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Thursday, November 17, 2022

7th Series Recap

Thursday November 17, 2022

7th Series – Water Quad with Two Retired, One Flyer and One Simulated Flyer

32 Dogs Started this Series

Test Dogs: Test Dogs came to the line today bright and early at 6:42 am, beginning with "Gretta," and then "Steel" was up next to giving the teams a a good look at this large test and what they might expect.

Start: The Series officially kicked off with the first running dog #81 FC FC-AFC LAIRD’S CYNFUL SEASIDE GAMBLE, “Betty,” BLF, with handler Chris Parkinson at 8:03 am! 

Conditions: The weather today was cool with mostly clear skies, the morning temps were in the mid 20s and it warmed up a bit to the low 40's as the sun rose. There was not much wind for most of the day. 

Here is how things turned out for the 7th Series…
No-Bird / Re-Run (3): 1 – 14 – 45
Handles (13): 14 – 24 – 40 – 45 – 47 – 55 – 63 – 73 –76 – 79 – 81 – 93 – 99
Pick-Ups (4): 4 – 9 – 32 – 74
Scratches (0):

Finish: Our last running dog for Test 7, was dog #79 TIOGA APPLE IDOG QAA, “Ti,” BLM, with handler Ed Forry. They came to the line at 2:35 pm and the test was concluded at 2:46 pm

32 dogs were sent from the line Thursday for this test. The series took approximately 6 hours and 43 minutes in total, with the average running time to be about 12 minutes per dog. 

The 7th Series is Officially in the Books, Callbacks are coming this evening and will be posted on the blog. Test dogs will run at 6:30 am on Friday morning for the 8th Series!

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!

**TEST CONCLUDED**

Test 6 ended at 3:35 pm with snow coming down! Callbacks will come by tonight at 8:00 pm announced on the blog!

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

End of Day

The 5th Series – Day 1 ended today at 4:02 pm

It is 41 degrees and feels like 35. Wind is NW at 7 to 10mph with heavy gray clouds in the sky.

Tonight the temps are going down to around 28 degrees, so it will be another cold start in the dark for tomorrow!

Day 2 of the 5th Series will commence tomorrow morning, after Test Dogs are run at 6:15 am.

Have a great night! Hope you will all come to the Workers' Party!

It starts at 6:00 pm tonight at the Walker Hall Event Center – 229 Madison St., Paducah, KY


Sunday, November 13, 2022

Sunday End of Day

Series 3 End of Day – Sunday

4:16 pm and we are done for the day.

We started this series with dog #75 running this morning at 6:55 am. We got through Dog #51 today, which was a total of 72 dogs! The remaining 21 dog teams will run tomorrow (Monday) morning when we will be back to complete Test 3.

A test dog will run at 6:15 am before we have Dog #52 start the running order tomorrow to complete the 3rd Series.

Have a great night everyone – See you tomorrow!