BevLive: Canadian Finals, Day 3

Same Alberta weather. Amanda had a really good morning run with Clive.

Got 88 and the high combined. Not much luck with Ethel and Bart. Viki did great with Merle and is in the double lift. Grant Musgrove won the second go around with a 90.

I on the other hand couldn't get much done today. I ran Mirk first and it took him an eternity to get his sheep going. He finally nipped one and they came away. We had wasted a lot of time andwe needed to really run them around the course (which we did), but a bad pen and no time to shed along with tons off our lift got us a 60. The good news is that we hung in there and managed to tie for tenth, so Mirk made the double lift.

That turned out to be my good run for the day. Hemp and I drew four crazy sheep. We missed the fetch and driveaway gates then spent six minutes chasing them all over the field at the pen. He got 52, which was sure all his run deserved. It was horrid. Happily we had yesterday's 90 to add to it so he made it into the final as well. It took 137 combined to make the CBCA Final.

We drew at the handler's dinner and got tomorrow's order of running. I'm up first with Hemp and 12th with Mirk. Amanda is 7th with Clive and Viki is 2nd with Merle. We ended up with 14 dogs running since all the ties went through and we needed the top ten for the Western Regionals and the Canadian Finals, and while there was some overlap it took 14 dogs to get a top ten for both.