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Wild. I know one of the judges who judged last year. According to him they judged it as more of an AA stake. Can't say since I wasn't there, but that's what I was told. I also know that later in the trial they were picking dogs up at 30 that weren't beating the dogs already on the board. Because they lost a couple days because os weather they had no choice. When did that dog run? Actually, I just looked it up. Looks like that dog ran after the judges made the decision that unless a dog was beating what they already had, they would be picked up. I doubt it was because the dog ran too big knowing one of the judges.
Wild.. Is that dog a GD or AA dog? On the database sight it looks like it only has 1 AA placement, and the rest are GD placements. If the dog you are talking about did hit 3/4 of a mile, then it was hitting 1000+ yards. Ive never seen a dog open up that fast from being a gun dog. Ive seen GD's hit 750+ yards in the prairies, but only because they went the wrong way and didn't go with. Otherwise GD's are usually 300 yard or less dogs. It looks like it was running GD just a few months before the AKC Nationals. What I was told is that the judges judged the stake as a shooting dog stake, not uncommon for AKC 1 hour GD trials. IMO shooting dogs are a lot closer to AA dogs then they are GD's. Im not too worried about her having another shot at it. This was probably the only time she will run in the AKC GD Nationals. For the most part, she was done running GD trials last fall. The one GD trial we entered her in this spring was an hour GD trial, and it was the first trial she ran this spring. She was picked up at 45 when the judges asked the handler why she wasn't running AA. She threw the biggest cast I saw at Ames before she slowed because of her injury. We came over a small hill in an open field just after the breakaway and she was already taking the far side at easily 500+ yards from the trainer. According to the trainer, she has been running a lot bigger then that where the terrain allows. It will be interesting to see how big she gets as she ages and gains more and more confidence. She still isn't 4 years old yet.
JetI'll second what WACenturian said. Thank you for all the updates on the Championship. You posting the running of the braces from the scribes was great. I know a lot of the dogs and people who were there.Once again Thanks