Lenka Best Puppy In Breed

Well on Mothering Sunday we decided to attend Guildford Open Show held at the South of England Showground in Ardingly, West Sussex. It was such a wonderfully warm and sunny day, and such a shame for the show to be held in the very cold, dank barns, especially when we had acres of lovely grass outside ! C'est la vie ! Our judge was Jenny Millard (Nee Fairhall) whom judged a number of breeds that day. Lenka was entered in puppy, and was shockingly well behaved ! All four feet were kept on the ground, even on the sand ! We were so thrilled for her to win her class, I was very proud ! Next up was Tuva in Open, she did not share her nieces success and was awarded 3rd out of 3, but she certainly enjoyed her day .. as always ! I was so proud of Lenka who really handled the challenge like a pro, and did not let me down, she was awarded Best Puppy In Breed, and some lovely comments from the judge. Well done all the other winners. Next stop the Breed Champ show, lets hope Lenka's obedience continues !!!! 

CRUFTS 2017

We are a little behind with this blog, so will endeavour to do better this year ! Well Crufts is over for another year! We were there with all four of the team. Our bitch judge was Dr Ronald James, and dog judge was Victoria Goldberg. Jive (Clandrift Dirty Dancing at Harlistream) was first in the ring at the eye wateringly early time of 8:30am (we had to crawl out of bed at 4am!). Her Veteran class had an entry of 28, this year she was unlucky, but she certainly enjoyed her day. Next up was Lenka's (Tonggreen Woodland Nymph of Harlistream) first ever Crufts ! She took everything in her stride and was such a little star, she was ably handled by Karen Taylor, but alas went unplaced. But the queen of the day was Tuva (Harlistream Ellerstina) who truly showed her socks off, and was placed VHC in a sizeable Mid Limit Bitch class. I'm so proud of all my girls, Crufts is a very different show to attend, the atmosphere, and noise are quite unlike "normal" Championship shows, but all were happy to be there and be surrounded by people. All I can say is its a good job its only once a year !!!