Central MN Retriever club Informal trial

[Todd Caswell]

The third Informal trial of the winter will be held on Feb 19th. 2012 at our grounds in St Cloud Minnesota off of Hwy 10 and Golden Spike Road. Same place as our Field Trials and Hunt Test.

Sign up begins at 8:00 am and the trial begins at 9:00 am.

Open (with multiple marks and blinds)

Qualifying (which involves up to a triple with blinds)

Derby (which is for dogs under the age of 2)

Hunters (which has singles or double marks and maybe a blind)

Puppy (which is for dogs under the age of 1).

Lunch is served in the club house. We ask handlers to step forward and help throw birds. The success of the Informals comes from everyone pitching in and helping out.

Entry fees are $15 for the Open and Qualifying, $12 for the Derby and Hunter, and $10 for the Puppy stake. Trophies and Rosettes will be awarded

Future Informal Dates:

February 19th

March 18th

April 15th

[Todd Caswell]

Weatherman says Sunday is going to be a winner, come and check it out and run your dog......

[Bdog]

Approx. how many dogs in each stake? Assuming use pigeons? Hope to have a dog ready for your March trial.

[Todd Caswell]

May not be exact numbers from Sunday but very close I think there were 93 entries total. When the weather is like it was on Sunday these numbers are pretty normal, March and april trials should have good numbers as well. Which stake are you going to be running?? Pigions for the puppy's, ducks for the other stakes..

Puppy 10

Hunter 26

Derby 18

Qual 20

Open 19

[Bdog]

Young dog, Derby and Hunters. Hunters required to be steady? Fresh or frozen ducks?

Thanks!

[Todd Caswell]

Hunter dog can be lightly restrained, Derby dog has to be steady, ducks are from this summers trials, frozen but thawed the day befor. Hope to see you there.I drive a white f150 with a dark topper, if you make it look me up..

Todd

[Bdog]

Will do. I will be with a "brown dog".

[Todd Caswell]

Just a reminder, trial will be this sunday...

[Todd Caswell]

Will do. I will be with a "brown dog".

Well did you enjoy yourself?? Did you run te derby as well as the hunter?? Nice meeting you and hope to see you again.

Todd

[Bdog]

Had a good time. Nice meeting you and other trialers. Lots of helpful info. Ran derby, broke! Sure did clarify things to work on. Will be back in April!

[Todd Caswell]

Had a good time. Nice meeting you and other trialers. Lots of helpful info. Ran derby, broke! Sure did clarify things to work on. Will be back in April!

Glad you had a good time, How old is your dog? I didn't see you run the derby but from what I could tell in the hunter, your dog appears to have had mostly hand thrown marks ( dog hunted short on both birds at around the distance you can throw a mark ) so could use more gunner thrown marks, to stretch him out a bit. You had mentioned the steadying process and how it's tough because you like to see them run hard, trust me they can be steady and run just as hard. See you in April..

[Bdog]

She is 17 months. You hit it right on the head, not enough long marks. Have stretched her out on bare ground, not as much in cover. Going to back her up on force break a few days also.