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16th-20th May: Elly goes to Cornwall to train with 7 German handlers and their dogs with Keith Sandercock and Roy Tomlinson. For an impression click here.
12th May: At the Team test organized by the Dutch Retrieverclub Nico, Aleid and Elly gained a 6th place. Thanks to Nico and Aleid who both ran very good. For Archie it was a very difficult test. 
28th April: Elly got a 4th place in the Novice Class at the WT which held in Broculo.
7th April: Richard got a first place with "Archer of the Spring Cottage" in the C-class (49/50) and Elly became 8th in the Novice class with the OWT which was held in Almkerk. 
31st March 2012: "Archie" got a second place at the Novice Walked-up Mocktrial which was held in Groningen. 
14-15th December 2011: Holland wins Coupe d'Europe for English Springer Spaniels and Cocker Spaniels! 

Hajo and "Scotty" were selected by Orweja to run in the Dutch Team at the Coupe d'Europe. The team also consisted of Peter Tervoort, Marcel Dons and Jaap van Dam. This year the Coupe was held in Holland, for the first time since 25 years. The Coupe d'Europe is a two days event. Every day each competitor runs an International Fieldtrial. Every country can send in a team of Springer Spaniels and a team of Cocker spaniels. This year Spain, Italy, Belgium, France and Holland competed against eachother. The results of the two best dogs over two days count for the total score of the team. Also there is an individual classification. After two days the results were: First place......Holland. Second place: France. Third place: Belgium. Holland won because both Marcel and Jaap had very high scores. Marcel won the indiviual competition with his bitch "Megan". He also was awarded with the "Gerrit Visscher" Memorial Trophy for the Best Dutch English Springer Spaniel.

 

To make the joy complete, also the Dutch Cocker team won the competition as well as the individual competition. 
25th November 2011: Demmi's litter is born. For more information about this litter see PUPS
22nd October 2011: National (CAC) Fieldtrial in Wijchen: Hajo has gets a qualification "Good" with Scotty and Sasja Verstraaten gets a qualification "Very Good" with Tweed of the Spring Cottage. 
Demmi, Archie and Flint all tested Clear for EIC
27th September: Squareclose Demmi is mated by Jobeshill Olof "Brimson" from Denmark. 
10th September 2011: Auke Witteveen gained a Hunt Certificate with Youp of the Spring Cottage of the Spaniel Union of the Netherlands (SUN). Well done Auke!

Alex Lelieveld got first place on level C (49/50) with Yanick of the Spring Cottage in Emmen. 
27th August: Sefie Yehee gained a first place with Yup of the Spring Cottage on level C in Enkhuizen.

6th August 2011: Minouk Leferink gained with Willow of the Spring Cottage a first place on level C with the tests of the Dutch Shooting Organisation in Vriezenveen. 12th September Minouk and Willow  gained 79/80 points with a B-certificate in Markvelde and she did this again 24th September in Zwiep. 
9th July: In Lunteren Hajo got a B-certificate of the Royal Dutch Shooting Organisation with Squareclose Flint. 
21-22-23rd May: Desiree and I went to England to pick up my new labradorpup "Grouse". We had a lovely trip over the Yorkshire Moors, we went to Tesco to buy all the things we definitely need to survive in Holland like Yorkshire tea, Cheddar cheese and Golden sirup. After a huge Costa coffee and a big muffin we went back with a beautiful black dogpup who had to spend his first night alone on board of a ship which he perfectly survived. Rachel, thanks for letting me have him! 

 

