07/09/2026
The busy Spring season for trials has already seen us doing Demos at Kadina Show and a trip to Stanthorpe by road to take Ben's Charlie up for Interstate challenge where the SA team finished 4th and Ben & Charlie about 8th individually. Ben then worked in the Supreme Championship penning some tough sheep for an 86 before flying back home for work. I worked Dizzy in Supreme and although we penned our score was never going to be good enough. As the week went by it started to be possible for Ben's 86 to hold in top 20 and by thursday night it was almost certain to hold. So Ben flew back up to Brisbane and hire car to Stanthorpe arriving about 1.30 Saturday morning to work in Top 20 at 8.00. After again penning we started to dream of him making top 10 to run in final on Sunday on an aggregate score of 153. That held and so after being second out in top 10 and posting a 3 run aggregate of 206 we watched nervously as that held the lead as other dogs worked. The final run from Bill Davidson and Flake were able to better Ben and Charlie so they earned 2nd place. A wonderful achievement. We had opportunity to buy a young female from Geoff & Rosemary Gibson with bloodlines to match with the Deppelers Charlie Parker and Kerrs Ben lines and so travelled home with an extra dog. Now for Adelaide show at the weekend and then local trials at Maitland and Paskeville and State Championship at Crystal Brook by mid October and finally Mt Gambier to finish out the year.
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