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A sheepdog trial – also herding event, stock dog trial or simply dog trial — is a competition or test of the working abilities of dogs of herding breeds. It is a type of dog sport that emerged in the 1860s in New Zealand .
The competitive dog sport in which herding dogs move animals around a field, fences, gates, or enclosures as directed by their handlers is called a sheepdog trial, herding test or stockdog trial depending on the area. [16] Such events are particularly associated with hill farming areas, where sheep range widely on largely unfenced land.
The 2022 International Sheepdog Trials were held in Castle Howard, Yorkshire. The trials were meant to be at Castle Howard in 2020 but the event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions and again in 2021. [1] The 2023 International Sheepdog Trials are to be held in Blessington, Co. Wicklow. [2]
8-month-old Huntaway. The Huntaway was developed as a breed in response to farming conditions found in the New Zealand high country.The vast pastoral runs or "stations", such as those in the high country of the South Island, required teams of dogs who could work mustering for days on end, covering great distances on rough steep country.
A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep. These include livestock guardian dogs used to guard sheep and other livestock and herding dogs used to move, manage and control sheep and other livestock.
The Armant is a medium-sized, rectangular dog, typically weighing between 50 and 65 pounds with females standing 45–55 centimetres (18–22 in) tall and males standing 50–60 centimetres (20–24 in).
According to this setup, a male athlete weighing 320 pounds and lifting a total of 1400 pounds would have a normalised lift weight of 353.0, and a lifter weighing 200 pounds and lifting a total of 1000 pounds (the sum of their highest successful attempts at the squat, bench, and deadlift) would have a normalised lift weight of 288.4. Thus the ...
A self-taught sheepdog handler, [1] Cropper told First Women in 2016 that she had been "deliberately marked down or penalised [by men] to keep me from winning". [2] Then, in 1990, she (with her dog Trim) was the first woman to win the BBC's One Man and His Dog sheepdog trials television series (Chirk Castle). Twenty-five years later, her ...