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2025 National Amateur Retriever Championship Blog

Thursday, June 19, 2025

6th Series Recap

Wednesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 19, 2025

6th Series – Water Mark with a Blind and an Honor

50 Dogs Started this Series

Test Dogs kicked off the 6th series late Wednesday afternoon at 5:02 pm, beginning with "Fancy," handled by Dave Kress and then "Morgan," handled by Tom Hawley. The handlers got a good look at what this test will include. A single test dog ran on Thursday morning.

The first running dog of this series was #98 FC-AFC IZZY GITTIN’ BIZZY, “Izzy,” with handler Jim Horneck. They came to the line at 5:35 pm on Wednesday afternoon.


The weather at the start of this series was near 81 degrees with cloudy skies and a 4-6 mph wind. 

Here is how things turned out for the 6th Series … Not much stats to report
No-Bird / Re-Run (0): 
Handles (0): 
Double Handles (0): 
Pick-Ups (0): 
Scratches (0): 
Broke (1): 36

Our last running dog for this Series was #94 AFC YOU STOLE MY HEART MAGGIE MAE, “Maggie,” with handler Mark Medford
They completed the test at 9:17 am.

50 dogs were sent from the line in this series, taking a total of 2 hours and 52 minutes, which averages out to be about 3 minutes per dog. 

We will be moving on to the 7th shortly!

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