Western Vizsla Classic - Part one

Janet and I just returned from our trip to Utah - it was a long, yet quick trip. We left at 7 p.m Thursday night after working all day and drove the 715 miles to Fairfield Utah arriving Friday around 3 p.m. We hung out with old friends Jim & Pat Searles, Tim Heydorf and Karen Bravender (Pearl's owners) and made 2 new friends Friday night of Tom & Cindy Pescod of Sonoita, AZ.

I soooo want a rig like Tom & Cindy's! Yes, it's big, but it's also soooo comfortable! We had our own potluck dinner and dessert in Tom & Cindy's trailer. There was 8 of us all comfortably seated like we were in the living room of a comfortable house! A big shift from our makeshift horse trailer quarters where one turns in place and getting dressed is a ballet! Thanks so much to the Pescod's for their hospitality and great company!

I'll post more and put some photo's up on the trip and it's adventures in the next day or so.

Hank - my heartbreak boy

Hank is my Buddy. He climbs in my lap most every night for a nap and wiggles everywhere when we see each other. He's the sweetest guy ever. He's also a real handful in the field...

You see Hank can RUN and he has BIRD on his mind when we're out running a trial. Though he's gotten much much better at handling, he still thinks there's times when he knows best where the birds are - and he's right! The problem is that the course and judges want to go on a different direction at some point, and that's where Hank can have a problem.

He's had some really great runs, always to front, good finds, high style and tearing up the course - and has in my mind won a bonafide first at least three times. Yet, he keeps getting second, whether it be a judge's buddy's dog, a pro handler that also runs the trial, or just "flipping a coin", second place - it's getting old... especially when you're braced with the dog that was put up first and it's out of gas 5 minutes before time is called...

But then, that's the heartache for all field trialers at some point in time! All we can do is go home, train more and keep running. Eventually all those knocks on the door, it's gonna be our turn. And it will be all the sweeter when it is!

Pacific Vizsla Futurity - Scarlet

Whew!

Janet and I, along with several good Vizsla friends managed to pull it off! We ran our first Pacific Vizsla Futurity!

One of our litter, Scarlet - Willowynd's Scarlet Letter pulled a third Runner up in a field of 17 of some extremely competitive Vizslas on a tough course in tough conditions!

If only we could've gotten a really good photo... but it was late and dark - Thanks to our buddy Rod for the photo!

Nice win! Way to go Scarlet!!!

Now we get to work on next year's running.