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How to Qualify for the 2024 Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Championship & Festival, May 24-27, 2024
Important Note for 2024:
With new dates for the Soldier Hollow Classic, the qualifying trials will be modified for this year as noted here. Because some trials will have occurred twice since the 2022 Soldier Hollow Classic, priority will be given to their 2023 winners and 2022 winners in those trials will be first on the second round of invitations. The goal is to get the first set of invites out in early December.
Soldier Hollow Classic Qualifying Trials
- The top five finalists at 2022 Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Championship & Festival
- The Soldier Hollow Gold Medalist from the prior two years (2019 and 2021)
- The Champion and Reserve Champion from the 2022 and 2023 USBCHA National Sheepdog Finals
- The Champion from the 2023 Canadian National Championship
- The Champion from the 2023 Kingston Sheepdog Championship
- The Champion from the 2023 Meeker Classic
- The Champion from the 2023 WWSDA Sheepdog Trial
- The Champion from the 2023 Trailing of the Sheep Sheepdog Trial
- The Champion from the 2023 Bluegrass Classic
- The Champion from the 2023 Strang Ranch Spring Sheepdog Trial
- The Champion from the 2023 Tabletop Sheepdog Trial
- The prior year’s Soldier Hollow Judge (good for the next 3 years)
- Qualified Utah Soldier Hollow volunteers
The following will receive invitations in the second round to the extent we are not oversubscribed. We anticipate that all will be invited but need to wait for responses from the first round of invites:
- The sixth and seventh place winners from the 2022 Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Championship & Festival
- The Champion from the 2022 Canadian National Championship
- The Champion from the 2022 Kingston Sheepdog Championship
- The Champion from the 2022 Meeker Classic
- The Champion from the 2022 WWSDA Sheepdog Trial
- The Champion from the 2022 Catbird Trial
- The Champion from the 2022 Trailing of the Sheep Sheepdog Trial
- Additional second round discretionary invites consider a number of factors and may vary from year to year