BevLive: Table Top SDT, Day 1

Hot here too but a cool breeze. Sheep are very hard to spot and hard to keep moving. Big course. 11:30 time. Only one pen so far. Scores mostly DQs and RTs with some 40 and 50s to mix it up. Sheep are great five yearlings, wonderfully ignorant.



The Blue Grass is old news by now so I won’t revisit poor Hemp’s unfortunate performance beyond saying we were finished quickly and on the road to Colorado Springs by one o’clock Sunday afternoon. I did some pretty serious driving and arrived at the next trial Monday morning. Pretty good driving even for me.

I was at Lise Anderson’s great trial site at nine in the morning. The sheep proved pretty challenging for the riders to spot which slowed the trial a bit. Actually, they were pretty challenging for everyone but Tom Wilson who finished first and second. Alan Mills and his Sis were third beating Hemp and out by a point and leaving us 4th with our 57.

Joe ran very well and was really laying one down until we got to the second drive gate. The girls were determined to break back up the field to the set out, as they’d pretty much been doing all day and Joe wouldn’t let them. Joe broke the impasse with an overwhelming demonstration of force and our judge, Emil Ludeckie, called us for unnecessary roughness. I ask
you, “what’s a dog to do?”

We ran 49 dogs of which fewer than twenty got scores and more then half of those scores were below 40. The sheep were great, alas, they seemed to pretty much carry the day except for Tim and Sly’s 78.

Had a great dinner with friends. Gosh some folks sure can do the cooking in the camper thing with style. I’ve never been much of a hand at it.

We have great weather forecast for the whole week and we all get multiple chances on these tremendously good sheep. I’m hoping they will help with Joe’s education. He learned a lot at the Blue Grass but this is really advanced stuff for my youngster.