BevLive: The Finals, Day 4

Supposedly this was the hottest day of the week. It will take a statistician to tell for sure but I think we had our fewest qualifying runs today. Some nice work by Tom and Sly, as ever, got the day’s high score of 183. The biggest disappointment was Aladair’s Star taking a miscue and running too wide, off the field, to DQ. It’s always a lesson to see them perform and we were sorry to miss seeing them do their magic.

At the end of the day Amanda and Roz’s 151 was the 40th place and the last dog to make the cut.

We reset the course. Very similar as the field doesn’t allow much flexibility. A dogleg fetch to avoid the big tree that gave many handlers trouble in the fetch. We are starting at 7:30 to give us time for the 40 runs. I drew up 14th with Mirk. Amanda is 17th with Clive and 24th I think with Roz. Wish us luck and watch the streaming video. You can find the link at www.nationalsheepdogfinals.com/webcast/