Double show in Alzey double succes

We had 2 super days at dogshow Alzey this weekend,
it was hot, but we managed to keep the group cool.
Saturday was Rheinhessensiegershow and Sunday Clubsiegershow.

Int, be, nl, vdh, dcc, cfbh, njk, bjk, europas17, Glamourace Collies Viva las Vegas "Lucky" ...
got excellent 3 on saturday
and excellent 1 CAC on Sunday

bjk, nl, be, cw'17 Glamourace Collies Flaming Star "Star" got
on saturday excellent 4 due to lack of coat
and on sunday excellent 3

vdh jr ch. Glamourace Collies Vivien Leigh "Vivien"
got excellent on both days!!!!!

And my dreamteam won both days best brace in show!!

Judges where both breedspecialists, ms Minna Manninen (Kangasvuoken)
and on sunday mr Nick Smith (Tentola)
Thank you judges for the nice reports and results.

 

Dogshow Lommel double succes

Last weekend we went showing in Lommel Belgium, it was terribly hot but luckily the show facility was cool enough to be comfortable for dogs and humans

We had Judge ms Valerie Degeeter from Belgium, and we where very happy that Lucky got excl 1 CAC and BOB and Vivien got Excl 1 CAC and BOS

So this was Vivien's 3rd CAC in Belgium!!!!
Hopefully we will manage her last point also, but our main pryority will be the upcoming litter in july, so at first we will not have a lot of shows planned out.

Borzoi club show very nice for Anna

May 30 was the Anual Dutch Borzoi specialty show in Heteren.
And we had a great succes this year.
Judge was breedspecialist Judit Szanka and we where very happy with an Excellent 2 in championclass.

Later Anna also was awarded best female head of the day. This is the second time she got this award at our Dutch specialty so I was very delighted!!!!

It really was a very cold day, but we made it into a nice one!!!!

Dogshow Oss huge succes

I'm a bit behind with my updates but it was a very busy week.
Last Sunday we showed, then Monday we had to take the ultrasonic with Emmy confirming pregnancy, then Thursday it was showing again and now this Sunday also.
And then tomorrow we will go see the specialist for the brace on Dita's leg. So not much time to update the website. But I promise all will be posted because it was a happy week.

Last Sunday we went to Int dogshow Oss, Judge was breedspecialist ms Carol Mulcahy
she awarded Lucky excl. 1 CAC/CACIB and BOB
his sister Star went excl 2
and autie Vivien did marvelous by getting excl 1

And that was not all.
The first time in 2019 for the dreamteam, and they did it.
Under respected Dutch Judge mr Jan Ebels they got Best in Show Brace!!!!
That was so marvelous.

It was also the first cacib show for Lucky to enter this whole year and I think he did amazing.

Expecting a litter

We are so happy to anounce a litter again after 4,5 years of waiting.

 Ravenclaw black Illusion of Kingly Shine has been mated to our girl AKC ch. Highcroft Summer Embrace.

 Today ultrasound proved that Emmy is pregnant and we hope for a litter in the beginning of july.
Thank you Sabine for letting us use your strong beautifull boy!!!! And sharing the fun and knowledge

Dita retired from the dogshow ring

Finally I can post this,

Dita is retired from the showring, but not in a way we would hope. Before dogshow Antwerpen she stepped into something, and I don't know how, but she tore a tendon in her left front paw, causing her a permanent limp.

See this Facebook post I made few weeks ago



Ofcourse we are very sad about it, because Dita loved being with me in the show ring. But luckily arangements are being made, and we are going to see a specialist in making braces. This process takes a while so there is only 1 thing for us left to do, and that is waiting.
We ofcourse will update on Dita's journey, because she will be having a rehab period when her brace gets on her leg, she is currently in compulsory rest and that is hard, for her and for us. (Altough she scares the living daylight out of the chickens every single day)
She is amazingly cudly, mainly because that is the only thing she can do at the moment.

We will keep updates on Dita, and ofcourse at our place she is still being spoiled............

 

Throwback Thursday the CCA National specialty part 3

If I'm not wrong the judging on Friday began with progenygroups, and it was different then we are used to here in the Netherlands, but it was very well put up.
Each Bitch or studdog went on first, then his progeny would enter the ring, just one by one, so you could really see the resemblance.

What is also very nice, but strange to us, is that there are smooths and roughs in those classes at the same time, in the USA it is not forbidden to interbreed those variaties.
Over here it the smooth and rough are 2 different breeds, but over there they are just 2 variaties, that can be bred to each other.

Also this day the talking went on and there was another auction going on, so for the last day I placed my bid on some books, and I did win again!!!!
The judging of the smooths was very beautifull, we where starting on the normal benches, as we did not want to spend al of our time in the mentoring seats.

It was very moving to see that the Judge had tears in her eyes when she picked out her winners. I was getting emotional myself. In my own humble opinion I never saw this kind of love for our breed here in the Netherlands. And now I felt this love the whole day, the whole time I was there.

Afterwards there was a training for the juniorhandlers, but I see many handlers here in Holland, I loaned some of my dogs for juniorhandling, so I was not impressed by what those kids where doing.
I couldn't help it, but after a while I stepped up into the ring and told them how we do handling at home, and how things could get better. It was pretty cool they really liked my view and we got into nice conversation, they understood my point, but afterwards I must say I understood their point also!!

In the evening we had a lovely buffet by the quarter century collie group. I was so nice we where again meeting up with new people.
On this evening they talked about the great things the collie rescue had done to take out more then 100 collies from a hoarder, and how they are trying to keep this person from getting new dogs. Tears where filling my eyes, and other peoples eyes aswel.
Also on this evening they showed a movie and told a great story about Elisabeth Brownings Tokalon kennel. Wow what a story, and there was a special award for dokter Bill Broken the breeder of the Foremost kennel.
I got so many info on that night, and again such nice people I was overwhelmed again!!!

Most of the people got to their hotels ealy that evening because the Saturday was the most important day of the whole show. Specials where coming up and best of variatie and best of breed.

The last day of our trip will be coming up soon .........