[ SHOWGSD-L ] Weekend Tales from the Other Side

From: TerraNorte@xxxxxxx
To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:50:06 EDT
No not from the dark side, but the other side - the performance arena. This  
weekend from the herding arena doing what our dogs were bred to do (along with 
 guarding sleeping children and other Nobel feats). On Saturday, Caleb  
(Briarpatch-TerraNorte's Illusion, CD, HT) and I went to the Continental Divide 
 
Herding Association's fall trial held at Cathy Ballui's herding facility (the  
same place where the GSDCA National trials will be held), and ran a flawless PT 
 run to give us our 2nd leg to qualify for our Pre-Trial title under Judge 
Anne  Guthrie. 
 
Yesterday - we moved up to the big leagues, running in the started class on  
the A-course. That big field is so daunting!  The big black & tan dog  said 
bring it on.....  We preceded through the course with a few small  hiccups, but 
managed to make it all the way around, got the sheep into the pen  and the 
gate closed.  As they were handing out the ribbons - surprise,  surprise, we 
are 
the second place dog with our first qualifying leg in  Started.  And the crowd 
roared........
 
Caleb is shared by myself and Charlie Taylor, his parents are CH Hickory  
Hill's Excalibur, PT (linebred on Bear) X TerraNorte - Kaimacha Garnet (CH  
Kaimacha Keystone Caios x CH Windwalker-Kaimacha Bo Peep, HT).
 
Gotta love this herding along the Front Range of the Rockies in the Fall.  
The skies were brilliant blue, the leaves are starting to turn yellow and gold, 
 
and the mountains had a their signature white caps on.
 
~ Val Manning
   Rancho Terra Norte' 
   Wellington, CO  


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