Welcome to the Alaska Working Retriever Club!
TRAINING, EDUCATION, FIELD TRIALS, and HUNT TESTS
for the working retriever since 1987
Attention: First Field Trial is a month and a half away. Get your entries in!
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Dear Fellow Retriever Enthusiasts,
The Spring is upon us and the retriever trialing season is about to begin. I am looking forward to the first field trial of the season on June 1-3, 2012 at Point MacKenzie. Your board has been busy working with the Retriever Club of Alaska’s Board to get ready for an exciting summer of brilliant dog work. Entry Express is currently open for this trial and the deadline will sneak up on you so get your entries in.
Raffle tickets for the Pheasant Hunt at the R & R Lodge in Seneca, South Dakota are now on sale.
Contact any board member to purchase a ticket. We are only printing 125 tickets and each ticket is priced at a $100. Value of the trip exceeds $7000 and it is for two people for 5 days of hunting with full accommodations. The winner calls the lodge to arrange dates of convenience. The lodge is not dictating the hunt dates. This is our main fund raiser so please help keep the AWRC vibrant and take a chance on a great trip. The drawing for this raffle will be during the August double header hunt test at Pt. Mackenzie.
We are winding down our training classes and I believe that the dozen or so new handlers and dogs have found it to be educational. Thanks to the instructors, Joanne Hanscom, Steve McVeigh, David Rouseveare, Eloy Garcia, Jay Schmidt for your effort and generous sharing of knowledge. I hope to see some of these new handlers/members at our events this summer. Please welcome them to the sport. I expect a few of these new dog/handler teams to join in the hunt tests and start getting their “feet wet” figuratively and literally.
Speaking of getting your feet wet, let’s get out to the picnic trials starting on May 12th at Leroy Havens Fields in Wasilla. The picnic event will be hosted by the Midnight Sun Gun Dog Association but both the RCA and the AWRC will be represented. The event will include the use of pigeons and ducks and will only cost $10 to enter. This will include a barbeque feed. Bring a side dish if you please.
The Midnight Sun will be hosting a NAHRA National event in June of 2014. This will be the first National ever run in Alaska and the AWRC wants to lend it support to our fellow club in any way possible. You can qualify for running this National event if your dog passes five senior level events in the next couple years. More information on this opportunity will be provided at the picnic event or visit the Midnight Sun Gun Dog Association’s web site.
Finally, our AKC Hunt test will be run August 17-19 as a double header (two Masters, two Seniors and two Juniors) at Point MacKenzie. The hunt tests are designed to simulate hunting situations and we are emphasizing this year the social nature of these events. We will have some organized fun events following the field test and want everyone to turn out for a fun time. This year in keeping with this commitment to have a good time we will be having a tail gate party following the Saturday tests so get ready.
Sincerely,
Mike Black
President
