Well done to the flatcoat team of Rachel Holt with Croftcloses Lucrative Boy, Stephanie Hurstfield with Stac Polly and Julie Matthews with Ollerset Shining Nymph who won the Minor Breeds test on May 2nd 2015 against the Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Curlycoated Retrievers, the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers and the Irish Water Spaniels.
Well done team
NEFRA are pleased to announce that Mr Bob Allen (Darillens) from Sheffield has agreed to be our new President.
Bob will be well known to those in the showing world, he was our first Chairman when NEFRA was founded and has judged for us at our second championship show and frequently helped us as ring steward. One of Bob’s dogs also won Best In Show at our 1998 Open Show at Worsall.
If you want to read a little about Bob’s early career in flatcoats you might want to read a résumé he wrote in 2012 before a judging trip to the Czech Republic, just one of many prestigious judging appointments which also included judging our breed at Crufts in 2004.
Bob has written a thank you note to NEFRA members for his appointment as our president. You can read it here Bob’s Thank You Note
The annual Four Way Match Working Test was hosted by NEFRA on 26th April 2015 on ground near Garstang with the very kind permission of Frances Fitzherbert-Brockholes.
Our members competed with teams of six dogs from each of the following clubs: Pennine Training Area (Northern Golden Retriever Association), Pilling Moss Gundog Club and the Burns & Becks Gundog Club.
The tests were set by Garry Ellison and judged by him with his co-judges Neil Parkinson, Stewart Henderson and Steve Burns. Each judge watched as two puppies, two novice dogs and two open dogs competed from each of the four teams.
This year it was Pilling Moss who took the crown, with a novice dog from Burns & Becks winning the Top Dog title.
Our own Keith Aldred with his dog Donascimento Santos was placed a very respectable 2nd place in the Novice dogs.
1st (51pts) Blain’s Rotherfield First Request
2nd (44pts) Stevenson’s Sh Ch Steelriver Heatwave ShCM JW
3rd (39pts) Kilminster’s Sh Ch Withybed Blue Jeans
4th (38pts) Brady’s Sh Ch Llantrussa Head over Heals to Bordercot
4th (38pts) Walker and Robert’s Gloi Dubh Enchantress JW
6th (36pts) Fox’s Blacktoft Burlesque JW
7th (34pts) Laird’s Sh Ch Branchalwood Tamdhu of Daicheil ShCM JW
8th (32pts) Walker and Robert’s Gloi Dubh Eriskay
9th (31pts) Egginton’s Ch Glendarual Sea the Stars with Pajanbeck
1st (491pts) Battison’s Donascimento Bebeto
2nd (301pts) Fox’s Blacktoft Ever Blazin
3rd (297pts) Battison’s Donascimento Ramires
4th (200pts) Battison’s Mystical Eclipse of Donascimento
5th (156pts) Hewison’s Maddistream Indigo Jack at Casblaidd
6th (151pts) Fox’s Blacktoft Burlesque JW
7th (140pts) Orme’s Elmstock Thyme to Dream
8th (132pts) Awty’s Venetian Red at Maddistream
9th (129pts) Hewison’s Venus in Transit over Casblaidd
10th (120pts) Holt’s Croftcloses Lucrative Boy
11th (71.5pts) Hewison’s Donascimento Danilo
1st (28pts) Round’s Pebblebed Rainbow Chaser Beg Ex
2nd (24pts) Perry’s Casanjay Browneyed Girl
NEFRA team enjoy a day out in Wales
Four NEFRA members handled their dogs in a team competition at the BASC Wales Game Fair at Bodelwyddan Castle on June 25th 2011
King Sterndale, Buxton 16th October, 2011
NEFRA in the awards again at the Inter-Area finals 15-Jul-2012
The NEFRA team were placed third at the Flatcoated Retriever Society’s Inter-Area Finals team even held near Christchurch.
Hope Show Teams
NEFRA members were once again selected to represent the two competing teams of flat-coated retrievers at this years Hope Show in Derbyshire. Photos have been added of the two teams and a selection of action photos have been added to the website.
Team Liver Flatcoats: Cherry Wood, Ann Sparkes, Val Orme & Caroline Hewison
Team Black Flatcoats: Keith Aldred, Garry Ellison, Chris Hewison & Peter Griffin
Intake Head, Delph, nr Oldham
14th October, 2012
Judges: Mrs P Illingworth & Mr T Richards
14 entries, 2 absentees
Llawr Y Pant Hall, Selattyn, Oswestry
13th October, 2013
NEFRA members had an enjoyable day, albeit a soggy one at the Cold Game test today, by kind permission of Richard Hughes at Selattyn near Oswestry.
Judges: Mrs Glenys Caldwell & Mr Paul Egginton
17 entries, 2 absentees
