Television Dog Trials
The winner of the 1979 television dog trials,
Rex Berkahn, who farms in the Maraekakaho district west of Hastings, carrying 2700 ewes and 120 breeding cows on his 835 acre property.
Rex has lived and worked on the farm all his life and has been a regular supplier of livestock to Tomoana.
Rex has two heading dogs, Prince and Laddie, which are both part of his working team. Rex and the dogs are well known to the farming community and general public because of their success in the 1979 TV Dog Trialling series "A Dog's Show".
He found the experience invaluable and rated the opposition as some of the most competitive he had ever met. He also feels that the series has done a lot to create more public interest in trialling.
Rex feels the major reason for his success is 'control'. He says "If you can control the dog, you can control the sheep," and also believes in rewarding the dog for a job well done.
Most of the preparation for trialling is taken care of by working the dogs on the farm with only a small amount of extra training needed to prepare them for the competition.
Over the last 20 years Rex has had 9 wins and 14 seconds in the H. B. Centre Championships, and in 1961 won the NZ. Longhead Championship with Faye, and in 1977 won the NZ. Shorthead Championship and was runner-up in the Longhead Championship with Prince.
Perhaps the best measurement of the respect fellow trialists have for Rex can be shown by the fact that he has been a North Island Trial Judge since 1962 and is currently a NZ. reserve Trial Judge.
Source Weddel's World, July 1979 -
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