SHORT PROFILES ON THE WAWSDA'S TOP WORKERS
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John Charlick and The Fairbrook Dogs
CLUB:- Northern Districts Working Sheep Dog Club
Paddocks, or crowded City Streets, its all the same to Fairbrook Dogs.
He was fortunate enough to meet Alan Gray one of WA’s top handlers at that time, and who was farming at Boscabel. Alan persuaded John to buy Southern Bill, a forceful, powerful dog with
lots of rough edges, which under Alan Gray’s careful and patient tutelage were smoothed out some what, though he never became careful enough to allow sheep to run over the top of him.
Southern was the prefix of Bill England then Secretary for the Great Southern Club.
worked by John scored 1st place in the novice, this being the first taste of sheep dog trialing for them both, It was a taste that was to grow stronger over the years, andJohn would
have missed very few trials in WA since that day. The Open event was won by Alan Gray with Herdsmans Sambo.
John was a founding member of the Great Southern Club, until he moved to Wooroloo and became a Northern Districts member, as indeed he still is. John is the longest active
trialing member in the WAWSDA. John then acquired Glenvale Nell who produced Fairbrook Tam and thus began the Fairbrook line of sheep dogs.
Their names decorate the various perpetual Championship Cups, and of course the Dog of the Year records, The first perpetual Dog of the year trophy (The Frank Knapp & Company Darken, Trophy)
was won outright by John for winning six times, with Fairbrook Speed twice and Fairbrook Tam twice, and with Blackwatch Magpie and Blackwatch Ben once.
keep John’s winning streak going for many years. John has served the Association as Registrar, Secretary, Vice President and President at various times over many years,
and became a Life Member of the WAWSDA. in 1980. He authored a Sheepdog training book with the WA Dept of Agriculture. He recently received a certificate
from The Royal Agricultural Society commemorating his twenty years work with the RAS Sheep Dog Committee. He is also a Life Member of his own Club the NDWSDC.
Nick Webb and the Morillo Dogs
CLUB:- Stirling Districts
Working Sheep Dog Club
Nick grew up in England where he saw sheep dog trials with his Father Though the family's preference was Labrador gun dogs during his childhood. On arriving in Australia
he found emplyment on a mixed stud farm in Mount Barker where his Boss gave
him a Border Collie pup. Named Wup or Whip he became Nick's
teacher in all matters concerning working stock, and the pride of the farm,
In 1966 he watched a sheep dog trial in Northam where co-incidently he saw
his future Father in Law
Judge John Charlick for a win in the maiden event. Nick was hooked
and returning home sort the assistance of Phil Johnson who was then a member
of the Great Southern Club
and he trained for his first trial at Wongan Hills which would possibly have
been the first Northern Districts Club trial. In 1970 Nick was instrumental
in forming the Stirling Club
at Kendenup, where he was President for many years. He played a major role
in the modernization of the W.A.W.S.D.A and it's current constitution. He
also played a similar
roll in the development of The Australian Workers Sheep Dog Association as
it's Senior Vice President. He has represented WA and Australia at the Supreme
Trials, and
captained the Australian team to New Zealand in 1991. His late Father in Law's Glenromian dogs played an important role in the early development of Morillo's dogs, with
Glenromian Kinte and Lana featuring in the lines still today. Nick is a Life Member of the WAWSDA.
Morillo Baily
Doug Connop and the Glenveiw Dogs
CLUB:- Mayanup
Working Sheep Dog Club
Doug and Glenview Badger
went to New Zealand in 1997 as part of the Australian Team to compete in
theTestSeries.They left on the 9th June, returning on the 15th June. The
results
broadcast by the ABC Country Hour that had Australia loosing by
10 points, that however was the second round, and in fact Australia was
40 points behind in the first round. Doug said of
Badger'' performance
that he began well with a good cast but that he wasted time picking his
sheep up at the top of his cast, and when he did decide to move them he
took over the whole
operation and refused to listen to Dougs commands.
As I have never seen Badger do this I can only assume that the odor of
the New Zealand lamb chops he regulaly dined out on, gave
the sheep cause
for caution. Doug represented Australia again in 1999 for the 5th time
in NZ, with Badger. Doug has been trialling since the late 60s he has represented
Australia on three
other occasions, he has won numerous Australian Championships,
more Club Championships that anyone would remember, and he has owned bred
and trained many great dogs whose
names are a byword in the WA sheep dog
world, Merna Merna Whisko, Peejay Sadie, Dodges Blake, Glenromian Dinny,
and Glenview Feesha, Badger, and Theo 1998 Dog of the year,
to name just
a few. The Glenview lines are strongly represented in the lines of Boylee,
and Christies Kennels. Doug has held office as President of the Mayanup
Club, the West Australian
Working Sheep Dog Association, and the Australian
Sheep Dog Workers Inc. He is a Honorary Life Member of the WAWSDA. Many
young men will tell you how a gift of a dog from
Doug got them started
in sheep dog trialling, and just about all the triallers in WA have learnt
something from watching and questioning him on the course.
TONY BOYLE AND THE BOYLEE DOGS
CLUB :- Stirling Districts Working Sheep Dog Club
family familier with training animals, his father was a circus animal trainer. his first dog was known as `Pup', she was a Kelpie/Huntaway cross who took more after her Kelpie strains in looks,
and her Huntaway sire in voice, she would always bark on difficult sheep all around the course. Top triallers shook their heads and muttered under their breaths ` she'll never make it', not only did she
make it with a vengance, she formed the foundations' of one of WA's currant sucsseful trialling teams. With a strong dash of D Connop's Glenview blood added to the mix, `Glenview Spotty' was Tony's
first venture into pure Borders She was a magic trialler who took Tony to the hights of sucsess, she was followed by `Glenview Properdog' (same breeding different litter) who was so called because
everybody used to say to Tony after a `Pup' run "just think what you could achieve if you had a proper dog". Tony has gone from strenth to strenth, winning many championships, and
representing WA in the Australian Supreme Championships, and in the Australian Yard Championships. He is part of the Australian trans-tasman test team against New Zealand for this year.
He like's strong instinctive work from his dogs, and has written a training book for begginners which is humourous and artfully illustrated. Tony has his name on the Dog of the Year lists
many times and along with J Charlick, and D Connop is the only handler to win this trophy outright. (It must be won three times by the same dog, or six times by the handler).
With his family he lives and farms in the Denmark area of WA, where he practices breeding his own style of sheep as well as dogs. Champions are in the Boyle genes, his brother and
nephew are Shearing Champions of long standing, his son Raymond is following in his footsteps, winning many junior events before taking up serious trialling a couple of years ago.
Tony has served as President and delegate of his own Club and he was also Vice President of the WAWSDA.