18th May: Flo got her pups. She gave birth to 10 pups, five yellow ones and five black ones, three yellow bitches, three black bitches, two black dogs and two yellow dogs. Everything went well!
17th April 2011: Elly entered a WT in As, Belgium, with Archie. There were 33 competitors in the Starters class. We didn't expect a marked retrieve out of a walk-up over 65 meter broad water, but we managed. In the end 23 dogs had a NC (Non Classé) and 10 dogs had all the dummies in. Archie finally finished at the 3rd place with a total of 90/100 points. 
2nd April 2011: In Almkerk Archie finished at the 8th place with 83/100 points. This WT was organized by the Dutch Retriever Club. 
26th March 2011: WT Golden Retrieverclub: Archie got 78/100 points and he finished 7th.
19th March 2011: First Working Test with Archie. We entered in the Starters class. He got 81/100 points, mainly because we almost missed one dummy which was a pity. But despite that still all dummies in and we got our first WT certificate! 
12th January 2011: Cold Game Test in Gramsbergen. A day to remember... (photo's: Aldo Winkels)
29th January 2011: Last CAC Fieldtrial held in Beegden. Toon got a qualification Good with Vasco. A hard trial with brambles and very thick cover. 
24th January 2011: Youth Fieldtrial in Grathem. Toon gains a qualification Very Good with Vasco of the Spring Cottage and ends with one point too less at a Second (!) place in the race for the Dashhill trophy. This is the trophy for the Best Youth dog over all the Youth Fieldtrials held in Holland in the season 2010-2011. Well done!
15th January 2011: CACIT (International) Fieldtrial for spaniels in Kloosterzande. Hajo gained a qualification Very Good with Squareclose Chic and Toon Spoorenberg also got a qualification Very Good with Vasco of the Spring Cottage. Well done Toon as Vasco is just two years old. 
14th January 2011: CAC Fieldtrial for spaniels in Kloosterzande. Hajo got again a qualification Very Good with Scotty and this time Sasja got a 3rd place with Very good with Tweed of the Spring Cottage.
13th January 2011: CAC (National) Fieldtrial for spaniels in Hulst-Nieuw Namen. Hajo got a qualification Very Good with Squareclose Chic "Scotty" and Sasja Verstraaten got a qualification Good with Tweed of the Spring Cottage.  
  Dec. 2010: Elly came home and Hajo went the next day to Wales with his dogs to beat at several shoots. Like other years he stayed with Stuart and Janet who always give us a warm welcome. The dogs worked very hard again and Hajo and the dogs had a nice time in Wales. 
Tuesday 7th December until Thursday 9th December Elly, Minie and Desiree again visited the IGL Retriever Championships 2010 in England. This time it was held at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk by gracious permission of Her Majesty The Queen. There were spectators from all over Europe and most of the time we were very close behind the competitors so it was nice to watch. This year 58 dogs qualified to compete at this three days Fieldtrial. Winner of 2010 was Mr. David Latham with his dog FT CH. Delfleet Neon of Fendawood (FT CH. Mediterian Blue x Delfleet Dawn Flush). For more information you can visit the site of the International Gundog Leaque  Retriever Society: www.internationalgundogleagueretrieversociety.org.uk

25th November 2010: At the Youth Fieldtrial which was held in Tilburg, Toon Spoorenberg with Vasco of the Spring Cottage gained a 3rd place with a qualification Very Good. Well done Toon!
19th November 2010: At the Fieldtrial for spaniels held in Beugen, Hajo gained the qualification Very Good. He entered this trial with Squareclose Chic "Scotty". He also got a nice prize for "Guns Choice". At the same trial Sasja gained a qualification Good with Tweed of the Spring Cottage. 
08-11-2010: Another Fieldtrial for spaniels in Hooghalen. Second place with an Excellent qualification was for Sasja Verstraaten with her dog Tweed of the Spring Cottage. Third place was for Hajo with Topsy (litter sister to Tweed) of the Spring Cottage also with an Excellent qualification. Hajo gained the qualifation Very Good with Squareclose Chic.  
22-10-2010 Toon with his spaniel "Vasco" gained again a qualification at a Youth Fieldtrial in Nieuw-Vossemeer. This time he ended on 3rd place with the qualification Good. 
16-10-2010: Elly got a First place with Amy at a Multiple Retrieve Test in Heerenveen. She got 560/600 points.  
11-10-2010: Hajo gained a 5th place with the qualification Good with Vlecky of the Spring Cottage at the Youth Fieldtrial for Spaniels held on the Maasvlakte. Toon with litter brother Vasco got a 4th place with the qualification Very Good!  
03-10-2010: Toon Spoorenberg with his dog Vasco of the Spring Cottage got a 3rd place and the qualification Very Good at a Youth Field Trial for Spaniels which was held in Mazy, Belgium. 
13-09-2010: Minouk Leferink with Willow of the Spring Cottage got a B-certificate from the Royal Dutch Shooting Organisation in Markvelde.
11-09-2010: Jeanet Niebeek with Vicky of the Spring Cottage gained a trainings Certificate from the Dutch Spaniel Union. 
10-09-2010: Squareclose Amy got a B-certificate from the Royal Dutch Shooting Organisation in Hulshorst and a week later the same in Leek. 
28th August: Sasja Verstraaten won with "Tweed of the Spring Cottage" the WT for all varieties of Spaniels which was held in Laren. She also won the challenge trophy for Best spaniel of the day. Well done!

