Dogpro Plus Pingelly Supreme 2023

Report by Nan Lloyd
Photos Nan Lloyd & Simon Wallace

The Pingelly trial was probably one of the coldest we have had for some time. There was a crunching frost Friday and Saturday nights, and temperatures of minus 2 or so. The ice was thick on the grounds as well as on the cars and caravans. During the day temperatures only got to about 14 so most of us were well rugged up.

The highlight of Pingelly is the eating places. Most people tried both hotels as well as the Recreation center and enjoyed some lovely meals.

The sheep were difficult but workable. The open sheep started off reasonably well on the Sat morning but deteriorated rapidly for some reason only known to sheep. They were difficult to keep on course, and constantly fought the dogs, refusing the obstacles, and trying their best to break back to the let-outs.

They did not like being hassled too much, but needed some domination to move them at times.

Some dogs worked them fairly well, producing some reasonable scores.

Most people had a bit of a battle with the sheep, particularly in the open final. The scores dropped considerably.

Entries were very good. 59 in the Novice, 63 in the improver and 76 in the open.

There was a run-off for the open title between Grant Cooke with Grassvalley Bluey and Peter Gorman with Pendalup Lucy. Grant and Bluey prevailed with a final score of 194 to Peter and Lucy with 174.
Grant also took out the Improver with Grassvalley Theo and the novice was won by Neil Kristiansen with Badgingarra Sir Ben.

Encourage
Judged by Steve Wallace

	Worker	Dog
1	Cree Monaghan	Graedawn Finn
	T Ward	St Albans Boss
	Lee Crockford	Drycreek Zarin
	T Ward	St Albans Saphire

Novice
Judged by Brad Rose

	Worker	Dog	Total
1	Neil Kristiansen	Badgingarra Sir Ben	87
2	Nan Lloyd	Binnaburra Ruffy (K)	78
3	Per Ostberg	My Nr One Favvo	77
4	Frank Maynard	Pendalup Nicki	74
5	Tony Boyle	Boylee Cournel	73
6	Simon Leaning	Marionvale Woody (K)	71
=7	Terry Martino	Marionvale Bo (K)	70
=7	Simon Leaning	Max	70
9	Len Morton	McConnells Johnny	67
10	Doreen Hansen	Binnaburra Bubbles (K)	65

Improver
Judged by Des Davies

	Worker	Dog	Total
1	Grant Cooke	Grassvalley Theo	93
2	Gordon Curtis	Binnaburra Buzz (K)	89
3	Nan Lloyd	Kumbark Ace (K)	87
=4	Per Ostberg	My Nr One Favvo	85
=4	Peter Gorman	Pendalup Ted	85
=6	Neil Kristiansen	Badgingarra Sir Ben	84
=6	Ken Atherton	Ramulam Prickles (K)	84
=8	Peter Doherty	Ramulam Sixpence (K)	83
=8	Jan Cornish	Bellview Bailey	83
=8	Grant Cooke	Grassvalley Palmer	83

Open
Judged by Phil Dorrell

	Worker	Dog	1st run	2nd Run	Run off	Total
1	Grant Cooke	Grassvalley Bluey	86	65	43	194
2	Peter Gorman	Pendalup Lucy	76	75	23	174
3	Ken Atherton	Ramulam Prickles (K)	82	68	–	150
4	Ken Atherton	Ramulam Charlie (K)	73	59	–	132
5	Ivan Solomon	Perangery Trish	87	37	–	124
=6	Peter Gorman	Badgingarra Missy	76	46	–	122
=6	Simon Leaning	Yarrabee Jack (K)	85	37	–	122
8	Nigel Armstrong	Yarralonga Scope (K)	75	43	–	118
9	Blake Robinson	Nap	67	50	–	117
10	Tanya deBijl	Jarrah (K)	73	29	–	102
11	Simon Leaning	Marionvale Andy	77	SCR	–	77
12	Gordon Curtis	Binnaburra Buzz (K)	68	RTD	–	68