Good Morning!

Good Morning Everyone!! Welcome to day #7 of the 2023 National Retriever Championship! Wow, I can't believe we are already to the 8th Series!

This morning we are at the Kongsore Property getting setting up for the 8th Series. (a Water Blind)

Test Dogs are running and after that, we will be ready to begin with our first running dog #63. 

The weather this morning is yet again cool at 43 degrees, with cloudy overcast skies, light drizzle and fog off in the distance. The good news is that the mostly cloudy and drizzly weather is NOT expected all day today! Sometime around noon the sun is expected to make it's appearance and switch us over to mostly sunny skies with a high of 56 degrees. We are looking forward to some sun... so fingers crossed! 

We have 30 dog teams called back to begin the 8th Series this morning. These teams have faced a lot of challenges to make it this far. It has certainly been NO CAKE-WALK, not by a long shot! (pun intended) 

If you have been keeping up with this event, you will know that this competition has been getting really tough, only the best of the best are still going. And there really isn't any room for mistakes. Of the 30 teams still going strong, 21 of them still have a totally clean scorecard, and the other 9 have shown the Judges beyond a shadow of a doubt that they still have what it takes to be here.

So you can expect that we will be seeing TOP NOTCH dog work today and tomorrow, as we get closer to finding out who the National Retriever Champion of 2023 will be! Very Exciting!

Good Luck to all of the teams running today, and rest assured, we will all be watching on in awe!