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It’s time to nominate judges for the 2025 Sheepdog and Cattledog Finals. Nominations must be received by the Secretary on or before February 28th 2025. Before nominating someone to be a judge, you must have contacted them and received their consent to be nominated and verified their availability for the dates of the Finals. Judge…
In response to feedback from many people in the livestock industry, members of the public (including many of you who reached out to your representatives), other dog groups, and ourselves, the CDC has relaxed their rules on importing dogs from countries where rabies has a low incidence. As of August 1st 2025 and through April…
The 2024 National Sheepdog Finals will be held September 30th – October 6th at Belle Grove in Middletown VA. The schedule will be as follows: Sunday Sep 29th, Open Handlers Meeting Monday Sep 30th – Thursday Oct 3 , Open Preliminary RoundTuesday Oct 1st – Thursday Oct 3rd, Nursery Preliminary RoundFriday Oct 4th, Nursery Final RoundSaturday…
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It is time to nominate judges for the 2024 National Sheepdog Finals at Belle Grove in Middleton VA Sept 30th – October 6th 2024 and the National Cattledog Finals October 10th – October 13th in Ellston IA. We need four judges for the Sheepdog Finals and two judges for the Cattledog Finals. Please get permission from…
Team USA placed third behind Ireland and a combined team from Spain/Portugal at the World Sheepdog Trials in Dromore Ireland. For the team competition, the five named team members were:Bob Allen 161 ptsMarianna Schreeder 159 ptsAlasdair MacRae 194 ptsBarbara Ray 133 ptsFaansie Basson 199 pts The top five team scores were:Ireland 884 ptsPortugal/Spain 880 ptsUSA…
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The judges for the 2023 National Sheepdog and National Cattledog Finals have been selected. They are: SheepPeg Anderson (USA)Hefin Jones (Wales)Peter Gonnet (Canada)Ed Hawkins (England) Alternates:Jamie Spring (USA)Gordon Watt (USA) CattleJohn Wentz (USA)Mike Goracke (USA) Alternate:Rachel Ritland (USA) Thank you to all judges for agreeing to help make the National Finals a success.
The USA World Trial team will be holding a fundraising auction online from March 3rd – 7th. Stop by and bid on fabulous items or sponsor a team member. All funds raised will be distributed equally among teams attending the 2023 World Sheepdog Trials in Dromore Ireland.
Have you ever wished you could run that favorite dog who has crossed the rainbow bridge just one more time, and see his/her name on a running order again? John Wentz (bigyellowboots.com)is hosting a “Ghost Trial” as a fundraiser for the USA World Trial team. Send in your entry, post a photo and bio or…
2023 World Sheepdog Trials Information Update The following handler/dog teams have qualified for the 2023 World Sheepdog Trials scheduled for September 13-16, 2023 at Gill Hall Estate, in Dromore, Co Down, Northern Ireland. As previously indicated, USBCHA has a total of ten senior handler/dog slots and three junior/young handler/dog slots to represent the United States….
The USBCHA is now accepting bids for the 2024 National Sheepdog Finals. Bid guidelines can be found here (PDF) or here (Word).
