Episode 2 One Man and His Dog

Hello, and welcome back to the beautiful

but slightly overcast Gower peninsula in Wales

for the second day of our competition,

and it promises to be a dramatic climax.

And it has taken a bit of a turn for the worse, the weather.

But we've got some hardy shepherds and some very hardy dogs,

and that's all that matters.

-And a couple of hardy presenters as well, to throw in.

-Yeah.

If you thought yesterday was tense,

then today is going to get a whole lot tougher as we enter our final round.

Our four national teams are back to battle it out for the title of

One Man And His Dog Champions 2012.

And today they face the Singles round.

Matt and Gus will be on hand to explain everything you need to know as we go along.

Indeed, but before we do get on with the competition,

let's remind ourselves who made it to the pen and who got stuck in the shedding ring yesterday.

We started with the Young Handlers round.

Sean Corrigan from Ireland and his dog, Tex, started the competition off in fine style,

not only taking the Young Handlers title,

but dropping the least amount of points of all of the handlers so far.

What a finish it was, and of course we then finished off with the Brace,

that is one man and two dogs, where things really get interesting.

England were first out.

Michael Longton, then, walks out to the post,

and making a bit of history here as the first handler on a live One Man And His Dog.

Maximum points, that's brilliant.

-This looks great. Oh!

-There we are!

Time to spare.

Well, to me, John is the perfect handler.

He's so well-known that in Wales they just say "JR".

-Oh!

-Oh, yes!

-What a great job he's done.

-John!

Oh, dear me! Look at that!

After a strong start, it's all over for John and his dogs.

-Phenomenal brace competitor, is Ewan.

-They're going to go well past.

The dogs have crossed. The judges will be taking points off, here.

Oh, my word. What can you say to Ewan?

Frank won the International back in 1997. Oh, it's started.

Now, here's the battle on.

-Oh, dear!

-Oh! It's happened again!

So England win the Brace.

What a day of trialling we had. It was so, so eventful, and let's have a look

and see how things are looking on the leaderboard overnight.

So we had Ireland out there at 178 points,

one point ahead of England.

Scotland, well, they are looking a little bit off the pace, 156,

but Wales are sitting nicely there

in third with 170.

It's a close one, this.

It's going to be a good competition, isn't it? Cos anyone can win with those scores.

Anyway, here's the man who had his eagle eye on all the action.

-It's our expert, Gus Dermody.

-Hi.

-Gus, we had so many comments yesterday,

and I thought the same thing, that the winners yesterday were the sheep!

-They were feisty!

-I think you're right, they were really, really stroppy.

Especially for the poor fellas running Brace.

Do you think they're going to calm down a bit today because it's damp?

Yeah, quite often the rain can just slow them down that little bit,

so they could be steadier today.

Hopefully not too much, though, cos we don't want it to be too predictable, do we?

-It won't be, I'll guarantee.

-Yeah, that's not going to happen.

Well, now it's time to start the competition, so, Matt and Gus,

I'm going to send you off to the commentary box.

Yesterday I used voice commands, today I've improved my skills, I've got a whistle.

-You are incredibly brave.

-Is that the right way up?

-That is the right way up, yeah.

BLOWS INTO WHISTLE - NO SOUND

-WHISTLES

-Off you go.

-I'm terribly confused now, I don't know what to do.

Needed to practise that a bit, really.

Once again we have our two judges, Shirley Cropper and Kenny Donald,

primed on top of their tower in the drizzle, there,

ready for the action.

So let's get started.

It's the Singles round, that's one man and one dog,

but this time they've got two flocks of sheep to contend with.

At the moment, Scotland are lying in fourth place,

which means they are up first in the Singles.

But with 150 points up for grabs in this round,

anything could happen, and let me tell you, it probably will.

So let's meet today's first competitor and his dog.

Representing Scotland is someone who won the International just last weekend.

So certainly a strong competitor to start with.

It's Ian Brownlie with his dog Mo.

I'm Ian Brownlie from Alloa in Scotland.

I'll be running Mo in this year's One Man And His Dog.

I live with my wife and family on a 120-acre stock farm,

and we have 600 cross sheep.

The weather's quite unpredictable, and I think it gets worse as each year goes past.

Farming can be a difficult life,

but there are days it gives you great satisfaction.

I started running dogs when I was 11 years old,

and ran for five and six years, but became distracted as a teenager

with the usual distractions, and came back to it in later life.

Mo is four years old.

She was bred here, bred her myself, and she's a great nature,

she's got a... Very intelligent, and good feel for the stock.

I've five dogs that help me with everyday work on the farm.

Their contribution is invaluable on a farm like this.

The work's never done.

I've been lucky enough to have been on

One Man And His Dog Young Handlers many years ago, but unfortunately

I missed out when I won the Scottish National a few years back, due to foot-and-mouth,

so hopefully we'll make amends for it this year.

Well, what a lovely shot of Mo, there, to finish that little film on,

and no doubt Mo will look quite similar at the end of this round.

But, Ian, then, to the post, with Mo.

Looks like she's going off to the right-hand side.

So Ian is International Supreme and Scottish National champion of 2012,

but with a different dog.

What a talented fellow he is. It's with another dog, but here I think

it's his more consistent dog that he's running today,

and she's called Mo.

It's quite deceptive, the length of this outrun, isn't it, Gus?

I mean, we were up there this morning

having a good look back to the commentary box,

and it is quite some way.

Yes, yes it is, and it's rather wet down on the right-hand side.

But she's come to the end of the outrun, now.

Well, if you were watching the trial yesterday,

it's a very similar start,

so you've got the outrun where the dog runs all the way around

the outside of the field,

and then arrives behind the sheep for this, the lift.

You can see them there standing at the post,

and then they have to move away from that nice and gently,

and this then starts the tempo for the rest of the run.

So that a very, very nice lift indeed,

and they'll walk all the way up the field

and then through those gates that you can see in the centre of your screen.

Yes, that was very impressive.

Those sheep were ready to challenge the dog but she was up to the challenge,

she didn't rush at them, she came on steady,

and they backed off, they've turned and now they're under way.

Judges' scores are in and look at that. What a start!

20 out of 20 for the outrun,

and 10 out of 10 for that lift.

And going on track beautifully here, as well, on this, the fetch.

A very calm aura, hasn't he, Ian,

-the way he transfers that energy across to the dog.

-He does.

And she's quite steady.

But the sheep, every time they stop, they'll challenge the dog.

They're a strange breed, this particular group.

But this is nice. Nicely positioned to come through the fetch gates.

