 My
turn came in the sugarbeets,Windy made good ground, searched well
and covered much more field than the other two Weimaraners who
had their turn before her. The nice thing was our head judge,
Richterobmann, was the same judge we had on the bloodtrack. He
was familiar with the way Windy worked in the forest. And seeing
her do fieldwork, he told me he now understood why we had difficulties
with the tracking. At lunchtime, Tony Gorgl came to pick up the
points and asked this judge how things were going. Mr. Spannagl
answered, "Well it goes all right, we have two Weimaraners and
a pointer at work today".
During Windy's first run, she pointed a pheasant
and when it was flushed, the pheasant flew away quite low over
the field Windy with the pheasant. Windy's passion was just too
much so  she
chased it, but came back when I whistled her. At a championship
field trial in Holland and England, you might be disqualified
for such a chase. But fortunately, it only cost us points for
obedience on feather game(2 points) and we lost one point on obedience
in the field. The other dogs had their second run and then it
was our turn again. Windy already had her points for searching,
pointing and obedience on feathered game but as i pointed out,
in Austria you also are tested on obedience on hare.
We began to search for hare. We walked in the
sugarbeets with the wind in our back and the judges saw the hare
in thefield, about thirty meters in front of them. I walked with
windy along the edge of the field with her about 50 meters ahead.I
brought her back again so she could use the wind. On the spot
where the judges saw the hare, the hare was already gone, but
Windy made such a beautiful point.
Windy in the shed with the days catch. |
The judges saw there had been game moments befo
re and graded this point. We did not want to keep the other dogs
waiting too long, so we continued with the lost retrieve of the
pheasant with full score on searching and retrieve. Windy and
walked to the field for the tracking of the pheasant. Just when
we came close to this field, a hare jumped up and ran close to
the place where the judge wanted to drag the pheasant.
The judge advised me to walk away with Windy
and she might get the hare out of her mind. I told hem this would
not work because she has the memory of an elephant! One of the
judges dragged the pheasant and hid himself in the maize. She
picked the pheasant up and brought it to me. The result was four
points on the retrieve, but sadly only one point for the tracking.
Although the judge did tell me if she would
have followed the track of the pheasant, she could not have been
back any sooner with the pheasant than she was! We still had to
search for the hare. So, we continued on with the wind. Windy
again made two more beautiful points on pheasants, but no hare
in sight. After she search for about thirty minutes, she was getting
tired, but her passion made her go fast and wide. Right next to
us a hare jumped up and ran away. I shouted STAY and .........she
did!!! So. more points on obedience on the hare. This was the
final subject for our VGP and the result was a third prize with
364 points. |
