FC AFC Strong’s River Ranch Delta CD BN RI MHA NAP NJP SWNE SWA SHDNE SBE DJ CGCA CGCU TKN
– Delta –
Owned by Amy Quinn Schwartz
- 2011: Rally Novice
- 2012: Amateur Field Champion, Field Champion, Multi Title certificate, Rocky Mountain Interclub Hi Point Amateur
- 2014: Junior Hunter, Senior Hunter, Beginner Novice, Multi Title certificate, Rocky Mountain Interclub Hi Point Open
- 2015: Master Hunter, Novice Jumper Preferred, Novice Agility Preferred, Companion Dog, Multi Title medallion
- 2017: Master Hunter Advanced
- 2018: SIN, Dock Junior, Canine Good Citizen, Multi Title medallion
- 2019: Rally Intermediate, Scent Work Container Novice, Scent Work Exterior Novice, Scent Work Buried Novice, Advanced Canine Good Citizen, Canine Good Citizen Urban, Trick Dog Novice, Multi Title medallion
- 2020: Scent Work Container Novice, Scent Work Novice, Scent Work Handler Discrimination Novice, Scent Work Buried Novice Elite, Scent Work Container Novice Elite, Scent Work Novice Elite
- 2021: Scent Work Container Advanced, Scent Work Buried Excellent, Scent Work Interior Advanced, Scent Work Exterior Advanced, Scent Work Advanced, Scent Work Handler Discrimination Novice Elite
Delta was born February 8, 2008. I had two previous springers but decided I wanted a dog to attempt field trials. I contacted David Jones of Strong Gundogs in Victoria Texas. I brought her home at approximately 4 months age and she was the sweetest thing. On her puppy retrieves, she would come flying back at you and drop the bumper as she passed, skipping right at you.
David ran her in her first all age trial February 2010 where she got a third. After about a year, I began to run her in Amateur as well. She has the wonderful temperament that allowed her to have blazing speed and drive in the field but just hang out on ‘her chair’ in the house. Often she would run the both the Open and Amateur at the same trial and she handled it like a pro. She accumulated points in both all age stakes, but the blue eluded her. Then one weekend in November 2012 she placed first in Amateur and Open. She had enough points at that time to finish her AFC and FC. Additionally she accumulated enough Amateur points in 2012 to receive the Rocky Mountain Interclub Amateur High Point award. She continued running well and in 2014 she received the Rocky Mountain Interclub Open High Point Award.
In addition to trialing, she got to hunt extensively. David took her dove, quail, duck hunting in the fall in Texas as part of her training and took her to Colorado, Montana and Nebraska in the summers to take advantage of cooler weather. I would get pictures of her in the mountains or swimming in a creek and think ‘my dogs on vacation while I am at work!’ Any time she was home from trial training, we worked on completing her other titles.
She accumulated a lifetime total of 40 Open points and 45 Amateur points. After that, she ran an occasional hunt test with her last being in February 2020 at the age of twelve, where she qualified.
In her ‘retirement’, she also took up scent work, where she still is competing. Scent work has been great for her as hearing is not required. The hearing and speed are not the same, but the heart, nose and will are still there.