Desiree got a second place with an A-Certificate on the same day in Uffelte. Gratulations for both! 
21th August:  Desiree and I went to Germany to run the WT "Tanz auf dem Vulkan" in the Open Class. The distances were very far for us and we were proud we passed most of the tests. We got a zero too, but we survived the most difficult tests. You have to learn from your mistakes and we learned a lot at this test and know again where we train for. 

 

14-15 and 16th August Desiree and Elly went to England to visit Ingrid. She lives in Surrey and on Sunday we went to Gilly Nickols for a training at her place. We had a lovely day with good talks about dogs and training. Ingrid, many thanks for your hospitality. 

 

Beginning of August we had a good day pigeon shooting. Demmi, Amy, Nemo, Skipper en Goose made a good job of picking up. 

9th August Elly organized a walk-up training in the beets. It stays difficult to mark in the big fields.  

12th June Elly entered the German RTT Working Test held in Lohmar. There were 34 competitors in the Novice Class. There was a very high standard of dogs. Normally in the first couple of tests a few dogs get a zero for a test, but this time everyone stood like a rock and stayed in. Also Elly got all the dummies in with Amy. At the end of the day the long waiting began, because everyone was curious about the results. We ended on the 7th place, the scores were all very close. But the judges rewarded Amy for her nice work. She got the prize for the "Most Stylish Dog". With a nice trofee and a gift voucher we went home again. 

 

29th May the Dutch Labrador Club organized a teamcompetition in a small place called "De Glind". 17 teams entered and every team existed out of a starter, a novice and an open dog. Elly also joined a team with "Squareclose Demmi" which was called "Fast and Furious". The other team members were Desiree Hurenkamp with "Lochmuir Casey" and Joke van Ark with "Zehra van het Muntenbos". We had never trained together before as a team, but it just looked a nice team to us to have a great day. We had a bit of struggle here and there, but also we had a very good performance with other parts, so we didn't know what to expect as end result and also we didn't know how the other teams had run. We were very pleased when we heard we gained a SECOND place of all teams that took part. 

Joke and Desiree thanks for the nice day which I very much enjoyed and the Dutch Labrador Club thanks for the wonderful organization.

After my nice trip to Scotland, life goes on in Holland. On 8th May Elly entered the WT organized by the Dutch Retriever Club in Borculo. Amy did again very well and gained the 5th place in the Novice class. 
24th and 25th April Mike Rolland invited me to come over to Scotland to run a couple of Working Tests. It seemed like a good idea to go to Scotland with my Scottish bred bitch Amy. On Friday I arrived and Mike and I had a good training together. I had no idea what to expect, but he assured me that I was good enough to run in the Novice class. And so I did. The first day 29 dogs entered this class and I did very well, much to my surprise. I got 5th place with 94/100 points.

 

The next day the WT was organized by the Strathmore Working Gundog Club. The grounds were very difficult for a Dutch trained dog, but Amy didn't let me down. From the 25 entries she got a third place. What a relief I didn't embarrass my Scottish friend and myself. It is a good experience to compete in the Country where most of my dogs come from. At least I can say that this is the most expensive ribbon I have ever won in my life! Mike thanks! 
3rd April 2010: WT Almkerk organized by the Dutch Retriever Club. Desiree entered with Lochmuir Casey and Elly entered with Squareclose Amy. Desiree got 1st (!) place and Elly 3rd place in the Novice class. In total 21 entries and only 4 combinations succeeded in getting all the retrieves. A deserved moment for all our hard work!
20th February 2010 Elly took part in the Cold game test organized by the Dutch Labrador Club in Numansdorp. 

First December "Squareclose Chic" got a qualification "Good"at a CAC FT In Hooghalen. 

