New Zealand Dog News

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September 21, 2008

Wanaka dogs had their day earlier

In a case of "get in behind", all other claims to primacy in the dog-trialling stakes may have to give way to Wanaka, as Jim Sullivan reports.

Pinning down the date of New Zealand's first dog trial is a bit like penning half-a-dozen wild ewes using an untrained chihuahua, but it seems Otago has a good claim to have pioneered the pastime.

International publications say that the first trials in the world were held at Bala in Wales in 1876 but that can be discarded, just as the Welsh have chosen to discard Bob Dean's try in the 1905 test against the All Blacks.

The 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand gives the award to an event held at Hakataramea in 1889, although trials held at Duntroon in 1878 are well-documented.MORE>>

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