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I had in advance prepared a report mail from the
annual Swedish "The Birddog Match", but by accident I sent the mail before
Maud had come home to report.....
The match is a competition between the British
breeds of birddogs and the German versatile (GSP, GWP and the Brittany spaniel
that in Sweden for some reason is found in the German versatile breed club)
. Each team has one dog from each stake, that is one from Junior stake, one from
Open stake and one from Winners stake. Briz was the Open stake dog for the
British breeds.
The British breeds won totally on much better field
work, much better game finding ability and much better bird handling. Briz had
the best points of all dogs for excellent field work, game finding and bird
handling including retrieving of a wingshot running game
(pheasant).
The German Versatile won by far the artificial
retrieving test on cold game but the coefficient for that part was too low to
help them in the total points.
So what does it proof? Not much. Other years the
German dogs have won so I guess it is more a question of the composition of the
teams than a scientific proof that the British dogs are better.
Nice for Maud and Briz anyway.
Torsti
"Merciful God the Almighty!
Deprive me my
common sense
so that I can at least to some extent
accomplish my
commitments as a
citizen of the European Union!."
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Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:30
PM
Subject: [working-gundog] This is
Courage
Torsti
"Merciful God the Almighty!
Deprive me my common sense
so
that I can at least to some extent
accomplish my commitments as a
citizen of the European Union!."
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