Friday, July 09, 2010

Binnaburra Yard and Utility Trial, July 2010

Badgingarra Casey:

 casey   

Firstly, I’d like to apologise to all those disappointed punters who travelled from far and wide to see me compete. I was regrettably unable to attend this trial due to factors beyond my control, such as the very very cold temperatures at Kellerberrin and the much warmer temperature here in our living room.  There were also other considerations:  my likelihood of winning the event was somewhat lower than usual, given that my dogs are either broken (Muddy), suffering from placenta brain (Queani) or just too cool for yardwork (Bill); and my likelihood of being driven mental by my snotty nosed, coughing, lurgy infected offspring was much higher than usual. In the spirit of good sportsmanship and support for the trialling community, I decided to stay home.

So R went on his own, and I didn’t want him to get bored so I sent my camera with him with instructions to take lots of photos. He whimpered pitifully for a minute or two about his hands being too frozen in Kellerberrin’s icy winds to operate the camera, and being a bit busy what with judging the Novice, but I tucked my Snuggie firmly around myself, increased the volume on the TV and gave him a verbal Uggboot up bottom, and like the good man he is, he hardened up and got on with it. So I do have some photos and results for you.

An appreciative, if chilly, crowd in the shed:

spectators

Boss of the office, Pat Charlick:

pat office

Warm enough for you, Hayden? (waiting his turn with Mac’s Magic, Grant Cooke and Grassvalley Tod holding sheep behind)

frost

Neil Kristiansen working Bellview Shadow, not yet warm enough or stirred up enough to remove hands from pockets:

shadow

Rod Forsyth warming up by throwing a few sheep around:

rod sheep

I think this is Gordon Curtis’ Binnaburra Jess at the let-out:

letout

Novice Utility

1) Neil Kristiansen Bellview Shadow (NZHD) 105 111 216
2) Rod Forsyth Binnaburra Milo (kelpie) 115 88 203
3) Hayden Harries Olboa Ben (NZHDxcollie) 98 104 202
4) Nigel Armstrong Yarralonga Ding (kelpie) 90 83 173
5) Grant Cooke Grassvalley Moss (collie) 97 73 170

Neil Kristiansen with Bellview Shadow:

neil shadow

Binnaburra Milo:

milo obstacle

milo

Novice Yard

1) Rod Forsyth Binnaburra Milo (kelpie) 59 50 109
2) Neil Kristiansen Bellview Shadow (NZHDxcollie) 54 54 108
3) Hatden Harries Mac’s Magic (collie) 53 52 105
4) Hayden Harries Olboa Ben (NZHDxcollie) 53 49 103

Rod Forsyth and Binnaburra Milo:

rod milo

rod milo2

milo backs

Hayden Harries and Mac’s Magic (a Fred daughter)

magic hayden

magic

Open Utility

1) Ken Atherton Kiwi Knight (NZHD) 118 129 247
2) Gordon Curtis Binnaburra Tuff (kelpie) 118 118 236
3) Grant Cooke Grassvalley Moss (collie) 115 102 217
4) Gordon Curtis Ramulam Sam (kelpie) 109 103 212
=5) Nigel Armstrong Yarralonga Darkie (kelpie) 101 106 207
=5) Neil Kristiansen Badgingarra Toppie (collie) 101 106 207
7) Neil Kristiansen Bellview Shadow (NZHDxcollie) 114 86 200
8) Neil Kristiansen Karrawarra Shona (kelpie) 97 98 195
9) Ken Atherton Ramulam Gus (collie) 100 92 192
10) Rod Forsyth Binnaburra Milo (kelpie) 95 87 182
11) Richard McGuire Yarralonga Bella (kelpie) 107 67 174
12) Andrew Gorton Just Martha (collie) 95 Ret 95

Kiwi Knight:

knight

Gordon Curtis and Binnaburra Tuff at the pen:

gordon pen

Gordon and Ramulam Sam filling the truck on the yard section:

gordon sam

Fresh sheep for the yards:

sheep yards

Open Yard

1) Neil Kristiansen Badgingarra Toppie (collie) 59 56 115
2) Nigel Armstrong Yarralonga Blue (kelpie) 53 59 112
3) Neil Kristiansen Karrawarra Shona (kelpie) 56 54 110
4) Ken Atherton Kiwi Knight (NZHD) 50.5 59.5 109.5
=5) Richard McGuire Yarralonga Bella (kelpie) 54 55 109
=5) Gordon Curtis Binnaburra Tuff (kelpie) 55 54 109
=7) Hayden Harries Mac’s Magic (collie) 55 53 108
=7) Rod Forsyth Binnaburra Milo (kelpie) 55 53 108
=7) Nigel Armstrong Yarralonga Darkie (kelpie) 56 52 108
=7) Gordon Curtis Ramulam Sam (kelpie) 53 55 108
11) Nigel Armstrong Yarralonga Voss (kelpie) 55 47 102
12) Neil Kristiansen Bellview Shadow (NZHDxcollie) 57 LS 57

Yarralonga Darkie:

darky

Neil Kristiansen and Karrawarra Shona:

shona

Gordon Curtis’ Binnaburra Tuff in the Open Utility:

tuff blocks

tufftuff force

tuff backstuff obstacle tuff pen 

Badgingarra Tony (Tuff x Shona):

 tony tony2 

Andrew Gorton has some Tony pups (out of his Ella, our Esme’s mum) available at the moment- check them out here!

R didn’t fare too badly. He wasn’t well prepared, having only just finished seeding, but Bella managed a credible performance to make the open finals (where she dropped her game somewhat). Charlie did something Charlie to mess up an otherwise nice run, and poor old Fred struggled in the yards. Too old, Freddy!

Clever R, somehow he managed to photograph not only some of the Novice runs he was judging, but also his own Open runs. Here he is with Bella at the force:

bella

And Boylee Fred, coming into the yards:

fred r         

Fred:

fred backs

Marianne Rogers with Bellview Obie (Bernie):

marianne bernie          

Joan Armstrong and Pat Charlick, on the home stretch:

office

An appreciative crowd in the shed

Grant Cooke, triumphant winner of the Junior Muttonbuster event.

grant sheep

Home time- Grant, R and Hayden:

three

 

Hey K, look what we missed out on- are you so disappointed you could spew?

k highchair

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