Lost Pines Retriever Club

08/06/2024

🎉 Lost Pines Retrievers Club Family Funday is in Full Swing! 🐾

We’re having an amazing time with all the wonderful people here today! Our community has come together, and it’s heartwarming to see so many smiling faces and wagging tails! 🐾

Thank you to everyone who came out to make this day special. Your support and camaraderie make our club truly exceptional!

15/04/2024

Outstanding job LPRC! It's been a busy Spring for the club and we finished it strong with a weekend AKC Hunt Test. The weather was great and club members all chipped in big to pull it off.

Judges- Thank you for coming out and spending your weekend with us:

Friday Qual- Randy Crable and Mike Farris
Saturday Master- Rex Gibson and Wendy Mattinen
Saturday Junior- Kelly Curry and Yolanda Buchman
Sunday Senior- Kelly Curry and Mike Farris
Sunday Junior- Jim Lane and Terry Ansohn

To all the participants- we hoped you enjoyed the event and will come out and be a part of our next one! Thanks for attending!

To the Hunt Test Committee- Wonderful job executing!
Rob Somers- Chairman. (Don't let him fool you- he is very good at this and kept everything running smoothly!)
Secretary- Paige Brown- Thanks Paige for volunteering! She had her hands full this weekend and we appreciate her time to the club.
Dakota Best- Head Marshal- Great job juggling being both a Handler and the Head Marshal.

To the Club Members- GREAT job. Everyone did their part and it came together beautifully. Teamwork makes the dream work!

Yolanda Buchman (Junior Judge and helped on Sunday), Sid Junek (Senior Marshal and a huge all around help in general), Jim Lane (both a Junior judge and helped with Master on Saturday), Brad Beaulieu (Owner of Saltgrass Retrievers LLC and helped with preparation each morning), Vince Carr (flier Shooter), Mike Farris (flier shooter), Jeff Brown (Owner of DawgOnIt Retrievers), Kristin Best and Cynthia Blomquist for the delicious lunches each day and helping prepare snack bags, Doug Dillow for helping with Master Clipboard, Kerrigan Odom (Trainer at Best Retrievers and also lended a hand with set-ups, test dog, all around everything!), and Molly Quirk and Reed Boyd (Junior Marshals).

Plus Dawson Dean, Craig John, and Sean Wilchek for shooting fliers. Sean was also a huge help with set-up and break down each day. Anne Milane on Master Clipboard- she ended up scratching her dog in Master but still came out to help- that says a lot right there!

If I missed anyone, we apologize- there were many working parts that all came together like pieces of a puzzle and the end result was a great picture.

Lost Pines Retriever Club, while a relatively new club, puts on more hunt tests (and an SRS) than another club in the State of Texas. So come out and join us!

If you passed and/or titled and got pics- post them in the comments below, we'd love to see them!

14/04/2024

Paying tribute to our country on this beautiful morning of the LPRC Hunt Test!

14/04/2024

Second series callbacks for LPRC Master test.

25/03/2024

We want to give a huge shout out to Ray Voigt with Purina! During last week’s Lost Pines Retriever Club Hunt Test, Ray came out and donated some bags of Purina Pro Plan Performance food for some of our participants. Thanks so much to Ray and Purina for spending the day with the participants and giving back! Ray Voigt

20/03/2024

The LPRC truck is all set to create unforgettable ribbon memories!

20/03/2024

Lost Pines Mid-week Masters Update! 38 dogs called back to the second series. We stopped for the day about 6:15 and have about 8 dogs to run to finish the second series tomorrow morning. See y’all tomorrow!

22/02/2024

Great Job LPRC! Our first 100 dog Mid-week Master is in the books. The weather was fabulous! A huge thank you to everyone who pitched in, but a special thanks to Secretary Bob Delperdang, Judges Carol Hynes and Kevin Buchman, Clipboard- Anne Millane, our Bird Techs, our lunch crew- Cynthia Blomquist and Kristin Best, Head Marshal Britt Jones, Bird Steward Sid Junek, and the Pros that are always willing and able to help- Tom Garza and Emily Head, JC Strange, Brad Beaulieu, Jeff Brown, and Dakota Best. Test dogs were Vince Carr with “Squid” and Rob Somers with “Kaizen”. Shooters- Vince Carr and Jeff Parker- thank you! When everyone lends a hand, it makes things run so smooth. See y’all next month for the next LPRC Mid-Week Master.

21/02/2024

Callbacks for the first series of our February Mid-Week Master Test- 10 dogs dropped, one scratch
89 dogs to Series #2 tomorrow! Good Luck!

10/12/2023

LPRC Christmas Party last night! Great food and friendship. The white elephant gift exchange was a fun time. It’s been a successful year for the club- looking forward to a great 2024 ahead!

06/12/2023

New club member Matt Holtkamp and his dog, Bocephus, ran their first Master test this week!

06/12/2023

Head Marshal Dakota Best did a great job running the show!

06/12/2023

Everybody knows that good birds in a test make a big difference. Bird steward Kevin Buchman took great care of the birds both days to ensure that all handlers got the best birds we could offer!

