Buckeye Retriever Club

09/20/2024

Heads up! I will be at the BRC Buckeye Retriever Club Fall Hunt Test this weekend, September 21-22, 2024. I plan on shooting Junior one day, and Senior the other. 😁

09/10/2024

Timing is everything!

08/30/2024

05/20/2024

Yesterday we had our flyer day, we had 25 handlers participate, some handling multiple dogs. Handlers brought dogs to the line 71 buffet times. We had a triple with either a senior or master blind. Handlers ran it in multiple variations from singles, double, or triples. Some no off’ed the mark and picked up the blind before picking up the other marks. Some also honored. With all that, it was a pretty long day, but hopefully handles got some good trading in, learned something, and enjoyed the day. And the weather was great.

Here is a link to some pictures that Sara Morrow took during the day. Thanks Sara for sharing.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10123110848551165&type=3

05/13/2024

2 Day Advanced AKC Judges & Handlers Seminar complete, check! We spent half a day in the classroom on Saturday before heading to the field to run some Junior dogs and do some scoring for the remainder of the day. The weather wasn’t the best but we endured. Then today we spent the whole day in the field running Senior and Master dogs and scoring them. We did all set ups as mock hunt tests, with judges, marshals, HT committee members, equipment managers, and bird techs. Everybody did a great job. And AKC rep Trish Jagoda did a great job going over the scoring and performance of each dog that ran with everyone. I think everyone learned a lot, some probably to the point of overload, though I believe everybody enjoyed it.

I give it 2 thumbs up!

05/11/2024

Our Basic AKC Judges & Handlers Seminar was held today. Trish Jagoda from the AKC was the presenter. We had a great turnout, 27 participants, from those that just wanted to learn more about what judges want to see and how that equates to the scores to experienced judges. Hopefully everybody got something out of it. If you attended and have any coments feel free to post them here.

05/06/2024

Here are a few pictures from today’s training taken by Sue Ruess while running a gun station.

Thanks Sue

05/06/2024

Happy Cinco deMayo!
Buckeye Retriever Club held its third training day today at Hambden Hills. The weather forecast wasn’t very promising leading up the training, but we lucked out and got all the dogs run through the setup with only the last dog running in some sprinkles even with the great turnout of dogs and handlers.

Special thanks to Scott Steven’s for the help setting up and moving equipment and Tara Perby for organizing a running order and worker list.

And thanks to all that came out to run their dogs. It was nice to see almost everyone stuck around to help pick up the equipment as well as taking a turn in a gun station.

Here are the members that came out today, some had even had multiple dogs, I believe we had 25 dogs run the setup. Hope I didn’t miss anyone, I apologize if I did. Scott Steven’s, Tara Perby, Ken Edwards, Rex Gary, Bob Samios, Bobbi Hockenberry, Sally Mulherin, Sue Ruess, Nicki Gear, Bruce Smith, Dakota Tomon, Steve Szeredy, Shannon Black, Marilyn Richards, Kathy Gaddis.

I think we had a good day, hope everyone got something out of it!

05/05/2024

Buckeye Retriever Club once again is happy to introduce our newest members. Laurie & Mike Hegduk and Kevin Lightner. Can’t wait to see them on the grounds. Welcome

05/05/2024

Puppy/ Young Dog Training class concluded Saturday, here is a note from Ken Hrabak.

I don’t have everyone’s email but somehow I would like to thank all those who helped me run this training class and all those who who came including today when we did introduction to handling in case they would need it before they did senior tests. We really had a good time as well. Rex and Steve did all the grunt work for me and the handlers really seemed to enjoy their learning. I am looking forward to seeing them earn some titles.
Thanks.
Ken

Thank you Ken for giving your time to lead this group.

04/28/2024

Big shout out to Nicki Gear, and Dakota Tomen for their Junior passes this weekend at Ohio Valley Retriever Club in Coshocton, OH. Dakota is our newest membership applicant and Nicki is our newest Board Member. Dakota and Sadie got their first Junior Leg and Nicki and Brizo picked up their 4 Junior leg earning the JH title. Not only that, they both worked at the BRC Clean Up Day on Saturday.

Congratulations to both of you, and thanks for your involvement with BRC.

04/21/2024

Here is the action from the Puppy / Young Dog class today 4/20 lead by Ken Hrabak. Participants were Rex Gary, Steve Szeredy, Gail Geiger, Julianna Lobosky, Tina Kocab, Tim Guy, and Tori Waxman. It was a cold day but the youngsters didn’t seem to mind.

04/20/2024

Buckeye Retriever Club Annual Clean- Up Day is fast approaching. If you will be coming out, please contact Dave Phillips (440) 840-3285.

Bring your work gloves, and let’s get the grounds ready for a new season.

Tools needed:
Shovels, Rakes, buckets, wheelbarrow, loppers, pole saw,chainsaw, w**d whips, etc.

If there are any members that are willing to bring a tractor, that would be an added bonus!!

There are numerous washout areas that need filled throughout -an extra trailer are helpful for moving the mulch and gravel in buckets or shoveled in. There are areas that need cleaning up for better mowing access too. We also need to trim tree branches and a few downed trees.

Looking forward to a big turnout. Start time is 0900.

The grounds are open for training afterwards.

