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Scot To Judge
Sheep Dog Trial
Mrs. Viv Billingham, from Yetholm, Kelso, Scotland, will fly to this country to judge the Blue Ridge Open Sheep Dog Tnal to be held on May 11 and 12 at Sunnybrook Farm, White Post, Virginia. ALPO Petfoods Center is sponsoring the trial.
Sheep dog trialing has become a fast growing sport in the United States in the past ten years. Several years ago there was only one trial in the State of Virginia, now there are at least one a month. The Blue Ridge Trial, in its third year, is emerging as one of the biggest trials in the East with handlers coming from Massachusetts to Alabama to Indiana. Two handlers from California have requested information on the trial.
Viv Billingham is a full time shepherdess in the Cheviot Hills in southern Scotland. She and her husband, Geoff, have charge of two large flocks of sheep in the Duke of Rosburgh’s estate. She has been featured on the popular BBC television series “One Man and His Dog.” In 1983 she was a member of the Scottish team at the International Sheep Dog Trials at Blair Athol in Scotland. To be a member of one of the national teams in Great Britain a Dog and handler must place in the top fifteen at one of the National trials in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. Most of the national trials have from 150 to 200 dogs competing to get on their country’s team. Eric Halsall, commentator on the “One Man and His Dog” series, says of her: “She is regarded as an equal in the competitive world of sheep dog trials — quite a feat in what is regarded almost solely as a man’s world.”
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