2025 National Derby Blog


2025 National Derby Championship Blog

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

5th Series Test Description

5th Series – Land Double

For the 5th Series, we are at Stair-Step Ponds. The mat for this test sits on top of a hill facing South. The terrain is a terraced hill dropping to the right with ponds at the base.

Bird # 1 is a Dead Drake thrown left to right landing approximately 280 yards from the mat. These throwers shoot and throw down hill or to the handlers right. There is a bush in the field that is short of the throwers, about midway under the arc. (We will refer to this mark as R for Righ)

Bird # 2 is also a Dead Drake that is located to the left of the mat. These gunners are left of the road that goes around the rim. They stand, then shoot and throw the Dead Drake across the road left to right. This bird land approximately 170 yards from the mat . (We will refer to this mark as L for Left Flyer)

This test is taking approximately 3 minutes per dog to complete.