Stake 1   Bristol & West Open English Springer Spaniel Stake. 28th November 2007, Held near Corsham.
Judges, Chris Thurston Woolnough and David Rayner

1st   FTCh Breckswood Brock      Simon Allison
2nd   FTCh Steadroc Setlands of Beggarbush      Ben Randall
3rd   Mastview Bunty      Lesley Keate
4th   Tyn-y-Waun Tamper      Jeff McAndrew

COM's
Kenmilquin Flyer of Edgegrove      Jos Way
Rosebay Joy      Nigel Price
Porthytywyn Sugar Ray Lennard      R. Hesltine
Halwin Ryston Smudger      John Semmens
Jans Dream      B. Brookman
Prime Mystic      Mike Pascoe
Tyn-y-Waun Trouper      Nigel Price
Marstonmill Maximus      Rod Chapple
Beggarbush Ria      Ben Randall
GUNS CHOICE
FTCh Breckswood Brock      Simon Allison

A report of the day is kindly given by Ben Randall
The day was run by the very experienced head keeper and cocker man Glyn Smith. John Dugay was running things for Bristol and West, great job John, thank you. The day started with all the usual faces turning up and some good humour was to make a great day. The ground was top class with birds coming to hand regularly. All the dogs were tested with all different types of cover from steep banks, bog areas, and good hard brambles. The experienced judges, Dave Rayner and Chris Thurston Woolnough judged each and every dog with total professionalism and good humour. There was to be a run off. Jeff Mc Andrew and Rod Chappell ran off first together, and then Simon Allison, Ben Randall and Leslie Keate had a three dog run off with Simon Alison coming out on top.

Stake 2   Bristol & West Cocker Spaniel Novice Stake. 11th December 2007, Held near Badminton.
Judges, Jeremy Organ and Ben Randall

1st   Centrewalk Daydream      Richard Preest
2nd   Hunters Marsh Linwood of Jackalantern      Glyn Smith
3rd   Dash of Duxford      Tony Read
4th   Ballincollie Candy      R. Grogan

COM's
Kazchoc Nightmare      A Creed
Rockfall Gemma      Guy Croft
GUNS CHOICE
Centrewalk Daydream      Richard Preest

Thanks to Dave Rayner for this report
Judges for the day were local judges, Jeremy Organ and Ben Randle, both experienced and knowledgeable spaniel men. This was the clubs first visit to this part of the famous Badminton estate. I was very privileged to be one of the guns for this trial along with John Semmens, Gary Atwill and Bob Sweet. The day started with a crisp frost, and after the initial introductions the trial was underway. As usual with Badminton the ground was superb, all woodland with a mixture of light to medium bramble, stick piles, white grass and some heavy bramble, which the 'little' dogs coped with in true cocker style. The birds came to hand very quickly along with the odd woodcock causing a few problems to find once shot due to the rapidly rising temperature and diminishing scent. As usual with trialling there were some unfortunate situations which either tripped the dogs up or the handlers and we lost a few very good dogs. The top dogs were quite evident though and the eventual winner also taking guns choice proved to be a great day for first time winner and head gardener for the estate of Badminton Richard Preest and with Glynn Smith pushing a very close second!! On behalf of the Bristol and West I would like to take this opportunity to thank The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort for their continued support and for providing us with such superb ground to run our dogs.

Stake 3   Bristol & West Cocker Spaniel Open Stake. 12th December 2007, Held near Corsham.
Judges, Mark Clifford and Garry Veasey

1st   FTCh Gibbletore Style      Steve Wanstall
2nd   Wernffrwd Mai      M J Wills (handler Peter Jones)
3rd   Wirewolf Aster at Episcopi      Anita Jones

COM
Brynmills Bracken      Steve Wanstall
GUNS CHOICE
Wernffrwd Mai      M J Wills (handler Peter Jones)

Stake 4   Bristol & West Novice A.V. Spaniel Stake. 7th of January 2008, Held near Badminton.
Judges, Mr Keith Carter & Mr Norman Blakeney

1st   Beggarbush Larch of Cowarncourt      K.Powell
2nd   Cheweky Hedge Cutter of Cowarncourt      K. Powell
3rd   Tylachoch Tilly      J. Ayres
4th   Clangregor C Nesta      W. Brown (handler G. Ford)

COM
Fynonlas Cymro      J. Lysyj
GUNS CHOICE
Cheweky Hedge Cutter of Cowarncourt      K. Powell

Gary Atwill recounts the day for us
This year the trial was held over the same ground as usual but covered in a different sequence, which worked extremely well with birds flushing straight from the off and this continued throughout the day. The ground cover was variable but mainly bramble and at times was very tough and testing for all of the dogs. Some of the novice spaniels coped very well and this showed when it came to the results with the top dogs showing pace and courage in cover. When the judges Keith Carter and Norman Blakeney got together it didn't take them long to decide the trial was over with no run off required. Then it was back to the cars for the awards where the 1st place was awarded to dog number 11 Beggarbush Larch of Cowernecourt owned and handled by Mr Kevin Powell (congratulations Kevin). Throughout the day there was a great atmosphere despite the rain and as a bonus the sun came back out for the awards. Our guns Jeremy Organ, Dave Rayner, John Semmens and Geoff Shore were all experienced spaniel men and all shot well with a total bag of 34 Pheasants, 1 Woodcock and 1 Rabbit all before 1pm (can't be bad). A big thank you to everyone who helped in making this trial a success especially Richard Preest who helped direct the day as well as acting as a stop. Once again many thanks to The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort for providing us with such a superb venue.

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