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The all round dog sport for you and your dog, whether you want to compete or just give your dog an outlet for its natural abilities.
Working Trials consists of three sections:
Nosework
Tracking- all dogs track, what they are required to do is track the scent of a person, starting off with a short leg track building up to a half mile track that is three hours old, with corners and angles, locating articles that have been placed on the track.
Search- searching an area which has three or four articles placed in it, locating them and retrieving to handler.
Agility
There are three jump in the agility section. Three foot clear jump, nine foot long jump, both of these need to be cleared with the dog under control at the other side of the jump, until the handler is told to rejoin the dog. The third jump is the six foot scale (see Photo), the dog has to go over scale assume a position and wait on the other side until recalled back over. Jumps are smaller for dogs under 15 inches.
 
Control
The control section consists of what people would normally think of as obedience. Stays, heelwork, recall (CD only), retrieve a dumbell, sendaway, where you send your dog out to a point in the field specified by the judge, keep your dog under control there until told to recall, in the higher stakes you will also have to redirect your dog around the field, speak on command is also introduced in the higher stakes.
Stakes
There are five stakes your dog can progress through starting with CD - companion dog, UD - Utility dog, WD - Working dog, TD - Tracking dog, and PD - Patrol dog. TD and PD are the equal highest stakes you can compete in either or both once your dog is qualified to do so. PD includes all the above sections, plus a patrol section.
All dogs can enjoy working trials training, the most common dogs seen in competition are Border collies, Labradors and GSDs, the most successful dog who holds the record for the most tickets (you gain a ticket by winning the highest stakes) was a crossbreed, Little Sid owned by Rod Roberts.
We are fortunate to have thirty
acres of grass tracking land on site, for you and your dog to learn to track.
We currently have three working trials classes.
Wednesdays at 11.00am
Fridays at 11.00am
Fridays at 2.00pm
Dogs must have at least a basic obedience level to enter a working trials class, people who are currently competing in working trials can join a class. Dogs who are not will need to attend some one to one training sessions first to work on their obedience.
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