264 TRAINING THE HUNTING DOG 



run in the next heat, and a wait is entailed before the 

 next heat is begun. 



Before a heat is begun the judges should care- 

 fully estimate where it will end, and direct the com- 

 petitors to be at that place with their dogs in waiting. 

 All such matters are now by expert judges managed 

 with a precision which a few years ago would have 

 been deemed impossible. Every detail is so provided 

 for that it comes in its proper sequence. 



A course when once laid out and the heat begun 

 should be followed with a reasonable degree of con- 

 sistency. Any material deviation from it for a mo- 

 mentary advantage is sure to result in a serious dis- 

 arrangement of the general plans. 



There are many incidents which tend to change 

 the course and disorganize the plans of inexperi- 

 enced judges, not the least of which is the dramatic 

 cry of "Point, Judges !" made by a handler two or 

 three hundred yards away from the announced 

 course. The novice-judge, nine times out of ten, 

 rides in a furious gallop to see the supposed point, 

 and nearly as many times out of ten there is no point. 

 It is an old, and many times successful, device on the 

 part of the straggling handler, to draw the judges 



