HPR action at the St Hubertus Cup 2026
28 January 2026
The St Hubertus Cup is the UK’s ultimate test of HPR – hunt-point-retrieve – dogs and their owners. We are at the Abbeystead Estate in
Dave ‘the Dog’ Templar is training a cocker in cover for field trials. This is slightly different to training a dog to work on a driven pheasant day. The principles are the same – and one of them is keeping a lid on your own emotions. He talks about how to do that.
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The St Hubertus Cup is the UK’s ultimate test of HPR – hunt-point-retrieve – dogs and their owners. We are at the Abbeystead Estate in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XFi5–ObSw Keir Starmer’s animal welfare strategy could shut down dog rescues – we hear from the Cheshire Sighthound Rescue Charity which gives rescued greyhounds, whippets
Most shoots have at least one cocker spaniel either picking up or in the beating line. In this episode of our series More Than a
Top game chef José Souto is a keen falconer, and uses his pointer Izzy to find and point game birds for his birds to hunt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwGKwBmuVnI The Belgian shepherd or Malinois has gone from herding and guarding livestock to frontline service. Dog trainer Sean Brown from Petsercise.co.uk in Northumberland introduces
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg9GkU6LGHI Pet, friend, workmate – the labrador may be all these things to you. To wider society, it is a help around the house and
youtu.be/dcHOpXGuJrw This is no ordinary field trial. We’re at Prestwold Hall near Loughborough in Leicestershire, for the inaugural UK St Hubertus Cup – a competition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGMk6ujodI Expert trainer and gundog breeder Dave Templar from Countryways Gundogs shows a field-trial-winning flush and retrieve by a cocker, and how he trains the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSCejngkKLA Dave ‘the Dog’ Templar is training a cocker in cover for field trials. This is slightly different to training a dog to work on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFpMMSuIRs Working a gundog to flush game, says top trainer Dave Templar, is like windowcleaning. You want your dog to wipe the cover in front
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfX3Ka8_5Y Malin Hewins has brought together members of the German Wirehaired Pointer Club, plus friends (including a bracco Italiano), to pick up on a walked-up
Controversy over force-free approach to gundog training by Deborah Hadfield There’s a growing split at the heart of gundog training, and it centres on the