Don't forget to enter our Multi-Level Championship!

ENTRIES CLOSE ON FRIDAY 4th AUGUST 2017

Draw: Friday 18th August 2017 at Kilkivan Showgroundsw

Trial: Saturday and Sunday 19th and 20th August 2017

Judges:

Intermediate: Mrs Edwena Adcock (Qld)  6 Runs

Advanced: Mr Anthony Turner (Qld) 6 Runs

Open: Mr Stuart Sinclair (NZ) 8 Runs

This will be a brilliant weekend of trialing and social activities.

Full details AND ENTRY FORMS on our website www.untiedfieldandretrieving.org.au

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Please email your entries ASAP and payment can be made (as per website info) into our Bank Account - or on the day if that's not suitable.

Entries can be mailed to 131 Ladies Road Samsonvale 4520 Qld also.

IMPORTANT

We will be closing entries on Friday as we need to organise our Catalogue.

Hope to see you there. 

2017 SSAA WGAA Multi Level Retrieving Championship - 18th to 20th August

Competitors and organisers alike, are ramping up for the SSAA WGAA 2017 Multi Level Championships, to be held in a months time.

With a brand new format, never before run in Australia, UFR will showcase some of the finest dog work our country has to offer. Retrieving Trial competitions test the retrieving and hunting abilities of gundog breeds by simulating duck shooting conditions, a sport where these dogs can show their true talents.

Previous to this event, Championships have been a luxury only the highest level  competitors could enjoy.  But following detailed discussions, it was decided that retrieving should be brought more inline with other sporting disciplines, which hold grand finals for various levels of their competition.

The 2017 event will see handlers & dogs from Open, Advanced and Intermediate levels battle it out across two days of competition.  Set in the beautiful area of Kilkivan Queensland, 2.5hrs north of Brisbane, this is guaranteed to be an exciting weekend.

Spectators are warmly welcomed.  If you'd like to come along to the SSAA WGAA 2017 Multi Level Championships, please drop us an email at info@unitedfieldandretrieving.org.au or via our website.

Anzac Trial 2017

This years Anzac weekend of trials, has again, come and gone.

All those who attended can attest to yet another wonderful event.  Not only did we enjoy the friendly competition, beautiful trophy table and a warm fire at night (and maybe a few drinks)!  But we also spent time remembering those that fought for the freedom of our country with a very special service. A very big thanks to Stuart and Edwena Adcock for all their efforts, and the donation of a beautiful perpetual trophy.

The Anzac Trophy was awarded to the highest scoring competitor for the weekend, and was warmly welcomed by it's first recipients, Bryan Pritchard & Gunner. 
A well deserved win!

One of the highlights of our Anzac service, was a poetry reading from the property owner, Ian.  Ian was asked if he would like to contribute to our service, and I don't think he could have chosen better piece.  I have transcribed the poems below for all to read, it was not only a beautiful tribute to the men, women and animals that fought, but it was also a touching piece that brought a tear to my eye....and he read it from memory.

IN FLANDERS FIELD

by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 INSPIRATION FOR THE POEM
Having read John McCrae's poem 'In Flanders Fields' Moina Michael made a personal pledge to 'keep the faith'.  he felt compelled to make a note of this pledge and hastily scribbled down a response entitled "We Shall Keep the Faith" on the back of a used envelope.  From that day she vowed to wear a read poppy of Flanders Fields as a sign of remembrance.


WE SHALL KEEP THE FAITH
by Moina Michael, November 1918
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
 

RTCD RTCH Garjanhauf Errol

Vale
Errol
3/3/2003 - 16/10/2016

Sam and Elaine Haigh had to say goodbye to one of their best mates, Errol late last year.

Errol was a wonderful dog who worked so hard for Sam, achieving so much in the trialing field, won so  numerous trials, and his name is engraved on so many trophies and shields.

He has left behind two lovely dogs sired by him, to follow in his footsteps,  Tallowood Errols Elley (Elley) and Tallowood Coras Butch (Butch).
So his memory will carry on through both dogs.

He was a gentle natured dog, with a big heart and will be sadly missed
From everyone in UFR Errol...Rest in peace old fellow.