Look at that. Absolutely dead centre.

And that's good.

But this the difficult bit.

I think the most difficult part of the trial is going to be

-the next section.

-Mmm.

Yeah, you see Mo running with five sheep at the moment.

That number is about to double

as soon as they get to this white post, just ahead of them.

And yes, Gus, talk us through what the idea is from here,

because this is the challenge. This very, very moment here.

Oh, that's good. That's an excellent start to the second outrun.

So that a look-back command, because there's a second set of sheep

at the top of the field that Mo had to turn around on her shoulder,

then run all the way back

to gather this second lot.

So, there you can see 19 out of 20

for that first fetch.

Mo runs all the way back on her second outrun,

and then there'll be points for another lift as well.

You can see Malcolm, our Head of Sheep,

just at the very back of your shot with his dog Sammy,

just holding the second little flock, and now they lead the field.

IAN SHOUTS

Now Ian's using his voice.

Going very well indeed. Look at this.

Second outing, second lift, 20 and 10.

He's using his voice to emphasise these commands,

to keep the sheep away from the second group,

because they're going to pull like mad now to our right,

-as they want to join the other sheep.

-Away back.

That is why he's talking to her.

Here, here. Here, here, here.

And now he's going to re-group the two lots of sheep.

Walk up.

Walk up. Atta girl.

As you can see, some of the sheep in that flock have red collars on.

There's three of them in the ten,

and that comes into play a little bit further on in the trial,

as you will see when we get to the shedding ring.

Now they're all grouped up nicely, and coming towards Ian.

He does use a combination of whistles and voice,

and Mo reacts instantly to that.

Walk up.

A little bit of zig-zagging as they come up towards him,

and the danger point is going to be as they start to go on to the drive

and come to this end of the fetch, they may well challenge the dog.

This is where they were awkward yesterday for the brace men.

That's an awkward sheep on the outside there.

She's stamping, she's going towards the dog. This is cheeky.

But Mo's... Now, this is what we call power.

The fact of that dog walking up to that sheep

and backing her into the rest. That was tremendous.

It's a pity the judges can't give bonus points for that.

That was brilliant. That was brilliant.

She's having another go, but I tell you what,

Mo is saying "No, I'm in charge."

And is she in charge! Now, that's good.

Many a dog would have flown in and either gripped the sheep

or gone down the side of the other sheep. That was really well done.

So the sheep then off and running on to the cross drive.

Idea here is for Ian and Mo to drive the sheep away from themselves,

through the first set of gates there, then they'll cross horizontally,

go right across in front of Ian to the second set of cross drive gates.

Well, this is a good line towards the first drive gates.

They need to be turned now towards the right.

Mo will be coming round, she is coming round

the outside of the gates, all ten sheep through the gates.

And turning now on to the cross drive.

Just have a look for the second fetch.

It's very good indeed, look at that!

20 out of 20, just one point dropped in the whole round so far.

Well, Scotland are really challenging now.

My word, they might have started the lowest,

but this is going to take some beating.

Yeah, Scotland were lying in fourth overnight.

So this, yesterday, proved to be the trickiest part of the course.

Yes. He's on line, but the difficult bit is that Mo is on the inside,

she's got to go right the way round when the time comes,

and turn the sheep fast to get them through those gates.

There she is coming through the trees, coming round.

-It's looking good.

-By, that's impressive!

-It's looking very good.

Another challenge at the back, she's got to watch these others.

That might let that back sheep have some false confidence,

in that it thought she was walking away.

But she was going on the commands, to push the other sheep round.

Here we are, here she is challenging again.

Go on, Mo. Nice and steady.

-Well, she is a bad, awkward sheep, this one.

-Walk up.

-Oh! Ooh.

-I tell...

-Oh! Well!

-Now then.

There was a little bit, there, of contact.

But I think the judges might let it go,

because it was actually a bit of self-defence, that, Gus.

It certainly was, it certainly was.

It was hard work, she did everything she could,

but the sheep was going to challenge her.

Lie down. Away. Lie down. Come out.

OK, so now we have the ten sheep into this ring,

the idea is to take one of the sheep with a red collar

away from the rest of the bunch.

There's three in there with collars.

As calm as you like, Ian will just gently pick his moment,

try and get a little bit of separation, then call Mo into him.

Here's the one on the right.

-Away, away.

-Just three points lost on that cross drive.

Lie down. Away back.

So four lost altogether so far. Incredibly impressive.

This looks good, Gus.

The sheep have got to stay within this ring,

so he's right on the edge of the ring here,

they've got to be in when he calls Mo through for that single sheep.

So he's going closer now into the ring.

Away back. Lie down. Stay. Away.

Lie down, walk up.

3.5 minutes, Gus, left to single one of these off and pen.

These aren't going to be easy, they're tucking into the middle.

Lie down, lie down.

The instant he asks her through, she'll come,

but it's just a matter of trying to prise this one ewe on to the end.

He's in with an opportunity here.

Get up, get up.

But the other collared ewe's come, and she's facing the dog.

-It is just one.

-You can only take the one. Here he is,

he's asked her in, and she's taken it

and the judges I think have accepted it.

Sounded like it.

So that's good. That's good.

Regroup the sheep in the shedding ring.

So Ian there just checking his watch,

I think he cleverly started his stopwatch as the round began,

so he knows exactly how much time he's got.

He often does time himself, yes.

It's 10 out of 10 for that single.

This is going to be very, very difficult to beat.

I just hope that this consistency can continue at the pen.

The trial will be over as soon as Ian and Mo put all of these sheep

into this pen and close the gate.

On your feet.

Well, they're nice and steady. They're well bunched,

they're going slightly uphill towards the open gate.

-Come out.

-She's got to get right the way round

and stop the sheep going down the side.

He could have a leader there. The ewe that was looking round.

Gently does it. She's going in, she's taking the others with her.

And there goes the last one in now, and there we are.

Now that is going to really take some beating.

That is very, very, very, VERY impressive

and a tough act to follow.

Every single one of those handlers that's to come knows

what a difficult job they've got to do to try and beat him.

However, as far as countries are concerned,

Scotland were way off the mark with 158, down in fourth.

But the comeback is on.

Look at that. Look at the scores!

Only dropped one point on the first fetch,

three on that drive.

Just incredible. 146/150.

-Ian, you must be very pleased with that.

-Pretty pleased, yeah.

That was a fabulous round. I mean, you've just won the international,

that could very well win you the singles today.

We'll wait and see. It's very early.

