Ewers Last Chance to wrap it up....

We had a nice quaint trial at the house over the weekend. 60 dogs a day ran (30 in Open, 20 in Pro-Novice, and 11 in Nursery) We got fairly lucky with the weather, we had heavy cloud cover so it made the high humidity bearable (or well almost). We furnished lots of shade and cold drinks for the handlers. Seemed like everyone had a great time.

Handlers enjoying a "potluck" handler's dinner!!!

Some of the standouts of the trial that come to mind was our own K9znewe"Lace" who won the nurseries both days. Lace is a young nursery dog that will be running at the National Finals.

K9znewe"Lace"

Another stand out team this weekend was Jesse (Mom to Lace) and Ron. Wining both days of the pro-novice!!

Ron and Jesse!!! WINNERS Sat and Sun. at "Ewers Last Chance SDT"

After all this little girl has been through, she felt good enough to to run at the trial. (she hasn't been worked in 6 months) She has battled to stay alive on more than one occasion. Being that the trial was at home I thought  I'd give her a shot at running!! Callie ran a nice course on the first day settling in the middle of the pack. Day 2 Nursery Callie had a nice run only bobbling at the first drive gate. She ended with a score of 78 good enough to qualify for the National Finals Nursery!

Callie...Gets qualified!!! 

We have not decided whether she will run at Carbondale or not, we are not certain her damaged lungs can handle the elevation and or whether we can get her schooled enough to be competitive...but none the less just getting her this far is both a goal and a miracle!

Sly was another standout of the weekend, with a strong 3rd. place finish in Open on day #2.  A bobble on the the outrun (so much for home field advantage) kept her from winning!! I am happy to have gathered the last few point we would need to put us in a more solid slot in the finals list of entries. I will be competing with her in the Open at Carbondale, along with Soot..(who did not trial this  weekend!)

A few other standouts of the weekend were Bob Dias with his veteran dog McCloud winning the Open on Day 1, he had a nice clean run, and a well deserved win for he and his partner! Sara Goodman had a good weekend coming in 3rd. in Open 1 and 2nd in Open 2..surely there is a good partnership forming with this young pair. Day 2 open was won my Mike Meredith with his good dog "Gus". Mike and Gus are a winning combination! Some other good runs this weekend were Tricia Guidry and her 2 good girls "Tipper and Tara" , Jeff Blackstone and Dusk,  and Terry Parrish with Zula. The Nursery had a strong roster as well, and the Nursery dogs had to be on their best behavior, and like I mentioned above they were!! Pro-Novice had a strong group running also. Ron to win both days with Jesse and 4th. with Sweep on day #1. Others in the pro-novice included, Karen smith with a nice run, Albion Urdank with a nice solid run and many others!

A big thanks to Angela Akers who was an outstanding Judge! The sheep were really really nice, not as easy as everyone thought. There was a different spin on the word "farm flock" when many of us failed to pen and single in the open on day #1!! The Open class ran on rambouillet's and the Pro-novice/ Nursery ran on dorpers.

It was a really fun weekend, very few whiners (YEAH!!!!) no complainers! A nice relaxed atmosphere!Thank you to everyone who came and helped out, we really appreciate the volunteers!