NORDAIS DOUBLE CROSS won a 20-dog Qual at South Jersey RC. "Cole" is owned by Dawn and Eric Nikolas; superbly handled by Eric. Cole is another, in a long list, of quality working dogs bred by Mario Beauregard of Nordais Kennels!
Congratulations also go to RUF SEA'S ANGUS-"GUS"-QUAL 2ND, handled by our own Kenny Erikson; described by Kenny(the trial chairman) as a "brown dog in black suit", owned by his lovely wife, Joy.
The tests were very demanding and well-thoughtout. Nice job Mike Coutu and Bob Larsen! Cole and Gus were two of three dogs, out of ten, that did the water marks without handling!
Rebel Ridge Total Eclipse, owned by Steve Brenner, handled by Ed Forry won the Open, judged by Dr. Greg MaGee and Don Pape. The Derby was won by Miss Teal owned by Dick Ronalta, handled by Mark Moser; Bob and Mike also, judged the Derby.
The Amateur was still running; the 1st and 2nd series were outstanding! Judges were Bruce Ahlers and Steve Zilli. Go "G-Man"!
May the "Brown Dogs" collect MANY, MANY more BLUES this year! ! ! IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO WITNESS A PEAKE WINNING THE BLUE AND WHIPPING THE BLACK DOGS(sorry Kenny)
Posts: 116 | Location: Spring City PA | Registered: Mon June 09 2003
Way to go Eric!! Great job!! Does this mean Eric will be setting up all the tests in training now? I wish I could have been there to see you win. I hope you make the right decision, and come to Colonial on April 30th. If you don’t, you will miss a lot of fun.
That's the way to start the season on the NE coast!! Hope he does bring that ribbon taking dawg to Colonial. Freighter gets off Ricky's truck on the 28th. That gives me 2 days till the trial. Hopefully we can be in sync in 2 days. Hope the boss wasn't kidding when he said I'd be able to run this one. Hope to see the team there.
Ron
Ron
Posts: 58 | Location: Upstate NY, USA | Registered: Tue April 30 2002
Great job Eric!!!!! sorry I couldn't be there to witness the greatness, but had to work on the public relation skills over Easter. Yes Bruce this post is from my HOME computer, so no need for the search party. I was only nervous one time this weekend, when her dad should me his collection of rifles and said 'I'm a pretty good shot with this one'. OK Eric now we need to keep Cole goin'. Now it's time for a judging assignment!!!!
Posts: 32 | Location: Lancaster, PA, USA | Registered: Mon June 09 2003
Mario -- How many dogs have done something out of this litter? Decks, Tiger and uncle Canvass on one side and Rudy and uncle Blaze on the other! Looks like it's in the family!
Hey Geoff, Maybe now we should take it a little easy on Eric since he is showing that he might be worth something...........sorry I lost it for a second GREAT JOB COLE!!!!! keep your handler in check good luck next week maybe you can teach Eric a little more.......jeff ault
Congratulations Eric!!! To answer your question, Billy,so far in this litter we have 2 qualified all-age dogs, Hummer and Cole, 2 Master Hunters, Douce and Rebel, one with qualifying CMs, Femme and one with a JH,Gunny. This was a linebred litter that really clicked!
thanks to Mario for a GREAT Breeding. Thanks to Bruce for all your information and patience. Thanks to Teamchesapeake, and everyones encouragement. Regards, Eric Nikolaus
