This year’s National Amateur will be held in Mondovi, Wisconsin from June 16 - June 22. The National Amateur Retriever Club and Retriever News are pleased to bring this blog to you each day. Some reporting will take place before the event begins as we will arrive a few days early a to attend meetings, etc. The Retriever News will again provide up to the minute coverage through www.TheRetrieverNews.com Here is the link to the blog: http://2013narcblog.theretrievernews.com/
This year’s Team will consist of Tina Styan, Tera Lanczak and Gwen Jones. We encourage the followers of the blog, both at the event and online around the country to participate by adding their own comments to the posts and sending us materials or suggestions of what they would like to see. Photos and suggestions can be sent directly to TStyan@TheRetrieverNews.com
A couple of additional comments…the rolling terrain of the test sites may impact the speed at which we post the blog online. We have set some plans in motion to alleviate that as much as possible, but we would ask that you bear with us, knowing these logistics are sometimes out of out control. We expect more followers than ever to be on location and the internet usage of smart phones and tablets also affects our upload speed. This year, 2013 NARC Gear will only be available online, so if you want to check out the NARC store, it is at www.RetrieverOutfitter.com
Please know that your volunteer reporters work to bring you bird-by-bird reports. We have specific directives to report only the trial logistics, the weather and the very general issues involving performance where it is non-judgmental. In no instance will the reporters be critical of any dog or handler performance. We support the judges as only they hold "the book" as they assess the cumulative work of each dog -- so please do not expect to hear gallery talk or specific analysis relating to performance.
Thank you and enjoy the coverage of the 2013 National Amateur Retriever Championship.
Great pics - looks like a beautiful place - loved the lineup of trucks- pretty intimidating to think that's just a pre-national training group!! Thanks for the reports and thanks to Lainee as always for her summary!
Congratulations to Arnie Erwin on being selected as the 2014 NARC President
Next year's National Amateur will be held in Roseburg Oregon, a beautiful venue
the judges will be Steve O'Connell (Eastern Time Zone ) Dennis Bath (Central ) and John Pampy (Mountain)..Congratulations gentlemen on your assignment
looks like there will be a change in The RAC (Retriever Advisory Committee) with the retirements of Nelson Sills, Robert Kennon Jr, and Bill Daley...Thank you gentlemen for all that you have given to the retriever game for the last couple of decades
the criteria for how RAC members are selected are as follows
1. They should be a 40+ point judge
2. They should have 20+ years of Field Trial Experience
3. They must have titled a dog
4. They must currently be an active handler
They will also initiate term limits of eight years..
Thank you for the compliment. We r trying hard to be expeditious & accurate PLEASE POST COMMENTS ON THE BLOG So we can fix mistakes &answer questions quicker!!!
He has 6 and yes it is probably a record, no AT&T cell service anywhere near the grounds, Verizon people have good service, a very nice opening test which they should finish today with 121 dogs.
We used a spray that smelled like lemon pledge for pre national setup week, and it worked really good. My buddy bought it in S. Georgia over the winter.
the blog is great but it doesn't appear to be in 'real time' - can someone fill us in on why the delay?? I understand technical difficulties but with all the internet savvy folk out there -how can it become more real time as it has in the past??
Just a double;-). Most of those that handled were in the first 50 or so dogs. Seems that after the sun came up and around (according to reports) that short retired became more doable. But it sure was giving the early dogs the business.
One dog handled on both birds.
Quite a few had big hunts.
Sounds like the end of the blind was no walk in the park either.
I think this may be the first time that the double with a blind first has been done in a National. Usually this test is done in big weekend trials. I guess it works for big Nationals too.
Tim, I think every Nat'l Am I have ever been to has started with a double and a blind. Generally a long flyer go bird and shorter retired... Blind is second series but run at same time. It pretty much a standard National Am first series.
The BLOG isn't up to date, I'm guessing they're having technical difficulties. However, the callbacks list shows a number of pick-ups in a row after about 25 dogs had run. Wondering if the wind changed or the judges decided they weren't going to accept something like a dog that broke down in the area of flyer and had to be handled back to the long retired or something else. Anybody have any idea what is happening?
The BLOG isn't up to date, I'm guessing they're having technical difficulties. However, the callbacks list shows a number of pick-ups in a row after about 25 dogs had run. Wondering if the wind changed or the judges decided they weren't going to accept something like a dog that broke down in the area of flyer and had to be handled back to the long retired or something else. Anybody have any idea what is happening?
Well its been done now, along with series 3&4, dont know if that particular sequence has ever happened in the first four series of the National....either way I expect to see some similar type tests coming to your local field trial this summer and fall
The test is a monster. Very well placed long bird. You could easily run this double by itself and get tons of answers. This test has chewed up some very good dogs and spit them out.
When they set this up last week, there were people saying that this was the first time interrupted marks would be run at a national. Not saying it's correct, but that's what the talk was.
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