by PennyAngel » Mon 04 Nov 2013 7:47 pm
I have run in Victoria, NSW and QLD trials and have no objection to being in the same order for the day as long as the judge has ensured the fall area has been sufficiently scented i.e. more than one bird has fallen there. There are certainly advantages to being dog number one if you have a young male who is very very interested in the opposite sex! Nothing worse than being say the 6th dog up in Novice and the previous 3 dogs have been bitches!!! I know it all comes back to training but unless you train with bitches the trial is the only way you can train the young male to ignore the scent....having said that the current NSW way of moving the dogs around does seem very fair, my only observation is that there always seem to be people who do not know when they are up and are not ready - which means you need a marshalling steward to remind everyone of the running order. It gets even more confusing when dogs are out and running non-competitive at the 'end' of each run.
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