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| Date Added: 1st July 2007 |
| The second of two trials again went well with everyone liking the testing course. Today we had 48 runners and over the two days trialling and the raffle we raised £556 for the charity of the stroke association. Todays trial was won by 15 year old Chloe Cropper. With a midday run she had a very good steady run, if anything a little too steady as the judge took 2 points off for going very slowly round the drives. She had a good start and good finish and only lost 11 points all the way round the course. She just beat Larrie Cowper into second place with 98 points and Michael was again in the prizes with Monty getting 3rd with 97 points. All of the prizes for the raffle and the trial were sponsored with the prizes for the raffle coming from Farmers weekly, George Smithson (stick), Tim and Linda Longton (Bodywarmer), David Oldham Garage of Glossop (Dog food) and Michael Longton (a whistle). The trial prizes came from CSJ dog food for the top six plus first prize of a pair of Muck boots (courtsey of J Hatton Agriculture of Lancaster Auction 01524 62480), second prize was a photograph of the Fylde coast from Clougha (from David Whittaker of Quernmore) and 3rd prize of a boiler suit (from R Taylor and sons of Bentham). We would like to express a great thanks to all of the people who helped over the weekend and who sponsored the trial and raffle with prizes! For links to websites of the people who sponsored us please see our links page. |
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| Date Added: 30th June 2007 |
| The first trial at a new venue at Rooten Brook Farm went well with 40 dogs competing over a good course with 4 Swaledale hogs running over the large course. The gather was uphill all the way to the sheep where the field levelled off for where the lift took place with rushes all over the course making it a tricky but good and testing course. The sheep were on the whole very even throughout the day even though they had to go back half way through the 40 dogs to make it so there was enough to last the whole day. The winning run came towards the end of the day and was taken by Jim Cropper with Don. He took a left hand outrun needing a few whistles at the top of the outrun to bring him onto his sheep. After a good run round the course the sheep were a little tricky to shed where he lost 6 points. After a little trouble at the pen he got them in loosing 2 points. With a clean single he took the lead from Michael Longton on outrun, lift, fetch and drive as in the OLF the points lost were the same. |
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| Date Added: 8th January 2007 |
Although it is not our place to put this on the Internet (it should be on the ISDS News page) we thought that this should be public knowledge for all to know and not just the directors and people that see the directors. For the English team to qualify for the world trial here are the rules:
1. The top 16 dogs plus handlers from the 2007 English National will automatically qualify to enter if they so wish.
2. The remainder of the dogs/handlers, if not already qualified at the National in 2007, will be chosen from their open trial results during the period 1.1.2007 to 31.12.2007. Their best 6 (six) results will count (the points total will be scored in the same way as the National entries are) i.e maximum possible points from 6 trials is 36 points.
3. No more than 2 dogs per handler.
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| Date Added: 15th August 2006 |
| The English National was a very successful event set on a parkland course by the banks of the river Lune at Underley Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale by permission of Mr Simon Pease. The sheep were off the estate and for the first day and until lunchtime on the second day were Texel cross and for the rest of the trial were North Country Mules. They were testing, but fair for everyone and were well presented by the shepherd Ken Williams
The organisation of the trial and Country Fair was excellent, led by the local Chairman John Palmer, his secretary Carol Palmer his wife and treasurer Christine Clarkson and their committee.
Ray Edwards with Jim won the championship, from Arundel, West Sussex on 199 points
The Rooten Brook Sheepdogs had a very successful National with Michael and Monty finishing in reserve on 195 points. Timothy was eleventh with Jake on 175 points and twelfth with Carrie on 174 points. Michael ran his young bitch Peg, also by Moss, and finished on 158 points just out of the team
Full results can be found on results page.
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| Date Added: 17th June 2006 |
| Timothy and Michael have had their entry into this years National accepted. Timothy is to run Jake at number 8 and Carrie at number 128 and Michael is running Monty at number 18 and Moss at number 126. Timothy also has his young dog Glen (a son of Moss) entered as an alternate and Michael also has his young bitch Peg entered as an alternate (litter sister of Glen). |
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| Date Added: 18th September 2005 |
1 Neil McVicar, By Dunnon, Scotland, SPOT, 64 Merit, 521
2 James McGee, Balleybofey, Ireland, BECCA, 60 Merit, 513
3 MICHAEL LONGTON, QUERNMORE ENGLAND, MOSS, 56 Merit,472
4 John Maginn, Newry, Ireland, FLY, 50 Merit, 458
5 Toddy Lambe, Enniscorthy, Ireland, SWEEP, 50 Merit, 457
6 Jim Cropper, Bacup, England, DAN, 44 Merit, 428
7 Craig Davidson, By Dunoon, Scotland, JET, 40 Merit, 405
8 Roger Handy, Settle, England, BET, 36 Merit, 381
9 Tim Flood, Clonroche, Ireland, BERT, 32 Merit, 354
10 Robert Malcolm, Castle Douglas, Scotland, MIST, 25.5 Merit, 329
11 Jocky Welsh, Dalrymple, Scotland, FLY, 24.5 Merit, 329
12 Bobby Dalziel, Selkirk, Scotland, SPOT, 22 Merit, 325
13 Glyn Jones, Llanadog, Wales, CAP, 16 Merit, 302
14 Paul Turnbull, Morpeth, England, NAP, RETD
15 Raymond MacPherson, Carlisle, England, ROY, DISQ
15 Kevin Evans, Libanus, Wales, JAFF, DISQ
Team Shield won by England
Driving Champion Ray Edwards, England
Young Handler Michael Galagher, Ireland
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| Date Added: 6th September 2005 |
| Todays finals were a great success with many of the qualified dogs managing to pick up both lots of sheep. The shed was made easier by having 8 collared sheep and leaving you with 5 of them for penning (so the crowds saw finished runs). Michael even got a go at the course due to the early finish and had a respectable demonstartion run. The trials have been a very fun time and I hope that I will be able to come again to compete soon!
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| Date Added: 5th September 2005 |
| Today was a much better days trialling with the sheep learning more and more every day. Michaels run went well but he missed the cross drive hurdle then lost quite a lot on his pen as well. He finished with a score of 74 with the cut off point being a few more than that. Won't be as much fun tomorrow as he will be desperate to be running while knowing he wont be!
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| Date Added: 4th September 2005 |
| Today has been another good days trialling. All of the UK competitors ran but did not shine. Michael with Monty did best but still only achieved a score of 48. The sheep did improve on yesterdays and should improve again on tomorrows runs so there should be more high scored runs. We are all hoping for some more luck with the sheep and praying for some cooler weather!
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| Date Added: 3rd September 2005 |
| Today has been another lovely day. Been meeting lots of people from around USA and watching them run their dogs. The running was tricky today with the sheep being heavy and needed a lot of pushing round the course with many running out of time before completing the course. I hope I have an easier time at it with my run tommorow!
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| Date Added: 2nd September 2005 |
| Today has been a good day (if a little hot!). We were taken to the practice field where they had some range ewes for practice with a field that was a MILE long!!! They had set up a full National style course for us to use but we just used the dogs close to had for us to get used to the sheep as much as the dogs. Tomorrow the trials will start for real so here comes the test!
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| Date Added: 28th June 2005 |
| There is now semen available for use in Artificial Insemination. There is semen available from Jake and Monty. If you are interested in using some please contact us and we will put you in touch with the relevant people. |
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