04/18/2024

Reminder

Puppy /young dog training clas at Hambden Hills (the nursery)this Saturday April 20th.

Club Training Day this Sunday April 21st at Crooked Creek.

Check your email for additional information.

04/18/2024

Buckeye Retriever Club is excited to introduce our newest member, Tory Waxman. Welcome aboard!

03/17/2024

The grounds are extremely wet, please people, stay on the gravel driveway!

If you drive in the grass, some of you will get stuck and tear up the ground, even if you don’t get stuck, the ground still gets tore up. Now we have to fix the ruts when we could have been doing other more productive things.

Stay on the driveway, be courteous, don’t block both drives coming in so others may get to the other areas. If you come up behind someone to not pass them on the grass or pull into the grass to turn around, back up(this means reverse).

Please use COMMON SENSE!

03/07/2024

Our group is excited to introduce our newest members: Tim Guy, Mark Kocab, Alyssa McGinnis Metzler, Rob & Linda O’Leary, and Isabella (Izzy) Wencl. Welcome aboard!

03/05/2024

It’s All in the TIMING Timing matters – especially when it comes to training, feeding and caring for your hard-working canine athlete and hunting partner.

02/14/2024

Time to get your boots on and get to work! Oh, and don’t forget to do some training with pheasants.

The 2024 Master National Retriever Club Board of Directors met for their annual Winter Board Meeting February 8-11 in Paducah, Kentucky. MNRC President Keith Kiesow and 2024 Chief Marshal Annette Pacheco along with Tim Kreher

02/13/2024

The moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. Oh wait, I think I might be over selling this. It’s just the latest version of our calendar of events. Be sure to check back from time to time as changes to the calendar are sometimes needed.

01/25/2024

Here is your current Buckeye Retriever Club Board of Directors:

Cyndi Poveda - President
David Phillips - Vice President
Bill Skeels - Treasurer
Tim Daily - Secretary
Tara Perby
Jacob Heiligenberg
Rick Ketring
Mike McFarland
Randy Reynolds
Scott Steven’s
Nikki Gear

Nikki is new to the board this year, she takes the spot of Jimmy Rodgers.

Welcome Nikki, and Thank You Jimmy for your service!

01/25/2024

The other table of raffle items. I couldn’t get a video of the other table, just a picture (in a previous post).

Like I told you, best raffle we’ve ever had!

Thanks everyone for the donations and buying raffle tickets!

01/22/2024

Here is the recipient list of Trophies and Awards that were presented at the Dinner Saturday night.

Congratulations too all of you!

Trophies
AKC Sportsmanship Award Ken Hrabak

Bob Reckart Club Member of the Year Award Cynthia Poveda

Ed Stone HT Dog of the Year Kai's Big Adventure, MH Beth Blair

Chessman Kittridge Field Trial dog of the Year AFC Carronade's Eggplant Patsy Sally Koepke and Steve Roegiers

2023 Steady Singles Trial CrescentMoon’s Marrakesh Express Joe Ricupero

2023 Unsteady Singles Trial Misty Sky Black Diamond Thomas Nee

NEW TITLES

Junior Zinfindel's The Saga Continues (Saga) Pete Swanson

Junior Highpoint's Thor Rogue Warrior (Thor) Steve Szeredy

Junior Topmast Jet Assisted Take Off (Jato) Rex Gary

Junior Topbrass The Kentucky Kid (Nicky) Rex Gary

Junior Maywood's Cast A Spell On Me (Cassie) Thelma Kraut

Junior Foxgrove's Gads Winning Attitude (Addie) Kathy Gaddis

Junior Believe Gad's I'll Be There For You (Phoebe) Kathy Gaddis

Junior Precious GreyHaven's Angelina Rose (Lena) Lorraine Fox

Junior Lake Monster Borror (Lake) Ivan Borror

Junior Treasure Lake Steaming Hot Spice (Saffron) Kathy Heintel

Junior Trifecta's Gee Willickers (Golly G) Sue Reuss

Senior Aimee's Grateful Stella Blue (Stella) Mike Galloway

Senior Aja of Suffield (Aja) Scott Stevens

Senior Wynwood's Life is Good (Zoe) Joan Durback

Senior Third River Darling (Deshka) Cynthia Poveda

Senior Maximus Meridius Red (Maximus) Diane Zokle

Master Trifecta's Grateful for Gravity (Wile E) Sue Reuss

Master Grand River's Wake Em Up Shootin (Shooter) Bruce Smith

Master CrescentMoon’s Marrakesh Express (Nash) Joe Ricupero

Master Trifecta's Forever Grateful (Syd) Bobbi Hockenberry

Master Berg Lakes Queen Parker (Parker) Phil Berg

Master Deep Blue Sea Gypsy (Gypsy) Dave Phillips

Master River Stone's Dakota's Morning Sunrise (Dakota) Brian and Karen Wilker

Master Carronade's Black Jack (Jack) Sally Koepke

Master National Pass Carronade's Black Jack, MH (Jack) Sally Koepke

Master National Pass Kai's Big Adventure,MH (P*e Wee) Beth Blair

Master National Pass True Grits Big Hoss, MH (Hoss) Rick Ketring

Amateur Field Champion AFC Carronade's Eggplant Patsy (Patsy) Sally Koepke and Steve Roegiers