A detailed examination of the pedigrees of 12 top dogs of the 1990s. These dogs are to be found in the pedigrees of most of today's working sheepdogs. Full background details and illustrations.


Price:  £8.50 / $16.75

The companion volume, covering the UK's International Champions from 1906 to 1995. Equally interesting, it is also superbly illustrated and has much interesting information.


Price:  £22.00 / $43.34

This is a detailed history of all the UK's National Sheepdog Trial Champions from 1922 to 1993. It covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in separate sections, and there is much interesting and useful information on some of the greatest handlers. This book, which contains a wonderful array of photographs of the UK's best dogs, is an extremely useful reference book as well as a good read.


Price:  £29.00 / $57.13

A4 softback - John Herries McCulloch's "Sheepdogs and their Masters" is a well known and popular classic. In 1951, the author was hoping to produce a third edition, but paper rationing made that impossible. Instead, he put his new ideas into an entirely new book, Border Collie Studies. The ISDS had just produced the first two volumes of its stud book, covering the first 40 years of the Society's existence, and readers were being encouraged to look at pedigrees, to understand the basics of genetics, and to look carefully at what went into the dogs that they were breeding. This book is particularly interesting because of the in depth study of J M Wilson's Cap (3036), which includes an extended pedigree, as well as a number of interesting contemporary photos. The original book is extremely hard to find - on the rare occasions that a copy is offered on Ebay, it is likely to sell for £100 or more. This reprint edition will be available in April 2006, orders now being taken. It also includes notes on modern genetics from Optigen.


Price:  £10.99 / $21.65

Although the title says this is the history of the South Wales Sheepdog Trials Association from 1950 to 2000, much of the information goes back much further. There are also many historic photographs and a commmentary from Barbara herself and others associated with the Association.


Price:  £8.00 / $15.76

A detailed examination of the judging of sheepdog trials. Includes the ISDS rules for trials, and detailed notes on each part of the trial and how, in the author's opinion, it should be judged.


Price:  £22.00 / $43.34