Dog trialling for 64 straight years at A & P Show

Come Monday Alister McKenzie will do just what he has done for the previous 63 Easter Mondays go dog trialling at the Mackenzie A & P show.

For him that is where it all started. The 86-year-old retired Cannington farmer was only 22 when he and Mist went to the show for the first time.

And he just keeps going back.

Just because he no longer farms and doesn't need dogs, hasn't stopped Mr McKenzie competing at the show.

There's been the Bens, the Glens, Cloud, Mist and Rose, but come Monday it will be 3 1/2-year-old Pete that's in the ring with him.

Mr McKenzie quips about their combination "an old man and a town dog" and always asks the judge if there is any concession for such a pairing. MORE>>