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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

6th Series Recap

Wednesday November 16, 2022

6th Series – Land Blind

41 Dogs Started this Series

Test Dogs: Test Dogs started out the 6th Series at 1:18 pm, beginning with "Steel," and then "Gretta," giving the competitors a quick overview of what to expect in this Land Blind series.

Start: The Series officially kicked off with the first running dog #70 FC-AFC DOCTOR CABERNET JUST IN CASE, “Doc,” BLM, with handler Al Arthur at 1:37 pm this afternoon.

Conditions: The weather this afternoon became mostly cloudy with temps hovering around 40. Some light snow moved in as the series wrapped up!

Finish: Our last running dog for the day and for the 6th Series was dog #64 FC SEASIDE’S LL COOL J, JR, “Cool J,” BLM, with handler Craig Crook. They came to the line at 3:32 pm and the test was concluded at 3:35 pm. 

41 dogs were sent from the line today in this series, taking approximately 1 hour and 58 minutes in total, with the average running time to be just under 3 minutes per dog. It was another fast moving series!

The 6th Series is officially in the books! Callbacks will be coming this evening, posted on the blog and in the callbacks online.
We will be on to the 7th Series tomorrow morning, Good Nite Folks!