Start date 4/10

Mike Coutu - Open/AM with Ripley #52
Am - with Loppy

Jeff Shaw - AM with Tess

Mike Mooscowitz - Qual with Larry

Marstin Jones - Derby with Thor
Jane Papler - Derby with Wren

A CBR in every stake! Yahoooooooooo!!

Let's make sure we cheer for these guys and gals!

Thank you Malcolm.

Also Mike Coutu has Chester in open and amat.

Good luck to all. As Kent said, lets kick some booty.

Mike - Larry is Due!!!!
Stay composed and beleive you have the best dog out there!

I will look for updates!

Good Luck,

Malcolm

Jane Papler - RJ in the Derby with Wren !
Nice Job Jane!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Jane and Wren!

Three cheers for Jane and Wren!!

Well we made it to the last series but...Tess really did a great job untill than. a really hard setup with winds blowing 50 miles a hour. Imagine a cranberry bog with white caps!The first 6 dogs didn't do it. Tess was the first to run. We'll try again this weekend. She is entered in the Open and the Am.

Congratulations Jane and John. Wren seems to play to the end most times she runs.

Joyce,the bogs are always fun in rough weather. Remember the hurricane Amateur: a 75 yd bird boy pop up blind because the judges couldn't see any further.
See you Saturday.

Tim

Joyce - Tess is such a beautiful dog!
Keep plugging away!!!

Good luck this weekend

Congratulations to Jane and Wren...continued success!

Norene S.
Nordom Chesapeakes

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Let's make sure we cheer for these guys and gals![/QUOTE]

Hey, guys and gals this is fantastic news. We used to have a few Chessies competing sucessfully in the UK but to my mind they seem to have lost the fire in their belly to do well in competition. Great hunting dogs, but they seem to get bored with drills and discipline. Wonder what we might have lost since our first dogs 20 years ago? Any ideas?

Want to motivate? Try racing your dogs.

About once every week or so I race my 2 dogs on 3-400 yd land school blinds. I usually give the older one a 50 yd head start. They know the game and they fly out and back tuanting each other along the way.

Tim

Lisa agree entirely with you that Chessies can't take excessive drilling on obedience. English competition today is all about keeping a dog in a really, really tiny area and constantly stopping them and directing. Sometimes wonder why we need a dog with all the whistling and hand directions that goes on. Certainly the work i expect my dogs to do in competition bears almost no resemblance to the work we do in the hunting season. Guess i'm lucky to have dogs that will do both. coming over to Maine in September and will get a chance to see what these great dogs of ours can do on their home turf

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Tim thanks for that. Both my competition dogs are very steady and so a good blast once in a while will do them no harm. Everything I am doing with them is about putting in some remote control without losing their natural flare. I wouldn't swap one of my Chessies for 10 black you know whats out hunting, but Chessies get turned off by the mind numbing competition work if I don't keep finding ways of keeping it fun

Lisa, tell me more. Sometimes my boy runs fantastic lines and other times he is all over. Just come back from UK Chessie Working Tests and being part of the Chessie Team in an inter breed event. Generally the standard is just dire. Winning a run off because my dog was the only one who didn't pee on the way back is nothing to celebrate. Almost all the dogs lack any speed or style, although a few show some verve on occassion. I do quite well because my guy is just easy going and consistent. Ok, there aren't many Chessies over here and even fewer people who are competitive but without doubt the dogs we have do not have the quality they had in competition 25 years ago. We need heaps more speed and heaps more style.... HELP...