2019 Sheep Dog Trials | Royal Adelaide Show

moment with 90 and second place went to Milton Cross last night with Andrea Floss with 88. So Steve Garrity and Grandma Bonnie now give her a round of applause. It was a very good start as we were. As I said before and I just couldn't get those

sheep

through that race, it seems like a very problematic part of the course, so here come some more

sheep

that are now loaded into the original. You call that the corral and the release as we generally call it? a release cage, yeah, so three sheep chosen at random, a bit like the hunger games, I choose you or whatever, yeah, then the next competitor will be um, Anthony Island with the Oaktown container, tell us about Oak Downs, Ben, I know you know Oak Downs very well, yes. um oak downs actually uh we didn't breed this dog, he was actually bred by a gentleman in victoria and but bin is a four year old border collie and he will be one of the state representatives this year along with milton cross.

He was with Andrea Floss last night, the second-place dog, so Ben will be one of our state representatives, but maybe he shouldn't say that until after he's finished his race because it could make a total mess, so I think Is it obvious when it's time to retire the dogs? Yes, the guide knows. Yes that's fine. I suppose you must know your dog very, very well. They know so. And there is no point in staying there if everything is going to be fine. It is for the dog and also for the sheep, sometimes people take their dogs away and think that the sheep have had enough, especially on hot days, if they have run a lot, they are enough and you can see this dog. here, just looking around to get your bearings, you can see the trailer at the end there with the sheep being unloaded saying: hey, come on dad, please let me get out of that lee, I'm ready to go, yeah, here we go, a little pep talk.

This thing about removing the collar, yes, because the collar is a little noisy, you don't want any of that to bother the sheep. Also yeah, that's a consideration I hadn't seen, yeah, so, well, the necklaces that we have. on at the moment they are very loud so we always take our collars off some people leave their collars on they may not be loud collars but I hope you are enjoying the sheepdog

trials

here on day nine of the

royal

Adelaide

show

uh in the super raa The screen you may have seen coming up is the Isuzu D-Max motorsport taking place here in the main arena, there you go, presented by the Isuzu D-Max team.

Next up is the flag up, the toss and the bell, a large cast back to the original On the Side again, generally a pretty good casting dog, but I won't say that until I've completed it. It's fast. Wow, here's a quick one. Oh, stop, the whistle stopped and he's not listening and he's being a little naughty because he's not even drawing. the sheep back with anthony now has to stop things calm down because things got a little crazy there's a really good picture on the screen ra super too oh anthony, also calm down there you go you can see him talking there yeah, having a little bit of a talk, he said, he said, he says firm and then he said, stop, so firm, so that Anthony's order is to go to the balance point, to another balance point, is to go to the part where it takes to the sheep back to you, okay, so Anthony I'm just going to slowly introduce the dog to the sheep now because it was quite strong, it was absolutely like that, so he's just trying to calm things down a little bit.

You should think about a slightly different approach with this dog. The other one, the last dog we saw. quite low he spent a lot of time crouching uh this one not so much at this point no he's standing all dogs have slightly different ways in which they work some a lot with their paws all the time some like to fall every time the handler says that stop, they like to go down and is it something that is trained or is it something that they just do naturally, naturally, a little bit naturally, Anthony has a drop command for some of these dogs that are intense and he wants them to release the pressure, so slowly, just floating around, trying to present, introduce that dog you talked about, introduce Susan to a dog and how important it is to the sheep, they can feel that sort of imperceptible nebulous idea of ​​a dog's charisma or presence, yeah.

What does a dog without present presence mean like a dog without presence? Oh, they would have to be right underneath to get the force to make those sheep move. They would have to go right there, where there is a dog with many gifts. He could be meters away and get a reaction from the sheep where the dog would know that the presents have to go up there, so he went around the peg, but since he passed to the other side of the cones without being outside that thirty-foot corridor , Ben would have lost, I would have thought some points for that too, but Ben is way to the right, the sheep are on Anthony's right side so they are in the hallway so in theory they shouldn't be doing too bad .

It seems that the sheep have calmed down. a little bit, but we'll see that Ben was lucky enough last year to be South Australia's Dog of the Year, so with the Dog of the Year points, I was saying he ended up being the number one doll in South Australia, so no pressure, no pressure. Should he really keep his mouth shut until after? Should not? This looks positive. Very good. Good job. Absolutely fantastic. That was what was done well. You wouldn't have lost many points if any of them had overcome that gap, so they are. like little sheep right now, aren't they, they certainly are, they weren't, but the change and I think Anthony is really motivated, I mean, things have slowed down, yeah, the sheep aren't scared anymore, yeah, they're still rhythm.

The behavior of the guide has an impact on the way the sheep behave, so obviously Antonio moves quite calmly and slowly. That helps calm the sheep. Oh, not particularly, I don't think, because he doesn't like it very much if you vary your pace. all to block those sheep, yes I can guarantee you the judge will beat him and rightly so to the sheep, then just to extend ian's question to the sheep, they don't tend to seem too scared of the handler, I think so. I'm more worried about that dog, yeah, I guess that would be the biggest threat to them, wouldn't it?

