I loaded up the truck on Saturday morning and headed over to Palestine, Texas. We had tweleve stakes entered and the boys and girls cleaned up at the Rose Country Retriever Club Hunt Test. Of the tweleve entries, Stellar Retrievers brought home eleven passes with the only disappointing result coming from Blackie in a Master test due to a double handle in the first series. The judges threw a well placed quad that proved to be a tough test for everyone!

First off, Congratulation's to Fernando Somoza and his yellow lab Emmy! On Saturday, she secured her fourth Junior pass to title as a AKC Junior Hunter.

Other great news and congratulations go out to:

Stellar's Southern Exposer (Louise) completed her Junior Hunter title on Saturday and then ran and passed her first Senior test on Sunday.

Doug Bishop's- Sway JH, for running and passing her 1st Senior Hunt test.

Nancy Meyer's Stella passed her 2nd Senior test after being back with me for just a month after a 1year break!

Steve Hoppas's chocolate speed demon Cody, for his 1st Senior pass.

Bob Owen's Casey SH, 2nd pass in Master, as both of the master tests he has run, have been difficult.

Forest passed his 1st Senior as well with his owner, Lee Telling as the handler. Rumor has it that Lee was so nervous that he had to change hsi shorts after the first series!

Congrat's to the Master dogs that passed their tests:
Ray -Lee and Bill Hanes
Sky- Robert (Bob)/Molly Rascoe
Idgie -Tim Mahady.

Heading to Montgomery, Texas this weekend to run Junior and Senior stakes. Updates to come!

-Jack_