Can a Murray River Retriever do tracking and dog sports? What the club’s champions have shown

December 2014 | Working and Hunting

A curly liver-coloured Murray River Retriever sitting in a paddock beside tracking ribbons and a certificate

By Wendy Potter, Sarah Crocker, Meredith Marshall, Karen Howard and Ruth Bell, as written in the Murray Mail

From the Murray Mail archive: first published in the club's newsletter, issue 12 (December 2014), and dated here to when it first appeared. Read the original issue (members).

Yes, and with real success. A Murray named Bailee became a Tracking Champion in 2015 and then the breed’s first Track and Search Grand Champion, Murrays have won in agility, rally and obedience, and since the breed’s recognition in 2021 they have been earning titles in gundog retrieving tests and trials.

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