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Registration form for

foreign participants

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Registration form for the

Young Handlers' trial

here

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conducteurs français

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Jeunes Conducteurs

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What is the French Open?

Our mission:

to invite you all to some

fun days with good friends,

great dogs
and challenging work!

We are honoured to have some fantastic judges who are also amazing handlers, eager to challenge us and each other with tricky and personal courses.

We are bringing in several types of sheep that put the complicity between dog and handler to the test.

And for our friends coming from far, we have located this trial around a truly charming and genuinely French town with plenty to do and see also for weary family members who may not fully share our enthusiasm for sheep related activities.

Please come, whether as participant, volonteer or spectator, and help us make this a wonderful and fun event that gives us memories and inspiration enough to boost us through the next winter!

Warm regards, Sabine

Organiser

Current weather in Nogent-le-Roi:

Nogent-le-Roi, FRA
Updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 5:00 PM

Sprinkles

16°C

High: 20°C
Low: 10°C
Wind: 11 kph
Humidity: 81%

Sunday
19° / 11°

Monday
22° / 11°

Tuesday
20° / 10°

Wednesday
23° / 14°

MSN Weather

Data provided by Foreca

Two-week weather forecast here

NEWS

We have moved this site to a new platform; if you find links that don't work or something else that doesn't seem right, don't hesitate to let us know!

We have added info about the judges and the sheep here.

We are still receiving registrations so we are waiting a bit to assign runs. But as we start being fully booked we will prepare the starting lists for each day, and ask you to check if you are okey with how you run, and if so to please pay your participation fee. How much you owe and how to pay will be posted here.

We still have a few places left, especially on Friday, so don't hesitate to register if you haven't already done so!

We have posted the list of participants currently registered here.

We will post info about the days you are running and how to pay your fee shortly.

We are very proud to announce our judges for 2012:

· Ron Beecham, England

· Pascal Bourdon, France

· Erik Holmgaard, Denmark

· Iolo Jones, Wales

Like last year, the judges are coming with their dogs to enjoy three days of interesting and challenging trialing with the rest of us!

We have some news that we hope will make your stay here even better and make teh trial more interesting:

· We are proposing a Young Handler trial with two categories: up to 14 and up to 20.

·Since last year's challenging sheep were very heavy, this year's tough sheep are very, very fast.

· The guided tourswere so popular that we have also added the charming medieval city Chartres to the itinerary!

· We are arranging so that the French Open will have our own section at the camping, so that all the people staying there can be together.

· We will only have 2 fieldsthis year, to be able to better concentrate our resources and services, and to be able to use very fast sheep (=> we need closed fields).

· More as we approach! J

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Memories from the French Open 2011

Photos by Patrick Schmid	here
Photos by Patrick, II	here
Photos by Jeroen Goetheer	here
Photos by Corine Cadet (Userid: info, password: 05r4xa)	here
Video of Aled's run with Mac Saturday afternoon, by Jerome	here
Video of Aled running Roy, by Patrick Schmid	here
Video of Guillaume Josien running Bob, by Jerome	here
TV emission (starts 14.30 minutes into the program, in French)	here

Some of the unique prizes donated by our partners Sheepdogwhistles.de, Peter Vogler, Domaine du Haut Lavoir and Der Bordershop. More prizes here.

The French Open is proud to be associated with:

FRENCH OPEN

International Sheepdog Trial