The International Gundog League Retriever Society

2024 Open Stake

The 111th Open A V Stake for 24 Dogs was held at The Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire by gracious permission of His Majesty King Charles III and the Crown Commissioners on 4 & 5 November.

The judges were Keith Bedford (A), Barbara Kuen (A), Mike Jones (B) and Judy Rainey (A).

Awards:

1st Barry Cooper’s Montoux Armande at Wapsac

2nd Kevin Haynes’s Liverycroft Buffalo Dance of Cairngryffe

3rd D Tidswell’s Partridgefen Tids Lad

4th Martin Baggs’s Packmores Teal

Peter Clayton and his team started the day with three drives of duck. Each drive provided different landscapes – from deep bracken, rolling grass field and cover crop or white grass. This allowed every dog to complete a duck retrieve. 

The trail moved on to a walked up on thick white grass, allowing dogs to mark and hunt. The first day provide pheasant, partridge, duck, pigeon and hare. The Judges bought through 12 dogs to compete on the second day. 

Second day; Standing well back from the gun line The Drive produced two geese and a variety of duck. The lay of the land allowed the Judges to specify different areas for each dog to retrieve from.