Mrs Fraser (77) first became involved with the club when she married the late Bill Fraser and started helping the ladies' committee with cooking duties.
She and Mollie Murcott were later put on to the men's committee because there were plenty of women in the cookshop and it was known how much the pair loved working outdoors.
Mrs Fraser laughed as she recalled the photographs of the men's committee with her and Mrs Murcott, who now lives in Oamaru, sitting in the front.
However, she never resigned from the ladies' committee and, while she does not work in the cookshop, she still supplies food to feed hungry triallists and workers at the trials.
She will rise early tomorrow, give her dogs a run and then leave her home at Mt Menzies, in the Hakataramea Valley, about 6.45am, to be at the trial ground to make sure the first competitor in the short head and yard is started about 7.30am.
She will then be "flat out" during the day, making sure there are no gaps between competitors. The short head event has been a "Fraser thing" for a long time and she and her son, Will, are the marshals.
Four generations of Frasers have been involved with dog trialling, and now the next generation - her 12-year-old grandson Jaron Fraser - is showing an interest in dogs.
Mrs Fraser has "no doubt" it will not be long before Jaron has a dog. After all, his father and grandfather were both children when they ran dogs at the trials.
Mrs Fraser's own foray into trialling began when she was given a dog which turned out to be a "cracking little sheep dog" and gave her the incentive to start doing some trialling.
Rouse - he got the name because he had pointed ears and looked a bit like a mouse - was a "great wee dog" and about half the size of the "huge" huntaways the men were running.
But with encouragement from triallist Bill Whalan, from Te Aka, Mrs Fraser was believed to be the first woman to run a huntaway at the club's trials.
"If it wasn't for Bill Whalan standing there to give me support, I might have turned tail and run, at the beginning. I used to feel very embarrassed going out to run him. He was a tiny little dog.
"If he [Mr Whalan] saw me doing anything wrong or detrimental to the dog's run, he'd let me know, which was just great."
Mrs Fraser won "the odd prize" with Rouse and she also ran other dogs, including heading dogs at Hakataramea, Waimate, Oamaru and Omarama trials.
While she no longer ran a dog at trials, she did not rule out a return if she ever got the chance "with a good one". She has a 3-year-old huntaway who is "full of beans", and time will tell whether he will settle down enough to become a trial dog.
"We'll just wait and see. I'd love to have another crack," she said.
Mrs Fraser, who is a life member of the club, still loved the camaraderie of the trials and catching up with old friends.
Having been heavily involved with horses and ponies, along with shorthorn cattle, through the years she had met many people from outside the district.
"I really enjoy having a yarn."
Mrs Fraser has always loved the farming lifestyle and she enjoys nothing more than getting out in the hills with her dogs.
"I love it. It's part of my life and will be until the day comes that I can't do it any more."
She has always been a very keen sportswoman and likes to keep herself fit. She still rides horses, plays golf, loves tramping - "anything that's active" - and while she cannot run like she used to because of an artificial hip, she still has the "odd hit" at tennis.
While she no longer does tractor work, Mrs Fraser is still involved with stock work on Mt Menzies, a 1456ha property.
As she was helping one morning earlier this week and lambs were bolting, the thought crossed her mind: "Oh Rouse, if only you were here."
"He was one to see where they were going to bolt, and he had it blocked before they were under way. He was so brainy."
