NEW UTD Cavalier King Charles Spaniel - King Austen UTD! Thunder Bay Tracking Test Day Two Urban Results
New UTD Austen with proud owner / handler Julie and judge JoAnne McLeod. Austen is the first UTD Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in Canada to my knowledge. Note his crown and robe - Julie says you never know when you may need formal wear! Good boy Austen! Yay for Julie! This is part two of a test report from Karen Boyes, Test Secretary for the Thunder Bay Kennel & Training Club. Karen is the proud mom of two TCh Aussies, Jasper and Penny. Jasper and Penny are the first two TCh Aussies in Canada and Karen is the first person to have two TCh passes in a row - both on her first try... (that is my editorial content because I am so proud of them)...
Here is Karen's report (complete with a few comments of my own in green)...
Many thanks to our TWO excellent judges: Dawn Sanderson (of Thunder Bay) for judging 6 TDs and 4 TDXs on Saturday; and JoAnne McLeod of Courtenay, BC, who judged 5 UTDs and 3 UTDX tracks on Sunday. Both spent many hours plotting ahead of time and gave us an excellent set of test tracks.
DAY TWO - URBAN
JoAnne will submit a more detailed write-up of the Urban tracks to the list when she gets home in a couple of days. Thanks, JoAnne! (I know she will do a better job that I can!)
For UTD entries we had three GSDs, a Cairn Terrier, and a Cavalier. For the UTDXs we had a GSD, a Belgian Tervuren, and a Golden Retriever. Despite some excellent work by many teams, we only had one pass for the day.
That was UTD Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: Winrob's SleepyHollow TDX UTD RN PCD CGN "AUSTEN", owned and handled by Julie Hutka.
Austen is such a happy little tracker and it was great to watch him diligently sort out his track - he was very focused. And his accomplishment is all the greater as the poor gaffer was (is) recovering from surgery on some parts we won't mention.. suffice to say we were calling him Baboon-Butt (make that Baboon Butt, UTD ….!!), but he ignored his troubles and did a great job!
To make up for the name-calling we have pics of him at the end of the day wearing a royal robe and a crown, as a King should. He also had to cope with Julie crying over the first article while he impatiently tried to continuewith the track !! We are so proud of Julie and Austen !! Donna, he did it !!!
JoAnne will submit a more detailed write-up of the Urban tracks to the list when she gets home in a couple of days. Thanks, JoAnne! (I know she will do a better job that I can!)
For UTD entries we had three GSDs, a Cairn Terrier, and a Cavalier. For the UTDXs we had a GSD, a Belgian Tervuren, and a Golden Retriever. Despite some excellent work by many teams, we only had one pass for the day.
That was UTD Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: Winrob's SleepyHollow TDX UTD RN PCD CGN "AUSTEN", owned and handled by Julie Hutka.
Austen is such a happy little tracker and it was great to watch him diligently sort out his track - he was very focused. And his accomplishment is all the greater as the poor gaffer was (is) recovering from surgery on some parts we won't mention.. suffice to say we were calling him Baboon-Butt (make that Baboon Butt, UTD ….!!), but he ignored his troubles and did a great job!
To make up for the name-calling we have pics of him at the end of the day wearing a royal robe and a crown, as a King should. He also had to cope with Julie crying over the first article while he impatiently tried to continuewith the track !! We are so proud of Julie and Austen !! Donna, he did it !!!
Editorial note: I have known Julie and Austen since they first came out to a beginner's class, and watched them go through TD and TDX. I have always felt Austen has the makings of a TCh! For his size and weight, he is a determined dog who pulls Julie along when he is sure he is correct, and very motivated too. I am so thrilled!
I also had a fantastic group of Tracklayers all show up promptly as assigned. Good help sure makes the test run nicely!! Thanks so much to Diana Crago, Carolyn Homonko, Sandy Wright, Michele Martin, RandyFrietag, Susan Takahashi and Bob McGonigal (Field T-L's and X-T's); and to Alda Flett, Katie Jaremey, Kathryn Loftus, Leeann MacIntosh, and Linda Hogan (Urban T-L's)... Many of these folks volunteer trial after trial and we could not have the test without them.
Finally thanks to Donna Brinkworth who (when she was in Thunder Bay) coached and encouraged many of us in tracking and tracklaying, and who also showed me how to run a trial !!
I also had a fantastic group of Tracklayers all show up promptly as assigned. Good help sure makes the test run nicely!! Thanks so much to Diana Crago, Carolyn Homonko, Sandy Wright, Michele Martin, RandyFrietag, Susan Takahashi and Bob McGonigal (Field T-L's and X-T's); and to Alda Flett, Katie Jaremey, Kathryn Loftus, Leeann MacIntosh, and Linda Hogan (Urban T-L's)... Many of these folks volunteer trial after trial and we could not have the test without them.
Finally thanks to Donna Brinkworth who (when she was in Thunder Bay) coached and encouraged many of us in tracking and tracklaying, and who also showed me how to run a trial !!
My note - thank you for the nice compliment - but as I say to all my students - I can show you something or tell you something, but YOU are the one who does the work! Congratulations to everyone. I know Karen has taken test organization to a new level, it is her forte!
Karen Boyes, Thunder Bay (Test Secretary)
Karen Boyes, Thunder Bay (Test Secretary)
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