SOLDIER HOLLOW CLASSIC SHEEPDOG CHAMPIONSHIP & FESTIVAL
Returning - May 23-26, 2025
Memorial Day Weekend
8am - 4pm Daily

Competition & Festival

Join us as a Sponsor for 2025!!

Click here for Opportunities!

Sponsor a Dog in 2024!

Be a part of the 2024 Soldier Hollow Classic by Sponsoring one of the competing dog and handler teams!

Limited to two sponsorships per dog.  Sponsorships made after May 8 will not be included in the printed material but will be announced during the event.  

 

   What you get:

🐾  $200 – 6 tickets, includes parking – dog randomly assigned

🐾  $300 – 8 tickets, includes parking – pick the dog of your choice

🐾  Listed in daily run, on website and scoreboard

🐾  Included in dog sponsor directory given to spectators

🐾  Meet your dog and handler – take a selfie

Sponsors of Top Dogs:

Top 3 dog Sponsors invited to participate in the Awards Ceremony

1st: Soldier Hollow Handlers Jacket just like the Gold Medalist handler

2nd & 3rd: Local business gift certificates (value to be determined)

Run Orders with dog sponsors will be posted on the website by April 15, 2024. If you picked a dog, you’ll know when it runs. If we picked, Run Orders will be updated once all dogs are sponsored.

Pick a Specific Dog - $300
Click the Picture for Full Details on Each Dog

Select  the dog of your choice and you’ll receive 8 event tickets, including parking – good any day.
Your name and a brief message of your choice will be announced during the competition.  Enter your name and message in the checkout.

Dog sponsorships are non-refundable.  If your dog is scratched, we will try to contact you so that you can pick another dog; if we can’t reach you, we will move your sponsorship to an unsponsored dog. Hurry…   We expect to sell out quickly!

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This opinionated, but hard-working little dog returns to Soldier Hollow for the second time. Lise is from Larkspur, Colorado where she owns the Rocky Mountain
$300.00$304.00

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This intelligent and tenacious dog is running for the first time at Soldier Hollow. Lise is from Larkspur, Colorado where she owns an Equine Veterinary
$300.00$304.00

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Finn, the 2023 Purina Dog of the Year, is secretly a wanna be couch dog. Faansie is from South Africa where he is the seven
$300.00$304.00

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The 2020 Purina Dog of the Year and 2021 Bluegrass Champion returns after another successful season. Faansie Basson, a top handler from South Africa, now
$300.00$304.00

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Mya is described as a dog with a sense of humor — we’ll see if these sheep start laughing when she shows up behind
$300.00$304.00

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This willing partner that is up for just about anything is ready for her first trip up the Soldier Hollow hill. Paul is from the
$300.00$304.00

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Although an experienced  trial dog, Ben is new to Carol, making this one of their early trials together.  When off sheep, he is pretty
$300.00$304.00

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Bob is the talented “bob tail” border collie running here for the first time. Norm Close, originally from England, now lives in Viola, Idaho.
$300.00$304.00

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A “perfect partner,” Abby will run here at Soldier Hollow for the second time. Vickie owns Farm Diggity – and you can visit her booth in the
$300.00$304.00

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This young dog, Zade, not only runs in sheepdog trials but is featured in the book Meet Zade!: Bringing Home a New Puppy, by Milada
$300.00$304.00

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Bella, an extraordinary listener that gives 100% who  here with her handler Mich Ferraro. Mich is equine veterinarian from Millerton, NY.
$300.00$304.00

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Recently imported from the UK, we welcome Tex to his new home in the USA and perhaps his first encounter with western range ewes. Rebecca
$300.00$304.00

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“Wow, that’s a big dog” — the refrain Jenny often hears when she trials this graceful “tall dog.” Jennifer and her husband, Scott, also running
$300.00$304.00

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This “plucky little guy” has stepped up to run with the big dogs! Jenny Glen comes to us from Alberta Canada and is running two
$300.00$304.00

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This sweet looking, young dog is “bold and clever,” and the 2023 Reserve National Champion. Scott Glen from Alberta Canada is running two dogs here
$300.00$304.00

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Last year’s Soldier Hollow Gold Medalist, Pip — is featured here with his Christmas stuffy gift which Jenny describes as fitting to his championship
$300.00$304.00

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Nice to her sheep and also nice to kids – loves to play with children, not a trait you always find with border collies. Hans
$300.00$304.00

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Looks like Kate has accepted the Hans’ and Jennifer’s small children by finding a bed of her own.  She is forward on sheep .
$300.00$304.00

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June, the bossy “fun police” at home, is also capable of bossing the sheep around the trial field. Shauna is from Plain City, Utah where
$300.00$304.00

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Pay attention — this one is pretty “speedy” but handy with the sheep. Terra is handled by Shauna Gourley from Plain City, Utah (and Alamo
$300.00$304.00