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Cocker Activities => Working => Topic started by: Nicola on March 16, 2011, 10:37:38 PM
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The write-up from the trial Caoimhe won has been put on the Gundog Society website, I'm really pleased with it.
She is 'Simon Tyers' hard-hunting bitch' by the way :lol2:
Novice Cocker Spaniel Stake
at Orsett, Essex
Wednesday 5th January 2011
Judges: Mr T. Baker and Mr S. Parker
The card looked liked the Championships with all the top handlers
coming to Essex for this Trial.
Mark Polley and his team had again prepared the ground well with
the dogs finding so much game you could have thought it was the
first month of the season, not the last! The guns took a little
longer to find their form which gave Robin Laud’s bitch six contact
flushes before his retrieve. The standard was exceptional with ten
awards in this sixteen dog stake.
Woodcock dropping in the plough dropped a number of top dogs
down the order. A top contender, Mallowdale Music, went out
after failing to make the fall on a woodcock shot out of bramble.
Simon Tyers hard hunting bitch hunted the stick piles with a
vengeance before a nice find on a cock shot out on the plough
putting him into a run off with Robin Laud. Robin and Simon took
their bitches into the laid cover crop and it was a difficult decision
to split them but Simon came out on top.
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:clapping: well done!!! You must be so proud!! :luv:
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Well done Caoimhe :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:, she is doing you proud Nicola ;)
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Excellent critique Nic you must be proud of her. :luv:
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What I understand is very impressive. Congratulations.
Have you been training her, or does Simon do all of that?
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Orsett is not far from us.
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I know you're already very proud of your special girl but must be the icing on the cake to see it in writing
congratualtions Nic - what a great team you all are ;) :bigarmhug:
....'hard hunting bitch' indeed :005: :luv:
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Well done all :clapping:
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Brilliant! :D
Strange question, but was Simon at Crufts doing a demonstation? I saw a 'Simon' doing a demo in the main ring with a black lab and from the photos i've seen of him he looked quite similar! I'm probably way out though :005:
Well done :D
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awwww weevil, you're such a good clever girl :luv: :luv: :luv:
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Well done! :clapping: :clapping:
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Have you been training her, or does Simon do all of that?
A bit of both really, I started training her when I got her at 5.5 months old and got all the basics done and then she went to Simon when she was 9-10 months for 6 weeks for him to assess her properly and to start being shot over (having live game shot for her). She then came back to me for about 3 months and I kept working on her hunting and retrieving and then she went back to Simon's for another month for more game work around March time last year. Back to me again in April until the beginning of August and I worked on her all that time refining and sharpening her up on everything and then she went back to Simon for some really intensive game work and he put the polish on her for trialling. She stayed with him until the week after her win in January and she's back with me now and I've decreased her fitness a lot to give her a break and am just keeping her ticking over training-wise; she'll go back to Simon in July to get ready for running in Open trials next season.
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Fab news :luv: Congratulations :luv:
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You wouldn't think a 'hard hunting bitch' could be so naturally beautiful :005: Huge congrats to all of you, her win sounds very well deserved :luv: :luv: :luv:
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Hmmm, not sure I would be too delighted to be described as a "hard hunting bitch" ph34r :005:
She is doing fantastically though - no wonder you are so proud of her. :D
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Hmmm, not sure I would be too delighted to be described as a "hard hunting bitch" ph34r :005:
I know, strange that that's about the highest compliment she could get :lol2: Not bad for a wee Slasher eh?! :005:
Thanks everyone, I really am more proud of her than I can say, she's an absolute joy :luv:
Strange question, but was Simon at Crufts doing a demonstation? I saw a 'Simon' doing a demo in the main ring with a black lab and from the photos i've seen of him he looked quite similar! I'm probably way out though :005:
No that wasn't him, if it had been the dog would have been a black Cocker!
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Well Done what a great write up. You must be very proud.
Sorry but i'm going to ask a silly question, why does someone else work her, is he her trainer and do you ever enter trials with her?
Also, when the trials are on can anyone go and watch or is it closed to the public. I only live two miles from Orsett and would love to
go and watch
Angie x
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Sorry but i'm going to ask a silly question, why does someone else work her, is he her trainer and do you ever enter trials with her?
Also, when the trials are on can anyone go and watch or is it closed to the public. I only live two miles from Orsett and would love to
go and watch
Simon is her trialling trainer/handler, I don't run her in trials myself - I hope to do it in time, probably with other dogs in the future, but right now I couldn't do justice to as good a dog as Caoimhe. I can train her but actually trialling her is a different matter, most triallers are full-time professionals. Simon won the Cocker Championships with Caoimhe's father in 2007 (and her half-uncle in 2008) and she's very much of his 'type' of dogs, he understands her inside out and just gets the best out of her, as I think he does with all his dogs.
Spectators are welcome at a lot of trials, you would have to contact the secretary of the club/society in question beforehand to check. You have to do a lot of walking over rough ground and may not see much though, they cover a lot of ground and spectators obviously have to stay behind the line so as not to disturb the game or distract the dogs.
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Well done Caiomhe. You are a little star!
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Only just seen this sorry. Fab right up Nicola. You must be really really proud of your gorgeous girl and rightly so. I hope to meet her one day. I've met your other two, but would be lovely to meet her maybe at a meet in the future. I'm sure my Tally would love her. :shades: :005:
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Well done Caiomhe. :clapping:
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Thanks Nicola. That clears up my confusion. You must be really pleased to have had an input by training her as well.
It sounds like it takes a lot of effort, patience and time to get a dog to this level so congratulations to you and Caoimhe.
Angie x
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That's absolutely fantastic - what a star she is :luv: :luv:
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i missed this :o
No wonder your so proud its a fab write up of a fab little dog :luv: :luv:
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What a clever little girl she is :luv:
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Well done "Keeva!" Nic you must be so proud.
Lxx
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Congratulations are true working cocker.
Eve
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Go girl :banana: :banana:
Well done to all...
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Congratulations, well done both of you, would love to see her in action.