Montana Field Trial Judges Announced | |
Judges for Montana Field Trial
The Honorable Judge Mr. Serge Guilbert has served in many positions and organization including the President of the Canine Federation of Picardy, the Canine Society of Picardy, Vice-President of the Amines Kennel Club, Member of the Societe Centrale Canine, Secretary General of the Picard Spaniel Club and Judged Field Trials internationally. He has also hunted partridges, pheasants, woodcock and snipe with the Epagneul Bretons for forty-four years. He has also organized various events and rallies including International Exhibitions, Open de France and other competitions. He is also a Director of CEB France
The Honorable M. Jean Carpentey started judging field trials for all Continental and British breeds in 1992, and was qualified as a FT judge in 1995. He has been a "Trainer of Judges" since 2006 for field events. In conformation he is a qualified "trainer of judges" for Epagneul Francais, Korthals Griffon and Braques d'Auvergne and will be eligible to be a trainer of judges for Bracques Francais and Epagneul Breton in July of this year. He has been judging Epagneul Breton (in conformation) since 2007 and has judged in all major events in France (including the 2010 Nationale d'Elevage in Millau in June of this year).
The Honorable Chris Kieres has been "in dogs" basically all his life; starting with raising and training Australian Cattle Dogs when he lived in Arizona. When he was in his teens he worked on a ranch in Arizona where he used his dogs on cattle, horses, and buffalo (an extreme challenge). When he got out of the Marine Corps he decided to get in to hunting dogs and in 1998 he got his first Epagneul Breton. As he got more and more involved with the breed, his interest also grew and he began training and testing dogs in North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA) tests; as well he began showing and has been field trialing from the beginning when the UKC Field Trial venue was first inaugurated. He also trained and handled the first Epagneul Breton to be tested in the German JGHV tests in North America. Chris has been a UKC field trial judge since 2006. He is also a judge for the Versatile Hunting Dog Federation as well as the Pudelpointer Club of North America [PCNA]. Chris also serves on the Board of Directors of the PCNA.
Peter Wax has been involved with pointing dogs since 1969 when he first began planting birds for his father’s German shorthaired and wirehaired pointers. An avid wildfowl hunter, Peter spends over 25 days a year in the field and once skipped an entire fall quarter of college when the flight was just too good not to hunt every day of the season.
Peter’s introduction to trialing was in 1999 when he entered the VJP hunt test with his Deutsch Drahthaar “Flinte”. The test was a disaster. Thoroughly outperformed by lesser stock Peter realized it takes more than a good dog to excel, it takes a good dog that is properly prepared. Vowing never to be so humiliated again he joined the local NAVHDA club and became active in understanding why and how to train for the game, but more importantly he learned, with the help of the Senior Judge Wally Wahl, to see like a judge when evaluating a dog.
In 2002 Peter purchased his first Epagneul Breton “Zeus” and put his education to good use. Before Zeus’ 4th birthday he scored a perfect in the NAVHDA utility test and the following fall was the first UKC registered Epagneul Breton to run in the NAVHDA invitation. Along the way Peter trained a second dog to a NAVHDA utility prize III and assisted others to train and prize their dogs.
In 2005 Peter entered Zeus in a UKC wild bird trial in northeastern Montana where he earned a 1st in Open and a few years later Champion of the Field. At this point the judging candle was lit and within two years Peter had applied for and received his judge’s card. During the interim Peter apprentice under and walk with the finest judges in the UKC system such as Butch Nelson, Sandy Gunn, Christian Gunther, and Reynold Lefebvre. In the spring of 2009 he felt ready and with Butch Nelson judged in his first two day trial and a second two day trial with Bob Olson this spring near Benson Minnesota.
While Peter has only been judging a short while, he brings a depth of experience from testing, trialing, and training his own dogs but mostly from hunting behind a gundog 25 to 35 days a year for nearly 40 years in the pursuit of wildfowl. It is this practical education that makes Peter a qualified Field Trial Judge.
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