 

On 26th November "Tweed of the Spring Cottage" gained a 2nd place at the Youth FT in Tilburg, he became 3rd at the Youth FT in Rotterdam. Sasja, well done!
On 25th October Desiree Hurenkamp with Lochmuir Casey and Elly with Amy competed in a RTT Trainings Workingtest in Lohmar, Germany. Only 9 dogs succeeded to get all the retrieves in. Elly was 2nd with Amy and Desiree 7th with Casey. A good result which we needed after a long trip by car.
10-10-2009: Elly became 3rd at a Multiple Retrieve Test in Leek with Squareclose Amy.
RAVivo photography

On 12th and 13th September I joined a super handling weekend organized by Korstiaan Kleywegt. He invited Mike Mulch (who was Tophandler at Highclere in 2008 and won several times with his team the IWT) to tell us how to handle our dogs. As always when you are open for it, you learn a lot. We all enjoyed this weekend. Korstiaan and Mike, THANKS!

29th August: Squareclose Amy got a B-certificate from the Royal Dutch Shooting Organisation.

6th August we joined a training given by Dr. Garreth Davies in Wales. This was very interesting.

4th and 5th August Desiree and Elly joined a training at the Bettinsons in Wales.

Beginning of June we joined a training from Mike Rolland, Dick Sorley and Ally Kennedy in Fife, Scotland, which we very much enjoyed.
3rd May and 16th May Elly joined a team at two teamtrials. The first was organized by the Dutch Labrador Club and here they became 10th out of 20 teams. The second teamtrial was organized by the Dutch Golden Retrieverclub. Here they gained an 8th place with their Labradors.

The team called "Yellow": Robert Bolsenbroek with Abbotsross Oak, Desiree Hurenkamp with Lochmuir Casey and Elly Bos with Squareclose Amy.

 

28th March: WT of the Dutch Labrador Retriever Club. Squareclose Amy gained a 6th place out of 40 competitors. 
Henk van den Ouweland with his dog Shock of the Spring Cottage had a very good year in the Youth Fieldtrial Competition. Overall he ended on the 3rd place in the 2008-2009 season.
2nd of August 2008 Squarclose Amy gained a C-Certificate from the Royal Dutch Shooting Organisation and on 20th September she also gained a B-Certificate. We were very pleased with these results because she was only 14 months old when she got the second certificate.

On 4th of October Powenargrof Glynys (Grace) got a Multiple Retrieve Certificate in the B-class.  She got all the 12 retrieves in time and ended on the 4th place.

On 13th September 2008 "Squareclose Chic" (Scotty) gained a Certificate from the Dutch Spaniel Union. 
At Beugen on the 16th of November 2007`Chasse of the Spring Cottage` wins the Fieldtrial with First Excellent CAC. The judges awarded `Chasse` for his will to find game and his will to take cover. `Chasse` had two good flushes on woodcock.
6th October - Sefie Jehee with "Banjer of the Spring Cottage" gained a Multiple Retrieve Certificate B. They also became Best Combination 2007 of the Region Hoorn based on all the good results they had in 2007. 
6th October - Bert v.d. Hof 3rd place with "Pepper of the Spring Cottage" at the working test for Spaniels at Krimpen a/d IJssel. 
On the 2nd of October Jan Luijendijk  with his spaniel "DeeDee of the Spring Cottage" became WORLD CHAMPION ST. HUBERTUS in Belgium. He entered this competition after he already had won the selection in Holland. Together with Gerrit Visser they became second in the teamcompetition.
 

Banjer of the Spring Cottage owned by fam. Jehee                             Zorro owned by fam. Keijzer (photo: Karin Vogt)

In September 2007 the Dutch Spaniel Union keeps two days in which spaniels of all variëties can show their ability to hunt. In the morning there are a couple of tests which shows the obedience and steadiness of the dogs. When this is o.k. then in the afternoon the hunting in thick cover, waterwork and blind retrieves will be tested. This year there were in total 32 competitors but only 4 awards for the English Springers and three for the Cocker Spaniels. Sister and brother "Pepper of the Spring Cottage" owned by Bert v.d. Hof and "Banjer of the Spring Cottage" owned by Sefie Jehee got this shooting award. Also another son of Squareclose Ranger "Zorro" owned by Kees Keijzer gained this shooting award. Gratulations to the owners of these dogs! 

