BevLive: Table Top SDT: Double Lift

Double lift day. Turned out the hardest part of he day was the split, not the double lift. Go figure???

I ran first after a demonstration run by our judge, Emil Ludekie. This gave the set out crews a chance to perfect their game, which they did, getting the second set out all day without any dog needing to wait.

Hemp had a fairly good run but we were to split, pen the four sheep our dogs turned on, then single one of our group of four. My shed off sheep snuck up behind me to rejoin on both the she’d and the single.

This proved to be the story of the day. The shed off sheep would come running from a hundred yards away to rejoin. Very frustrating and the ruin of many a very good run.

Hemp’s score stood until Alan Mills ran Sis with a cracking run and perfect finish. Tom Wilson had any even better run but came to grief on the shed. Joe and I ran between Alan and Tom and while our out work was no where near as nice as theirs it totally blew me away. I had never had Joe actually do a good turn back and this one was quite good. Coupled with good fetches and a great finish he is currently sitting second. A bunch of us left for dinner with three dogs left to run but even if all three of them beat him I’m an extremely happy camper. I can’t believe how much Joe has learned at one dog trial. He’s my hero.