab D)
8. Bob Tawton's RT Ch KADNOOK TANKS AHEAP ‘Tank’ (Lab D)
9. Russell Whitechurch's Nat RT Ch ADDERSLOT CRACKERS TRIGA ‘Kellie aka The Sheep’ (Lab B)
11. Maggie Hankinson's RT Ch ALTIQUIN STERN JDX UD ADX ‘Guinness’ (Lab D)
16. Georgina Golle's RT Ch WRANGHAM BUZZ AROUND ‘Buzz’ (ESS D)
20. Joe Vella's Gr RT Ch KAEMAJAE ALL BLACK ‘Blackie’ (Lab D)
24. Jack Lynch's RT Ch COALSGARTH TASSIE FERN ‘Fern’ (Lab B)
The field today was split into two groups with the runs occuring concurrently. Tomorrow they will run as one group with Run 5 being judged by Lynne and Run 6 being judged by Allan.
Stay tuned for another update tomorrow evening with descriptions of run 5 and 6, the finishers, the places and of course the winner!
Cheers, Jason.