PHOTO: Whites Lucky does her thing at the inaugural Australian Utility Championships Sheep Dog Trial in Nyngan over the weekend.
Nyngan played host to the inaugural Australian Utility Championships Sheep Dog Trial over the weekend at the pristine grounds of the Nyngan Showgrounds.
Fifty competitors and over 200 runs were contested to determine the winner of the event with rain not deterring the workers on the first day of competition.
The discipline of Utility Trialling is a combination of field work and yard work, which entails a competitor casting a dog onto three sheep, bringing them down to a delivery area – progressing to a set of yards where the sheep are put through a drenching race and a draft with 18 other sheep.
Three sheep are then drafted off and re-enter the arena to complete three obstacles which are the gap, race, and pen…