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Rural Route Videos produce farm videos, in particular about Border Collies, their
training and trials.
Our Border Collie and Sheep dog pages, on our web site, have been
written to try to inform interested Border Collie handlers of our different video
programs and also other information about the Border Collie breed. We have produced
videos about Border Collie training and sheep dog trials since the mid 1980s, beginning
with our first Border Collie trial video in 1984. The Sheepdog trial videos began in
1988 when I first visited the International Sheep Dog Society’s (ISDS) Supreme Finals
at Blair Athol, in Perthshire. The Border Collie breed has been a major part of my
life since I left school and it has been a real pleasure to have been able to spend
so many of my years with this fine and smart breed of dog.
So the afternoons runs at the ISDS Finals continue on the Saturday. The last
runs of the trial usually finish at about 4:30 and then a fairly long waiting
period follows for the judges to check over the final scores. By the time the
last of the runs have been finished I try to work out who else I need to talk to.
The handlers are not really in a mood to talk to me at this time as they wait for
their final placings. The results of the day’s competition are only announced at
the very end of the day and so the handlers are pretty anxious as prizes are given
out, and so this is a bad time to try to get anything from these men and women. Once
the price giving is over then I have to pounce, trying for quick thoughts and comments
from anyone I have on my list, before they make their mad dash for home. Of course
the winner is very important, the reserve handler, an organizer, someone from the
ISDS, etc.
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