Sep 29, 2026 · 49 min · 10 segments
Scott Stokes runs a building company out of Greenbank in south-east Queensland and has only been trialling about five years. In that time he's won an open at the Queensland Supreme, beaten his mentor…
Scott StokesGuestDan CamilleriHostYeah, and for someone that was working full-time, running their own business, a young family, how were you finding the time and commitment to put in? Like I'm guessing you said you had sheep around the corner.
It was definitely long, dark drives home from the farm where we had the sheep, a few quiet nights where I would go to sheep and not come home until it was dark and it didn't sit very well.
um and you've met her you know she's not exactly um backwards and coming forward if
coming so uh but no like it's yeah that was the hard part now we only live five minutes away and we're actually on 12 acres and i've got six sheep out the window here now i've got um i've got three lambs that are about six months old and then a couple of old ewes there um so which is a lot easier now but yeah that was hard back in the day and then pregnant um and then Lewis came along um and then I kept buying dogs too which probably didn't help the course
we've got six in total so Nikita has one of her own that she purchased when she was three months pregnant um as
yeah she do why not and then i've got gage i've got um remy her lady bred down in victoria i've got
who ken athelton bred from wa and then i've got two gibson dogs um i've got a young dog here from gibbo's last litter that he ever bred um well not ever but he might not read again and then got uh gibson's leo which jeff probably one of the last dogs that jeff broken properly himself
yeah somehow they filtered in there i'm not sure how i guess um yeah i guess when your mentor sort of pushes you in a direction you and you know he's a pretty handy trainer himself and he's had a lot of success with him you'd silly to say no
How are you finding the difference between the two? Because, like, you obviously love your Kelpies and want to do well with them,
Yeah, and for someone that was working full-time, running their own business, a young family, how were you finding the time and commitment to put in? Like I'm guessing you said you had sheep around the corner.
It was definitely long, dark drives home from the farm where we had the sheep, a few quiet nights where I would go to sheep and not come home until it was dark and it didn't sit very well.
um and you've met her you know she's not exactly um backwards and coming forward if
coming so uh but no like it's yeah that was the hard part now we only live five minutes away and we're actually on 12 acres and i've got six sheep out the window here now i've got um i've got three lambs that are about six months old and then a couple of old ewes there um so which is a lot easier now but yeah that was hard back in the day and then pregnant um and then Lewis came along um and then I kept buying dogs too which probably didn't help the course
we've got six in total so Nikita has one of her own that she purchased when she was three months pregnant um as
yeah she do why not and then i've got gage i've got um remy her lady bred down in victoria i've got
who ken athelton bred from wa and then i've got two gibson dogs um i've got a young dog here from gibbo's last litter that he ever bred um well not ever but he might not read again and then got uh gibson's leo which jeff probably one of the last dogs that jeff broken properly himself
yeah somehow they filtered in there i'm not sure how i guess um yeah i guess when your mentor sort of pushes you in a direction you and you know he's a pretty handy trainer himself and he's had a lot of success with him you'd silly to say no
How are you finding the difference between the two? Because, like, you obviously love your Kelpies and want to do well with them,
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