BevLive: Nursery Finals, Day 2

My blog is going to be even more personal from now on as Heather is on Twitter with a blow by blow of the actual trial that I can’t hope to compete with for accuracy.

The weather was hotter today and as I understand, this will be the hottest day except for Wednesday. So we can handle that. The sheep didn’t seem any better or worse then yesterday, not unsurprisingly. We have over 650 of them and they will all run once during the nursery. So every preliminary and final run of the nursery will be on fresh sheep.

I ran 20th this morning and had a wreck. Meg didn’t run out with her usual confidence, perhaps put off by the carnival atmosphere so unlike most low key events. Whatever her excuse once she lifted her sheep she was pretty awful over flanking and slow to stop. It was apparent we weren’t going to have any success and I walked at the first drive gate. Very disappointing as she has had some great runs this year. Happily she is young and eligible for next year.

Amanda and Monty had a poor fetch and missed the second drive with fast running sheep. A really good pen got her a score in the 130s. Monty looked really good. Very obedient and full of authority on the sheep. I like him better every time I see him.

We reversed the drive and moved the set out enough to give the sheep fresh grass at the hold out spot. The time remains the same. I’m not sure if the reversed drive (first driving toward the exhaust and cross drive away from it) is going to be easier or harder. Tomorrow will tell.