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FC AFC TIGATHOE'S MAGIC MARKER

All Time High Point Golden Female

117 all age points

2/10/71 - 2/14/80

owned by: Joseph Wattleworth

pictured here with co-breeder (Torch Flinn)

This picture was taken in the late 1970's

Chick as a young bitch just after her derby career.

As this picture will attest to, Chick was an attractive bitch of good size with a nice head and the proper body structure for a sound working golden.

Chick was Joe's first field trial golden and provided him with many thrills and great memories. Joe trained her on his 300 acre hobby ranch (*) while he was a professor of traffic engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.

On the advice of Dottie Ramsey, who owned Tigathoe's Funky Farquar, Joe purchased Chick as a puppy from her co-breeders - Mrs. George (Torch) Flinn and Mrs Robert (Pat) Sadler. Joe diligently trained and campaigned Chick to her titles and record number of field trial points. She won a double header at the Golden Retriever Club of America Specialty in 1975.

Chick was bred only once. Joe chose FC AFC Kinike Chancellor, who was then a prominent field trial golden from the famous breeding of Poika of Handjem and Shenandoah of Stilrovin. The breeding clicked and produced two AFC's and 2 others with all age placements.

Joe had several other goldens after Chick but none measured up to her prowess. He no longer actively runs field trials, but his ranch (*) is still used many times each year by the Jacksonville Retriever Club for training groups and sanctioned and licensed Hunt Tests and Field Trials. Joe chairs some of these events and occasionally still judges licensed field trials.

 

*Joe's ranch soon became a dog training meca and many dog trainers wintered on or near his property. A training pond was dug and several other natural ponds provided great winter training. Some of the many pros that wintered there in the late 70's and 80's were Billy Voigt, Jim Weitzel, Mike Lardy, Pat Burns and Merry Lake. We made our first trip there in 1978 when we were campaigning FC AFC Topbrass Mandy in derby. We continued to make winter training trips to Joe's ranch until around 1990. We still occasionally have training sessions there.

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