Dantero's Diego - hunt drive tests

Diego is a 10 month old Dutch Shepherd/Malinois cross from mainly KNPV and NVBK lines. Doing some hunt drive tests with him on my property. I play fetch with the dogs in this area, generally standing by my van and throwing the ball up into the "pasture", so the dogs know how to access it by going around through the dog yard and up through a few open gates. This is usually a group game though, that all my dogs participate in at once. For the test it was done solo. Diego did see me throw the ball, then we hung out for a minute before I sent him up the hill to start searching. These were actually blind searches for both of us many times, because the balls tend to hit rocks, trees, etc. and bounce who knows where as I'm holding a pup who is jumping around ready to go LOL.