One man and his dogs

Dog trialling is in Don Calder's blood. He started at 15 and now, aged 70, he has no plans to slow down.

"You were hard done by the other night," he nodded, knowingly.

Those kind words were made in the 1980s when the TUX Dog Show series was one of the top three most-viewed television programmes behind the news and the Cosby Show.

Points had been dubiously deducted from Calder during one of the heading events, but he didn't have the heart to tell the armchair critic that it had been filmed six months ago.

"I didn't know the guy from Adam," recalls Calder. MORE>>