Thank You Val. I know I, and you, are going to get some flack from the other performance people on this but, you have said it all. Our National is a week long with all the events now. I know Dalene you are going to kill me but, all the other performance events could be held in the Big ( and I do mean BIG) main building at the same time, Saturday thru Monday. There is more than enough room so that neither event would distract from the other. Herding is always outside at all our Nationls, and here the sheep are free. I am not sure about the C course. I know that St Louis will be hard to fly dogs into but, it is no more than a two day drive from either coast, I have driven it in 2 days in a moterhome( with a break down half way) from mid Califoria. I am sorry, No I am not, Our National needs to in tbe center of the US. Bob As a serious herding exhibitor & conformation exhibitor - I would really like to see the herding trial held on Monday & Tuesday and on the same site as the rest of the national. When it is held on the weekend before - it means basically 2 trips, one to the herding trial and one to the national for everything else. This is definitely the case when the trial is held at a separate location. We wonder why there is such a separation between performance and conformation exhibitors and fancier - this is why. ~ Val Manning Rancho Terra Norte' Wellington, CO -----Original Message----- From: showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of terranorte@xxxxxxx Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:11 PM To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Purina scheduling Kim and all: As a serious herding exhibitor & conformation exhibitor - I would really like to see the herding trial held on Monday & Tuesday and on the same site as the rest of the national. When it is held on the weekend before - it means basically 2 trips, one to the herding trial and one to the national for everything else. This is definitely the case when the trial is held at a separate location. We wonder why there is such a separation between performance and conformation exhibitors and fancier - this is why. ~ Val Manning Rancho Terra Norte' Wellington, CO -----Original Message----- From: Kim McNamara <klite3gsd@xxxxxxxxx> To: Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx List <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon, May 17, 2010 2:18 pm Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Purina scheduling < Herding is already the weekend before and usually at a different site. It oes make some sense to have everything on site and all performance on the ame days followed by all conformation.>> ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================