The sheep are tremendous now for some reason,

whether it's the rain, I don't know.

-You say that, but one was being a bit standoffish!

-She was a little naughty!

We were really impressed when we were watching it,

how well Mo did with that stroppy sheep.

Yeah, she's more patience than I have.

Complete control, the way that the dog looked at the sheep

-and said "No, I'm in charge."

-Yeah, yeah. Typical woman.

-Does she always work so well?

-Usually, yes.

-Do you know how many points you dropped? Have a guess.

-Not a clue.

It was a remarkable round. It was nearly perfect.

-You dropped four points, 146...

-Whoa!

..out of 150. That is going to be extremely difficult to beat.

-A great score for Scotland, and as I say...

-We need one!

You should be very pleased. And you did it in a very quick round as well, with time to spare.

I saw you looking at your stopwatch at one stage,

you were keeping an eye on the time.

A good round, a good start to One Man And His Dog, the singles round.

-Well done.

-Thanks very much.

Very nice to have an international champion to rely on, Gus,

to come out. He started the round, it was so beautiful,

and the pace of it was just perfect.

It was nice and steady, it wasn't rushed,

and that is how he just set the tempo.

Yes, she's very careful.

The sheep might think it's in with a chance,

but look at this for the dog for power.

How she can walk on to that nose to nose,

and back she goes into the rest of them.

I mean, look. Just... "Do not mess with me," is what Mo said.

And it happened a few times as well.

But it says a lot for the dog, to actually keep its composure.

Yes. Yes.

Now, into the shedding ring, a choice of three,

but can only take the one.

The instant that he asked her in, look at this, straight onto her.

That ewe didn't want to come away, but my word, she did.

And indeed, it just continued on,

all the way to the end of that round.

And what... That is a textbook pen, to be honest.

It doesn't get much better than that.

No, that was a brilliant finish to a brilliant round.

What a fabulous start to the singles!

That shows you how it should be done. A near-perfect round.

And it's going to be very difficult to beat that.

I bet the other teams are quaking in their boots. Who's up next?

Representing Wales is someone who's been a winner on One Man And His Dog

as a Young Handler in 1994, at the tender age of 13.

Will he be as lucky today? Well, let's meet him. It's Kevin Evans.

My name is Kevin Evans. I'm from Brecon in South Wales.

In One Man And His Dog this year, I'll be running Greg.

I was brought up on the family farm here in Libanus, close to Brecon.

We graze 300 sheep, it's a hill breed, the Brecon Hill Cheviot.

# Come down from the mountain

# You have been gone too long... #

My father, when he's not training dogs,

he's out doing all the sheep work on the farm. Every day,

he has to go to the mountain to raise the sheep up. They're a hefted flock,

living up on the Brecon Beacons, they always head back for the home farm.

So you've got to go up there

and push them back up to the good grass.

I'm a builder by trade.

But I'm spending more and more time at home on the family farm,

helping run the farm, training and breeding dogs.

Greg is four years old now. He's fairly solid and cool.

He's a good all-rounder really.

And he's been a very lucky dog for me in trials.

I've been on One Man And His Dog as a Young Handler.

It seems like a long time ago now.

'Look at the concentration on his face.'

Me and Michael Longton both had really good runs,

but that day I was lucky enough to win.

'In they go. And the gate shuts behind them. Very good.'

I'm looking forward to representing Wales on One Man And His Dog.

I hope everything goes OK and I don't let the side down.

From the boy to the man, and as you can see,

Kevin's grown up a little bit.

And as we saw in that little film, he was planning to run Greg,

but unfortunately Greg is injured. So this is Jimmy,

and Jimmy has been a European nursery or young dog champion.

So he's got a good pedigree, Gus.

Looking forward to seeing how he runs.

He's gone off to the right-hand side, gone wide as well,

all the way around the outside of the trees.

A very sharp dog, a very fast dog.

And he'll certainly give a good challenge to the last run.

As he goes down the right-hand side against the wood.

He was up against Michael Longton in the Young Handlers way back when,

-and there he is again, looking on.

-Another fella that's grown up!

-Yes.

-Michael, of course, running the brace.

-And did very well.

So the brakes are on for Jimmy as he's halted behind.

Good outrun. There's the lift.

A bit of a sharper lift than maybe the last run, Ian Brownlie's lift.

But they're well under control, they're coming in nice and steady.

-That's a good line as well.

-It is that, the dog's on his feet.

He is showing good balance, good control.

Working fairly close to them.

20 out of 20 for that very wide outrun,

and as Gus said, a sharper lift. But still, maximum points.

Yes. So another brilliant start.

-Whoops!

-Oh, have I spoken too soon?

Yes! Three go round the side of the fetch gate.

Just that little spurt of energy then.

They might have got slightly spooked by those gates

-and decided to just part company.

-Yes, yes.

Just that little bit of extra pressure that was on,

and they flirted round.

Now he's asked it back, and he'll have to watch,

that's the second request.

Now he's asked him round and he's going extremely wide.

He's crossed the lane. He's looking in.

He's going to do a wide outrun round to get the second group of sheep.

He could lose a few points for going a little bit too wide.

But he's on line now, and coming in behind them.

I tell you, Kevin will be very pleased that

he's looking over the right shoulder.

If he'd have been looking over his left, he could have lost him.

Certainly. But now he's coming down the field.

So that first fetch from the top posts, the middle there, was 14/20.

-Points deducted for the sheep that didn't go through the gates.

-Yes.

So he's got a lot to try and do to make up now.

Wales were third overnight.

For the second outrun, he gets two points lost.

A little bit too wide, but maybe it was the second call

that lost him those points, and then 10 out of 10 for the lift.

Yes, he didn't go back instantly,

and that's why just a couple of points.

When he did go back, it was OK, rather wide,

but he did go back OK.

Now he's got these sheep settled,

this time they're going right through the middle,

all five of them, as they come through the fetch gates

towards the first group of five sheep.

And the girls at the front look very relaxed at the moment!

Just taking on a bit of grass.

As the remaining five join the party.

Well, there we are, nice and steady.

Kevin just checking left and right, seeing how much room he's got,

how he can bring these sheep around him

and keep them as close as he can to him, and the handler's post,

at the end of the fetch and before the drive starts.

A gentle, but nice little pace on.

He has got to get them all the way around him.

And then off onto the cross drive.

Stand.

Yes, he is a younger dog and he's just that little bit sharper

than Mo that we saw on the last competition.

Here he is coming round.

Let's see how he manages them at this crucial point.

