National Amateur Retriever Championship Blog


2023 National Amateur Retriever Championship Blog

Monday, June 19, 2023

3rd Series Recap

Sun. - Mon., June 18-19, 2023

3rd Series – Land and Water Triple with an Honor

104 Dogs Started this Series

Test Dogs started out the Series on Sunday at 6:37 am, beginning with "Buddy" and then "Milli" giving the competitors a look at what challenges the 3rd Series has in store! (Monday morning a single test dog ran to show if there were any conditions changed)

The first running dog for this test was #116. FC TOP GUN OAKLEY’S INZAYNITY, “Zayne,” with handler John Haight at 7:11 am Sunday morning.


The weather at the start of the series was in the low 50’s with light rain and then partly sunny skies for most of the remainder and only a light wind.

Here is how things turned out for the 3rd Series…
No-Bird / Re-Run (11): 20 – 32 – 48 – 50 – 58(x2) – 59 – 67 – 74 – 93 – 104 
Handles (37): 1 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 9 – 11 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 17 – 22 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 32 – 35 – 40 – 41 – 42 – 43 – 44
  48 – 51 – 53 – 59 – 60 – 66 – 67 – 72 – 90 – 93 – 94 – 103 –106 – 109
Double Handles (1): 23 
Pick-Ups (4): 61 – 104 – 107 – 109

Scratches (0): 

Our last running dog for this series was dog #
93 HARDCORE TROUBADOR, “Earl,” with handler John Russell. They completed the test and series 3 was in the books at 10:35 am.


There were 104 dogs were sent from the line in this series, taking a total of about 14 hours and 15, which averages out to be just over 8 minutes per dog. 

On to the 4th Series!

No comments:

Post a Comment