Tally (Bryning Totally Trouble of Tottlefields) is a working cocker spaniel bred by Nat of Bryning Border Collies and this weekend, she and 2 of her litter-mates, along with her half-brother Travis and aunty Radley made up the Cock-ups team, competing in the beta division of the Alphas starter tournament at Newark.
Nat and I had discussed being able to run the cockers together almost since the day they went to their seperate homes, but it was just that, talk, cos we thought we'd be mad to do it. Then this tournament at Newark came up as the perfect opportunity, being fairly evenly placed between the 3 team involced with the cockers - Cambridgeshire Canines, Demon Dogz and Read2Fly. We had to give it a go!
The week leading up to the tournament, I think Nat summed things up very well..
"I think it's going to go one of two ways...(1) they'll be absolutely fab (2) they'll be absolutely dire with no in between...cockers are always reliably unpredictable!"
Well, what can I say.... They were great!!!! All the dogs ran really well and weren't fazed by not really having met before (other than a year ago before they left mummy!), Tally running on a flat-fronted box she's never done before, and dog's running back up the lane! The team managed to pull off the fastest time of their division with a 19.93s and a 2nd place, losing to the winning team due to a couple of ball fumbles.
Below are Travis (Raezhaven Bryce at Bryning - half brother), Charlie (Bryning Brock), Tally and Tarka (Bryning Riverine) racing their hearts out:-
David Murdoch also came up to the tournament for the day and hopefully had a very enjoyable day racing his black lab Spencer at his 2nd starters tournament, joining Beamer (Linnotts), Jessey (Read2Fly), Spark, Jovi and Maisie (Demon Dogz) to make up the Demon K9's, who won the gamma division, remaining up defeated all day.
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