Bring your own dog to The Game Fair and compete in one of the have-a-go scurries.

Fun, fast-paced challenges designed to test your dog’s retrieving skills, obedience, and teamwork in a relaxed and friendly environment. Open to both adults and juniors, these informal gundog-style competitions are a great way for handlers of all experience levels to get involved and enjoy the action with their dogs.

Daily prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each event, with prize giving taking place every day at 5pm in the Working Dog Arena.

Sporting Saint, The Game Fair’s Official Gundog Equipment Supplier, will generously provide all prizes and competition equipment.

1) Scramble

This is designed to replicate obstacles a handler may find on a shoot day, dog and handler run around the course picking up dummies on the way, timed from crossing the start line to crossing the finish

2) Pickup

Dogs retrieve five dummies hidden behind brashings or bales. The clock starts each time the dog crosses the start line and stops when the dog crosses the line with the dummy. The fastest combined time for 5 dummies wins.

3) Bales

Two seen dummies are thrown at the end of a series of straw bales, the dog must jump the bales and retrieve the dummies back to the handler. The clock starts each time the dog crosses the start line and stops when the dog crosses the line with the dummy. The fastest combined time for two dummies wins.

4) Novice

A simple seen dummy is thrown and retrieve followed by a simple blind retrieve. The clocknstarts each time the dog crosses the start line and stops when the dog crosses the line with the dummy. The fastest combined time for two dummies wins.

5) Open

Two seen dummies are thrown and retrieved followed by two blind retrieves. The clock starts each time the dog crosses the start line and stops when the dog crosses the line with the dummy. Fastest combined time for two dummies wins.

Note: All scurries are open to recognised gundog breeds and crosses. Anyone with a non-gundog breed can enter, but their time will not count in the competition. The Novice scurry is only open to dogs that have not been placed at a scurry before.