-There's no challenge here.

-Stand.

Or is there? No, no.

They have accepted the dog and they are going onto the drive.

Stand! Stand!

Here's a reminder of how the drive works.

Sheep will leave the post where Kevin is standing,

go up through those gates, they will turn right and then this

is where the course goes slightly uphill, past the woods and then

bend round through the second gates and then into the shedding ring.

Well, we had a stop but now he has got them going again,

so he has got to try and keep this flowing all the time

without going too fast.

Spreading out a little as they come towards the first drive gates.

HE WHISTLES

20/20 for the second fetch.

So lost a few so far, but it's a good comeback.

It is - let's hope he's not turned too soon.

No, he hasn't. He has them on a good line. Are they going to gather speed

now as they go across from our left to right?

Very difficult to monitor the speed of the sheep

as they are going up there.

Keep the dog still in contact so it can get round to bring them

back in for the second cross drive gates,

but not push them too fast so that they lose it.

Absolutely. But the line is good, he's just holding the dog back here.

Stand!

-Will this dog go through the wood when the time comes?

-Stand!

-You need to go round the back of the first gate.

-Stand!

Of the cross drive gates. He's hanging on, waiting for the command.

-Stand!

-There it is.

-Stand!

He's going a little bit deep into the wood.

He might be penalised here for a little bit too wide.

But he's asking him now, asking him round. He's come through the wood.

He's come round.

-Stand!

-And every one through.

-Brilliant.

He's very, very keen, isn't he, Jimmy?

You can hear that Kevin is shouting at him quite a lot to stand,

to put the brakes on.

He's quite keen to get up on them.

Yeah, he really is... um...a very sharp, quick dog.

Stand!

And the sheep are coming nicely now into the shedding ring.

Stand! Stand!

So it's the... This is the point where Kevin will be looking for

that moment to just peel off one of the sheep with the red collars on.

Stand.

Out of 30, 29 scored for the cross drive. Doing very, very well indeed.

What a comeback this is so far.

Yes. Now, I've not seen this dog singling before,

so I'm quite interested to see how he'll react

when Kevin gets the opportunity.

Stand! Stand!

Keep. Stand.

-At the ready.

-Stand.

-And moving.

He's got a collared ewe on the end.

Just trying to prise her off, but another ewe has blocked that path,

so he's trying for the back two.

Stand! Keep. Stand. Out.

It's all about patience, this. Gus will have spent many a round

commentating and finished up here in the shedding ring.

But look at this, it's not going to happen.

Stand! Stand! Stand!

Stand! Stand! Stand! Stand! Look!

Yes, the judges have accepted that one.

It was difficult, he came in well. And it was a second challenge.

He took that as well.

-So the judges have accepted that single.

-Stand. Out.

HE WHISTLES

Out.

Putting them back into the shedding ring before he goes to the pen.

Stand. Stand. Stand.

Maximum points for the single.

Well, this is tight. This is tight.

He has got over three minutes, so he doesn't need to run that much,

but you never know.

The trial that we saw yesterday - my word!

Stand!

We've got an awkward ewe here.

If he can just keep them steady, keep them bunched,

-he should be able to get them in.

-Stand.

Stand!

There's the rest of the Welsh team watching.

Stand! Stand!

Stand!

They're looking. Are they going to go in?

Now he's got a lot of experience.

Stand.

Stand.

Stand!

-Stand!

-And the first two are going in.

Looks like the others are going to follow.

Oh, yes!

-In they go! Last one. Don't push it in with the gate - that's it.

-Stand.

And in they go, and another good run.

It's helping with the more sheep that there are to pen,

because the first one will go in.

There's more options of sheep that are willing to go into a small area.

It is, and if you've got the first two in, and the others

are following, there's every chance you'll get the rest of the bunch in.

As long as they don't spread, and he kept them tight there.

Well, all in all, a very, very nice round indeed for Kevin and Jimmy.

And there's confirmation.

Look at that - not many points dropped at all.

The first fetch there down to 14 and the second outrun 18.

But apart from that, look at that. 29 out of 30 for the drive.

Certainly one of the highest scores we've seen for the cross drive

throughout this year's One Man And His Dog.

So 141 out of 150 - just nine points dropped.

I can't believe how well this is going!

I don't want to speak too soon, but you must have been pleased with that, Kevin.

Yeah, fairly pleased. I just missed some sheep on that fetch gate and a bit of trouble on the turn back,

but apart from that, it went really well. Ian had put a lot of pressure on us with a great first run.

He really did, didn't he? He dropped, what, four points?

-Four it was, yeah.

-He dropped four - do you want to know how many you got?

-How many do you think?

-I don't know.

-Out of 150.

-Maybe 138?

-141.

-Oh, right. Good.

-Incredible.

You did have an incredible score to beat.

But as a team, who knows where that's going to put you on the leaderboard?

-Yeah.

-That was absolutely fabulous. You were watching yesterday.

I can't believe how different the sheep are today.

Yeah. But they're not easy. They still challenge the dog.

But Mo, especially there with the in work, tremendously well.

She had a real bad shape, and if she was a little bit worse,

-she'd have been in trouble.

-I think you were very lucky here with Jimmy.

-Jimmy didn't get any challenges at all.

-No, no.

And I think it's important to remind the audience that they are the same

group of sheep, different sheep all the time that we do each round with.

But sheep are clever - they soon suss out a dog.

I think the rain has calmed them all down a bit.

But well done. That is a fabulous score, 141.

Ian got 146, which is a really high score, almost perfect round.

Almost unbeatable. Yeah. It was a great round.

-But I'd be very proud of that if I was you. Well done.

-Thank you.

As you see, Kevin was saying there that Ian,

he really piled the pressure on to go out.

-And it's a lonely place, that post, when you head out there.

-Yes, it is.

But you know, he's a cool person.

To have changed his dog, and done such a good round,

it was tremendous, it really was.

You wonder how much it must affect you, going in thinking,

"I'm going in with this dog," but actually change at the last minute.

But Jimmy did incredibly well as the European Nursery champion,

but this was really the only moment where things went a bit pear-shaped.

Yes, yeah.

And knowing that that had happened, where the three sheep

got round the fetch gates, that can put a lot of people off.

It could put an awful lot off, and they'll not try hard enough.

But he kept going. Then on the cross drive, he went deep into the wood.

He nearly, nearly went too far, but he covered, and the back sheep,

the sheep over on the left all went through

and so that was a good recovery on the drive.

And then on to the shed. Straight through there. Look at that.

