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 Chestnut Ridge Farm, Charlottesville. Pasture grass with snow covered in fairly thick ice. Track laid @11:00 & aged 4 hours. When track was run it was sunny, 42 degrees, 6mph wind, 49% humidity. Snow was beginning to melt.

Since I was working on age here, I just made a simple 2 turn track. 85 yd to left turn, 75 to right turn, 100yd to end. Large food drop every 30, no articles except start & end.

Seren did well, nice start & turns, but frequent side excursions (5-8 feet) to snack on deer droppings. I don’t know why deer poop is such a gourmet item compared to all the other species which she is around all the time & ignores. She wasn’t keen on lying down in the snow, but did when asked.


Dylan did a straight line track of about 200 yds, aged 15 minutes. S5,W10,F,W10, S5, etc. Field conditions same as Seren’s except 30 degrees so no melting snow & there were more patches of grass w/o snow.

Only problem with this one was me trying to walk on the lumpy hard snow. His tracking line frequently got longer than it should have been because of my ineptness 



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  1. Jack's JourneyJanuary 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM

    sounds like the age was no issue. excellent.

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  2. Anne (Mila)January 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM

    I like for Seren's that you kept the variables to a minimum...your goal was age and you kept that as the focus w/out adding in a bunch of turns or other factors. Nice! Glad you're getting some good work in with Dylan too :).

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