WT Melnik

I am a retired Property Manager , having previously worked in the UK  property industry for forty plus years. Since pursuing a degree in Land Economics in the early Seventies, I was employed in professional management within private practice and the public sector. I have been involved in field sports since the age of five , some  fifty five years now. I have enjoyed Labradors as shooting companions for over forty years

My wife, Gill, and I have lived all our married life in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

I began competing in Gundog Tests and Field Trials in 1985 and first qualified for the British IGL Retriever Championship in 1988 with Glenpatrick Gusto.

This Labrador bitch, Gusto, formed the foundation of my Glenpatrick line. A daughter, FTCH Glenpatrick Halo produced FTCH Glenpatrick Eve, this  bitch also going on to further produce many successful FTCH progeny. Eve's litter brother FTCH Glenpatrick Eclipse of Craigenros  also positively contributed to working Labradors and I now enjoy picking-up and shooting over several of their offspring.

I am a KC A Panel Judge and have fulfilled many judging appointments both in UK and Europe. I was honoured to be one of the Judges at the 2013 IGL Retriever Championship,  held at Lauder  in the Scottish Borders.

I am the Field Trials Secretary of Scottish Field Trials Association, founded in 1907.

I currently serve on the UK Kennel Club Liaison Council and am an active Committee member of numerous Scottish gundog clubs.

Professionally, I’m a design engineer, having worked in design engineering since 1987.

I spent my longest time (22 years) as a senior engineer with a company who manufactured city cleaning equipment for the municipal industry sending machines all over the world – the brand known as “The green machine” can be found in many cities including Prague in the Czech Republic

I’ve been involved in field sports since I was a young child spending many days with ferrets and shooting rabbits with my father, then having my own guns and shooting in syndicates and at dog trials. It was through shooting that I become interested in dogs, having been interested in the way that they work.
I’ve successfully competed in working tests and field trials with Labrador retrievers and have two young dogs in my kennel for next season that are showing some positive potential at the moment.

Over the years I’ve served as a committee member on a few of the Scottish clubs committee and currently I’m the field trial secretary for the Gamekeepers National Association – a club that holds both a novice and an open qualifying field trial in Scotland.

I  enjoy judging dogs as well as running them and have judged many field trials as a non-panel judge both in Scotland and England, I was also delighted to be asked to judge a field trial in Sweden for the Swedish gundog league back in Dec this season.

I’m looking forward to coming to the Czech Republic to meet like-minded people and enjoy watching your dog’s work.

Puppy (E) Class
Novice (L) Class
Intermediate (M) Class
Veteran (V) Class
Open (S) Class

21. April 2018 - 8:30
21. April 2018 - 14:00
22. April 2018 - 8:30
22. April 2018 - 8:30
22. April 2018 - 13:00

members of RS CZ
non-members of RS CZ

Kč 1.000,- (40 EUR)
Kč 1.250,- (50 EUR)

If you pay by bank transfer, you must write the name of the event in the note „for payee“ (for example: WT Melnik).

Accommodation possibilities:

Penzion Hana
www.penzion-melnik.cz/cz/
tel: +420 603 512 485
e-mail: recepce@penzion-melnik.cz

Hotel Jaro
www.hotel-jaro.cz/cs/
tel: +420 315 626 852
e-mail: jaro.melnik@centrum.cz

Penzion u Beníšků
www.ubenisku.cz/
tel: +420 315 622 883
e-mail: ubenisku@seznam.cz

Romana Chobotská, tel. +420 776 555 613 (CZ, EN)
Ivana Rindošová, tel. +420 777 244 574
Bohumila Lelková, tel. +420 606 628 530
e-mail: info@retrieversport.cz