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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Welcome To Day One!




Hello Everyone!

It's a brilliantly sunny Minnesota Iron Range morning and the first Test Dog team of Lorraine Sarek and her Chesapeake female named AFC Flatland's Fannie Brice stepped to the line at 7:38 a.m. to take on the test of a double mark and a land blind. 

Lake Country's Sunshine, "Sunny", handled by Gary McIlwain, a yellow (how'd you guess) Labrador male, followed directly after Lorraine's performance...and is currently running now.

More to come...   

posted by National Retriever Championship Blog Team @ 7:44 AM

 

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