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Friday, November 18, 2022

9th Series Recap

Friday, November 18, 2022

9th Series – Land Triple with a Flyer, Two Retired and an Honor

14 Dogs Started this Series

Test Dogs: Test Dogs came to the line this afternoon at 11:25 am, beginning with "Gretta," and then "Steel" was up next to give the teams a good look at this Land Triple.

Start: The Series officially kicked off with the first running dog #49 FC-AFC BAYOU TECHE PAINT THE BLACK, “Madduxx,” BLM, with handler Craig Crook at 11:49 am.

Conditions: The weather this afternoon was cool with mostly cloudy skies, temps remained in the 30's throughout the test and the wind was coming out of the NW at 10 mph.

Here is how things turned out for the 9th Series…
No-Bird / Re-Run (3): 15 – 46 – 73
Handles (0): 
Pick-Ups (0): 
Scratches (0):

Finish: Our last running dog for Test 9, was dog #46 FC TUCQUAN’S TAKIN’ THE RYSK, “Rysk,” BLM, with handler Hunter Street. They came back to the line for a rerun at 2:01 pm and the test was concluded at 2:07 pm

14 dogs were sent from the line this afternoon for this test. The series took approximately 2 hours and 18 minutes in total, with the average running time to be about 8 minutes per dog. 

And that is it! The 9th Series is Officially in the Books!