Hawkes Bay Today
  • Hawke's Bay Today home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology

Locations

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Havelock North
  • Central Hawke's Bay
  • Tararua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Dannevirke
  • Gisborne

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Hawkes Bay Today

Sheepdog trials: Taylor scores wins on home ground

Doug Laing
By Doug Laing
Multimedia Journalist·Hawkes Bay Today·
15 Mar, 2018 01:30 AM3 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

This weekend will be a busy time for sheepdog trials.

This weekend will be a busy time for sheepdog trials.

Wairoa sheep dog triallist Fraser Taylor scored wins on his home club heading and hunt courses as sheep dog triallists enjoyed their annual three-days Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay indulgence last Thursday-Saturday.

The trials went ahead with little impact from the storm which closed the Napier-Wairoa road for several hours on Thursday, mainly because of flooding nearer Napier, with fine weather during the first day of the Wairoa trials that day.

There was also clear weather for the overlapping day of the Ruakituri trials which started on Friday.

At Wairoa Taylor won the short head and yard with Nell and the straight hunt with Waite, a week after Waite had won the zig zag at Patoka.

Kevin O'Connor won the long head with Joe, and Tom Manson won the zig zag with maiden dog Spud.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Centre president Clark Chrystal continued a good season at Ruakituri where he won the straight hunt with Duke, his fourth winning dog of the season.

The other winners at Ruakituri, which also staged the Poverty Bay championships runoff, were Bob Bryson and Bolt (long head), John MacPherson and Scott (short head and yard) and Samantha Shaw and Breeze (zig zag hunt).

Bryson and Bolt also claimed the centre title, the other PB titles going to Jerry Cook and Jean (short head and yard), Allen Irwin and Buster (zig zag hunt) and Colin Bayliss and Bully (straight hunt).

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

The Mohaka trials will be held on Saturday and Sunday, in Wairarapa and SHB the Kumeroa trials south of Dannevirke will be tomorrow and Saturday and in Poverty Bay trials will be held tomorrow and Saturday at Waipaoa Station.

RESULTS

Wairoa sheep dog trials last Thursday/Friday:

Long head: Kevin O'Connor, Joe, 95pts, 1; Clark Chrystal, Boyd, 94.5pts, 2; Chris Redmond, Watch, 94pts, 3; Brendon Bishop, Queen, 93.5pts, 4; Dave Wallace, Blue, 93pts, 5. Intermediate: Barney Strong, Trix. Maiden: R Howell, Dice.

Short head and yard: Fraser Taylor, Nell, 94.5pts, 1; Dylan Rofe, Risk, 94.25pts, 2; Clark Chrystal, Boyd, 94pts, 3; Tom Manson, Pip, 92pts, 4; Peter Williams, Guide, 91.5pts, 5. Intermediate: Fraser Taylor, Nell. Maiden: L Reid, Pip.

Zig zag hunt: Tom Manson, Spud, 97pts, 1; Clark Chrystal, Duke, 96pts, 2; Brendon Bishop, 95pts, 3; Fraser Taylor, Lord, 92.5pts, 4; Greg McKinnon, Brick, 92pts, 5. Intermediate and Maiden: Tom Manson, Spud.

Straight hunt: Fraser Taylor, Waite, 95.5pts, 1; Richard Finnie, Kenneth, 95pts, 2; Brent Gallagher, Cruze, 94.5pts, 3; Marty Wolter, Rex, 94pts, 4; Tom Manson, Buck, 93.5pts, 5. Intermediate: Richard Finnie, Kenneth. Maiden: B McHardy, May.

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Hawkes Bay TodayUpdated

Watch: 'I left my fingernails in the steering wheel' - van driver's risky overtake

01 Jul 01:42 AM
Hawkes Bay Today

Watch as overtake manoeuvre goes wrong on State Highway 2 near Wairoa

Hawkes Bay Today

The city doing 'street soup' in its CBD over winter

30 Jun 11:09 PM

There’s more to Hawai‘i than beaches and buffets – here’s how to see it differently

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Watch: 'I left my fingernails in the steering wheel' - van driver's risky overtake

Watch: 'I left my fingernails in the steering wheel' - van driver's risky overtake

01 Jul 01:42 AM

'That’s the first time I’ve ever thought ‘I’m not making it home tonight'.'

Watch as overtake manoeuvre goes wrong on State Highway 2 near Wairoa

Watch as overtake manoeuvre goes wrong on State Highway 2 near Wairoa

The city doing 'street soup' in its CBD over winter

The city doing 'street soup' in its CBD over winter

30 Jun 11:09 PM
Premium
Motel generation ends: Just 24 families in region still using them for emergency housing

Motel generation ends: Just 24 families in region still using them for emergency housing

30 Jun 06:00 PM
From early mornings to easy living
sponsored

From early mornings to easy living

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Hawke's Bay Today e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Hawke's Bay Today
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP