Barries' BCSD Trial, Yarrow BC

Blair the WonderDog is ready to work. It was raining steady when Marg arrived at my house to load up and head out to Yarrow for Jacqui and Dave's BCSDA trial today. However the sun came out shortly after we arrived and we had great weather all day!
The Barrie's were good enough to set up a second course in their back hay field for the Open dogs. It was a regualar ISDS course but judged time/points: 4 pts. for fetch panels as you can see Blair blasting them through at a dead run ignoring my lie down whistles AND my bellowed corrections.
I had a good handle on him close at hand for the driving portion but here I am being a bit hesitant and worried about sheep taking off to the heavy draw. So Blair had to do a lot of stop/start/flank/stop/start kind of work. Good for his mind....but not making for a steady pace and good time.
This may be out of sequence...I think this was the turn at the post. We had a good pace going to this point.
Looks like a bit of a wobble after the turn at the post, needing to get back on line to hit those first drive panels up to the right. It was very interesting and different to run a 'field' course as time/points for hitting panels and forget the lines.....just deal with heavy draws to exhaust and back to set out.
Here is my boy being very intent as usual.
Nice tongue!!! LOL
It was a well organized lovely trial in good weather. Dave cooked up a great lunch as usual. Brian Nelson kicked butt all day; winning P/N with Beau and 1st & 2nd in Open. Rose & Jana were 3rd in Open. Blair placed 4th - tie broken with Jana on first drive panel by .02 seconds. LOL We timed out on the pen as both our dogs were being WAY too tight!
All photos taken by Rose McLeod. She faithfully took pix of pretty well ALL the runs, but only emailed me ones of Blair. More to come on FB or BCSDA website.