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2022 National Amateur Retriever Championship Blog

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

5th Series Recap - Day 3

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 

5th Series – Land Quad with a Flyer, a Simulated Flyer and Two Retired

81 Dogs Started this Series

The single Test Dog started out the day today at 7:53 am. Test Dog "Maci" with handler Lee Herskowitz ran the test to show if there were any new conditions on this test for handlers this morning. After that we were off and running! First up was Dog #78 FC-AFC Mission Mountain's Home Cookin’, “Traeger,” LM, with handler Mark Neeley at 8:12 am.

Here is how things turned out on Day 3 …
No-Bird / Re-Run (4): 78 – 95 – 96 – 5 
Re-Run from a Previous Day (1): 21
Handles (9): 78 – 80 – 82 – 83 – 84 – 90 – 91 – 4 – 8 
Double Handles (3): 85 – 86 – 95
Pick-ups (2): 88 – 89
Scratches (0): 
Injuries (1): 73

Our last running dog for for this Series was dog #21 FC-AFC BD North Shore's Instant Rain Gear QA2, “Poncho,” LM, with handler Malcolm Haith. They came to the line at 1:32 pm – completed the test, and this series was final at 1:39 pm. 

All together, 81 dogs were sent from the line for test 5, taking a total of 17 hours and 56 minutes, which averages out to be about 13 minutes per dog.

The final stats for the entire 5th Series are:
10 – No-Birds / Re-Runs
24 – Handles
9 – Double Handles
12 – Pick-Ups
0 – Scratches
0 – Injuries

Test 5 is "in the books!" and we are moving on to the 6th Series now and awaiting callbacks ...