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Major victory – at last

IF AT FIRST YOU don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s a rule that applies to Rory Major, who last month finally achieved his lifelong ambition to win the HPR Championship. As he admits with a wry smile: “It’s only taken me 34 years to win it. I have qualified for every championship since it started in 1986, both with my own dogs and those I’ve handled for other people. My own dogs have run in 11 championships.”

In recent years, Rory has qualified what he describes as ‘multiple dogs’,

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