Pepper of the Spring Cottage, owner fam. v.d. Hof (photo: Karin Vogt)

In August and September we entered with our Labradors several times field trial tests held by the Royal Dutch Hunting Associaton. Grace (Powenargrof Glynys) got in total three B-certificates out of three tests. Abbotsross Larch became in Uffelte best young dog with a certificate. He got at the age of 10 months a B-certificate! This year we didn't manage to get an A-certificate with Grace. Sending in the moor in Veenhuizen was still a bit too difficult for her and most of the other dogs. 29 dogs tried in Veenhuizen to come through the sending part of the test. Only three dogs succeeded.
On the 12th of January "Dribbel of the Spring Cottage" was awarded with first place (1 excellent) at the fieldtrial for young spaniels on Tholen. With this excellent result and the other good results at the fieldtrials "Dribbel" gained the "Dashhill-Award" for best spaniel at the youth fieldtrials. We congratulate Bert and Cora van der Graaf with this superb result.

Dribbel of the Spring Cottage met Bert van der Graaf.

Also at Tholen "Zorro" (Squareclose Ranger x Zillah Veertig Bundersberg) was awarded with third place at the fieldtrial for young spaniels. We congratulate Kees Keijzer with this splendid result with "Zorro" at the age of almost nine months.

Zorro at a shoot in Belgium.

On the 10th of January we were invited for the Mixed Pairs Working test in Münster, Germany. The meaning of this test is that a Spaniel and a Labrador work together like in a normal shoot, but now the handlers are dependent on each others working abilities with the dogs. As well for the Spaniel as for the Labrador there is a separate judge. When the day starts, you hear who will be your "partner" for that day. Koos Kommers with his labrador "Millers Square Famous Grouse" was my partner when I hunted with "Smiley of the Spring Cottage". When I was in the field with "Squarclose Ranger" my Labrador partner was Bennie Harmsen with his dog "Rosa v. 't Kieftendorp". Luckely for me Koos Kommers had the best Labrador of the day and I had a "Very Good" qualification with Smiley. So together we won (!) the Mixed Pairs test. Ranger was the best Spaniel of the day, and Bennie got with his dog a "Good" qualification. Together we had enough qualifications for the second place!

Individual Ranger was the Best Spaniel of the day and Smiley had a shared fourth place.  

       

Squareclose Ranger gained the qualification "Very Good" at the International fieldtrail Axel on the 11th of December. The judges praised him for his good style and hunting pattern even under the difficult circumstances (field and weather) on this day.
In November I went with Ranger beating in Wales on different shoots, for an impression click here
On the 10th of September Squareclose Ranger gained the hunting/working certificate of the Dutch Spaniel Union
On the 3rd of September our labrador Powenargrof Glynys (Grace) again managed to get a B-certificate of the Royal Dutch Hunting Association. This time the contest was held in Tijnje. She got 76 points (of 80) and became 3rd best dog of the day of all the B-certificates which were achieved. 
Smiley of the Spring Cottage and Powenargrof Glynys both gained a B-certificate of the Royal Dutch Hunting Association (KNJV) on the 27th of August at Uffelte.
On 28th of January Squareclose Ranger was awarded with first place in his serie at the CAC fieldtrail of the Sporting Spaniel Association in Vezon, Belgium. Judge Victor McDevitt praised his style and mentioned that we really worked as a team. At this same fieldtrail, but in the other serie, Badgercourt Coral was awarded with the qualification Very Good.
Also at Vezon, on Saturday 29th of January DeeDee of the Spring Cottage was awarded first with CACIT at the CACIT fieldtrail.
At Tholen on the 14th of January Chasse of the Spring Cottage won the fieldtrail for spaniels with the qualification Excellent. With this excellent result and his good results on the other trails for youth dogs, he became overall winner of these fieldtrails 2004/2005. We congratulate owner and handler Jan de Jong with this excellent result and with winning the Dashhill-Award.
On the same fieldtrail Squareclose Ranger became second with the qualification Very Good and was awarded with the Guns-Award.
DeeDee of the Spring Cottage, 

Int. and Dutch Fieldtrail Champion

(FtCH Chilview Ace x Galatsori Jane), 

date of birth: 8-2-2001, owner: J.A.P. Luijendijk.

Last December Mr. J.A.P. Luijendijk was awarded with his last CACIT's for "DeeDee" at French Fieldtrails necessary to become French Working Champion.

 

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