BevLive: Tabletop SDT, Day Two

My hero today was Alison Holmes. While she was running her first dog on the first leg of the drive my puppy got loose and in a slow motion disaster gaining speed all the time and with great ease beat me to Alison's sheep on the first leg of the drive and gathered them all up for me. On her rerun she easily scored an 81 in her second open trial with Rye.

Later in the day on her second dog, Chip, while fetching a loose horse came galloping onto the field. With complete aplumb Alison carried on and  earned an 87 and fifth place with the horse being chased about the field by a rider all through the rest of her run.

The running was good all day with high scores placed at all times. The course was shifted to change both the outrun and the drive. This caused quite a bit of confusion to a lot of dogs on their outruns but none more so then my Mirk. He ran past his sheep and when I tried to redirect him misunderstood me in the wind and turned back ending up in another field altogether. I was not amused.

Fly ran very well scoring an 89 to tie for first with Jim Swift and Linda Tesdahl. Jim won, Linda was second, and we were third with the tie again broken on outwork.

It was another pretty day although it started out overcast this morning and is now blowing pretty hard. The wind was to our backs all day and while  I think it had a definite impact on how some of the dogs occassionally heard it didn't seem to be a big determining factor. There were two really nice runs by Don Whittington and Don Helsley either of which would have been a clear winner with a reasonable pen but both failed to finish. Alasdair and Star came 4th with an 88.