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Chiltern Inter Club Match - 2007

This year Redgates hosted the Annual Inter Club Charity Agility Match between BATS, Watford, Letchworth, and ourselves. We were first invited to take part in 2006 after Aylesbury dropped out. After coming 4th out of 4, we offered to host the event this year.

Our Training Venue where we hosted the event is owned by Dennis & Pat Bailey.
As Pat suffers from Parknson’s we decided that all the proceeds should go to
The Parkinsons Disease Society.

So it was a frosty and foggy morning late in October when everyone gathered in our field.
The sun came up and within a couple of hours it was incredibly warm with handlers running around in T-Shirts, and loads of spectators sunbathing around the rings.

Watford took an early lead, and for a while it looked like they were going to be by far the strongest team, but it did not stay that way for long, with all 4 Clubs leading the pack at some time during the day. The final result could not have been closer with just 9 points separating the first 3 Clubs. The finals points score:
BATS - 314
Redgates - 313
Letchworth - 305
Watford - 261

Click Here to view an Adobe pdf file containing the Full Results from each class.

We received many compliments about how well the event was organised, how nice our training venue is, and what a lovely atmosphere it was with loads of people around the rings watching, cheering a clapping whenever anyone did well,
and commiserating with anyone who made a mistake.

Click Here To View Photos Taken At The Match By Stuart Lyall

Click Here To View Photos Taken At The Match By Susan Young

Redgates would like to thank the following people for their help in making this match so successful:

Pat & Dennis Bailey for allowing us to use our Training Field free of charge;

Pat, Dennis and their Daughter Julia for providing the Judges Lunches - again free of charge;

STP Office Services of Haverhill for donating the Canon Colour Photo Printer as a raffle prize;

Equine Canine (our Trade Stand) and Galley Slaves (our caterers) for their donations;

All of you very generous people (too numerous to name) who donated raffle prizes -

we got a lot of comments about how nice the prizes were;

Everyone from Redgates who helped set up on the Friday, assisted on the day - particularly those who were at the field extremely early on the Saturday morning, and those who helped clear up on the Sunday;

James Greenhow for looking after all the processing of the entries and printing of Ring Cards etc., James seemed to spend most of the day in the Secretary's Tent on his laptop. It was also James that managed to get us the electronic timing at a very cheap rate;

Our friends at Letchworth for lending us a few extra pieces of equipment and a score tent;

Mary Ann Nester and Alan Humphries - our Judges;

and lastly to everyone from BATS, Watford, Letchworth and Redgates who took part,

and helped out in so many ways.