Handler Profile - Huw Jones

Country: Wales

My Dogs

Huw (Ffynongain Gundogs) currently has five Labradors, one Springer Spaniel, one German Shepherd, a Lurcher and a Patterdale Terrier.

Achievements

"There are so many over the last 30 years, it’s hard to know where to start, but winning my first Field Trial was a great experience and basically started me off in the competition world - that was twenty seven years ago now.

Being selected for the Welsh International Team was a great honour...

I was delighted to win the Windsor Great Park Gundog test in 2009 with my Labrador Caullichat Rebel, being only the second Welshman ever to lift the trophy!

I was also a member of the Welsh International Team that won the Retriever World Cup, and I was extremely pleased to have come second in the Individual score table.

I have now been a member of the Wales team for 10 years.

Over the years I have been lucky enough to have had great success with several dogs that I have bred, with four Field Trial Champions and over fifteen Field Trial Winners, and hopefully this will carry on.”

Biography

Huw first got involved in gundogs from a very young age. His Grandfather had Irish Setters and Welsh Springer Spaniels. He showed them and shot over them, and on weekends Huw would be there with him helping in the kennels and out shooting over the dogs, and that’s where his love of dogs started.

The most memorable success?

Huw says, "There are so many over the last 30 years, it’s hard to know where to start, but winning my first Field Trial was a great experience and basically started me off in the competition world - that was twenty seven years ago now.

Being selected for the Welsh International Team was a great honour.”

Other successes over the years?

I was a member of the Welsh International Team that won the Retriever World Cup, and I was extremely pleased to have come second in the Individual score table.

I have now been a member of the Wales team for 10 years.

Over the years I have been lucky enough to have had great success with several dogs that I have bred, with four Field Trial Champions and over fifteen Field Trial Winners, and hopefully this will carry on.”

And Huw is involved in much more…..

• Picking-up on large commercial shoots
• Training Police search dogs
• Running gundog training groups
• Organising Gundog Working Tests
• Running training groups for the KC Canine Good Citizen Scheme