[August 2-4, 2002]   Empire Retriever Club, Fort Pitt, NY
Qual

3rd
Westwind's Colonial Rimfire   (DC AFC Gambler's Dilwyn-Stacked Deck MH x Westwind's Mackenzie Goldrush) O-Michael & Johanna Coutu; H-Dave Mosher
LB's First Q!
Reported by the Coutu's

PB

Nice job LB! How'd the other CBRs do? Belle went out in the Qual on the water blind.

I watched LB run the first series of the Q handled by Dave Mosher. LB was one of the few that did it cleanly. It was a very tuff test. Flier on the right, first memory bird on the left, second memory bird up the middle with retired gunner. The dog had to run by the gunners for the first memory who were very close to the line for the retired memory bird. LB pushed through the suction of the first memory bird to the retired gun some what off line to the right but corrected himself used his nose and picked up the bird. LB is a very promising young dog, exciting to watch his future looks very bright! This was a very difficult Qual as half of the dogs that went to the second series had to be handled. I was told by one of the judges that all of the dogs that placed had at least one handle. I did not have a chance to watch the rest of the Qual but many people commented that they had run Amatures that had less meat in them. A big congrats to Mike and Dave Moser, great job and a big future ahead for LB.
Warren Price
President ER