I inherited my love of the countryside and field sports from my grandfather, who was a gamekeeper in Herefordshire. I started working his Labradors in the late 1990s at the age of ten and was soon competing in Gundog Working Tests, as well as going beating, picking up and shooting whenever I could.

Throughout the autumn and winter I spend my time picking up, beating – starting with grouse in August at the Bolton Abbey Estate in Yorkshire, and complete the rest of the season from September at the Salperton Park Estate and other shoots in Gloucestershire. I also compete, Judge and help at Field Trials whenever I have the opportunity.

I regularly compete in Field Trials and Gundog Working Tests, and I am a Committee Member of the United Retriever Club (Border Counties & Cotswolds Area), the Bristol & West Working Gundog Society and the Southern & Western Counties Field Trial Society.

To date I have made up two Field Trial Champions and qualified for the IGL Retriever Championship three times since 2016. In 2016 I was selected to represent England with FTCh Windoogpack Coral in the Home Nations Field Trial. This special occasion was organised to celebrate HM The Queens 90th Birthday.

In May 2019 I was added to the UK Kennel Club’s B Panel of Field Trial Judges for Retrievers.

I am lucky to be supported by my partner, Steve Erasmus of Razarush Gundogs. Together we are able to share our love of dogs and their training. Steve has enjoyed great success with his Springer Spaniels, winning Novice and Open Working Tests and representing Wales on numerous occasions.