Welcome to The Midlands Border Collie Club web site!

Each year the Midlands Border Collie Club holds:
1 Championship Working Trial (January)
1 Championship Breed Show (February)
1 Championship Obedience Show (Easter)
1 Open Working Trial (mid/late summer)
1 Open Breed Show with Limited Obedience (October)

For Members Only there are:
2 editions of the Border Heartbeat newsletter per year
2 Utility Days per year
Reduced entry fees at some of our Shows.

Bob Tunnicliff, Chairman
Email The Chairman
Tel: 01283 761507
Mobile: 07973 122473

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Detailed information on the club's aims and activities can be found by using the links on the left.

For upcoming events and current schedules please visit the Events Diary.

For show results within the past 12 months, please visit the page for the relevant discipline. Previous years' results can be found in the Archive.

For further information about any of the MBCC's activities, please email the Secretary using the Contact link on the left, or phone 01455 449172 (an answering machine may be in use at times).

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STOP PRESS ~ ~ ~SHEEPDOG TRAINING

MBCC are holding a sheepdog training day on Sunday 6th September 2009 in Staffordshire.

Cost will be £25.00 per person including 1 dog. Lunch will be at a nearby café and is included in the price.

This will be a fun day out for you and your dog. Experience at first hand what its like to introduce your dog to sheep for the first time or to bring on dogs who have previously been put to sheep.

Places are limited, so it will be on a first come first served basis.

If you are interested please contact Darren or Diane on 01455 449172 or via Email

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LATEST NEWS
MBCC has its first Agility teams! Follow the Agility link on the left for details.

Enjoy our photos from the very successful Breed Council Open Day held on May 2nd 2009.

The June 2009 Working Trials Liaison Council agenda pdf file can be downloaded on the Working Trials pages. It includes details of the new Working Trials Introductory Stake.

GLAUCOMA - statements from Alan Wilton, Peter Bedford & Jeff Sampson can be found linked from the Health Matters page.

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The Kennel Club Pastoral Group Judges Development Seminar 2009
The MBCC was invited to be the host breed club for the 2009 KC Judges Development Seminar at the KC building, Stoneleigh, on the 26th March 2009 and we were honoured to accept. Your committee and other enthusiasts gave up their day to provide the history of the breed and an explanation of how a collie should be constructed to be fit for function, and also provided 10 clean specimens of our breed for the candidates to assess.

We all had a very enjoyable day and went home very enlightened.
After the presentations, explanation of movement and examination of various examples of different types, colours and quality, the 5 candidates wrote a detailed critique on each dog and placed them in their order of merit. All these candidates were already Group judges and award CCs in many breeds. I was a member of a panel of four - two top all rounders appointed by the KC and two breed specialists. We were surprised with the outcome; only one candidate passed and four failed.

I must thank Toni Jackson for her presentation of our breed standard and a very interesting lecture, Sue Ader for providing the coloured examples, Alison for doing all the running with the movement examples, Becky G and Lesley for providing pristine examples, and last but not least Di, Anna, Chris and Joan for their supply of Border Collies.

Bob Tunnicliff, Chairman MBCC.

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Please visit our Health Matters page for the latest news on Epilepsy research. The AHT is undertaking studies using samples from both affected AND UNAFFECTED dogs - your help is needed!

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BORDER HEARTBEAT
We publish 2 issues of our newsletter, Border Heartbeat, each year. It's very difficult to keep a newsletter vibrant and alive without input from you, the members and we thank you for your support. The editors would be happy to receive any news, articles etc, so please put pen to paper and let them have your contributions! Details for submissions can be found in the current issue or alternatively you can email the Heartbeat Editors.

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Please note: many of the photos on this site are reached via a thumbnail preview. If you have a popup stopper program installed, you may need to hold your Ctrl key down while you click!

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Join The Midlands Border Collie Club:
A Membership Application form can be downloaded here. It is in .pdf format and you will need the free Adobe Reader to access the file once downloaded.
Current subscriptions are:
£7.00 single/£9.00 joint/£2.00 Junior