Nine
talented and experienced field trial retrievers who were not qualified for this
National were selected to do the all-important "beta testing" of the
tests the competing dogs later face during the National event. During set-up
week, a selection of these nine dogs test-ran each of the 17 tests and variations
(to equal a total of 25 challenging set-ups) from which the judges pick 10 for
the competition.
Our 2019
set-up dogs and their handlers:
"Josie" and
"Brandy" – Missy Bell
"Dagger" –
Chris Hatch
"Smoke" –
Chester Koeth
"Buster" –
Steve Kompf
"Cricket"
and "Shelby" – Jay Phelps
"Nitro" and
"Whiskey" – Rich Pingatore
Thank you all for your hard work making this a grand National!
