BevLive: Tabletop SDT, The End

Hot, sunny day with a good strong wind. Very wearing sort of day.

Day started with nursery. The outrun was shortened to about 200+ yards. Don Helsley started the class with what I think was the winning run. Meg pleased me by doing the outrun and never losing her head.However, she pulled up when she saw the horses and never did get the sheep back in line. The whole thing was sort of barely controlled chaos.

Nel was up first in the ranch/nursery and overran but otherwise had a very respectable run. The sheep became very heavy as the day went in and she hocked them a couple of times to get them moving. A reasonable but not stellar debut.

I'm in Parker now at the next trial. We are parked about half a mile from the trial field, no motorized vehicles allowed so we will all be doing a lot of walking. The field is big, but the course is very small, the outrun maybe 200 yards up hill. The drives less then 100 yards each.

Great dinner out with Alison and Herbert at a sushi place. Amanda would have loved it. Now I'm off to walk my dogs. Handlers meeting at 7:30, so we can all sleep in.

The Tabletop trial was really good. Great sheep and very challenging courses.