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2012 National Open Championship Day 2

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Day 2 of the Open National began at 8:14. The weather was very cold and breezy all day.

Brace 9 dogs backing and pointing
HiRollin Main Attraction and Rocking Kate with a divide find.
Brace 9 HiRollin Main Attraction with Bob Ecker and Rocking Kate with Jerry Raynor
Attraction and Kate hit the ground hard and covered the ground well. They shared a find at 34 then at 42 on suffered a lapse of manners and the temptation was to much for the other and both were up.
Brace 10 pointing and backing
Tony Bingham standing with Lumber River Buck who is backing Hirollin Main Contender.
Brace 10 Hirollin Main Contender with Warren Parrott and Lumber River Buck with Tony Bingham. At 14 Contender had a find with Buck backing. He went on to have two more finds at 19 and 28. His race was stylish but close. Buck was putting down a nice ground race, with finds at 22, 34 and at 51 had a lapse in manners.
Hirollin Main Contender
Hirollin Main Contender
A Tarheel Hytest Sue
A Tarheel Hytest Sue
Brace 11 A Tarheel Hytest Sue with Roger McGuire and Ruby with Jerry Raynor. Ruby was not pleasing her handler was up early. Sue scored finds at 28, 30 and 39 but was not putting down a championship performance and was up at 46.
Brace 12 Merritt Zachery with Garry Malzone and Iron Lady with John Stolgitis. Zachery scored a find at 13 with Iron Lady backing. Lady then scored at 28. Then at 33 both dogs suffered a lapse of manners ending the brace.
Brace 12
Merritt's Zachery on point and and Iron Lady backing.
Iron Lady
Iron Lady
Brace 13
Indian Creek Riptide on Point and Pecan Grove Amen backing.
Brace 13 Pecan Grove Amen with Robert Baker and Indian Creek Riptide with Garry Malzone. Riptide scored a find at 28 with Amen backing. At 41 Riptied suffered a lapse of judgement and was up. At 50 Amen was found standing after a flushing attempt he was relocated and he pushed the birds and awas up.
A Tarheel Sun Hawk
A Tarheel Sun Hawk on Back

Bob Baker and Pecan Grove Amen
Pecan Grove Amen and Bob Baker

Brace 14 Chasehill Little Bud with John Stolgitis and A Tarheel SunHawk with Roger McGuire. Both dogs were putting on a great performance on the ground with Bud having the extra distance and making some very eye appealing cast to the front. Bud scored stylish finds at 15 and 56. Hawk backed at 15 and Hawk was up at 39 when some birds lifted on their own leading to temptation.

Chasehill Little Bud
Brown Town Whynot Hank
Brown Town Whynot Hank
Brace 15 Brown Town Whynot Hank with Jerry Raynor and Indian Creek Shine with Garry Malzone.
Both dogs were covering the ground putting on a nice show for the judges. Shine scored a find at 16 and 38, backed at 28 and two divided finds with Hank at 20 and 41. Hank also had finds at 28 and 54 finishing his hour. Shine was up at 41 with a handler error.
Brace 15
Brown Town Wynot Hank on Point with Indian Creek Shine backing.
   
   

 

 

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