Amateur Shooting Dog

The Amateur Shooting Dog course consisted of several spring fed lakes with finger draws, with plenty of grass cover. The judges, Mary and Tim Hidalgo, saw a lot of quality dogs and several excellent finds were recorded for Mark Wassermann’s CCK"s Sin City G Spot. It seemed as tho birds were produced with style on every big move. Wildfires Eye Candy handled by Mike Martin showed a lot of speed and recorded a nice find that earned her runner up.

The shooting dog and derby stakes were run under very challenging conditions as well with very low
humidity, winds from 20-40 mph and temperatures topping the 70 degree mark making for very tough
scenting.

Open Shooting Dog

Our Shooting dog Champion.  CCK's Sin City G Spot continued to show her strengths winning her third
NGSPA championship this spring.  With a strong forward race searching the objective without
direction and producing five finds; two of which were true "dug up finds" well out on a limb where
she was found standing showing great style and intensity.

The RU "Face"( WFK FACEMAN) put down a very strong race and great over all application.
According to judges Joe and Frank Vicari, it was a very close call between this pair with the
difference being Kate's superior bird work.

DERBY Classic

The derby ran Wednesday Afternoon showed us five fine young dogs each showing championship potential
for the future.

Our first place dog "Jetta" (Keg Creek Rollin Jetta) owned by Chris Bryant, handled by the Bryant
Brothers (Keith and Bruce) showed a strong and convincing shooting dog race.  She was constantly
forward with a wide sweeping searching pattern showing strong desire and good sense in her ability to
locate proper cover to seek birds.  She went bird less but showed strong potential with great speed
and style.

Our second place dog "Coupe" (Keg Creek Duece Coupe)  Owned and handled
by the Bryant's as well ran a very similar race at times making nice big moves but was not as
consistent as Jetta.

Our third place Derby, "Flash" (WildRose Dixieland's Rising) owned and handled by Charles Rose ran a
very strong shooting dog race but had trouble identifying the proper objectives.  Flash had one
very nice quail find.

Special thanks to all who gave much of themselves, in time and effort for putting the Rocky Mountain
CH on this year.

Ft. Chair- Mike Martin
Sec/Treas- Keith Bryant

The balance of the trial committee:
Patty Martin, also now everyone's favorite Aunt and a fantastic hostess.  Patty made sure that from
daylight to dark there was always a hot meal, hot coffee or cold drinks available for all the
participants and crew and did so quite graciously.

Cam Detlefsen- All around organizer kept the dog wagon running and made sure everyone was to the
line on time.

Myself, Charles Rose who somehow got shanghai'd into being the official scribe!  I must say that
this was my first ever visit to the RMCH and was quite impressed with everyone involved.  Like most
of our NGSPA championship stakes there was a lot to do and a very small trial committee and
everyone, participants included jumped in to do whatever was needed, whenever we needed help in
getting things done.

Special Thanks to our host Leroy Mosher, Bobbie and Keith Richardson, Sierra Trading Post for there much continued support of the RMCH.

We would also like to thank Ken Chenoweth and PRO PAK DOG FOOD for their generous donation of dog food.