Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A beautiful day for running dogs. Over cast and very breezy which did make it a little tough.

Roading:

· Mariah, Erin, Brie & Annie - trying to taper down a bit as the crew is starting to drag.

Meadows:

· ROBIN & LEA – Robin was more forward than the last time with fewer times behind the horse. No birds but a couple of nice independent casts. Went through Sidell loop finished coming around pond back to camp. Lea ran a decent race. Coming out of Sidell loop heading toward meadow she ducked into heavy cover and popped a bird but did a clean stop to flush. Finished forward - 30 minutes.

· SHAUNA & LILY – Shauna started out big in the meadow and entered the Sidell loop. Shauna pointed the Johnny Box, Stan whistled her through it and she continued forward through the loop. She came around to point the second Johnny Box tooted through that and she came up and got birdy at midway from the Sidell gate. Headed south into meadow and Shauna stuck a bird and waited for Lily to come in for back. Lily circled Shauna, stole point and put up bird. Shauna then moved with Lily and both dogs were corrected. Sent Shauna on and she hit covey of birds at north end of pond. Birds came up all around her and she decided to exit the situation. Stan got off and put her back. She then did a stop to flush on one remaining bird and finished forward. Lily had a nice race and went on to have a nice find in the shelter belt. Plenty of style. Ken needed to relocate her and she handled the situation well with style. Finished forward. 33 minutes

· INDE & SORREL – Inde made a big move at beginning to first island then made another big move towards the shelter belt with the bird house. Dave went to the shelter belt, climbed fence only to see that Johnny did not ground tie so Ed and Ron got the horse and sent Inde on out of shelter belt. She went all the way back to the first line and went into Sidell loop with us. She stayed with us until the second bird house at Sidell loop where she ditched us towards Richardson’s property. We went on and left her. Saw her on the next brace but still she would not come with us. Ed finally had to go back out on ATV two hours later to collect her. Sorrel was not on his game today. Was behind more than front. Sorrel went to market and went OINK OINK OINK all the way home. Painful 30 minutes with all riders needing Advil for neck pain on return.

· GALT & RIO – Both dogs big. Galt took the fence line heading toward Sidell’s house. Rio keyed off of Galt and headed towards Sidell’s house but then took the hill to the top. Both dogs really moving big and powerful. Sent Vickie to top of hill and Galt saw the horse and headed back toward Sidell’s loop with Stan but at this point remainder of riders (Ed, Dave, Ron) were in various locations looking for dogs and Galt was not sure which rider he should be keying off of. Stan eventually let Galt know he was the handler and he hunted with Stan through south meadow to the pond but no birds. Finished strong to front with lots of power. Rio made the big move at the beginning but that was the only bright spot of his part of the brace as he was then spotted playing relentlessly with a skunk….. Circled it, picked it up, rolled on it Vickie was able to lasso him with the checkcord and pull him off the skunk. Jackson was the smart animal in this brace or well trained by the boss as he wanted no part of the skunk. Finally got him back to Ed and sent him on with only a couple contacts with Galt but then hunted front back into camp. 40 minutes.

The rest of the day was mainly clean up and some chores. Linda and Annie went to town and shopped. Bob G. rolled into town late in the afternoon.