In this section you will find guidance on training, aspects of working, and the working standard. Details on training opportunities provided by the ISCGB and other clubs are listed. If you would like some details placed here please contact us.
Late last summer I was lucky enough to be asked if I would like to come ‘up north’ once a month and join in with a small group of people who enjoy training their HPRs. For me this entailed a round trip of approx 4 hrs but as I found out it is well worth the trip each month. Having heard how this group was formed I approached Ingrid Moyser and Marie Holt to see if they would like to share their experience of setting up and running this training group. Between them they have a very interesting story to tell.
Colin Elliott
He may look dumb but.... Last weekend (Sunday 6th April) i took Boswell aka Ozzy to his first gundog training day with the GSP club. ( I got Ozzy…
The Working Standard
The Spinone’s gait is a long, tidy trot, alternating occasionally with something of the rhythm of a gallop (back legs only), so that he is a little swifter than the Italian Bracco, but the required gait when engaged in the act of sniffing is the trot. It is a lively and economical gait which works in diagonals which are nearly always straight, a hundred metres long and sometimes more, well spaced out and determined by the excellent sense of smell which this great pointer always shows provided he does not overdo it in gaits which are contrary to his nature:Clearly for him, as for all other trotters, concentration on the smelling job is of foremost importance and finding a solution to the various problems, which comes almost by instinct in a lightning flash to the gallopers, demands of the Spinone a complex mental process which can easily be read in his lovely facial expression as a “thinker”.
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