Sunday 21st May 2006 Hammercliffe Cottage Farm, Leicestershire
Judges: Mrs Dorothy Walls-Duffyn; John Khalow; Mick Newsam and Sean McGrath.
Chief Stewards: Chris Warner and Michael Hirst
There were four Tests comprising of two exercises to each Test.
| A long double mark, shots fired, on rising land with dummies thrown but landing in grass, out of sight. The second dummy thrown was picked first | Picking Up" exercise in woodland in to ferns, bracken and thorn bushes.4 dummies placed. No shots fired. Two out of four dummies to be retrieved. |
| Two shots fired and a dummy thrown the other side of
a stone wall into long grass but before this retrieve was taken a blind had to be picked down the field into a ditch on the edge of a wood. |
Water Test. A shot was fired and a dummy thrown in to the water, landing out of sight of the dog. However, another dummy had already been placed on the bank. The dummy that had been thrown in to lilies and rushes had to be picked first. Once the dog was sent the competitor was allowed to move sideways in order to see the dummy and the dog. Numerous dogs winded the dummy on the bank and picked it first thus causing several failures. |
Sunday, 21st May 2006 was atrocious weather and rained virtually non stop
all day. A local farmer had to come and bring several bales of straw to
put down in the gateway of the car park field. Lots of cars were towed
out throughout the afternoon. Our field looked like a battle had taken
place!!
On the good side, however, we had 71 entries which we consider to be excellent because of the inclement weather.
| A good time was had by all as competitors and spectators congregated around the "Chef's Mobile Kitchen"!! There was quite a "family atmosphere" and seats and benches around the Mobile Kitchen. We were very fortunate with our choice of Judges, Stewards and, most of all, lots of helpers. |  |
The Raffle, once again, was a great success and Sean McGrath's young daughter did a sterling job in cajoling money our of everyone!!
1st BRAIDENVALE PIONEER - Mr. S. Richardson
2nd LOWSOMMER LOTTERY GIRL - Mr. G. Lowe
3rd CORSEMALZIE DRIFTER - Mr. P. Wintersgill
4th STAZJEP PELE - Mr. A. Parnell
1st Res LOWCOMMER WISP OF CIRUS - Mr. G. Lowe
2nd Res CASTLEMANS FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - Ms. S. Crossland
3rd Res KELLY - Mr. Nathan Atkinson
4th Res BAILEY - Ms. Sally Plant