Sun 10 Jul 2022, Finmere

Levels 4 & 6: Judges - L4 Mary Allen & L6 Keith Clowes

Finmere Village Hall, Water Stratford Road, Finmere, Bucks MK18 4AT

Start: L4- 9am, L6 – 1.30pm
Entry Fees: £29 per dog.
Contact: Heather Donnelly heather.donnelly6@btinternet.com

Trial Manager and Judges Reports

Keith Douglas Clowes

Judges report by Keith Clowes.
Level 6 competition at Finmere on the 10th July 2022.

Heather Donnelly trial manager kindly asked me to judge the level 6 trial.

For this trial I judged all 3 searches. There was some really excellent handling throughout the searches, although a few had problems with the heat.
Interior search. I put 5 scents around the room, 2 cloves, 2 gun & 1 truffle. The only scent that caused real problems was one that I had put in the patio door frame, although 3 did find it.
In the exterior search I used 3 scents, 1 cloves, 1 gun & 1 truffle. The weather for this search was getting truly hot and some of the dogs really began to feel the heat. This made it more difficult but they all but 1 found the 3 scents.
For the second interior search, I put out 4 scents, 1 cloves, 1 gun & 2 truffle. The handlers had to work hard and really needed to plan their search in a systematic way to complete in the 3 minutes allocated.
I would like to congratulate the following four who were placed:

1st Hazell Williamson with Cedar
2nd Vanessa Bonner with Lola

3rd Paula Davies with Bonnie Jazz
4th Lynda Stangle with Magic

Also congratulate those that qualified

I would also like to congratulate all the others that took part for being such a fantastic bunch. I would also like to thank all those who helped and in particular Yaz Whitehall my fantastic scribe.

Thank you to Heather Donnely for inviting me to judge level 4 thank you to Keith clowes and yaz for scribing for me .would like to congratulate Racheal Fox with Esme for 1st place ,Jane Martin with Frankie 2nd place Margaret Deuchar with time 3rd place and Lucy Beveridge 4th place well done also congratulations to the other quifiers you all did so well

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