2009 Championship Plans are coming together.

Well the start date is a little over 7 months away but things are coming together. Judges for this years renewal will be Doug Meyer of Tonganoxie, Kansas and Jim Michaletz of Goodman, MO. Doug will also be reporting this years championship.

The trial will start on Sept 5th, 2009 and will again be run over the game filled grounds near Kensal, ND. We are having a tough winter here in ND but I am seeing lots of sharptails, huns and pheasants.

The Wolf Den Bar and Vining Oil Company have signed on as sponsors for this years trial. There will be 100.00 day money awarded to the top performer each day of the trial.

Day 3

We started out the morning at a cool 38 degrees but it was perfectly clear with just a slight breeze. A real nice morning to run bird dogs. Due to a couple of dogs being scratched due to injury and a couple of early pick ups we were able run 7 braces today and finished the trial today.

At the end of the day the judges named

Champion: My Mustang Sally Doug Ray

Runner Up Four River Commander.

I will have more Pictures later.

Day 2

Well we had a another pretty good day with birds in most bracee, we did have 2 more dogs finish the hour with clean bird work.
Hot Topic Kinkelaar and Mesaba Iron Don Dack both had good birdwork and nice races. However at the end of the day the same two dogs are on the leaderboard.

Day 2 morning

This morning it was 42 degrees and clear when we cast off. Had a couple of abbreviated braces and were back to camp early. We did have birds pointed in two of the three braces in the A.M.

Time to go to town for some dinner then back at it this afternoon.

Day 1

I would say day one was a success. We had absolutely perfect weather. We did move birds in every brace and finished the day with 5 dogs finishing the hour with clean bird work, when all was said and done we had work on pheasant, sharptails and huns. I will get some picture up later today, by interent was down last night or I would have had them up earlier.

We did have a change in the running order due to two scratches. In the 4th brace Offlee Amazin was scratched due to an bad foot I believe and Ridge Creek Jake had already been scatched in the 16th brace so Four River Commander was moved up and ran in the 4 brace.

Here were the 5 dogs that finished the hour with birdwork. In the order they ran.

Eye Candy SF Dean Lord

Four River Commander PM Shawn Kinkelaar

Hardup Road Jesse PF Doug Ray

Blackhawk Wiley PM Dean Lord

My Mustang Sally PF Doug Ray

The dogs that the judges are carrying at the end of day one, in the order they ran are.

Four River Commander 2 finds and unproductive.

My Mustang Sally 1 find and 1 unproductive.

1st Morning

Well its almost time. Everyone is here and made it safe. Its 5:15 am, 44 degree with 91% humidity, partly cloudy with no wind but I am sure there will be a breeze when the sun comes up. We are planning on getting going at 7:00 am. Good luck to all. Iwill fill you in later on what happens today.

Bill

Derby Running Order

Here is the running order for the Derby Stake. These handlers only gave me call names but here they are.

1. Pearl PF Kinkelaar

Rebel PM Doug Ray

2. Lucky RSF Williams

Zane SM Ray

3. Kate PF Williams

Hawthorne ??? PM Tande

4. Cash PM Kinkelaar

Pyro PM Tande

5. Judy PF Williams

Anna SF Ray

6. Pride SM Ray

Rose PF Williams