Some of the Usual Suspects...

I loaded up the trailer and headed to the Northern Flight Hunting Retrievers Association 2009 Fall Hunting Test in St. Croix, MN. All 5 of our master dogs passed, including Casey on of our recent up and comers to Master! 36 teams started in our flight with approx 6 scratches. Rumor had it that one team scratched out because he said he wouldn't run under the judges because they were to hard! Anyway the judges passed 11dogs and and 5 of them were from our truck! It was a tough test, but the Stellar dogs hung in there like good Texans do!

We had nice results in the Double Senior event. Party owned by Mary Tatum, racked up 2 passes towards the Senior Hunter title. Congrats to Party and Mary Tatum!

Forest, owned by Lee and Deb Telling, passeed only one senior test. It would have been another double, but after doing very nice work in his test, Forrest broke on the Honor. Forrest and I will be working on controlling that drive in upcoming weeks! Congratulations to Lee and Deb on Forrest's pass.

In the Double Junior, Sway, an Idgie pup owned by Doug Bishop, scored  2 passes for her Junior title! Hurray for Sway and congratulations to Doug! Emmy scored to 2 passes-Congratualtions to Fernando Somoza. Emmy just needs one more pass for herJR title. Louise, another Idgie pup, passed both Junior tests! Way to go Louise!

To some it up, I ran 11 dogs in 17 tests for 14 passes. Not a bad weekend for Stellar Retrievers!

To rub it in it is a warm day of 75 here on the Upper Penninsula. I don't know if we're ever coming back LOL.

Cheers!
-Jack-