Welcome to the Mountgrace Gundogs Website

Les Dixon has been a professional gundog trainer for over twenty five years. He has been touring the country show circuit with his dogs for the last six years. Originally based near Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire from where the gundog team gets its name he now lives and works a few miles away in East Harlsey.

Les Dixon	Mountgrace Gundogs with my granddaughter

A typical show day would be two half hour ring displays, times to suit, but we are flexible and can change to fit in with your arrangements. We normally bring about eight dogs, some fully trained, some partly trained and one or two untrained. This allows us to demonstrate how a trained gundog team works together. Then we can show the basic steps of training young dogs and puppies at various levels of training. We find this is always a good crowd puller as the training for young gundogs is the same as for a pet dog. Also if time permits we like to involve children in the display. My granddaughter loves helping with the dogs and wants to be a vet.

This year I will have a small number of labrador puppies for sale from top class working stock. Dam is Loxy (black). Sire of the puppies is Glen (fox red). Both parents are hip and eye tested and bred from field trial champions. Puppies arrived 7th July. Two black dogs from the litter are available.

The Great Yorkshire Show	Dogs at work at Murton Grange -         one of the premier high bird shoots

NEWS - Latest pictures from Great Yorkshire Show 2010

A fair sized crowd gathered to watch the Mountgrace Gundogs display at the Great Yorkshire Show. The weather was kind this year fine and dry but not too hot. The dogs as ever were very attentive as they were put through their paces. Towards the end of the display we had some audience participation for the little ones. Later at the static display we were also kept busy.

Otley Show

Les with his trailer for the Mountgrace Gundogs Display Team.

The larger shows that we cover includes Newark and Nottingham, Herts County, East of England, Great Yorkshire, Alnwick Castle as well as many smaller one day shows. When not in the ring we have a static display so that the public can come along and see our dogs and discuss any training problems they may be having with their own dog. Our working gundogs are Labradors and Spaniels.

Dogs exercising at our new training site. Left to right Loxy, Guss, Sophie, Rob (three generations of spaniel - grandfather, mother and son) and in the foreground Zena (grandmother of the kennel).

The Team

TV Work
Available for TV work with Labradors and English Springer Spaniels and has worked on episodes of Heartbeat and Luke Casey's Dales Diary.

External Links

Mountgrace Gundogs is sponsored by Chudleys dog foods.	Les also recommends Northallerton Shooting & Countrywear.
My good friend Roger Beck runs Beckfisher fly-fishing school	Northallerton district local 5 day weather forecast from the Met office (RAF Leeming)
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