Quality resides in the exclusion of hazard (Louis Van Gaal)
Quality resides in the exclusion of hazard (Louis Van Gaal).
There are a number of world-class Mo's in top sport.
Long distance runner from the UK with Ethiopian roots Mo Farah is one of them. He won no less than 4 Olympic titles in the 5 and 10km and became world champion 6 times, but perhaps even more famous is Mo Salah, Egyptian top runner from Liverpool. With his team he won the national title (the last one was from 30 years ago) and the Champions league.
Herding also had a world class Mo: Ian Brownlie's Mo.
Mo's career did not start very convincingly.
Despite the fact that she was able to qualify for the Scottish Nursery Championship in her region (the best 5 competitors from the 9 regions met on the first weekend of March in the finals), her run in this final was catastrophic.
Mo did not manage to lift the sheep at the starting post. Not really the dreamed start of a future great trial career.
Ian Brownlie, a full-time shepherd, saw the course as an accident and continued to believe in the potential of his little bitch.
The rest is history.
Mo won innumerable open trials, no evidence in the UK, won "One man and his dog" and won the International in 2013, with the highest achievable score.
Ian, until last year's ISDS national chairman for Scotland, despite his hat, is far from being a cowboy when it comes to shepdog trials. Many times a member of the Scottish team and already winner of the International in 2012 with Gus, he repeated a new victory for the International a year later.
Top dogs can do it slow and can do it fast ...
In the fragments you can see Mo on 2 races.
During the first - slow - run, double outrun, in the framework of "One man and his dog" Mo has to deal with a very stubborn sheep. The whole run is a controlled battle in which Mo keeps the "cool" and patience in an amazing way. Ian's craftsmanship and Mo's years of experience in daily work situations bring the test to a successful conclusion.
The juries, themselves experienced sheep farmers or handlers, greatly appreciate the performance.
In the 2 - fast - run the conditions, the weather, the terrain, and the sheep are not easy at all.
The colour of the sheep suggests that the conditions in the pen will have been rather soggy and with great flexibility, obedience and 'control on speed' Mo succeeds in giving the 4 blackface ewes the right steering to eventually win the competition, despite the beauty flaw in splitting the unmarked sheep.
Because of the timidity of the sheep the organisers chose to shoot and the circle is a superfluous luxury.
Coincidence is rare in top sport, "it favours only those who were prepared for it. "(Louis Pasteur)
Quality resides in the exclusion of hazard (Louis Van Gaal)
Quality resides in the exclusion of hazard (Louis Van Gaal).
There are a number of world-class Mo's in top sport.
Long distance runner from the UK with Ethiopian roots Mo Farah is one of them. He won no less than 4 Olympic titles in the 5 and 10km and became world champion 6 times, but perhaps even more famous is Mo Salah, Egyptian top runner from Liverpool. With his team he won the national title (the last one was from 30 years ago) and the Champions league.
Herding also had a world class Mo: Ian Brownlie's Mo.
Mo's career did not start very convincingly.
Despite the fact that she was able to qualify for the Scottish Nursery Championship in her region (the best 5 competitors from the 9 regions met on the first weekend of March in the finals), her run in this final was catastrophic.
Mo did not manage to lift the sheep at the starting post. Not really the dreamed start of a future great trial career.
Ian Brownlie, a full-time shepherd, saw the course as an accident and continued to believe in the potential of his little bitch.
The rest is history.
Mo won innumerable open trials, no evidence in the UK, won "One man and his dog" and won the International in 2013, with the highest achievable score.
Ian, until last year's ISDS national chairman for Scotland, despite his hat, is far from being a cowboy when it comes to shepdog trials. Many times a member of the Scottish team and already winner of the International in 2012 with Gus, he repeated a new victory for the International a year later.
Top dogs can do it slow and can do it fast ...
In the fragments you can see Mo on 2 races.
During the first - slow - run, double outrun, in the framework of "One man and his dog" Mo has to deal with a very stubborn sheep. The whole run is a controlled battle in which Mo keeps the "cool" and patience in an amazing way. Ian's craftsmanship and Mo's years of experience in daily work situations bring the test to a successful conclusion.
The juries, themselves experienced sheep farmers or handlers, greatly appreciate the performance.
In the 2 - fast - run the conditions, the weather, the terrain, and the sheep are not easy at all.
The colour of the sheep suggests that the conditions in the pen will have been rather soggy and with great flexibility, obedience and 'control on speed' Mo succeeds in giving the 4 blackface ewes the right steering to eventually win the competition, despite the beauty flaw in splitting the unmarked sheep.
Because of the timidity of the sheep the organisers chose to shoot and the circle is a superfluous luxury.
Coincidence is rare in top sport, "it favours only those who were prepared for it. "(Louis Pasteur)
Quality resides in the exclusion of hazard (Louis Van Gaal)
Quality resides in the exclusion of hazard (Louis Van Gaal).
There are a number of world-class Mo's in top sport.
Long distance runner from the UK with Ethiopian roots Mo Farah is one of them. He won no less than 4 Olympic titles in the 5 and 10km and became world champion 6 times, but perhaps even more famous is Mo Salah, Egyptian top runner from Liverpool. With his team he won the national title (the last one was from 30 years ago) and the Champions league.
Herding also had a world class Mo: Ian Brownlie's Mo.
Mo's career did not start very convincingly.
Despite the fact that she was able to qualify for the Scottish Nursery Championship in her region (the best 5 competitors from the 9 regions met on the first weekend of March in the finals), her run in this final was catastrophic.
Mo did not manage to lift the sheep at the starting post. Not really the dreamed start of a future great trial career.
Ian Brownlie, a full-time shepherd, saw the course as an accident and continued to believe in the potential of his little bitch.
The rest is history.
Mo won innumerable open trials, no evidence in the UK, won "One man and his dog" and won the International in 2013, with the highest achievable score.
Ian, until last year's ISDS national chairman for Scotland, despite his hat, is far from being a cowboy when it comes to shepdog trials. Many times a member of the Scottish team and already winner of the International in 2012 with Gus, he repeated a new victory for the International a year later.
Top dogs can do it slow and can do it fast ...
In the fragments you can see Mo on 2 races.
During the first - slow - run, double outrun, in the framework of "One man and his dog" Mo has to deal with a very stubborn sheep. The whole run is a controlled battle in which Mo keeps the "cool" and patience in an amazing way. Ian's craftsmanship and Mo's years of experience in daily work situations bring the test to a successful conclusion.
The juries, themselves experienced sheep farmers or handlers, greatly appreciate the performance.
In the 2 - fast - run the conditions, the weather, the terrain, and the sheep are not easy at all.
The colour of the sheep suggests that the conditions in the pen will have been rather soggy and with great flexibility, obedience and 'control on speed' Mo succeeds in giving the 4 blackface ewes the right steering to eventually win the competition, despite the beauty flaw in splitting the unmarked sheep.
Because of the timidity of the sheep the organisers chose to shoot and the circle is a superfluous luxury.
Coincidence is rare in top sport, "it favours only those who were prepared for it. "(Louis Pasteur)