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2018 National Open Championship Cambridge, Maryland • December 10, 2018 To Conclusion 2017 National Open Championship Winner NFC FC Sunrise Seneca Kypling Breeder: Sue and Dave Morse • Owner: Sue and Dave Morse • Handler: Gary Wilson Holiday Inn Express 2715 Ocean Gateway, Cambridge, MD 21613 Radios Antennas Shoulder Mics Service Chargers Batteries Belt Clips Misc. Parts 2 Welcome and good luck... to all participants in the 2018 National Open Mike Wallace, President Dan Lussen, Field Trial Chairman 3 December 10, 2018 To Conclusion • Cambridge, Maryland Headquarters: Holiday Inn Express Cambridge, MD Schedule 9 Training 9:00 a.m. December Delegates Meeting • Hotel 4:00 p.m. Purina Welcome Party 6:00 p.m. 10 Trial Begins 8:00 a.m. December Cocktail Party 6:00 p.m. Banquet 7:00 p.m. 11 Trial Continues 8:00 a.m. December IC Cocktail Party 6:30 p.m. Dinner on your own 12 Trial Continues 8:00 a.m. December Dinner on your own 13 Trial Continues 8:00 a.m. December Dinner on your own 14 Trial Continues 8:00 a.m. December If Necessary Awards presented at the Headquarters Hotel at the conclusion of the trial. This trial held under the rules of the American Kennel Club 4 2018 National Open Championship Team NATIONAL ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL FIELD TRIAL ASSOCIATION Club Officers Mike Wallace, President • 11069 N. Frederick Pike, Cross Junction, VA 22625 Don Bramwell, Vice President • 12826 SW 77 Ave., Zenda, KS 67159 Gary Riddle, Second Vice President • 6128 W. 10150 N., Highland, UT 84003 Mhari Peschel, Secretary/Treasurer • 10220 WCR 1, Longmont, CO 80504 Field Trial Committee Mike Wallace, President Dan Lussen, Field Trial Chairman Billy Akkouris, Ralph Botti, Jeff Brooks, John Bruggeman, Jim Keller, Paul McGagh, Mhari Peschel, Gary Wilson 2018 National Judges Casey Butz, P.O. Box 2513, Stony Plain, AB, Canada T7Z1X9 Mark Haglin, 14752 Three Mile Rd., Brainerd, MN 56401 Field Marshals Bird Supplier Advertising Deb Olszewski, Head Blue Ribbon Game Farm Sue Myers Marshal Game Steward Catalog Suzanne Smith Alex Cacchio Mhari Peschel Christy Joy Sue Myers Jayne Reinhart Bird Planter Connie Kieckhefer Connie Kieckhefer Donny Manning Catalog Printer Official Guns Judges Steward Digital Edge John Castellani, Co- Captain Mhari Peschel John Meyer, Co- Captain Official Photographer Preston Bryson Trophies and Ribbons Krista & Jerry Photography Chip Bunker Mike Wallace, Dawn Marshal Lussen Hospitality Schuster, Mhari Peschel Brandon Rodgers Ted Lagala Terry Quinlan Fundraising Kevin Stewart Land Owner Dawn Schuster Stanley Olszewski Libby Nagel Kyle Wintersteen Merchandise Sales Dawn Schuster 5 Disaster & Emergency Plan Information AMBULANCE Call 911 FIRE DEPARTMENT Call 911 DORCHESTER COUNTY SHERRIFF Cambridge, MD 410-228-4141 CAMBRIDGE POLICE 8 Washington St, Cambridge, MD 410-822-3101 HOSPITAL Dorchester General Hospital Intersecton Of Byrne & Franklin Streets Cambridge, MD 410-228-5511 VETERINARIAN Bayside Animal Hospital 2933 Ocean Gateway ( Hwy 50) Cambridge, MD 410-221-1447 Choptank Animal Hospital 430 Dorchester Ave. Cambridge, MD 410-221-0444 EMERGENCY RESPONSE COORDINATOR John Bruggeman 6863 Kreidler Rd. York, PA 17403 443-690-8239 An Article of Blaze Orange Clothing is Required in the Field 6 2018 Judge Casey Butz have lived in Central Alberta my entire life. I started hunting when I was a young boy and continued hunting throughout my childhood. I acquired my first hunting dog, Buster, when I was 15 years old. He was half black lab, half golden retriever. IBuster hunted, retrieved, and tracked everything from birds to deer to the farm cats. He was a true hunting dog in every sense of the word. It was after Buster retired due to his age sometime in the late 1980s that I got my first English Springer Spaniel named Sam. I thoroughly enjoyed his temperament and I liked the way he hunted. I found myself more and more wanting to try the field trial game so I got another English Springer Spaniel to train and trial. I soon started packing up most weekends in the spring and fall each and every year to venture to the nearest field trial. Over the years I have acquired many more Springers and English Cockers, each with different bloodlines and different talents. I have now enjoyed training dogs for 30 years, with 20 of those years being professional. I live near Stony Plain, Alberta with my wife, Carol, and our 3 children who are all young adults currently attending post secondary school. I look forward to judging this National with Mark. I wish every dog great suc- cess and know that the best dog will become this year’s US Open National Field