Held at a variety of venues offering adventurous search areas, we hope the trials will present a challenge to you and your dog whether you’re looking for individual progression, the competition element or both.

The judges will be looking to award points in three key areas:-Team Confidence, Area Coverage & Indication and whilst the searches do have a maximum time, the speed of the search is not a primary factor in placings and you are permitted to deliver your rewards in the search area.

Working through the Trial Stages, your progression will take you from surface to inaccessible hides with the difficulty of the distractions increasing along with the search areas sizes which will test your search stamina as a team.

We will of course be looking for a winner and a runner up at each trial, but we also look forward to acknowledging consistency with our Skill Award which is available at each element within a stage.

We have several categories in our League Tables enabling us to celebrate the huge variety of breeds that excel at nosework as a sport and our Synergy Awards – reserved for those moments when a judge is blown away by a team working in complete harmony.