2024 Nationals

Central Ontario Spaniel Club

2024 National Amateur Field Trial Championship

October 18 to October 20, 2024

Dornoch, Ontario

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Central Ontario Spaniel Club

CENTRAL ONTARIO SPANIEL CLUB WAS FIRST RECOGNIZED BY CANADIAN KENNEL CLUB JANUARY 1966

We are proud to have been awarded the 2024 Canadian National Amateur Championship

It is to be held 

175290 con. 6,  Dornoch, Ontario N0G 1R0

October 18th-20th 2024

National Committee

President: Greg Owttrim

Vice President: Nick Pimlott

Field Trial Chairman: Drew Goldsmith

Field Trial Secretary: Pat Epp

Gun Captain: Dave Proctor

Game Keeper: Alex Smith

Treasurer: Pat Epp

Judges

As voted for by the C.N.S.F.T.A. Clubs and subject to C.K.C approval

I hunted over a dog for the first time when I moved to Nova Scotia at the age of 30. I was immediately hooked on spaniels!  The progression from hunting with a friend with a dog to buying a hunting dog, then a field trial reject, then a field trial dog,  then the Dog Bus was quick and expensive. I have been trialing for 23 years. There are over 250 ribbons covering the basement walls. Eleven of them are National  ribbons from both sides of the border. I have enjoyed competing at Nationals for over 20 consecutive years. I’ve judged trials over the years but did not get the opportunity to judge as many as I would have liked to. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, because of work commitments, I’ve had to turn down many judging invitations. I’m now retired! I am passionate about spaniels. We own 8 spaniels, 2 dachshunds, and the Dog Bus! I would be honored to judge your dogs Amateur National.

My experience with Spaniels began in 1989 when I purchased my first Field Bred Springer from Tom Meyer; Bluff Creek’s Prairie Robber. Robbie and I spent the next several years together hunting grouse and woodcock in Michigan, ducks, geese and pheasants in Oregon and Wisconsin. The U.S. Coast Guard took my family and I to Texas in 2008. I had just purchased a new puppy and knew it would be a struggle to find public hunting in Texas. While stationed in Michigan I had been introduced to Spaniel Hunt Tests. I decided to search out a local Spaniel Club in hopes of developing and competing with my new charge. Thru my relationship with the Houston/S.E. TX clubs I was exposed to the world of Spaniel Field Trials. Since running our first puppy stake in 2009, we have made up one Master Hunter, six American Amateur Field Trial Championships, three Canadian Amateur Field Trial Championships, two Canadian Field Championships and one Canadian Canadian Open National Field Trial Champion; Southaven’s Pathfinder (Trace) handled in the 2017 National Open by Clay Earl. In addition to Trace’s victory our dogs have received numerous awards at Nationals; a third, a fourth and four Certificates of Merit since 2014. Apart from our personal dogs many of our puppies have had success in the Field Trial Arena, both in the U.S. and Canada. Highlighted by one Canadian Open High Point Award, two North American High Point Awards, and one Amateur High Point award. I started my judging career in 2014 judging Hunt Tests. Over the next four years I completed 12 assignments. 2018 brought me my first invitation to an All-Age Field Trial Judging Assignment. Between 2018 and 2023 I have judged 30 American Springer Spaniel All Age Stakes, 21 American Cocker Spaniel All Age Stakes, and 9 Canadian Spaniel All Age Stakes. Besides actively running dogs and judging, I have gunned trials in Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, and Ontario. I have served on two National Committees in the U.S. (1 open, 1 Amateur), and functioned as the Field Trial Chairmen for the Tilden Valley trial from 2019 to 2022. Training, hunting, and trialing is more than a hobby, it is a passion. I consider It a privilege every time I walk behind our merry little dogs.

Eligible Dogs (qualified in the year 2022-2023)

The year is from Open National to Open National

ABITT LIKE SAM I AM
ABITT LIKE TESSA
ARCHIBALD
BLACKBRIER SAZERAC
BLACKBRIER’S REGAL CROWN ROYAL
BLUE RIVER’S HAZEL EYES
BRICKBURN’S BIRDDOG ECLIPSE
BRICKBURN’S BIRDDOG ILANGA
BUSHBUSTER’S COLT 45
COLDWATERS ROCK AND ROLL
COLDWATER’S RYTHM AND BLUES
COLDWATER’S UP TO MISCHIEF
COURTMAN’S CURRAGH
COURTMAN’S MADAME TASHITA
COURTMAN’S ROCKY BOWMORE
FTW OFTAW SHELLSPOON HURRICANE
GASPEREAUMTN MINNIE BB
GASPEREAUMTN NO BETTER FRIEND
HAWTHORNE “O” GRADY
JAEGERCOURT BETTER BE
JAEGERCOURT MISS MONEYPENNY
JAEGERCOURT RUFFLES
JAEGERCOURT WATSON 3E
JAEGERCOURT’S MAPLE
JAEGERCOURT LACHLAN
JOJO’S EASY KEEPER
JONES’ SK8 TOUGH’
KATAHDIN’S CATCHER IN RYE
KATAHDIN’S EAST BRANCH EMILY
LONGBRIER GOD OF THE SEA
MOJO’S HELLFIRE MISS L
NARVIN SB BAKER OF BLACKBRIER
NARVIN’S BANDIT STOLE MY HEART
NORSTRANS FLIGHT STOPPER
NORSTRANS FRONTENAC
NORSTRANS SPURVALLEY’S SHILOH’S SHOOTING STAR
NORSTRAN’S STARS AND STRIPES
PHEASANT FEATHERS TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT
SKAAR’S ASGARD FREYJA
SPRINGVILLE HUNTER
STARBURY COSMIC JUNIOR
SUNRISE JESSE
THISTLE’S BRAMBLES AND BRIARS
UK DOMINA’S PHOENYX
WINDYPLAINS DIESEL
WYNNRIDGE’S BIRD DOG RASCAL