LCRC Club Test Rules ~ Adopted April 4th, 2008 Page 2 of 2SENIOR
1. Retrieves shall not exceed 100 yards.
2. All birds/bumpers must be delivered to hand.
3. All dogs are expected to come to line tractably at heel and off lead, run the series and leave line, off lead and tractably at heel. Dogs should remain steady until sent. No collars are allowed.
4. Handlers shall not send their dog to retrieve until released by a judge, unless otherwise instructed by the judges.
5. Dogs must exhibit steadiness. Controlled breaks are allowed in Senior but will be considered a serious fault. A blatant, out of control break is reason for disqualification.
6. Handlers will handle a gun in all marking scenarios. As in the HRC tests, gun safety is of paramount importance and handlers may be disqualified and expelled from the test for unsafe gun handling. Dogs that are being run by a handler who is disqualified may continue to run under a different handler.
7. A Senior test shall consist of double land marks and double water marks (one of which may be a walk-up), a water blind, and a land blind. Blinds shall be scored as a separate series. Blinds will not be run in close conjunction or between the marks.
8. Game calls and shots will be used for each bird thrown and shots may be used for blind retrievers.
9. The marks in a Senior test can be the same as those of a Junior test, but run as a double.
10. Diversion shots and or birds may be used. Diversion birds may be thrown only on the return from the second retrieve of a double.
11. Senior dogs must come to the line off lead and should remain steady until sent. No collars are allowed.
12. A Senior dog must honor in at least one series, while the marks are being thrown and until the judge releases the honor dog sometime after the working dog is sent to retrieve. A Senior dog should not honor a complete retrieve or a complete series.
MASTER
1. Retrieves shall not exceed 150 yards.
2. All birds/bumpers must be delivered to hand.
3. All dogs are expected to come to line tractably at heel and off lead, run the series and leave line, off lead and tractably at heel. Dogs should remain steady until sent. No collars are allowed.
4. Handlers shall not send their dog to retrieve until released by a judge, unless otherwise instructed by the judges.
5. Dogs must exhibit steadiness. A controlled break is allowed at Master but will be considered a serious fault. A blatant, barely controlled break is reason for disqualification
6. Handlers will handle a gun in all marking scenarios. As in the HRC tests, gun safety is of paramount importance and handlers may be disqualified and expelled from the test for unsafe gun handling. Dogs that are being run by a handler who is disqualified may continue to run under a different handler.
7. A Master test shall consist of multiple marks on land and multiple marks on water, of which one series must be a triple; a water blind and a land blind, one of which must be in association with the marks.
8. Master marks and blinds should be considerably more difficult than those used in Senior or Junior. If the same marks must be used as Senior or Junior, then the difficulty of the marking situations should be increased. (Examples would be adding a long memory mark, increasing the distance by moving the line back, adding difficult factors like picking up a blind before the marks etc.)
9. Double blinds may be used.
10. One marking series may be a walk-up.
11. Blinds may be run in conjunction with the marks, but blinds will be considered and scored as separate series.
12. Diversion birds and shots shall be used.
13. A Master dog will be required to honor at least one complete retrieve in a series of a test. “Cold” honors are allowed.
14. Master dogs must come to the line off lead and should remain steady until sent. No collars are allowed. |
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“CR Rules revised_vBB-2”, published in Sit & Listen V.44 #2, March-April 2008
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