David Murray of Scotland with his three-time brace champions Vic and Number. We don't know which year this is. The brace competition is complicated by two dogs' work having to be assessed individually and also as a partnership with each other. Ideally, they should be working as a team. They are allowed to cross over behind the sheep at the end of their respective outruns, without loss of points, but if they change sides afterwards during the fetch or drive, points will be deducted.
Similar faults occur during a brace run as in a singles run, and points similarly lost.
In the shedding ring, one dog is used to split the bunch of sheep in two equal lots. Usually this dog is left in charge of one lot, while the other dog takes the rest to the pen that has no gate. When safely penned, that dog is left on guard at the pen mouth to keep the sheep within, while the other dog pens his sheep in the pen that has a gate. These web pages are copyrighted 2000 and maintained by webmeistress Carole Presberg and webwizard David Presberg.