We wondered whether or not...

It is one of those moments where the other sheep have to stay

within the circle as the other one shed of.

It is a bit like the offside rule. You are thinking, were they all in?

Or were they out at the time?

And actually, the judges turned round and raised their hands,

they said, absolutely no problem.

He did it twice and he did it well.

But when it came to the pen, he'd just got them all settled

and they just walked in.

As calm as you like.

For all those out there who wonder

whether and not the sheep are affected by any of this,

you can see how relaxed they are

after trotting round for the entire time

and they are nice and relaxed in the pen.

Well, it is all going remarkably well. Will it continue to do so?

There's only one way to find out and that's to go to our next team,

which is England.

Representing England is someone who has been competing for 35 years,

but at the age of 73, this is his first time on One Man And His Dog.

It's Alf Kyme.

My name is Alf Kyme.

I come from Rossendale in Lancashire and in the competition,

I will be running Sally.

I had a scrapyard, skip hire business.

I've now sold it and retired onto a smallholding.

I have always had an interest in sheepdogs

and I've always wanted to run at trials.

Come-bye. Sally is nine years old.

She's a right nice girl, a good listener.

She is a good flanker, she's a good outrunner.

And it tries its best for me and its personality is first class.

I reared Sally from a pup.

I have five pups on at the moment,

I am hoping one of those will be outstanding.

I'll keep that and Sally will be retiring this year.

I keep a few hens, a few chickens for ourselves, eggs for ourselves.

I like to keep black Leghorn hens. The eggs are really tasty.

I like to unwind by having a game of snooker.

It is not like sheepdog trialling.

Sheepdog trialling, you have to move the sheep,

it's you, the sheep and the dog.

With snooker, if you make a mistake, it is your fault.

So Alf Kyme, then, 73 years old, with his dog.

-This is Moss, not Sally, as he was planning to run.

-Keep back.

I tell you what, Moss is of like a shot. Off to the right-hand side.

Alf won the English National last year. Back in 2011.

But Moss running well here, Gus.

Yes, Moss, his replacement door,

is a half-brother to the dog he should've been running.

So there we go, down the field. I think Alf has every confidence.

Maybe Alf himself gets a bit worried

about how things are going to happen,

but we will see who keeps settled now - the dog, Alf or the sheep?

That is a good start.

Just passing head of sheep, Malcolm, keeping still at the bottom.

Just a reminder that England were just one point

behind Ireland after yesterday's competition.

The Young Handlers and the Brace.

So competition is really, really on between England and Ireland.

-Little bit of zig-zagging.

-Yes, he has gone from left to right.

He needs to get these sheep into the centre.

And they're now on the correct line,

coming through the first set of fetch gates.

Every time the sheep stop, they look round at the dog

and the dog has to assert its authority

and walk calmly up to these sheep.

And then they will back off.

If the dog doesn't assert that authority,

then the sheep really will challenge.

They are looking at the dog again now.

So he has to walk on towards them and not bend off to the left.

Through the middle of the gates.

And coming now towards the white post.

19/20 for the first outrun. 8/10 for that lift.

And now they have arrived at the post,

you will see Moss spin round and look for the sheep

that are behind there.

This is looking good.

He brought him round to the right then asked him to look back,

which he did, and then sent him off to the left.

And he is giving room, coming round and covering the sheep.

18/20, two points lost on that first fetch,

that transfer of the sheep from the top white post,

to the middle white post, and these ones are going! Look at the speed!

I think it is because they can see the first group of sheep.

The first group of sheep are bending over to the right by the wood.

This is going to be difficult for Alf to keep that second group

now that he has got to keep them on line through those fetch gates.

They bend, they are pulling hard to the right,

is it going to miss with all five?

Yes, unfortunately - that's because those sheep

are trying to chase after the first group.

Wales now in with a really good shout

because there wasn't that many points between England and Wales

going into this round. They were down in third.

18/20, that second outrun, 9/10 for the second lift.

But this second fetch is going to be very costly.

It is, unfortunately. That is just the luck of the draw.

The sheep didn't keep still when he sent them back.

Wales, Kevin Evans watching what is going on. Our last competitor.

But they are just coming online now,

so there won't be many points available for this second fetch.

Well, he's got them online and the drive is going good.

Second fetch. 12/20.

It'll be very, very interesting to see what happens between England

and Wales off the back of this as far as the standings are concerned.

He needs to push these down a bit harder. He's done it.

Starting to go towards the sheep, but they're all turned now.

And he's starting, now, on the cross drive itself.

Hoping that the sheep won't go too fast down the slight dip

and then towards the rise

and that they won't come too far up towards him.

Because he's got to squeeze them through between the wood

and the second drive gates.

England and Wales looking on.

HE WHISTLES

Well, the pace is right.

The collared ewe leading the way at the moment.

He's go to be ready for this very quick left-hand turn

to turn the sheep in. Alf whistling, not using a plastic whistle.

The sheep are into the trees a little bit deep now.

Don't turn them too soon, Moss.

He has come back. There's been a stop.

It's not in a good spot, this, with the trees surrounding the sheep.

But they're moving again. Now he's giving the left whistle to him.

Asking him... Oh, that's unfortunate.

-Well, I don't know about the pen...

-Oh, and he's headed them as well.

..but the gate is open for Wales now.

Well, he used whistle commands and then he used his voice command

to try and speed Moss up to get him faster around this left turn

but it didn't work and so all the sheep have missed the gate.

And now they're coming back towards the shedding ring.

Well, again, that'll be disappointing there.

There will be a lot of points knocked off the drive.

Moss, Moss, Moss. Lie down.

So, on to the single.

Just one with the red collar away from the group of ten.

That's the idea. Patience is the key here.

This, replicating a lot of the work that goes on in sheep farms.

If you've got a sheep with a bad foot or something like that,

that's why you would single that off.

HE WHISTLES

Come on, come on.

Well, there was an opportunity there.

15 out of 30 for the cross drive.

Lie down. Lie down.

Lie down. Lie down.

Lie down. Lie down.

Lie down. Stand there.

So there's ten points available for the single itself.

There was an opportunity. It wasn't taken

and the net result was that all the sheep got out of the shedding ring

so points will be lost.

Sometimes it can be half a point or even a quarter of a point

per sheep that goes out

so he could have lost most of his available points for the single.

But the collared ewes are in the middle

so he's got to keep working them until he gets one onto the end.

Stand there.

Stand there.

He's done just that now.

Just moving gently round.

Moss absolutely standing still until he gets the command.

