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Friday, November 18, 2022

8th Series Recap

Friday, November 18, 2022

8th Series – Water Blind

23 Dogs Started this Series

Test Dogs: Test Dogs came to the line today at 6:35 am, beginning with "Steel," and then "Gretta" was up next to give the teams a look at this water blind and what would be expected of them.

Start: The Series officially kicked off with the first running dog #14 FC ROBBER’S MS MUDDY PAWS, “Rain,” BLF, with handler Rob Erhardt at 7:07 am. 

Conditions: The weather this morning was crisp and cool with mostly cloudy skies and temps were in the mid 30s. The sun rising didn't warm it up much. There was a NW wind at about 8-10 mph. 

Finish: Our last running dog for Test 8, was dog #13 FC VIEWMARK’S GENE GENE THE SHOOTIN’ MACHINE, “Colt,”  BLM, with handler Danny Farmer. They came to the line at 9:42 am and the test was concluded at 9:48 am

23 dogs were sent from the line Friday for this test. The series took approximately 2 hours and 41 minutes in total, with the average running time to be about 7 minutes per dog. 

The 8th Series is Officially in the Books! Callbacks will be coming up shortly!