A heartfelt thank you from everyone at the Vale of York Working Retriever Club to Becki Thistle of Cardueae Labradors for her incredibly kind and generous donation of the Cardueae Cup. This beautiful trophy will be awarded to the second-place dog in our Open Field Trial at Wykeham on 10th November this year. We are truly grateful for Becki’s support of the club and for helping us celebrate the achievements of our competitors with such a meaningful trophy. Thank you Becki, and

Congratulations to all the award winners, and a huge thank you to the judges, all competitors, and the helpers on the day and behind the scenes. Without whom these events could not take place. Open A/V Retriever Walked Up Working Test held on Field Trial lines on 23.08.26, in accordance Royal Kennel Club Regulations at Wholesea Farm, Holme on Spalding Moor by kind invitation of E and M Bramley. The judges were Simon Capstick (A panel) Philip Dyson (B panel) with NP’s Anthea S

As the working test season nears the end for this year, we held our novice dog/ novice handler, novice, and open working tests at the wonderful grounds at Great Kelk by very kind permission of the Middlewood Family on Sunday 2nd August 2026. Our judges for the day were, Dave Latham, Louise Munchas Adsbol, Keith Eastwood, and Teresa Middlewood who we are most grateful to for giving up their sunday to judge all three classes and provide the competitors with some challenging and

The 7 & 8th events of 2026 VOYWR’ s Working Test season, a Novice Test followed by an Open, were held at the beautiful Farthings Vineyard at Westfield Farm, Fimber,- probably the only working test in the world held in a vineyard! It was a perfect weather, warm, dry & overcast with a good breeze; 28 Novice competitors, followed in the afternoon by a further by 29 Open ones were challenged by 3 interesting static Tests, and a “walk up” in the Novice with the challenge of a rem

Our second Working Tests for 2026 were held at Bedale Grange, Wykeham by kind permission of Mr James Stephenson on behalf of the Dawnay Estates. The judges were Paul Hasney (B Panel), Eden Parish, Brian Dodsworth and Phil Dyson. The weather was kind - bright but cool. The woodland, glades and stream at Wykeham all looked glorious and the judges set up some challenging retrieves for all 59 entries in the various categories. Congratulations to all in the awards as follows: Open

These were held at Buskhill Farm, by kind invitation of Elizabeth and James Needler. Judges were Phillipa Williams B Panel, Jemma Hendley, David Sidwell, and Andy Curtis. We were fortunate to have a total of 76 entries and on a lovely spring morning we started our long day with 13 Puppy competitors, followed by the Novice, and lastly the Open whose patient competitors had a long wait. Congratulations go to the worthy winners. Awards Puppy There was a run off for 1st & 2nd pla

The AGM of the Vale of York Working Retriever Club will be held on Tuesday 24 March 2026 at 6.30pm at East Keswick Village Hall, School Lane, East Keswick, Leeds LS17 9DA. If you would like to attend please let our secretary Sophie Watts know. The agenda will be sent out on request nearer the time. Her email address is gensec@wrcvaleofyork.com

At the AGM in 2024, approval was given to increase the subscription rates for 2025 onwards. It has been many years since there has been...

The Club is pleased to announce that Jason Barnes has taken on the role of Acting Field Trial Secretary for this coming season. Club...

DATE AND TIME : THURSDAY 9TH MAY 2024 EVENT : NOVICE TRAINING / 6.30 - 8.30pm VENUE : RED HOUSE WOOD, MOOR MONKTON, YORK If you wish to...

The Vale of York Working Retriver Club held its Junior Handler Day on the Shoot on Saturday 16th December 2023 at Quarry Farm, Westerdale.

The Vale of York Working Retriever Club was invited for the first time to compete in the inter club team event at Chatsworth House...

VALE OF YORK WORKING RETRIEVER CLUB (KC 2263) PUPPY, NOVICE & OPEN GUNDOG WORKING TEST FOR A/V RETRIEVER SUNDAY, 25 JUNE 2023 AT MANOR...

The Club held a training evening on Thursday 8 June in a wood near York. We are grateful to Lindsay Burgin for allowing us to use the...

PLEASE FIND BELOW NEW BIOSECURITY INFORMATION FOR FIELD TRIALS AND WORKING GUNDOG TESTS. PLEASE READ AND ADHERE TO THE NEW REGULATIONS....

VYWRC TRAINING EVENING : SEPT 2022 The Club held a very successful training evening on Thursday 1 September 2022 at the Cawood Training...

The Lincolnshire Gundog Society had the honour of running the Working Test Retriever 2 day event at the Burghley Game and Country Fair...

At The Annual General Meeting held on May 17th 2022 Jane Jacob Vice Chairman & Juniors Secretary retired from the committee. Jane was a...