They were just out then.

Lie down. Lie down.

And the clock will be ticking away.

12 minutes is the time that's allowed for this round.

Lie down. Lie down.

Well, England in real trouble here

but this looks like a good, good single.

Lie down. Lie down. Look back.

Lie down.

So he regroups the sheep.

And now he is to put them into the pen.

Lie down.

It'll be interesting to see what the judges give for this single,

because there were quite a few errors in the ring itself.

He's got three minutes to put them in the pen.

So he's plenty of time.

Lie down.

So, five out of ten.

Lie down. Lie down. In here.

Well, that's not too bad, actually. Not too bad.

Makes you wonder what's going to happen with Ireland.

-There is only a point in it between England and Ireland.

-Oh, my word.

Come-bye.

And the sheep are turning onto the dog.

Lie down. Come-bye.

Lie down. Lie down.

Lie down. In here. Get back.

Lie down. Get back.

Lie down. Lie down.

Lie down.

Lie down.

Just trying to get them all to look in.

It was interesting how, the previous two pens,

all the sheep have looked in right from the edge

of the shedding ring right to the pen

but these are being rather stroppy. There's a little bit of milling.

Lie down.

Two minutes in time so he's got plenty of time but...

Lie down.

Lie down. Lie down.

They're going on outside, they're going to go over.

Oh, dear, oh, dear.

He's having such a... It's like a real sticky round, isn't it?

I mean, he's really, really struggling.

Yes, he is, but he's a good dog.

This dog is a good dog

and it just shows you how things can alter from one round to another.

Yeah.

Lie down. Lie down. Lie down.

In here. Get back. Lie down.

The dog is quite calm, but it's a combination of the handler

and the dog and things are just not going quite right for Alf.

Oh, and another breakaway.

That's the thing, I mean, there's so many elements involved.

You get a round, you know, that goes so smoothly and you go,

"Oh, wow, it's so easy. Look how simple that is,"

and then, suddenly, you just throw in a rogue sheep

or sometimes the style of the dog

in comparison to the style of the sheep doesn't work out.

Lie down.

Come-bye.

Now they are all facing the dog.

We've got to get them all turning towards the pen

and there's only 45 seconds left.

Come-bye. Lie down.

Oh, dear.

You know, that time Moss did go that little bit hard onto the sheep.

And so there was a burst.

As you can see now there is 26 seconds to go.

Lie down.

Lie down.

Alf will be getting quite anxious here.

Lie down. Come-bye. Come-bye. Come-bye.

I think he's in dead trouble now.

Less than 10 seconds.

Will they all rush in now? Will they?

-It looks like a few are going.

-Some are going in.

It's getting near to time. Oh, no, that's done it.

Time up!

-Time is up.

-Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

How disappointing for Alf and Moss for England.

They struggled, they got round and at least

they finished with some in the pen, Gus.

They did, but unfortunately you've got to have

all ten in to get it to count. What a shame.

Well, we said it was a sticky round.

Let's have a look at confirmation of the scores

Obviously not what Alf would have wanted.

No points for the pen

and all the way through

it was just a story of what could have been.

But that, let me tell you, does some very drastic things

to our leaderboard as far as the countries are concerned.

So England will be behind Wales and Scotland.

Alf, I feel I have an apology to make. I think it's my fault.

I jinxed you because I said it was all going so smoothly

and then, oh, dear, oh, dear me.

What happened is the second lot of sheep...

The first lot of sheep had moved over

and the second lot of sheep pulled over to them

and just upset everything and everything went wrong then.

And is that what happens,

because they were all spooked and he ran to the wrong end?

All the other sheep had stopped mainly in front of the fetch gates.

But them sheep of mine have run over that side

so I had to flank my dog over quickly

and it upset these sheep and everything went wrong then.

And what about the end?

We were willing you to get them in their pen in the time.

Just one bad sheep there that just kept running off,

so it's one of them things, you can't win every time.

Alf, it can't have been easy going into that,

knowing how good the two scores were before you.

That's right, yeah, yeah.

-Yeah, they were two good runs, weren't they?

-Yeah.

Full points of play to win it and that's how it goes, anyway.

You know what?

It would've been boring if everyone had been that brilliant.

-Yeah.

-Not that that's any consolation for you.

My dog run well anyway. If it was anybody's fault it was my own,

you know, but, as I say, the first lot of sheep run off

and it pulled the second lot of sheep to

and stopped under the trees. So, that's how it goes.

I'll tell you what I love about you guys, though, is you're all,

"Well, it didn't go so well this time but next time it'll go better."

-Well, that's it.

-Well, thanks very much for competing.

-OK. Thank you.

I guess it's just a shame that it happens on telly, Gus.

Because you can go out in one trial

and it goes absolutely beautiful for you and then you turn up

the next day and it's a story as if

you've never been on a trial field before.

Yes, it's as if they were different sheep, really. But they weren't.

It's just how they can react, yes.

Well, a chance to just have a look at some of the moments

from poor Alf's round.

Well, the sheep got stuck in the woods, didn't they, really?

Yeah, there was trouble there

and he couldn't get the dog around fast enough so all ten sheep missed

the second drive gate so a lot of points went tumbling off there.

He managed to recover.

You can see the dog comes all the way round in that come-bye direction

and then manages, tries to recover a little bit.

One sheep goes through but it just wasn't counted at the end, was it?

No, he couldn't recover. He couldn't get that gate at all.

In the shedding ring, he had the opportunity to take a ewe

but unfortunately they got together,

they all went out of the shedding ring

and a lot of points lost there.

This was, of course, this was an impressive single, when it came.

That's how it should be done. Yes. The dog came through

and there was no way that that sheep was going to get back.

We had a bit of sheep jumping yesterday.

One over the rope in the pen and another to jump back into the pen.

We wondered if any of it would happen again today

and she was keen to show off her prowess in the high jump as well.

Yes, back to line dancing again.

-But, of course, the clock was ticking by, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

And it's always hard, obviously,

when you get some of the sheep in the pen,

the others are then looking for an entrance, wandering round.

Then they feel pressure from the dog and they're not keen to go back in.

They're certainly not, no, and the trouble was then,

eventually, that Alf was to run out of time.

Well, a disappointing round for Alf,

preceded by really amazing rounds from both Ian and Kevin.

Let's see how our final country will do. Which is Ireland.

And representing Ireland is someone who's always seen

trialling as a hobby.

It also his first time on One Man And His Dog. Let's meet him.

It's Bobby Reid with his dog Chief.