06/12/2023

It’s tradition for LPRC to take a lunch break and provide the judges and volunteers with a freshly prepared meal. Today was chicken salad with fresh fruit, chips, and cookies. Thanks Kristin Best and Cynthia Blomquist for the meals and Wendy Smith for the cookies!

06/12/2023

Don’t get in King Bowser’s way!!!

06/12/2023

“E” for effort!!!

06/12/2023

Strutting on the walkway

06/12/2023

A HUGE Thank you to our Master judges- Mike Akeroyd (L) and Bob Delperdang (R).

05/12/2023

BOOM! New Handler guns thanks to Club Member Mark Strickland!

05/12/2023

Rob and Kaizen as Test dog, 1st series. Land Triple and a blind with an honor.

15/06/2023

Scammer alert! Please disregard any post you see regarding LPRC hoodies being available. Someone (not LPRC) is posting replies to LPRC posts. They have been blocked but may continue….ignore them! This is a total scam.

17/04/2023

The Lost Pines Spring AKC Hunt Test was a big success! Thank you to everyone that participated, the judges (and apprentices!) that gave up their time, and the countless volunteers who helped keep things running smoothly. The Pro Trainers that stepped up and helped was HUGE- team work makes the dream work!

Junior Saturday Judges: Jim Lane and Kelly Curry, Apprentice Yolanda Buchman
Junior Sunday Judges: Richard and Jan Meche
Senior A Judges: Kelly Curry and Darrell Borchardt, Apprentice David Gay
Senior B Judges: Mark Watson and Lloyd Acker
Master Judges: Dede Patterson and Mike Akeroyd, Apprentice Sid Junek
Qual Judges: Brian Herzog and Vince Carr

We had a big turn-out in Senior and had to split it, this was challenging but we buckled down and made it work. A lot of club members came out and volunteered their time- THANK YOU!

Professional Trainers Brad Beaulieu, JC Strange, Tom Garza, Chris Krause, Dakota Best, Michael Cotton, Kerrigan Odom and Jeff Brown gave up their time and found a way to balance running their dogs and working the tests. These Texas Pros deserve a lot of gratitude for their effort- support them and thank them next chance you get!

Club members Rob Somers, Paige Brown, Vince Carr, Craig Shultz, Kevin and Yolanda Buchman, Gregg Smith, Chris Lamb, Sid Junek, Tony Gonzalez, Katie Brouillette, and Terry Ansohn came out and helped in various ways. ***Volunteering our time is how these activities can continue to be successful.*** Without the help of these members- none of this would've been possible! Also Sean Wilchek also drove all the way up from Houston on Sunday morning so he could shoot fliers for Senior.

Finally- our lunch crew! Kristin Best, Cynthia Blomquist, and Glenda Akeroyd worked to make sure everyone got a chance to take a break around noon and enjoy a fresh and hot meal. This is one of the perks of running a Lost Pines test that everyone looks forward to.

It's been a busy Spring for the Lost Pines club- we've pulled off 4 mid-week Master tests and now a 260 dog weekend test- Great Job LPRC! If you're not a member of LPRC- you're missing out!

01/04/2023

24/03/2023

LPRC Master mid-week #3 is a wrap! Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped out to make this a smooth and tremendously successful operation!

Judges Rob Somers and Rockie Hall set up 3 GREAT series. Sid Junek and Britt Jones were the backbone and helped in every facet and kept things running. Vince Carr and Don Chamberlain did an outstanding job as our flyer shooters. Dakota Best, bird steward, made sure we had the birds we needed each day. Clipboard Anne Millane did a good job keeping dogs and handlers moving along. Event Secretary Bob Delperdang was always on top of everything and was instrumental in getting things ready for this test and making sure everything got paid! Pros JC Strange, Chris Krause, and Brad Beaulieu helped with set-up and breakdown for each series. Kristin Best kept us fed with snacks and lunches that were delicious! Thank you everyone that came out and volunteered and participated in our event- we hope that we made it fun and enjoyable for everyone!

11/03/2023

Mid-week Master Test #2 is in the books! Thank you to all of the club members and volunteers that helped out! It was definitely a team effort and a refreshing sight to see so many people stepping up to help out. Head Marshal Rob Somers great and worked his butt off! Britt Jones and Sid Junek were always stepping in to help in one way or another- shooting fliers, throwing birds , re-birding, planting blinds, running the line- you name it!! Bird Steward Dakota Best did a great job having the birds ready each day. Big thank you to Pros Tom Garza, Brad Beaulieu, JC Strange, and Chris Krause that helped with set-up and breakdown between series. Tha k you Kevin Buchman for helping with set-up and equipment on Tuesday! Thank you Paige Brown for doing a great job in her first assignment as HT Secretary and thank you Yolanda Buchman with all of your assistance. The judges, Jeff Bundy and Mark Frederick, we’re AWESOME and set up three challenging series. We’ve got two more mid-weeks on the schedule and a weekend test in April- keep up the great work LPRC!