Sires
Moorlands Tomie (Cavanagh’s Esjay x Barravore Jean)
The foundation sire of "Campaspe", Tomie was bred by the late Jack Hiscock, who was a renowned breeder, handler, trial competitor and stockman. I do not own Tomie, but he was an exceptional dog by whom I bred many litters, and have frozen semen stored. Jack rated Tom’s father, Esjay, as the best all-round dog he had owned.
Tomie, like the best dogs of this blood, had exceptional cover and casting ability, natural mustering ability and great holding ability. He worked and drove a mob naturally, was a natural pulling dog, and had good force.
He had no eye at all on a mob (and is the brainest, most thinking worker I have ever come across), but has plenty of eye and style on one sheep when required. He is one of the best dogs I have ever seen, and is the main foundation of the Campaspe line of dogs.
Tomie is included on the DVD's "A Few Good Dogs", and "Natural Ability".
Campaspse Bounce (Moorlands Tomie x Cullens Kiara)
Bounce is an exceptional dog by Moorlands Tomie, with 19 crosses of Yulong Russ. An extremely natural worker, he was capable of doing nearly any job with sheep or cattle on a 5,000 acre property when he was ten months old, and would handle big mobs of sheep on his own at that age. At nine or ten months old he would cast at least half a kilometre, wide and deep, and work the sheep back to me without any commanding.
He is a natural, big casting and pulling dog with strong force, and good distance on a mob. Very keen, and a bit of a handful at times. He lacks a touch of the right sort of eye to be a top dog on a few wild sheep, but even without eye will still usually handle them with balance and brains. A very brainy worker like his father, in fact the brainiest dog I have ever worked on a mob along with Tomie, he drives a mob naturally and has great purpose. Not as good an outright mustering dog as Moorlands Georgie was, but very few are.
Bounce is included in the DVD's "A Few Good Dogs", and "Natural Ability".
Campaspe Snowy (Campaspe Bounce x Campaspe Bella)
Snowy has three of the best, big casting dogs with great natural ability up close - Campaspe Bounce, Moorlands Tomie and Doige, and shows it. A big, stylish, wide working dog with fantastic break and scope, a big natural cast, and strong force. He does tend to 'clap' (lie down when working) more than I would like - I always prefer an upstanding worker working up on their feet.With training I will get him out of it, but it isn't ideal. A very brainy dog.
At this point Snowy is the only male I have currently with Doige blood. Also have retained a good litter sister of his, Campaspe China.
| Moorlands Tomie | |||
| Campaspe Bounce | |||
| Cullens Kiara | |||
| Campaspe Snowy | Moorlands Blazing | ||
| Doige | |||
| Campaspe Bella | Moorlands Tomie | ||
| Campaspe Queen |
Campaspe Ring (Campaspe Bounce x Campaspe Chloe)
Ring is almost the spitting image of his sire, Bounce, in type, temperament, and work. A big, strong, upstanding worker, with more eye and style than his sire. Could do with a bit more 'tact' in touchy situations, just wants to get on with the job. A good leggy type, strong head, with very good stamina. Calm and keen.Very loyal, biddable and friendly, always at my side.
Out of Campaspe Chloe, both his parents are by Moorlands Tomie. He is linebred to Tomie 2:2 (grandfather on both sides) and so is more closely bred than Bounce. His first litter of eight pups, all very nicely marked black white and tans, are currently about six months old, with four crosses of Moorlands Tomie up fairly close (3.3:4.3).
| Moorlands Tomie | ||
| Campaspe Bounce | ||
| Cullens Kiara | ||
| Campaspe Ring | ||
| Moorlands Tomie | ||
| Campaspe Chloe | ||
| Cullens Kirribilli |
Doige (Moorlands Blazing x Holly (Imp NZ)) 
Doige is Les Hall's exceptional hill country mustering dog. Very similar in looks to his sire Blaze. Extremely brainy and intelligent, huge searching/mustering cast, lovely cover, balance, and break. Fantastic stamina, he has proven his mettle in years of hard work in very steep hill country working merinos, crossbreds and cattle. Great natural ability.
Doige is the sire of my bitch Campaspe Bella (out of Campaspe Queen). Bella's first litter has proven very succesful. Joined to Campaspe Bounce I have kept a lovely dog and bitch pup, Campaspe Snowy and Campaspe China. Both are looking good, showing good natural ability.
I joined China back to Doige (her grandfather) by AI (Doige is an old dog now, and also a couple of years ago got his back leg caught in the motorbike sprocket) to try to concentrate and retain the Doige blood, and have two bitch pups on the ground now.
There aren't many dogs as good as Doige around. One of the best I have seen, with a great temperament.
Glendaloch Craig (Cymru Coon x Campaspe Meg)
Bred from an outcross mating. Craig’s father is a pure UK (Welsh) blood collie. This UK blood was used in an attempt to bring in some more ‘minimal activity’ and ‘distance’, and to ‘square’ the cover up a bit, and for their incredible speed and ease of training.
| Kip (Imp) ISDS 218586 | ||
| Cymru Coon | ||
| Jo (Imp) ISDS 220194 | ||
| Glendaloch Craig | ||
| Moorlands Tomie | ||
| Campaspe Meg | ||
I gave the mother, Campaspe Meg (who was by Moorlands Tomie), to Les Hall to breed from (Les manages the 5,000 acre hill-country grazing property ‘Glendaloch’), and we travelled down and joined her to Coon. Les kept two pups and gave the other five to me.
As it turned out, one pup (who I call Craig) has been retained for breeding. He is a very natural worker, highly intelligent and easy to control. Does most things naturally with very little training at all. Learns like lightning. Not exactly the style of work I prefer, but if things go according to plan, Craig should have an influence in the breeding of the Campaspe dogs, but I only intend for a trickle of this imported blood.
In my view it takes at least three generations to stablise the breeding after a wide outcross, and I now have the third generation on the ground after the outcross to Coon, breeding back into the Tomie line. These are 1/8th imported blood, with four crosses of Tomie up fairly close, so it will be interesting to see how they shape up.