Super Retriever Series: retriever teams, season results and UKC records

Key facts

Retriever divisions

Amateur and Open [source]

A series for experienced retriever teams

The Super Retriever Series, abbreviated SRS, presents its retriever programme around the partnership between dog and handler in field and water scenarios. Its overview identifies marking, memory, control and consistent teamwork as central aspects of the competition. It describes the programme as intended for experienced teams with established fundamentals. This is a particular competitive series with its own formats and advancement routes. Its stated design can help a handler decide whether the programme matches their training stage, while the published rules and actual event schedule determine the conditions of a proposed entry.

Retriever competition and dock events are separate

The retriever overview identifies Amateur and Open divisions, qualifying events and progression towards the Crown Championship. It also distinguishes the Retriever Series from Super Dock, the organisation’s dock-jumping programme. The wider website carries both schedules, which makes the distinction useful when searching for an event or result. The retriever programme’s mission statement says it uses artificial or simulated birds. A reader should therefore describe its assessments through the series’ actual format, rather than infer live-game hunting from the field scenarios or attach a dock-jumping performance to the retriever-trial record.

Several kinds of points and results

SRS identifies United Kennel Club as its title registry and publishes links for UKC title points, Crown qualifying points, Team of the Year points and scoreboards. These are related but separate records. A placement describes one occasion; a qualifying total concerns advancement within a season; a title-point record concerns the registration system. The site also supplies previous programmes and an expanding statistics resource for historical research. To interpret a dog-handler achievement, keep the division, occasion, season and type of points together. That preserves the meaning of the result while allowing a reader to follow the team’s progress across the series.

Common questions

Sources & further reading

References for this guide. Rules and services can change; check the responsible organisation for current details.

• SRS: retriever programme overview (opens in a new tab)
• SRS: title registry, standings and programmes (opens in a new tab)
• SRS: statistics dashboard (opens in a new tab)

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