Training with Rita Kökény

Training

Sessions with Rita cover a wide variety of concepts and are custom tailored based on the needs and ability of the dogs attending.

Cost

Members: 1.500 CZK
Non-Members: 2.000 CZK

Accommodation

If you would like to stay overnight near the event, you can stay at the hotel Venezia - www.hotelvenezia.name. The meeting place will be every morning at 8:00 at the parking place of the hotel Venezia.

About Rita Kökény:

I entered into the retriever world in 1997. when I got my first lab Artúr, a show dog from Finnish lines - before him I had spaniels. While I was competing abroad with Artúr I saw the qualitiy of the working-line labs and I decided to buy a labrador bitch from pure working lines - she is Gianna of Carinthia, a wonderful bitch: she became Int. FTCH and H. FTCH by her age of 3,5 - with a totally green trainer... I learned much more from her than I can ever teach to my dogs.

My second bitch Chance of Dukefield - a very stylish and pleasing little bitch with a lots of drive - won her Int. FTCH title in 2006. and she has won a lot of FT awards and WT placements during the years.

In 2008. I made two other dogs up to FTCH in my kennel: Int. FTCH Blackthorn Racer and GB FTCH Blackthorn Ascella.

With the first litter of Gianna I put the down the foundations of my kennel called Blackthorn in 2005. (http://www.blackthorn.hu) - so I always have some newcomers to train and compete ;-). For the moment Blackthorn Ascella from the A litter is my favourite, she is a very talented and hard-going bitch giving me a lot of unfogettable moments on trainings and competitions. In 2008. she won her first Novice FT in England and by winning an Open FT second time she became Hungarian FTCH. She followed her unbelievable story last winter when in England she won 2 qualifying Open Field Trials in a row, within a week and she became the first and only Field Trial Champion from the Continent made up under the rules of the UK Kennel Club and she was also qualified to run on the IGL Retriever Championship in Blankley.

I have been active in promoting retriever work in Hungary for a long time - in the past years as one of the leaders of the Labrador Retriever Club - and I have been managing an informative professional website - RetrieverSport on training and care of retrievers since 2001. (www.retrieversport.hu).

In the past years I have judged in Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Finland and Sweden - and in 2008. I had the honour to judge on a Field Trial in England!

For the moment I have 5 labradors in competition age, some youngster for the future and a cocker spaniel - and some pups from my own litters to train for other people.

I like to train my dogs according to the hunting requirements and not just for WT or FT - so all of them can work on normal hunting days, search under the gun-range, flush game, pick up etc. - and in the meantime they are successful in every kind of competitions, on WT as well as on FT. The retriever is such a versatile breed, it would be a waste of their talent not to improve every inborn quality and ability which they have…

I also train English cocker and springer spaniels.

I hold regular hunting and dummy training classes in my own area near the Austrian border as well as abroad, preparing dogs and handlers for hunt tests and WT/FT. I train only small groups so I can focus on the individual problem of every dog and handler. My trainings are quite "technical", I like "trial and success" method with built-up excercises instead of testing the dogs with a lot of dummies retrieved.

I still spend considerable time to visit other trainers in England and on the Continent and take training days from them because one can always learn and get fresh new ideas. Wintertime I spend all my spare time freezing on picking-ups where I can enjoy the result of the all-year-long training of my dogs.

I am really looking forward of the training in August and meeting my Czech Retriever-friends and their dogs again!

Rita Kökény

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