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With the sole aim of attempting to involve our Spaniel members in
more of our established events such as the Area Working Test
Finals, the Utility Gundog Society decided to run a trial Working
Test where spaniels were involved, during the summer of 2010.

The spaniel handlers who took part were specifically asked to assist
the Society in this way and as Chairman of the Society I am
extremely grateful to them.

Following this event a variety of messages were fed back to the
General Committee about the success or otherwise of the scheme.
Some concern was expressed that the timing of the Area Working
Test Finals, often in mid to late summer, was not a good time for
the spaniels themselves.

In order to move this debate forward I have been asked to place
this notice on the Society website with a view to soliciting more
views from both Spaniel members and Retriever members as to the
viability of such an event.

The General Committee would seek to make a final decision in
relation to this issue at our meeting in April.

May I thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and responding.

Graham Searle
Chairman, UGS Parent Body

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEND ME YOUR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS

Stake 1 – 16 Dog Open Qualifying Springer Spaniel Stake
at The Ampton Shoot, Suffolk
Thursday 24th November 2011
Judges: Mr R. Laud (A2050) and Mr W. Grieg (B2985)

Entries Close and Draw: Thursday 10th November 2011

Stake 2 – 16 Dog Open Qualifying Cocker Spaniel Stake
at The Brockett Park Shoot, Hertfordshire
Thursday 8th December 2011
Judges: Mr P. Rawlings (A2002) and Mr F. Geraghty (B3061)

Entries Close and Draw: Thursday 24th November 2011

Stake 3 – 16 Dog Novice Cocker Spaniel Stake
at The Orsett Shoot, Essex
Monday 2nd January 2012
Judges: Mrs W. Knight (A1984) and Mr A. Price (NP)

Entries Close and Draw: Thursday 15th December 2011

Stake 4 – 16 Dog Novice A/V Spaniel Stake
at Brook Farm Cuffley, Hertfordshire
Wednesday 25th January 2012
Judges: Mr R. Chapple (A2531) and Mr S. Parker (NP2866)

Entries Close and Draw: Wednesday 11th January 2012

CLICK FOR SPANIEL TRIAL RESULTS 2010/11

Entry fee for all Spaniel Trials
£25.00 members, £35.00 non members

All draws will be at Spaniel Secretary’s house at 7.30pm
and all members are welcome
Directions for all Trials will be sent out with the draw

If you would like to enter any of these Spaniel Trials please
complete the downloadable Entry Form and send it to:
Steve Parker
10 Silversea Drive, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 9XE

If anyone is interested in helping at any of the Trials
or has any queries please contact Steve
tel 07814537360 or 01702 471547
e-mail parker10@talktalk.net

Each of the UGS Branches hold regular Training Classes and also
Special Training Days – visit their ‘home page’ for more details
Eastern Counties (EC), Herts, Beds and Bucks (HBB), Kent and
East Sussex (K&ES) and Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire
(S,WS&H).

Two Day Open Qualifying Stake
for AV Retriever – 24 dogs
Friday 28th and Saturday 29th October 2011
CLICK FOR REPORT AND RESULT

Chatsworth Country Fair
‘Team Gundog Working Test for AV Retrievers’
Sat 3rd and Sun 4th September 2010

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Annual Bursary to be awarded to Young Handlers

The Kent and East Sussex Branch of the Utility Gundog Society
has raised funds to award an annual Bursary to young handlers,
who show the potential to go further in the sport. The award will be
decided by the judges at the ‘Fun Day’ and will take into account
handling ability, empathy with dogs and general demeanour.

The Bursary will consist of three half day training sessions with a
well known gundog trainer and the opportunity to spend a day,
under instruction, with their dog, on a shoot.

The trainer, Gilly Nickols, is based in East Sussex, with 350 acres
of woodland, lakes and valleys on which she trains her dogs. She
has made up two Field Trial Champions, Tasco Rouble of Bedgebrook
and Bedgebrook Excalibur. She teaches and Judges both in the UK
and Europe, is a Kennel Club ‘B’ Panel Judge and judges both Field
Trials and Working Tests.

Gilly is passionate about training her dogs and helping other people
to train theirs. She is keen to encourage young handlers and
believes that a good grounding in dog training and the etiquette of
the shooting and trialling worlds is essential to produce good all
round handlers. She is a very friendly approachable trainer, always
wanting the dog and the handler to succeed; she is aware of all the pitfalls and will break down any problematic tasks to enable the
best result – www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk

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