Finale ASUR WT - Coupe De France SCC 14.15/06/2025 Neuvy-Lamotte Beuvron (FR)

Just got home from a wonderful weekend with friends (two and four legged). I'm not a big fan of WT, but when good organization, magnificent grounds and top class judges meet, you can't miss it. We were running three dogs, and three dogs qualified  (9/28 starters in Open and 7/19 starters in Beginner passed their classes with no 0). Two days WT, 10 tests, 19 dummies to pick over the 2 days, for each dog.

Pieter with “Calvin” (Gunnerspeg Galvanised) was 4th in Open with an average of 16.6 (this dog only turned 2 in March!!), and myself and “Rooney” (Elkshead Arran To Think Twice) were 8th in Open, considering that he’s not really a “dummy dog”, I’m more than pleased. 

The icing on the cake was the young "Beech" (Think Twice Va Va Vomm at Grovery) who, at his first WT ever, gained a 4th place with 168/200 where unfortunately in two tests we lost many points due to his total inexperience (20-16-17-9-19-20-10-18-20-19). Thanks to my dear friend Nathan Laffy to let me have him. 

Many many thanks again to Anne (ASUR) and Ludo (SCC) and their teams for the brilliant organisation, to the judges ( Anne Besnard, Thomas Bushby, Simon Capstick, Jean-Louis Martin, Stefano Martinoli) for giving up their time, to land owner for the opportunity he gave us to “play with the dogs” in his amazing property. 

Last but not least a very well done to Pierre De Franclieu for winning the Open Class with an impressive performance.