It is not just in humans where we see sons follow in the footsteps of their fathers. The Dealer was sent in a delightful tale involving a canine son and his old man in one of trialling’s biggest events.Sweep and Glen, a border collie father and son, have won one of Irish sheepdog trialling’s most sought-after trophies – in successive years. The Irish Farmers Journal Perpetual Cup, presented at Ballyhaunis Sheepdog Trials in Co Mayo each year, was won most recently by Sweep, a young dog owned, bred and run by Peter Concannon, Lecarrow, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo. Sweep’s sire Glen won the trophy the previous year.
It is not just in humans where we see sons follow in the footsteps of their fathers. The Dealer was sent in a delightful tale involving a canine son and his old man in one of trialling’s biggest events.
Sweep and Glen, a border collie father and son, have won one of Irish sheepdog trialling’s most sought-after trophies – in successive years. The Irish Farmers Journal Perpetual Cup, presented at Ballyhaunis Sheepdog Trials in Co Mayo each year, was won most recently by Sweep, a young dog owned, bred and run by Peter Concannon, Lecarrow, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo. Sweep’s sire Glen won the trophy the previous year.
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