~VICTORIAN GUNDOG CLUB JULY RT RESULTS~

[Sally Haynes]

DATE: Saturday 15th July & Sunday 16th July 2017

TRIAL MANAGERS: Gareth Tawton (03 5432 2473) and Sally Haynes (03 9728 5687 or sjhaynes@me.com N.B. email preferred)

ENTRIES CLOSE: Friday 7th July 2017

LOCATION: Bridgewater area

JUDGES:

Saturday 15th July
Novice: Andrew Yeomans
Restricted: Kate Eltringham
All Age: Ron Cooper (NSW)

Sunday 16th July
Novice: Noel Eltringham
Restricted: Karl Britton
All Age: Bob Tawton

ENTRY FEES (including the DV levy and equipment fees):
Stake: Members / Non-Members

NOVICE: $15.00 / $20.00
RESTRICTED: $20.00 / $25.00
ALL AGE: $20.00 / $25.00

ENTRIES CLOSE: Friday 7th July 2017 http://www.easydogentries.com

Or the Trial Secretary:

Sally Haynes
46 Inverness Rd
Kalorama VIC 3766
03 9728 5687

PLEASE NOTE: NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED

VETTING TIME: 08.15 a.m. – 08.45 a.m

START TIME: as soon as practicable.

TROPHY LIST: Trophy will be presented to all placegetters to third place.

DRAW: At Trial Secretary's residence, 8.00 p.m., Sunday 9th July 2017

SHOOTERS LICENCE: At all Retrieving & Field Trials conducted in Victoria, a competitor MUST produce a current shooters licence at vetting, or they WILL NOT be permitted to compete at the trial.

TRIAL VENUES: Properties used for Trials are private properties and MUST NOT be revisited after the trial.
Entry to Trials is subject to this Condition.

NOTE: It is also a condition of entry that Competitors will assist with Stewarding on request.

CATERING: There will be NO CATERING at this trial.

[Sally Haynes]

~E & A SALCE PET SUPPLIES~

The Victorian Gundog Club is extremely pleased to welcome our new sponsor, E & A Salce Pet Supplies. This family owned and run company has been servicing Thornbury and surrounding areas for more than 49 years. They have a fantastic range of fresh meat, flea and worming products as well as other pet supplies that our members, who already use their products, can testify are great quality and extremely good value for money.

Please support our sponsor by visiting their store in High Street, or call them on 03 9484 3805, and mention the Victorian Gundog Club.

The generosity of our sponsor means that there will be an on site Portaloo at the July RT at no cost to competitors.

Special mention must go to VGC club member, Dianne Vapp, who organised this sponsorship. Thank you Dianne!!!

Picture1 by Sally Haynes, on Flickr

[Sally Haynes]

Don't forget! Entries close at midnight TONIGHT!!!

Enter online at www.easydog.com

Proudly sponsored by E & A Salce Pet Supplies, drop into their store for all your fresh pet meat supplies and do mention the VGC!

[Sally Haynes]

~BREAKFAST AVAILABLE~

VGC will be holding a cook your own BBQ bacon & egg sandwich breakfast next weekend for a gold coin donation. All you'll need is an appetite. And possibly an apron

[Sally Haynes]

~TRIAL SITE DIRECTIONS~

The trial site is on the Bridgewater Serpentine Rd just before the Loddon River. Travelling from Bridgewater it is on your right about 100meter before the bridge over the Loddon River. Approximately 5km from Serpentine.

[Sally Haynes]

~RESULTS~

SATURDAY 15TH JULY 2017

NOVICE (9 entries, 1 scratching)
JUDGE: Mr Andrew Yeomans

1st place BEEREEGAN MOUTIN ASH (Lab Dog) Mr T Palmer 161 points
2nd place WINTERSET ELECTRIC BLUE QND (GR Bitch) Ms M E Carty 151 points
3rd place ARANLANE SPRING MEADOW CCD RE QND NRA (GR Bitch) Mrs D Vapp 129 points
4th place BIRDELHUND GHILLIE (Lab Dog) Mr G J Horgan 127 points

RESTRICTED (12 entries, 1 scratching)
JUDGE: Mrs Kate Eltringham

1st place INKALINE PHOEBE RRD (GSP Bitch) Mr R Johnston & Mrs J Johnston 149 points
2nd place ADDERSLOT BEATRIX (AI) (Lab Bitch) Mr C Bodilly 139.5 points
3rd place ADDERSLOT YANKS WINK (AI) NRD (Lab Bitch) Mr D Furnell & Mrs V Furnell 131.5 points
4th place TIRNANOGE STANDING OVATION (Lab Dog) Mr R Tawton & Mrs P Tawton 131.5 points

