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Amateur drawing should be tonight.

Good Luck To All Participants and Be Safe.

Number of dogs entered in each stake:

Amateur Shooting Dog: 40
All Age: 20
Futurity: 34
Open Shooting Dog: 48

This is the most that will run, but the actual number run will probably be a few less. Some may not be able to make it for some reason or another.

They will run 6 braces a day for the hour stakes, and 12 per day for futurity.

Best of Luck to ALL PARTICIPANTS!!

Would someone post the running orders please, the world wants to know.

Pepper

Some info passed on from Mike Patric at the trial:

They are using all 3 courses. Cover is good. The state has done some nice improvements. Good weather so far!

No update?

Plane ticket for one of the Shooting dog judges is for Sat. pm.

So things will be drawn out over the week.

They will finish and only run last brace of Amateur Tuesday am then take the rest of day off.

Start All Age Wed. am and finish on Thursday.

Run Futurity on Friday and Sat.

Start the Shooting dog on Sunday to conclusion.

This is what I heard. May be subject to change due to weather and such.

Looks like Hi N Feed Jake won the amateur. No word of the RU.

RU is Dress Blues- Mike Aldrich

Congrats to all!

ultracarry wrote:Looks like Hi N Feed Jake won the amateur. No word of the RU.

Congratulations Hank, I've got a nice pup out of Jake.

Congrats Hank on the win. I also have a young male pup out of Jake bred back to a litter mate of mine.

Congrats !!

Results for the NGSPA National Amateur Championship

Champion - Hi-N's Feed Jake - Owner: Hank Lewis
Runner-Up - Dress Blues - Owner/Handler: Mike Aldrich

Drawing for the Futurity and the Calcutta will be held this evening.

Futurity to start tomorrow at 8:00 AM

^ waiting for a running order in that one co own two that will be running...

So they are running the futurity then the AA as I thought someone mentioned above the other way around. How many days of each are they figuring?

My Bad. :roll: :roll:

I was writing and listening and got the running order of All Age and Futurity switched.

The Futurity is Wed.-Thur. and the All Age is Fri-Sat.

Sorry for the confusion on my part. :roll:

Weather is very nice. A little warm this past Saturday at 73 dF, but it cooled over the weekend so temps are in the 50's. A little rain in the forecast, but the grounds could probably use a little for a change, the gallery is putting up some dust. Grounds are quite dry for AR in the spring. Just about ideal dog weather and the trial is going very smoothly.

First thing in the morning ... Can't wait to hear. Jax and Tac.

I like that a couple of these derbies have Game of Thrones names. Kind of nerdy, but funny.

Heard from a owner of a Furturity dog that ran yesterday that his dog was 1 of 3 dogs that had bird work yesterday.
Not certain how many braces that were ran yesterday, but that is not much bird work.

For those that still have dogs to run, best of luck. Looks like there is still plenty of room at the top!

First day of the futurity running was cold with temps starting out in mid 40's but got colder during the day ending up windy and mid 30's by end of the final brace. The second day was down right cold but was sunny. All water troughs were frozen over with a couple of trailers had frozen lines. The temp. was at 16 degrees and the sun was out when the dogs broke away at 8 a.m. Great for some dogs not so great for judges and handlers.

Brooks,
How did Mike Patrick's pup do?

Congrats Matt and Tyler. Heard Jax placed 3rd in Futurity! Anyone have other placements?

remmy wrote:Congrats Matt and Tyler. Heard Jax placed 3rd in Futurity! Anyone have other placements?

Thanks! We're pretty happy about that one. Matt also owns the stud on Jax which makes it all that better. Dan is doing a great job with both the young guns.

ngspa futurity placements
1st MSR'S STORMS END owner/james@sara messer handler james messer
2nd hi points lightning bolt owner brian swag handler chris goegan
3rd dezasterous jax the ripper owner matt smith handler dan dimambro

NGSPA 2014 Futurity -
Winner-MSR's Storms End owner/handler James Messer and Sarah Messer
Ru-Hi-Points Lighting Bolt- owner Brian swag handler Chris Goegan
3rd-Disastrous Jax The Ripper owner Matt Smith handler Dan DiMambro

So far all the winners and runner ups have been on course 2.

Are they finding more birds there, then on the other two courses?