Trial Champion. — Casey Butz 7 2018 Judge Mark Haglin t has always been said that the best place to watch a trial is to be a bird shagger. I have been a bird shagger many times and in my mind there is only one place better and that is to be the judge. I look forward to the job ahead in judging the springers Ithat earn the trip to the Nationals. I have been involved with all the aspects of the field trials and the various job func- tions at those trials. Over the years I have watched, read, listened, observed, talked a little, listened some more and all the while developing a style of judging that allows me to judge the performance in front of me regardless of who owns the dog, who runs the dog or how the dog was trained. I will judge what is presented according to that which most closely resembles a good day of hunting with higher regard to perfection in use of the wind, finding the birds, steady to wing and shot, delivering the bird to hand and performing as a team with calmness and manners. Nothing beats observing the sym- phony of a well-trained dog and handler. Not until I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1975 and received a springer spaniel as a graduation gift from my soon to be bride, Sophie, did I realize the amazing powers of hunting with a well-trained gun dog. I trained that dog, purchased another and continued training gun dogs, raising springer spaniels and becoming ac- tively involved in the Springer Spaniel Field Trial World. Sophie and I have been married since 1977 and developed, along with our three sons, Travis, Grant and Morgan, and our dedicated employees, our Orvis Endorsed English Springer Spaniel kennel, Pine Shadows, in Brainerd, Minnesota. We have ex- panded our business operation by developing Pine Shadows Daybreak. Daybreak is our hunting lodge near Frederick, South Dakota. It gives us real time experience in the hunting world with our springers. Although most of you know me through the springers and Pine Shadows, I spent 31 years teaching Agriculture in the Brainerd School District. I taught high school Nat- ural Resources, Fish and Wildlife classes and Animal Science. Being actively involved in the sporting lifestyle has brought us many blessings over the years. Our goal back then as it is now, is to be honest with the folks we meet, fair in our judgments and enjoy each day with the friendships developed over the years. I am truly thankful for this honor to be in the best seat in the house at a field trial. —Mark Haglin 8 Standard Procedure For Spaniel Field Trials 1. The purpose of a Spaniel Field Trial is to demonstrate the performance of a perfectly trained Spaniel in the field. The performance of a Spaniel in Field Trials should not differ from that in any ordinary day’s shooting, except that in the trials a dog should do his work in a more nearly perfect way. 2. The function of a hunting Spaniel is to walk at heel (or on a leash) until bidden to seek game. When so ordered, he should seek game in a brisk, quiet manner thoroughly quarter- ing the designated cover, within gunshot, in the line of quest without unnecessarily covering the ground twice. When game is flushed, dogs should drop or “hup” to flush or command and, if game is shot, should retrieve at command only, but not until the Judge has instructed the handler. Dogs should retrieve quickly and briskly when ordered to do so and deliver tenderly to hand. They should then drop or “hup” until given further orders. Spaniels which bark and give tongue while questing are objectionable and should be severely penalized. 3. If a dog, following the line of a bird, is getting too far out he should be called off the line and later he should again be cast back on it. A dog which causes his handler and gun to run after him, while line running, is out of control. Handlers may control their dogs by hand, voice, or whistle, but only in the quiet manner that would be used in the field. Any loud shouting or whistling is evidence that the dog is hard to handle, and, in addition, is disturbing to the game. 4. A dog should work to his handler and gun at all times. A dog which marks the fall of a bird, uses the wind, follows a strong runner which has been wounded, and will take direc- tion from his handler, is of great value. 5. When the Judge gives a line to a handler and a dog to follow, this must be followed and the dog not allowed to interfere with the other contestants running parallel to him. 6. The Judges must judge their dogs for game-finding ability, steadiness, and retrieving. In game finding the dog should cover all his ground on the beat, leaving no game in his territory and showing courage in facing cover.