Sooner Retriever Club - Amateur (FYI)

I guess what I meant to say is we (the amatuers) spend 4 days putting on a 3 day trial plus the time spent before the trial. the pros show up with 10 -25 dogs each and are catered to all weekend on when they run and where each stake waiting on dogs from them. At the end of the day on sat. the am finishes last and was rushed the whole time finishing the trial. So while the judges are doing placements in the dark and the few that were in the last series along with the folks that volantered days to put the trial on the pros that get paid to run dogs are long gone and maybe already home. For the open to get the best land and water the most help 3 days and get priority is wrong. I have or have had all my dogs to date with a pro so I am not anti-pro. I just dont get why the rest of the stakes have to suffer for the open. Pro or non pro run dogs. If you enter a dog in the open and the AM and get called back to the land or water blind in the open and then are late for the am or tell the marshall that your dog just did the open land blind and you need to wait until the dog is rested than it is not fair to the other folks who dont and are running in order.