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===Introduction to New Zealand and Australia=== Collies were listed as imports to New Zealand as early as 1858, but the type was not specified.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18580611.2.4|title=Imports.|date=1858-06-11|work=Colonist|access-date=2018-04-18|pages=2}}</ref> In the late 1890s James Lilico<ref>{{Cite book|title=The breeding and training of sheep dogs|last=Lilico|first=James|publisher=Southland News|year=1920|isbn=978-3-540-63293-1|location=Invercargill, New Zealand}}</ref> (1861?β1945) of [[Christchurch]], [[New Zealand]], imported a number of working dogs from the [[United Kingdom]]. These included Hindhope Jed, a black, tan and white<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hartingdale.com.au/~wkc/HisDtrialsHTML.htm|title=Historical Sheepdog Trials|last=Cooper|first=Barbara|access-date=9 December 2009|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407223828/http://www.hartingdale.com.au/~wkc/HisDtrialsHTML.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> born in Hindhope, [[Scotland]] in 1895, as well as Maudie, Moss of Ancrum, Ness and Old Bob. It is unclear whether Hindhope Jed was a descendant of Old Hemp. Born two years after him, she is mentioned in a ''British Hunts and Huntsmen'' article concerning a Mr John Elliot of Jedburgh:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.noonbarra.com/history.html|title=Origin And History of the Australian Working Kelpie}}</ref> <blockquote>Mr. Elliot himself is well known for his breed of collies. His father supplied Noble to the late Queen Victoria and it was from our subject that the McLeod got Hindhope Jed, now the champion of [[New Zealand]] and Australia.<ref>{{cite mailing list|url=http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BORDER/1998-06/0897939178|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226113957/http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BORDER/1998-06/0897939178|archive-date=2016-12-26|mailing-list=[[RootsWeb]]: BORDER-L|title=Re: GLENDINNING|first=Trish|last=Pattison|date=15 June 1998 |access-date=2009-12-10}}</ref></blockquote> On her departure to New Zealand, Hindhope Jed was already in pup to ''Captain'', another of the then-new "border" strain. Hindhope Jed had won three trials in her native Scotland, and was considered to be the "best to cross the equator".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bonnidune.com/info.html|title=Border Collie Breed Information|last=Whiteman|first=Kelly|website=www.bonnidune.com|access-date=2017-12-07|archive-date=25 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231225044159/https://bonnidune.com/info.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1901 the King and Mcleod stud was created by Charles Beechworth King (b. 1855, Murrumbidgee, NSW), his brother and Alec McLeod at Canonbar, near [[Nyngan]] (north-west of [[Sydney]]), brought Hindhope Jed to Australia, where she enjoyed considerable success at sheepdog trials. The [[New Zealand Heading Dog]] breed was developed from Border Collies.
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