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Latest News - ISN online  Read the full stories in the next issue of International Sheepdog News! 13 June: English National Trial - John & Susan Etches have kindly made an offer of accommodation for one or two competitors and dogs for the duration of the English National Trial in Derbyshire. If you are competing and would like to take up their offer, email caroline.godwin@isds.org.uk and we will give you a phone number to ring. 2008 Land Rover World Sheep Dog Trials 03 June : Paul Tomkins from Wales is profiled in this week's edition of the Competitor Profiles. His profile can be found here Competitor Profile. See also many other handler reviews on the associated pages. 13 May: The puppy photo contest is going strong with entries once again streaming in from all over the world. Send us your favourite puppy photos and win tickets to the World Trial and your very own desktop 'flip and stand' calendar featuring your puppy photo.The contest runs until 12.00 noon (GMT) May 15th.
28 April: Nancy Obernier from the United States is featured in this week's Competitor Profile. 17 April: Martina Czylwik-Gerlach from Germany is featured in this week's Competitor Profile. 11 April: The Handler and Dog Entry List has been published. 07 April: Pup Photo Contest. The World Trial photo contest was so popular that many people wrote in and asked us to run a 'pup only' photo contest. So here it is. Send us your favourite puppy photos and win tickets to the World Trial and your very own desktop 'flip and stand' calendar featuring your puppy photo. The contest is now open and will run until May 15th. 02 April: Photo contest winners announced. The judges have conferred and have decided to award THREE prizes to the top photos. Click here to see the winning photos. 01 April: Handler entries have now closed. There will be 242 dogs accepted and letters will be posted to successful entrants on 04 April. The list of handlers will be posted on the main World Trial website around 12 April. 01 April: Interest in the World Trial website goes through the roof! The traffic level has been such that the site has been upgraded to handle more visitors, currently running at a quarter of a million hits a month, and 21,000 visitors!! 25 March: Campsite tickets available More details. 18 March: Lisa Hansson from Sweden is profiled in this week's edition of the Competitor Profiles click here. Also, the photo contest is being hotly contested with very strong entries coming in from all over the world. 07 March: An additional two competitors have been profiled this week. The two new profiles are of Meirion Jones from Wales and Jaran Knive from Norway. 04 March: Two new competitor profiles have been added to the WT website - Ken White from New Zealand and Anne Mock from the United States of America. These join Fiona Robertson from Canada, Joseph Relph from England, and Joyce Geier from the United States added last week. To view the handler profiles click here. 03 March: Two special 'warm-up' trials are to be held on Sept. 8th and 9th for overseas competitors attending this year's World Trial. These will be on Monday September 8th: Libanus, Penclyn Farm, Modrydd, Brecon (Hosts - Kevin & David Evans) and Tuesday September 9th: Brynthomas, Penybont, Llandrindod Wells (Host - Glyn Owen). Strictly for overseas WT competitors only, those interested can enter the trial on the day at the trial field. BBC Children's Programme 30 April: A BBC researcher would like to hear of children in the UK, aged between 9 and 11 years, who are learning to handle a sheepdog and might like to be considered to appear on a programme. If you are an ISDS member and have someone in mind please send an email and we will forward more details for you to see.
Blue Tongue Vaccination programme unveiled 2008 Land Rover World Sheep Dog Trials - Photo Competition 26 February: Share your favourite photos of sheepdogs at work, in competition and even at play from anywhere in the world, and win tickets to the 2008 Land Rover World Sheepdog Trial AND the 2008 International Sheepdog Trial – both in Wales. With just over a month to go, the photo contest continues to draw fantastic photographs of border collies from around the world. A selection of these photos can be seen here. Horse and Country TV update Annual Meeting News 06 February: The Society has held its Annual Meetings for Directors and Council in Carlisle at the end of January. A successful year was reported and a full programme of events was approved for 2008. Mr Jim Easton MBE has been re-elected Chairman. Benefits for Associate Nation Clubs have been announced to help with the registration of dogs in the ISDS Stud Book. The Society welcomes Belgium and Hungary as new Associate Nations (a link to more news for Continental members can be found at the bottom of this page). Where have the TV trials gone? 30 January: Those of you who were wondering why the Scottish National programmes have not yet been shown on HCTV will be glad to hear that they should be back on Sunday 10th February, but sorry to hear that Robin Page has been in hospital, which was the cause of the delay in transmission. Please check the HCTV schedule for confirmation of the timings in due course. Continental Sheepdog Championship Dates 30 January: This year's Continental Trials will take place from the 22nd to the 24th of August in Wittbek in the North of Germany. The sheep will be crossbred lowland Texel. Although this is not an ISDS competition directly, there are stong historical and support links. See the ABCD website for news as it appears. Special edition magazine on its way 21 January: The special 80 page January/February issue of International Sheepdog News is out, with lots to read, including interviews with J J Brennan and Jed Watson; Austin Bennett's pictorial review of the International; reports on One Man and His Dog and the annual Young Handlers' trial; a feature on the Dartmoor Clear Days gather; an extended results section, and even a Wistoku puzzle! Land Rover 2008 World Sheep Dog Trial Entries 17 January: Entry Forms and information have been supplied to all club secretaries that are ready to start collecting Forms for return to the ISDS by 31 March. Contact your club secretary around the end of January if you wish to confirm your application. For those from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, you will be sent Forms in early February and you should wait until these arrive. Trials on TV 24 December: We hope that you enjoyed the more traditional One Man and His Dog. The BBC welomes feedback, which can be left here. HCTV coverage of the National and International trials continues - see below.
World's First Gold Sheepdog Whistle
Major Trials on TV 5 December 2007 Horse and Country TV was at the four National trials and the Kilkenny International, and has made a series of hour long programmes which will be shown on Sky Channel 280, starting on Sunday December 9th at 20.30. In order to see when each programme, entitled Come Bye, will be shown, it is simplest to consult the Horse and Country TV Schedules as programmes are not always shown at the same time(s) every week. New Zealand holds 'English trial' to boost its chances of suceess 24 November 2007 As reported in the latest issue of International Sheepdog News, New Zealand is working hard to boost its team's chances for the 2008 World Trial. Bluetongue - latest 29 September 2007 Further cases of bluetongue disease have increased fears that this disease might spread to the whole of the UK. Unlike Foot and Mouth, where spread can be prevented by farmers, the general public and government laboratories, bluetongue is spread by certain species of midge which are therefore almost impossible to control. There are, however, some practical steps which can be taken to reduce the danger to your cattle and sheep. Details here and here. Outbreak information on the DEFRA site. International a great success 18 September 2007 A fantastic course, mostly good weather, and good but testing sheep, and of course a great Irish welcome made the 2007 International a real classic. The majority of the honours went to Wales with Aled Owen taking the Supreme title for the third time - three times, each with a different dog, equalling Gwyn Jones (Penmachno)'s record. Richard Millichap had set the pace with an excellent run earlier in the day which many spectators had expected would not be beaten. Wales also took the Team title, and the Brace (by just a single point), with Scotland triumphing in the Young Handlers' competition and the Driving. |
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12 December: The 2008 World Trials were formally launched at a televised gathering of 120 people at Dinefwr Park, Llandeilo, South Wales. Mr Richard Ware, Managing Director of Gilbertson and Page handed to the organizers the trial's principle prize - a solid gold shepherd's whistle. Land Rover are the trial's lead Sponsor and many organizations and officials within Wales are providing support to what is building to be a very significant event over 11-14 September 2008. More on the