Jake won on course 3 scott

I always liked 2 the best it has better edges and flows better. 3 is the hard luck course and hard to win on. I am sure 1 still has the barking dog at the house.

Any word on all age?

Most of the Amateurs have left and only the pro's and each day fewer and fewer people to send out any info.

My pro is training and not paying attention...... I won't complain.

Last dogs on the ground. Should be back in camp in hr or so.

notice there are quite a few of Rabidous dogs in there, and just a query, Slicks Cuttin Wild, is that dog out of Rincon Slick Willy, Rincon Slick Runner ?

.........tasi

NGSPA National Championship Winners
Champion - MSR's Crystal Blue Persuasion Owner: James & Sara Messer Handler: James Messer
Runner-Up - Woodland Trails LL Cool J - Owner: Robert Reynolds DVM/Handler: Chris Goegan

tasi devil wrote:notice there are quite a few of Rabidous dogs in there, and just a query, Slicks Cuttin Wild, is that dog out of Rincon Slick Willy, Rincon Slick Runner ?

.........tasi

No, he is a slick bred dog. City Slicker etc.

Elkhunter wrote:

tasi devil wrote:notice there are quite a few of Rabidous dogs in there, and just a query, Slicks Cuttin Wild, is that dog out of Rincon Slick Willy, Rincon Slick Runner ?

.........tasi

No, he is a slick bred dog. City Slicker etc.

thank you sir

......tasi

Any news, did they start the shooting dog as I see the weather was pretty crappy there today and major ice storm tonight.

Running order from Hi-Tailyn

Running was suspended during the first 15 min. of the 5th brace due to lightning.

Running will resume in the morning with the 5th brace

It was a Icy mess today at Booneville. Called off entire day and plan on starting at 1:30 Tues with brace 5 on course 1.

I was out there (just to show how stupid we really were) yesterday with the afternoon braces. Thunder the whole time riding to start line. Thunder off and on during first brace. Started second brace and were out 10 min and started to see lightning. FC Eshods Uprising "Ryder" found to the front on point, and while flushing lightning hit somewhere very close. Made those of us right there crouch as low as possible on our horses. Ray Dohse told judge Heath that even if were going to win the NC it was not worth getting killed over. We picked up dog and put in dog wagon. We all snuck our way back to camp. About a hour latter a local Brittany guy told one of our guys that his horse was just struck by lightning and killed at his house not 1/2 mile from where we were on course 2.

While it rained all day, the dogs found 18 coveys in the 5 braces. There a couple good shows, but the rain definitely hampered the dogs and the viewing of their performances by judges and gallery.

Any updates?

They planted birds Tues. am after the 2 day delay from ice.
Didn't replant Tues. pm like they had for the rest of the trial.
Wed. dogs were either birdless or one find only. Heard skunk was out there spreading his love smell on course 2.
Have not heard how Thur went.
Birds with bad weather and lots of thick cover are hard to find sometimes.
There were some very good dogs to run Thur and Fri.

Should have a winner by lunch Today.

Mine was one of the ones that ran Wed and went bird less, on to the Great Plains next month.

2014 NGSPA Shooting Dog Champion- BDK'S OUTBAK CUTTER "Aussie"

Razor wrote:2014 NGSPA Shooting Dog Campion- BDK'S OUTBAK CUTTER "Aussie"

Who was runner-up?

Lonewolf' Hauchuca Jake Dean Crabbs

Wind Dancer Kennels wrote:Lonewolf' Hauchuca Jake Dean Crabbs

Good for Dean!

Big congrats, Dean!!!!

Congratulations to Keith and Robbi handling "Aussie" to her win, and owner Keith Richardson. Dean Crabbs with runner up placement with Jake. Could not have happened to better people.

Never should have started Open Shooting Dog that Sunday afternoon with it thundering the half hour before the afternoon braces started, then to be caught out on course 2 the farthest away from camp and haft to ride horses all the way back in the lightning.

There should be more common sense in charge. Not the run at all cost, even if you get struck by lightning. It was not fun ride back to camp.

A horse got killed not 1/2 mile from where we were on course 2. It could of easily been one of us as the horse.

There needs to be some guidelines set in place. Not just what the judge thinks. Even with the lightning strikes right on top of us, one of the judges wanted to continue like it was no big deal. Being tough is not the point.