Anybody heard how the chessies are doing?? I have looked at the HRC website no call back list given as of this am.

The call backs are in, I saw where Mr. Newport has one that made the first seris

HRCH BOJANGLES WATER OAK EXPRESS MH

Good luck in the next..

My Grand ended way to soon for Cuda, he slid behind a gun in the first series and would not handle back to the bird, so I picked him up. I lost another dog on the same series, both she and Cuda did not see the long bird. A handle to the area is a definate no no. The one dog that saw the long mark did an outstanding set of marks and a two whistle blind. Unfortunatly for him and I in the second series he did not see the middle bird on a very difficult water test and I picked him up as well. My two clients did well for there first time at the line at a national event. One going out in the thrid series witha poor decision on his part on the blind. He trusted his dog and did not handle on the end of a difficult blind and lost him after almost lineing it. The other went four series before being dropped for cast refusals on the blind.

This is the first Grand I have ran since 1998 in Rend Lake Ill. The club that put on the event did a good job the tests were challenging and do able. It was unfortunate that I happend to run at a time when visibility on a key mark was low.

Waiting was the hardes part of the entire week, the first dog ran Sat. morning about 8:30 and I did not run a dog until almost 6p.m. My clients ran before lunch and did well on the first test, on the next series I did not run until Monday afternoon until around 3.p.m. Waiting for 24 hours between tests is telling on both the handler and the dogs. Still not sure if I will run another one, HRC is a great organization just not really sure if it is for me.

Marty