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awards. Trial Champion status.

Two owner-handlers accounted for 48 of the Suzi Burton’s 37 awards this decade were
85 field trial awards won in the 2000s. Ms Suzi secured by 3 bitches, Trubon Arade Tribute (21
Burton built on her initial success of the late 1990s awards), Trubon Bibe Tres (14 awards), and
and secured 37 of the 85. Dave Pilkington’s bitch Trubon Chyna Treasa (Re- Imp) (2 awards, but
Quadet Caterin (“Holly”) picked up 11 awards on Chyna’s finer achievements fall into the next
the way to becoming a field trial champion, the decade, the 2010s).
second Weimaraner to do so after Wobrooke of
Fleetapple (d) in the 1980s. Trubon Arade Tribute (b), “Fenny”, won her first
field trial award (2nd) in Novice with the BWWGS
Dave’s Quadet Caterin (b) (born 04/08/1999) bred at Ammerdown. A further four 2nd awards were
by Steve and Marilyn Chant out of Brakabreeze secured, along with three 4th places and seven
Goshawk (d) and Quadet Asta (b), secured her CoMs before Fenny won out of Novice with a
first field trial award, a 3rd place, at a little over 1st place at a N&SHPRFTC trial at Great Priory
2 years of age on 29/10/2001 at a HVS Novice Farm, Braintree, Essex on 26th January 2005.
stake at Launton. Four more awards were won Three places and two CoMs were also achieved
in Novice stakes, securing that vital 1st place in All-Aged.
to win out of Novice under judges C Wilkinson
and R Day on 29th January 2003 in a WA trial A litter mate to Fenny was Trubon Asko Truman
at Skirbeck Farm, Benniworth, Lincolnshire. The (d) and was the first British bred Weimaraner to
following season saw a 2nd place at an ISCGB be exported to Germany and gain his VJP, HZP
All-Aged trial. It was in the 2004/05 season that and VGP.
Holly won the coveted Field Trial Champion
accolade. Trubon Arade Tribute was mated to accomplished
German dog Alf zur Uhlenflucht and a retained
bitch from this litter was Trubon Bibe Tres, “Bibe”
winner of 14 field trial awards in the UK including
three 2nd places, three 3rd’s, two 4th’s and five
CoMs in Novice trials, and one CoM in All-Aged.
In addition to these awards, Bibe competed in VJP
and HZP in Germany, securing 171 points in the
Landesgruppe, Niedersachsen, Schwerinsdorf
Weim Klub e.V. HZP on 18th August 2004.

Trubon Bren Tartuf (b) “Hana” mother to Delta
FT Ch Quadet Caterin and sibling to Bibe was taken back as a re-home
by Suzi and then competed in Germany scoring
Three awards in Open started in October with a VJP 59, VJP 62, and HZP 179 in 2004, and was
3rd place at a Dukeries (Notts) trial under judges later to secure a “Good” grading in a UK Spring
G Card and M Canham. As 2004 drew to an end Pointing Test.
Holly won a 1st place at a WCGB Open stake
on 30th December 2004 under judges PG Nixon Half-sibling to Bibe out of Grafite Greystones (d)
and S Chant. Handler Dave Pilkington didn’t have and Trubon Arade Tribute (b) was Trubon Chyna
time to dwell on this outstanding bitch having “a Treasa (b) (born 12/06/2006). Chyna managed to
leg up” as just two days later on New Year’s Day secure two awards in Novice in January 2009 but
2005 under judges A Russell and Mrs V O’Keeffe would go on to greater field success in the next
at a GSPA trial at Little Dalby, Leicestershire, that decade before tragedy struck and she became
second 1st place was secured to earn Holly Field blind following an illness. This indomitable

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