'I'm Bobby Reid from Castlederg, County Tyrone.'

'I'm going to run Chief in this year's competition.'

I'm living here now 20 years

with my wife and family with a smallholding.

A very nice place to live.

Good valleys and hills and very good ground for grazing.

MUSIC: "Buckets of Rain" by Bob Dylan # Buckets of rain, buckets of tears

# Got all them buckets coming out of my ears

# Buckets of moonbeams in my hand. #

The weather's got so much worse here now,

'I don't know if it's global warming or not

'but it takes you longer doing a bit of work.'

When you go out to do it you can't get it done with that much rain.

'I started off trialling and I learned it all myself.

'I bought a young dog.

'He was 15 months when I bought him.

'I trained him and I just kept in

'until I got what I thought was the right one.'

Chief is five years old now, coming. He is a good dog working with sheep.

He has plenty of power and he's easy handled.

He helps you in every way he can.

This is the first time for me to be on One Man And His Dog.

I'm excited and I'm going to give it my best shot.

Bobby and Chief, the last team to go in this year's One Man And His Dog.

The score he needs for Ireland to win is 134.

It's very doable when you consider that we had 146, 141.

HE WHISTLES

And he's a good, consistent dog. He's been in the Irish team

and got through to the International two years on the trot.

Dog's just coming in, looked as if he was coming in a little bit

as he went down the field.

Whether he's opened out behind the wood.

He is, he's going out to the outer fence so that's the better line now.

So, he's well down the field now,

going towards the five fresh sheep at the bottom of the field.

WHISTLE BLOWS

There's the whistle. It's the end of the outrun.

By Jove, did he put the brakes on then?

And that is the 'Get on' command as the dog comes towards the sheep.

That's nice. That's good.

-Just looking for a nice, gentle lift.

-Now, who's going to win?

And it's Chief.

Now that is a good lift. So, a very, very good start for Bobby and Chief.

Just a little bit sharp there as he came round.

He'll have to just be careful.

These sheep seem to spin onto a dog that does

a very quick movement at the back so...

Maximum score so far.

20 out of 20 for the outrun, 10 out of 10 for that lift.

-That's brilliant.

-Look at the intent.

These sheep are coming up the field.

-Oops-a-daisy.

-A bit of a bend.

He's just that little bit sharp on some of his movements.

It might upset this breed of sheep but we'll see.

See how they just quickly move away from him.

He was steady on the lift,

but he's a little bit flirty coming down the field.

So, the first set of five sheep just approaching that white post

and as soon as they do, Chief will look back.

Here we go. Let's have a look. See if he reacts. He's having a look.

It's the second, third request.

He's asking him again.

Well, the first fetch score is in.

But, 17 out of 20.

A little bit of confusion here between dog and handler.

He's in dead trouble here, because the dog wouldn't go back.

And is it crossing? It's crossed. Oh, dear.

So it could well be that he'll lose most of his second fetch.

134 is the score that he needs.

He's lost a lot of points there.

And his second lot of sheep are going over towards the wood,

so he's got problems, serious problems here.

He's keeping calm.

Now will those... That group that he's got now,

are they going to pull like mad

to the first group and try and get through the wood?

You can see Sam, Malcolm's dog there, that she'd just passed,

just holding the sheep in position at the top of the field.

They're not helping at all.

He's keeping them on a good line, but they're starting to run now.

They're going to go after these other sheep.

Will he be able to get his fetch gates?

Because they'll really be pulling hard to our right.

It'll be tight, this.

Expect a low score for the second outrun.

Yes, 1 out of 20.

And 7 out of 10 for the second lift.

Wow. Drastic, drastic.

Yes, and it could be a miss coming up here,

or are they going to flirt right the way across

and off the other side?

Two missed, three through.

He's got real problems,

because those sheep are desperate to get to that other group

that they'd seen before.

Now he's got to allow them to go across and also send Chief

very hard round to his left and our right

to cover both lots of sheep.

He's still not done it yet.

So the sheep are well off line.

The dog's just round now.

So the sheep are looking a little bit stressed now.

Yes, yes, and they were so far off line,

he's in dead trouble, really.

But he's keeping calm.

And they're all together now,

and they're thinking of challenging the dog.

Well, all the Welsh team are looking on

and wondering how they're going to be faring now.

But that was a good turn around the handler's post.

That's it, yeah. Wales now in second place.

So maybe just a moment there to let the sheep calm, settle,

collect themselves before they head off on this cross drive.

They do look a little bit panicked.

They look very keen to go right and up the bank,

but they're heading towards those cross drive gates

at quite a lick.

10 out of 20, that second fetch.

I'll tell you what, Gus, looking at these scores,

I'm not sure he can do this. I think Wales will have it.

Nicely through the drive gates.

And they're starting to gain speed now as they go on the cross drive.

They don't know, but they are the champions.

Lie down.

He'll still keep trying,

but they're going fast towards this second drive gate.

Are they going to go shooting past round the back?

He's got to ask him very hard left now, fast as he can.

-Oh, it's too much.

-He hasn't... No, he hasn't got the room to do it.

The sheep are travelling too fast, and unfortunately, a bad miss.

All ten sheep missing the second drive.

He might rescue something, but I think the line was crossed.

I don't think the judges will give him anything,

even if he does get the gates.

We'll have to have a look at that in analysis, Gus.

Yes, yes.

Steady.

And now, on their way back to the shedding ring.

He can go to the ring and start to meet the sheep.

He can't go in it until the first sheep enter the shedding ring.

And there they go, so in he goes to meet them.

They've been an odd bunch.

Let's see how they fare here in the shedding ring.

Just looking for one of the sheep with the red collars.

Come-bye. Come-bye. Lie down.

Come on, Bobby, I hope it goes well for you.

13 out of 30 for the cross drive.

Well, yes, to be expected with that bad miss, unfortunately.

But now he's got to concentrate on this single.

He's got one on the right, one in the centre,

and now he did have one on the left,

but a ewe has plonked herself around,

stopping him getting that single ewe.

It was interesting, Kevin Evans for Wales took the very back ewe.

-Lie down.

-He can actually go for a ewe,

-whether she's on the front or the back.

-Lie down.

The English team all watching on.

Come-bye. Come-bye.

Come-bye. Come-bye.

Lie down. Lie down. Lie down.

Walk up.

Well, he's plenty of time, he's four minutes to do it,

but it's yet to be done,

so can he prise this one away from the other nine?

-Here's a chance. No.

-Lie down.

They're spinning fairly fast.

-Lie down.

