Jo Serruys
Jo lives in the North of Belgium and he started in 1993 with Retrievertraining. He bought his first Labrador, Roydon Yochiver with the intention to do only obedience training.
In 1998 came the first working breed Labrador, From Gundogs’ Heaven Billy in.
From Gundogs’ Heaven Billy became the title of Belgian & International Field Trial Champion. He qualified Billy three times for the Belgian Retriever Championship.
Jo has qualified two of his dogs on 5 occasions for the Belgian Retriever Championship. As an amateur, he made two field trial champions and two field trial winners.
B. & Int. FTCH. From Gundogs’ Heaven Billy
B. FTCH. Starcreek Devon
Ftw. Ragweeds Impish Rum
Ftw. Broadlaw Flora.
He has participated on field trials and workingtests all over Europe, International Workingtests and the Skinners Workingtest in Highclere.
He was one of the founders, member of the board and vice-president of the Belgian Labrador Retriever Club in 2001. He was also responsible for the working committee for many years. He organized together with the working committee members several seminars for the Belgian Labrador Retriever Club members during this period.
Jo takes a lot of initiatives to promote working with Retrievers in general.
Since 2006, he is appointed as an official FCI Field Trial judge for Retrievers. His experience as a FCI Field Trial judge for Retrievers has taken him to the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain judging Field Trials and Gundog Working Tests. In 2019, he judged the German Workingtest Final and the International Challenge Cup field trial in Spain.
Training seminars have also featured in different countries. He likes to see gundogs who hunt with style and have natural gamefinding abilities.
Jo always considers it a great honour to be asked to judge these events and is very pleased to accept the appointment to judge the DRC German Finals workingtest 2026 here in Mörfelden-Walldorf.
He wish all the best to the competitors!
Kind regards,
Jo Serruys