BevLive: Bluegrass Classic, Day 2

We’ve finished the first open trial. They’re still running on the novice field but almost done. We finished so early because there were so many open DQs and RTs. A very hard day. The wind was up and the lambs were quite unhappy. However, we also had the two top scores of the trial so the top dogs managed just fine.

Scott and Don had a very difficult group of sheep and win with them beating Alasdair and his nursery dog’s very nice early run.

I know you are all anxious to know how I did. I ran Joe, my nursery, dog last in the open and I thought he was great. Still a little rough in places but he listened and handled his sheep with confidence. Alas the opportunity I saw for a shed was really a clever lamb trap and Joe solved the difficult shedding problem by biting the lamb. Mea culpa, mea culpa. I have no idea now why it looked like a good idea but such is life. We got no score but I’m very proud of my boy and looking forward to running him again.

The novice field was much easier today with most of the groups much more manageable. The scores were generally higher with many pens although there were plenty of lambs that remembered the pen from yesterday and refused to go in. Lyle again won the Ranch although with a different dog. I think Scott won the nursery. He sure had much the highest score the last time I looked. Both my entries ran pretty well.

New open tomorrow. We all need to try and do it again to make the double lift.