-They're getting a little bit worked up here.

He's got one right on this left-hand side,

which I think he's going to work towards.

Oh, no, she's just chucked herself back in again.

It's amazing how the collared ewes always end up in the middle.

They seem to sense that you're after them,

and they tuck themselves into the others.

Lie down. Wait. Lie down.

He's got one on the far end now.

Two on the back.

-There she is.

-Wait. Lie down.

Can he get her away? It's looking good.

No, no. Not yet.

Lie down.

They're just not settled.

I think the dog could work a little bit further away.

Chief's just that little bit sharp round the shedding ring,

like he was at the start of the fetch.

He's got one at the front now.

She's just having a nibble of grass, and if he can catch her unawares...

Yes, that would be it, really.

Nope, she's just being blocked by the other one, and she'll spin round.

Let herself back in.

Wait. Lie down.

Lie down. Keep out.

-No, they're getting jittery.

-Lie down. Lie down.

They just won't settle.

Here we go. We've got one right at the front there now.

Well, I wonder what the Welsh team were thinking then.

They must know that they're in with a chance now.

Lie down!

Now then, the dog's a fair distance away.

Bobby will take his time and do what he can

to just get one of these on to the corner.

The sheep are that little bit more settled.

Lie down.

-The dog's that bit further away.

-Just helping with the crook.

Such a wonderful tool. There you are, you can see...this is it.

Ooh. You get all sorts of crooks.

You get neck crooks and leg crooks

so that when you do end up in a situation like this or in a pen,

you can just pop that around the neck and pull it towards you,

or for that matter, their leg,

if it's a smaller little hook at the end.

-Come. Come.

-Here we go.

Now they're very close to the edge of the ring,

so he's had to move the dog.

The sheep have got to keep within this sawdust ring.

And only just about one minute, 20 seconds left, so he's in trouble.

Here's a chance coming for the single,

but really, he wants about three to four minutes, really,

to get this done and the sheep into the pen,

so it's not looking good for Ireland.

Interestingly, on the subject of crooks,

during the Olympics, I learnt that hockey gets its name from

-the French word for hook.

-Oh!

And it comes from all the shepherds that used to play with their hooks.

-Oh! We live and learn.

-There you go.

-There we go. That's good.

-And here we are, here we are.

Stand. Stand. Stand.

Away. Away. Away.

Well, he's been accepted, but he's only got about half a minute.

He's only got somewhere near half a minute to get them in.

Lie down!

Well, Bobby needs to really get a lick on here, look.

27...6...5 seconds to go.

Lie down.

So there are the champions.

I'm sure they know it by now.

Well, we're onto the final eight...

-seven seconds.

-Lie down.

Five.

Come-bye.

It's not looking good.

-Oh, dear, oh, dear. Time.

-Time up!

Time indeed. Oh, I bet it felt like forever for Bobby to be out there,

-especially in that shedding ring.

-I bet it did.

I bet it did. And yet he still smiled at the end.

It was amazing.

I just looked at his face as the shout of "time" came.

Yeah, you do wonder.

I mean, as he headed out to the post as he thought, "134, this is doable.

"There's been a couple of 140-odds"?

But it wasn't to be in the end, was it, Gus, for Bobby and Chief?

It certainly wasn't, no. No. What a shame.

And there's confirmation of their scores.

The second outrun, that's where it really started to go, wasn't it?

1 out of 20, and then there,

the second lift,

and slowly, slowly,

things just started to drip away.

But a score of 86 out of 150.

Bobby, it all went a bit wrong right from the start, didn't it?

-The first outrun went well.

-Yes.

And then the second outrun is where things really started to go wrong.

-That's right.

-How do you feel?

Oh, all right. Just a wee bit unlucky.

Don't suppose that's the best round you've ever done, is it?

Oh, no, it's not the best, no.

Because I think that's where you lost a lot of points,

on the second outrun, because the dog didn't seem

to listen to what you were telling him to do.

-That's right.

-He wanted to keep his eye on that first set of sheep.

-Yes, that's right.

-And you had the same problem as Alf,

where that first set of sheep started drifting.

Is there anything you or the dog could have done

to stop that happening, or is it just one of those things?

Not really. The sheep just drifted,

and they didn't stay where they should have stayed.

There's nothing you can do about it.

-Because for that second outrun, you only got 1 out of 20.

-Yes.

And then the other problem that you had was on the second fetch.

-That lost a lot of points too, didn't it?

-Yes, yes.

The sheep was that wee bit... maybe wily, sure.

-Next time you'll do better, eh?

-I hope so!

And then, of course, you ran out of time.

-Any idea what your score might have been?

-No idea.

It was 86 out of 150.

Yes. Not so good.

Disappointing round for you,

-but you've still got a smile on your face.

-Oh, aye.

-That's what we like to see. Thanks for competing.

-Great.

I don't know how much the rest of the team are smiling, though,

to be honest, because they were leading overnight,

and it wasn't to be at the end,

but, I mean, it was a great start, actually, wasn't it, Gus?

-Yes.

-The very beginning was good,

but then it all boiled down to the second outrun,

and there was a little bit of confusion there.

Just the dog not really understanding that Bobby was asking him

to look back or look at the top of the field.

Yes, yes, he was wanting to go off to the right,

so he had to pull him to the left,

and then eventually he did go to the left,

but he'd unfortunately crossed the course,

so he lost a lot of points.

And then, yeah, just too little too late, really, wasn't it,

on the second drive gates?

Yes, they went past, and really, he did bring the dog around,

but unfortunately it was like having a second attempt,

which they're not allowed to do.

He brought them back to the second drive gate,

and that wasn't good enough. They'd already passed.

So he wouldn't have got any points for that particular set of gates.

Yeah. And as we said then,

the sheep just seemed a little bit shaken, didn't they?

They got into this single, but he did well, didn't he?

-This was kind of the second opportunity of the single.

-Yes.

He took it well, but he'd lost an awful lot of time.

A real...

He just had not got enough time then to finish.

And then running out of time.

It's awful when you head over to the pen

and you know that you've got very, very little time indeed,

but it was a very, very good effort, and he was applauded,

of course, by the rest of his team,

but it just wasn't enough to keep Ireland ahead of the rest of the UK.

So, let's have a little look at the confirmation of the singles round.

So, you can see that Ian with Mo, 146.

They take the title for the singles

with Kevin from Wales in second,

Alf from England, and Bobby there,

just rounding things off with 86.

And so, in reverse order,

we have Ireland with 264 points,

then it's England with 281,