Skip to content
United States Border Collie Handlers Association

United States Border Collie Handlers Association

The official site of US Border Collie Handlers

  • Home
  • About
    • Directors and Officers
    • Contact Us!
    • Bylaws
    • USBCHA Rules
    • Meetings/Minutes
    • Grievances – Discipline
    • Districts
    • Committees
    • Membership
  • Sheepdogs
    • Upcoming Trials
    • Qualifying Open Pts
    • Qualifying Nursery Pts. -Sheep
    • Open Champions
    • 2023 Finals Nominated Judges
    • Purina Top Field Trial Dog
    • Archives
      • Previous Trials
      • 2021 National Sheepdog Finals Webcast
      • 2021 National Sheepdog Finals – Pedigrees
      • 2021 National Sheepdog Finals – Open Qualifying Round Scores
      • 2021 National Sheepdog Finals Scores
      • Nominated Judges
      • Sheepdog Nursery Champions
      • 2019 National Sheepdog Finals WEBCAST
      • 2019 Nursery Finals Scores
      • 2019 Finals Special awards
  • Cattledogs
    • Cattledog Finals Website
    • Finals Judges -2023
    • Upcoming Trials
    • Qualifying Open Pts
    • Qualifying Nursery Pts.
  • Forms-Resources
    • Forms and Applications
    • USBCHA Bylaws
    • USBCHA Rules – Sheepdogs and Cattledogs
    • USBCHA Sheepdog Judging Guidelines
    • ISDS Rules
    • USBCHA Judging Video
    • Judge List
    • Trial Management
    • Trial Resources
    • Paw Print Genetics Discount for Genetic Testing.
  • Latest News
  • Toggle search form

Purina Award

The USBCHA is pleased to announce the Nestle Purina Award For The Outstanding Field Trial Herding Dog.

This is an annual award honoring North America’s top winning field trial herding dog from trials held throughout the year. The owner of the winning dog will receive an oil painting of their dog, a cash prize of $1,000.00 ($2,000.00 if they are an active Purina Pro Club member) and a year’s supply of Pro Plan dog food for the dog.


To find the winner, USBCHA included the total points of dogs from their top five HA-sanctioned trials under current points system, just as listed in the USBCHA web site for Rank Order, and then added the National Finals standings at 1.5 points value. The National Champion would likely earn 45 points from 150 entries, and points would then continue down beyond the top 17 to the next highest scoring dogs in the semi-finals, and finally the remaining few points to the dogs who just missed the cut in the preliminaries. The award year mirrors the USBCHA qualification dates of August 1st through July 31st.

USBCHA and Purina Pro Plan are pleased to announce the Nestle Purina Award for the Outstanding Field Trial Herding Dog for the 2018-19 trial year was won by Alasdair MacRae and Tweed.

For the 2019-20 trial year, USBCHA plans to update the Purina Award points race monthly, listing the top 20 teams. 

Standings through January 6, 2020 are as follows:

PlaceHandlerDogPurina Points
1Basson, FaansieJack121.6
2Milliken, AmandaHowell120.6
3Allen, BobJoey111
4Basson, FaansieSam96.8
5Lambert, BeverlyLee95
6Edwards, DennisCoup91.6
7MacRae, PatriciaNell87.6
8Haynes, JoePepper86.6
9Gourley, ShaunaJade86.2
10Schreeder, MariannaStar85.8
11Ferraro, MichMawde84.6
12Edwards, DennisRoy84
13Hinton, TracyLad83.6
14Burkey, RonRocky82.6
15Neary, MikeSis82.6
16Murray, TerryMinette81.4
17Tietjen, JoniBen79.6
18White, BryanBrae79.6
19Ray, BarbaraGrant79.2
20McCord, RussellCutter77.2

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Sheepdog Finals Information

2022 National Finals Webcasts

Pedigrees
Open Preliminary Round Scores
Open Semi-Finals Scores
Open Final Round Scores

Nursery Round 1 Scores
Nursery Round 2 Scores


Cattledog Finals Information
National Cattledog Finals Website (incl full scores and webcast videos)


Team Profiles
World Trial Team Fundraisers
World Trial Team USA Auction March 3-7
Big Yellow Boots "Ghost Trial"
Farm Diggity - Working Border Collie Vintage Editions
Donate Directly to Team USA

Copyright © 2023 United States Border Collie Handlers Association.