TRULY HISTORIC DAYS can rarely be anticipated. One such day was Thursday, 8 September. I had left my home in Suffolk early in order to arrive in time for the Pointer Club’s field trial meeting on HM The Queen’s Sandringham Estate. The meet itself was in a field at Anmer, the approach track muddy after a night of rain. Would the rain improve the scenting conditions? The dampness of the ground was a novelty after a summer of drought.
I arrived to find the car park already filled with
