2017 Midwest Vizsla Futurity

2017 Midwest Vizsla Futurity

The 2017 Midwest Vizsla Futurity was held on Friday March 31st. The Futurity was held at the Jim Edgar Panther Creek wildlife area near Springfield Illinois. This year 18 of the top Derby dogs competed for the coveted Double Danny Quest Trophy and prizes. Art Terstage was our Returning Judge and Ed Lierman was our new judge this year. To help make our event a success we are proud to have Purina and Sportdog as our sponsors. Without our sponsors it would be very difficult to have a class event. This year over $2000.00 in prizes were won including the prestigious Futurity trophy. This year the Breeder Plaque was given to the Breeder of the winner. This Plaque is only given when the litter is nominated by the breeder.

Thursday evening we had a well attended drawing. This year the drawing was at the Riverbank Lodge in Petersburg. As always the drawing was a double blind drawing. We had 2 bitches in season that were placed in the last brace. The weather this year was cool but consistent throughout. The first brace was cast off shortly after 8:00 Friday morning.The placements and brace highlights are as follows.

Winner “Boogie” CK Sis’s Wiki Wiki Surfer Dude O/H Chad Chadwell, Breeder Ron Chenoweth

1st RU “RRowdy” RRowdy O/H Mark Vitkauskas

2nd RU “Bane” Ethos Rolling to the Dark Side O Karen Concilio, H Jamie Fountain

3rd RU “Smudge” BGK’s White Lightning O/H Jarrett Bell

Brace 1: RRowdy and Turbo. RRowdy was handled by Mark Vitkauskas, Turbo was handled by Bill Stapleton. Turbo worked for the handler staying forward. He pointed a non productive on the line along the clover field and then a back on RRowdies 2nd find. No other bird work ended this dogs day. Rowdy had several finds. Along the cornfield RRowdy wasa found standing in the woods, he held through the flush and left at the shot. RRowdies 2nd point was along the clover field. His 3rd find was just before the grass strip heading to the islands. He stayed forward, pointed well showing his future promise throughout the brace. RRowdy would become the 1st Runner Up.

Brace 2: Ruby and Huey. Ruby was handled by Rodney Albin, Huey was handled by Tim May. Huey and Ruby both had points along the fence line. Ruby pointed before the creek on the hill where she took chase. Ruby also scored points along the edge on the Clover field and at the grass strip. Both dogs had points at the islands, showed to the front and handled for the handlers.

Brace 3: Piper and Colt. Piper was handled by Jamie Fountain and Colt was handled by Jarrett Bell. Colt pointed stylishly with no bird seen along the edge by the fence line. Colt had another N/P along the clover field and another point at the end of the clover field where he took chase. Colt’s last find was at the islands. Piper made a big move to the front from the cast off. After the creek she flashed to the front but was not seen again. The tracker was pulled.

Brace 4 Ember and Boogie. Ember was handled by Justin Hess and Boogie was handled by Chad Chadwell. Boogie would turn out to be the 2017 Midwest Vizsla Futurity Winner. Both dogs broke away strong and moved well to the front. Boogie had a single find for the brace that came at the fence line. He held the bird staunchly until the handler arrived. He stayed forward throughout the brace. He held the line along the clover field and was lost in the woods. Several minutes later he was found at the front working the islands. Ember scored several finds and was held back due to bird work. Ember found the front again and both dogs finished going away at the ravine.

Brace 5: Payton and Nika. Payton was handle by Mark Spurgeon and Nika was handled by Dave Oberst. Payton had one find at 15 minutes after the clover field with a point and chase. She stayed forward with a gun dog race. Nika handled easily but never scored a bird

Brace 6: Ray and Kitty. Ray was handled by Chad Chadwell and Kitty was handled by Jamie Fountain. Ray pointed just off the cast off. Both dogs pointed on the hill before the creek. Ray had birdwork along the clover field with no point seen. Kitty pointed at the end of the clover field.  Kitty showed her independence and found herself out of pocket. Both dogs finished strong along the road 

Brace 7: Smudge and Bane. Smudge was handled by Jarett Bell and Bane was handled by Jamie Fountain. Both Smudge and Bane would end up placing in the Futurity. Both dogs had bird work along the fence with no bird seen. Bane again pointed with reward further down the fence line. Smudge pointed on the tree line along the clover field. Both dogs showed power and pushed each other around the course. Both dogs proved to require a lot of handle as both were independent. Bane would become the 2nd RU and Smudge would place at 3rd RU.

Brace 8: Gunner and Benelli. Gunner was handled by Ron Chenoweth. Benelli was handled by Jarrett Bell. Gunner scored three finds and showed Independence. Benelli had a Forward race scoring two finds.

Brace 9: Cinder and Daisy. Cinder was handled by Bill Stapleton and Daisy was handled by George Haines. Daisy had a big independent run and found herself out of pocket. Daisy had a solid point as time was called along the ravine. Her absence was too long ending her bid. Cinder had 2 finds with bird work.