ALL AGE (17 entries)
JUDGE: Mr Ron Cooper
1st place GR RT CH ACOLON PRINCE OF CYPHER (IMP UK) (Lab Dog) K Britton 159 points
2nd place ELLISHEA RIPS CHEVROLET (AI) (GR Dog) Mr Jim Hargreaves 157 points
3rd place RT. CH. CANDLEWOOD AUSSIE CONNECTION (IMP USA) (Lab Dog) Mr R Tawton & Mrs P Tawton 150 points
4th place ADDERSLOT GEORGIE ANNA (Lab Bitch) Mr T Stow 149 points


SUNDAY 16TH JULY 2017

NOVICE (10 entries, 1 scratching)
JUDGE: Mr Noel Eltringham

1st place WINTERSET ELECTRIC BLUE QND (GR Bitch) Ms M E Carty 141 points
2nd place BEEREEGAN MOUTIN ASH (Lab Dog) Mr T Palmer 129 points
3rd place KELLICK TAKE ME TO THE TOP (FCR Bitch) Mrs H. Eley & Mr P. Eley 127 points
4th place KELLICK HERE COMES THE SUN (AI) (FCR Bitch) Mrs H. Eley & Mr P. Eley 121 points

This was Marg’s 3rd win for Lexie’s NRD title! Congratulations Marg!!!

RESTRICTED (11 entries, 2 scratchings)
JUDGE: Mr Karl Britton

1st place ADDERSLOT YANKS WINK (AI) NRD (Lab Bitch) Mr D Furnell & Mrs V Furnell 157 points
2nd place INKALINE PHOEBE RRD (GSP Bitch) Mr R Johnston & Mrs J Johnston 152 points
3rd place ADDERSLOT BEATRIX (AI) (Lab Bitch) Mr C Bodilly 135 points
4th place BELBUN TARAZ MISS (GR Bitch) Mr T Stevens 122.5 points

ALL AGE (13 entries, 1 scratching)
JUDGE: Mr Robert Tawton

1st place NAT. RT. CH. ADDERSLOT CARBO (Lab Dog) Mr G Playdon & Ms A Malinin 159 points
2nd place ELLISHEA RIPS CHEVROLET (AI) (GR Dog) Mr Jim Hargreaves 155 points
3rd place RT CH ADDERSLOT RUBY (AI) (Lab Bitch) Dr A & Mrs J Cramond (Handler: K Andrews) 144 points
4th place ADDERSLOT DIGGER (AI) (Lab Dog) Mr G Playdon & Ms A Malinin 143 points

[Sally Haynes]

A great weekend had by all from what I saw! See photos at our FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/Victorian-Gund ... page_panel

On Saturday we had some visitors to the trial - Mr Jeff Bourman MP (Shooters & Fishers Party) and Dr Tim Adams (CE Dogs Victoria) - thank you to everyone who made them feel so welcome. We even had Jeff, Tim and his wife, Karen (they have a Toller!) sitting with us on throwers in All Age so they could get a bird's eye view (pardon the pun!) of the dog work. They were absolutely blown away and plan to come again. There will be some coverage in the press with any luck - I'll let you know!

See Jeff's FB page for his comments: https://www.facebook.com/Jeffrey-Bourma ... bbbDOsqlSs

In the business of being a politician you get to meet a lot of different people doing different things.

On Saturday I had the pleasure to view retrieving dog trials held by the Victorian Gun Dog Club. Although I have been a shooter for many years, I've never used a dog and I had no idea what to expect.

The level of training for the dogs is astonishing. Even the dogs that 'failed' were beyond anything I expected and obeyed every command whilst clearly loving it. The owners clearly loved their dogs and were so proud of them.

I will definitely go back to watch more trials!

Great to see a variety of breeds entered and interesting to see the bitches vs dogs ratio...

Saturday: 21 Labs, 8 Goldens, 3 GSP, 2 ESS & 1 HWV, 22 bitches and 13 dogs.
Sunday: 16 Labs, 9 Goldens, 3 GSP, 2 FCR & 1 HWV, 21 bitches and 10 dogs.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the gold coin donation BBQ breakfast - it really made it worthwhile putting it on.

So many people made this trial a success...

Judges - Andrew, Kate, Ron, Noel, Karl and Bob
Gareth Tawton (game, equipment, portaloo, gazebo, BBQ, trial site, property owner gift)
Karl Britton (guns)
Diane Vapp (sponsorship, vetting, paperwork, presentations)
Lyn Wise (catalogue, vetting)
Elsa Hoggard (photographer)
Prue Winkfield (game)
Bob Tawton (transported game, trophies and paperwork)
Rachel Greaves (club secretary)
Mary Conheady (club treasurer)
Leanne Tormey (sashes)
Kate Eltringham (transporting the sashes)
Marg Carty (picking up lunches)
Dodo Kelly (VCA Rep)
Greg Playdon and Dean Furnell (assisting judges with runs)

And all the competitors who jumped on a thrower or the gun, kept the campfire roaring and turned bacon and eggs on the BBQ. And I just loved that ALL Novice competitors waited for All Age to finish and for presentations on Sunday. Thank you!

Apologies if I have missed anyone - it's not intentional!!!