The Northern Beaches is the last place you see working dogs rounding up a paddock of sheep, but this was where it all started for champion trialer Jess Kimpton.

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Growing up, Ms Kimpton said she was originally involved in agility training dogs but got her first taste of working dogs at 13-years-old.

"I went with my Sheltie to try some ANKC herding," she said.

"I met Colin Webster there and he gave me a real dog, as a he called it, and then I went 'oh I like this three sheep stuff'."

The family moved to East Kurrajong in the Hawksbury where Ms Kimpton still resides, now a champion dog trialer

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