Or the biggest and most shocking thing ever, so now Anthony has just entered the small square and can't move until they have passed the next obstacle, that's right, no matter how much he wants to, he can't stick his leg out to block the shape. , so the sheep have overcome the obstacles, so there will be point deductions for that, it is reasonably unforgiving. It's not just a point here, a point and it's that you can overcome points very, very quickly and we saw that with the first dog today with a score of 37. Unfortunately, I lost point after point, but I would never have known just the sport.

As a viewer like that, yes, I would never have imagined that school would be like this. No, I was surprised when you said it. Well, it doesn't take much because, in general, if this is an approximate figure, if the sheep passed this obstacle and On the way back, at a little depth, there are three points that disappeared like this, so, and they left the corridor, if they walked the length of that entire corridor and were completely outside, it would be four or five points that disappeared like that, just by walking a little bit outside the corridor, so it's a Mexican standoff, yeah, the sheep and the container, what are you saying?

We'll see how he does, I just supported him in South Australia's top dog, so it was last year anyway, no No, I don't know if he was top dog of the year seven years ago in the dog years, yeah, that's it, that's it, there's the stomp of the lead sheep and again I see the left foot going up and down saying, come on, Ben, take me. See, on the big screen Raa, you might also see it again now that Anthony has a setback, so he just reversed it, maybe to relieve the pressure. I'm not sure, it's like Harry Potter's wand, isn't it?

It's like here. there everywhere here we go so it looks like the sheep are in the mouth a couple of them but the heads are on the wrong side oh there we go you can have it here we go oh there we go there calm down as you want that's good, give it a round of applause , it's a really nice job, yes, this is where we have seen so many come unstuck before, exactly, the bridge is always the tester for them, it seems to be, yes, it does, isn't it conditioned? the sheep with some walks beforehand maybe maybe anthony all the trailers should have had a handful of peas and just left him some, you can't do that no, no, you just mentioned a couple of times maybe this is something that Happens, no, that score of 90 didn't happen naturally, buddy, after this, I don't want to spoil this race now, but I want to ask you: do we have another dog after this?

No, this is the last dog I will have. just let them through here first then i want to ask you a question about things along those lines oh can i just in general terms let's look at this first this might look good going nice and steady the sheep are just wandering around this can Although it's very tricky, yeah, and it look positive, I'll give you that, but if one runs away, then that's correct and there are the images, there you also go with the same shape, so this gets a little complicated because the dog has to push in and the sheep , there we go, we're all looking in the right direction, yeah, so hopefully, Ben's going to talk to him and he's saying, come on, Ben, come up, go up, oh, that dog's really close now and there's a little risk. that if the sheep turns around and shoots at the dog here we go fortunately the dog backs away it's fantastic okay so the only thing left is the pen I'll ask you because otherwise we'll lose you is there some behind the scenes shenanigans going on somewhere Susan moment where the dog sitters? ever been in sport maybe new zealanders oh that's good we'll bother with the new zealanders not here to defend themselves no seriously do you know any little controversy or anyone?

Well, some people were accused of carrying loose change in their pockets or that's okay. and saying that if the sheep run away immediately the only order some people have is to go back and they will come back and try to bleed like a shell to get it so Anthony sits in his square there and is not allowed to leave that square . until the sheep can, all three are completely inside the pen, now you have the two sheep facing one way and one towards the other, oh, now they are all on the right path, here we go, oh, look how cute, so calm on approach.

It is not like this? So Anthony Lim settles for a moment and goes to close the door. This is worth a big round of applause, give the dog a pad at the end, good job, there you go, it's a very good race, uh and Well, within the time of course, now the score to beat is 90 here right now, A difficult task, yes, is to look at someone who is not very involved in any way with the sport. To me, I don't see why that wouldn't. That would be a really high score. Did you see anything there?

Susan. Oh, I'd be surprised if he bet 90. But I don't know, the judge is closer. He can see better than us. Just by instinct, do you think 90 is a very high score? awesome score, I think that would be a tough question, I think it would make the top 90. Would we be in the 80s with that one definitely, it's a kiss of death, it's really not good for anyone. I haven't received a message yet, so we'll look at it directly and I'll give you the score. Is there room to appeal? Is the judge's final score absolutely fine, absolutely fine, absolutely yes, which is good, the judges explained to the handler afterwards this is where you lost points if the handler comes up and says can you just explain where I lost points and especially If they do it with a good heart it is the hand, yes, and it is the handler while they do it calculating?

That is, they are too focused on the actual dog. They are usually pretty focused, but they would have a rough idea of ​​how much they thought they would get if they knew where they lost their points. Of course, well, what do you think? Sitting in the crowd watching the final race of the sheepdog

trials

, that race was worth winning today, the score to beat and the judge is handing it out now. it was a 90, our expert here at the box thinks it could be in the 80s, i will always believe in this box, you are the expert, today's companies definitely, oops, we have the score and ben got 89. 89. so he came in second by one point, it was tough to pick, yeah, so it was close, so he ran a really good race, so we actually got our state championship.