Shaker Village '10 - Day One

Today's weather was beautiful but we have been told to batten down the hatches for tomorrow! We always enjoy Shaker, however the outrun and sheep are difficult for our young dogs. The outrun is a up a quite dramatic bowl/hill and the sheep like to take off as soon as the dog makes contact. Our dogs had it rough today but they had alot of company. I had a hard time getting a top 10 in each class. Most of the time it was the outrun that caused the difficulty. Any of Scott's dogs that got a score had alot of points off on the outrun but had really nice fetches and drives. Peg and Scout didn't run. Scott thought they were not ready for this trial.
Roxy did very nice in the Ranch trial where most of her points were lost on the outrun.

Roxy on the fetch

She made all of her panels and controlled the sheep well. She and Scott also got their pen.

Scott and Roxy at the pen

Their final score was only a 50 put it put them in 4th place.
Kuro almost had his leg again in the second Nursery but just missed it (outrun problems again), getting a 4th again.
Sweep/Jr. did the same thing. His outrun was difficult but the rest of the course was pretty nice and he got his pen.

Jr. catching up to his sheep on the fetch

He finished with a 46 in 8th place.
Both Rainey and Sava didn't find their sheep today.

Nursery 1 - 18 dogs
1. Vergil Holland and Trim - 70
2. Bruce Fogt and Cam - 65
3. George Rodgerson and Sam - 59
4. Vergil Holland and Scott -53
5. Paul Tucker and Tyne -46

Nursery 2 - 15 dogs
1. Paul Tucker and Tyne - 69
2. Bruce Fogt and Cam -64
3. John Gross and Cruz 63
4. Scott Glen and Kuro - 61
5. Robin French and Bill - 58
6. Pam Gardner and Meg - 58
7. George Rodgerson and Sam - 52
8. Scott Glen and Sweep - 46
9. Linda Fogt and Vic - 35
10. Colleen Croxall and Grady -32

Pro-Novice - 19 dogs
1. Paul Tucker and Tyne -78
2. Maureen Robinson and Bender -73
3. Vergil Holland and Trim - 72
4. Denise Teal and Jesse - 64
5. Dal Krazter and Whiskey - 62
6. Robin French and Dot - 53
7. John Gross and Calli - 48
8. Colleen Croxall and Grady - 41
9. Priscilla Walker and Gael - 33

Ranch - 20 dogs
1. Bob Washer and Spain -64
2. Vergil Holland and Scott - 64
3. Ann Lamar and Ty - 55
4. Scott Glen and Roxy -50
5. Pam Gardner and Meg -42
6. Kathy Kawalec and Sue - 35
7. Kathy Kawalec and Luc - 33
8. Dal Karatzer and Shane - 33
9. Linda Fogt and Val - 28
10. Jeni Hilscher and Britta -20

Another Trial

We have arrived at Pleasant Hill, Shakertown in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Tomorrow, the Shaker Village trial starts. I love this trial. Not only is it put on by good people (Leigh Ann and Paul Tucker) and the area is beautiful, but it is full of historical buildings that I can tour. We have a perfect parking spot (it's the little things you have to appreciate when you are on the road as long as us!) that is private behind some barns and on gravel so that the expected rains on Saturday and Sunday won't bog our truck down. The puppies are in their x-pen next to us, under the shelter of a dairy shedrow so they will be able to play the weekend away while it rains, and there is plenty of room to run the dogs.
Scott's clinic at Kate Ash and Dal Kratzer's seemed to be well received this past week and we got some training in on the trial dogs. I also got some beginning round pen work on my two nursery dogs for next year, Dave and Syn.
Yesterday we met up with Heather Russell and Kelly Murningham who treated us to a perfect sunny, but not too warm, day of training on a local farmer's field. Heather brought her horse and she and Kelly traded setting out for us so we could get our young dogs exposed to a pony up at the top.

Kelly and her dog Molly head out to hold sheep for us

We attracted a few locals who came out to enjoy the scenery and watch the trial dogs go through their paces.

Scott and Diane Pagel's Sava get ready to outrun

Tomorrow we have the under classes and due to some cancellations we were able to add a few more dogs to the running order. Peg, Rainey and Scout (who will make her debut) will get to run in one of the nursery classes. Sava and Roxy will run in the Adv. Pro Novice and Sweep/Jr. and Kuro will run in the other nursery classes.