Spring 2010 Season - too busy

Well spring for trying to get out with dogs went down hill and ended up rough this year at our place. Unbelievably we were only able to get out in the woods twice this spring, unreal! Very little time to get to training and get dogs worked and I think here we only entered 4 trials total. Unfortunately there was just no time to get to the things that should be more important. Some things are just out of your control. But the good thing is there are plenty of Lacey’s pups out there and pups out of Duke, Mickey and others that at least make it fun to follow what everyone is doing. Actually it is getting to the point where it is too hard to follow everyone and what they are doing but here are some of the placements from this spring. Sorry if we missed some. Quite a few were wins of particular note due to level of competition, prestige of the trial/club, or what have you. The nicest part is it shows the dogs winning in all sectors of walking and cover dog venues from Massachusetts to Minnesota, on wild birds as well as liberated quail, and a majority of the wins are coming with amateur owners/handlers doing much of the work (no slight on a pro, just shows trainability of the dogs). Congrats to everyone!

MA - 1st Peacedale Duke (Chip’s Torquato ex Keystone’s Red Ryder), New England Setter Club 1 hour Shooting Dog stake, 1st Peacedale Duke Amateur SD Stake on Cape Cod Mass.
RI – 3rd Chip’s Charlie Brown (Chip’s Torquato ex Keystone’s Red Ryder repeat litter), North East Woodcock CH – Joel Collier derby stake on planted quail
RI – 1st – Peacedale Duke, 2nd – Chestnut Hill Jake (Keystone’s Red Rage ex Iron Maiden), 3rd – Peacedale Blackjack (Peacedale Duke ex Babe Keene Valley), Peacedale Club Independent Field Trial OSD
RI – Multiple placements in Derby and Puppy stake for Duke’s puppies such as Chestnut Hill Suzie, Peacedale Club Spring Trials
PA – 3rd – Chip’s Charlie Brown, Black Ash Amateur Derby
PA – 1st – Straight Forward (Keystone’s Red Rage ex Full Tilt), Venango Puppy Classic
PA – 1st – Stony Fork Fargo (Keystone’s Red Rage ex Elektra), 1 hour National Derby Classic with nice ground effort and a finished grouse find. Chip’s Charlie Brown honorable mention from the judges for his ground effort.
PA – 2nd Straight Forward, West Branch Open Puppy
PA – 1st – Keystone’s Red Rapture (Long Gone George ex Keystone’s Red Ryder), 3rd – Keystone’s Black Berry (Long Gone George ex Keystone’s Red Ryder), Lancaster Co. Bird Dog Club Amt Puppy
PA – 1st – Straight Forward, PA Amt club Amt Puppy
PA – 2nd – The Mercenary (Keystone’s Red Rage ex Elektra), PA Amt club Amt Derby
MN – 1st Northern Lights Meissa (Chip’s Torquato ex Keystone’s Red Ryder repeat litter) – MN club Open Derby with a broke woodcock find
MN – 1st Keystone’s Red Recession (Chip’s Torquato ex Keystone’s Red Ryder repeat litter) – MGDA club Open Derby with a nice ground effort and grouse contact