Time to look back at last year’s winners. 28 different Smooth Collies won CCs or RCCs during the year – 15 dogs & 13 bitches, 5 of which gained their titles. The new champions were Ch Sturtmoor Arceus’s Legacy JW, Ch Wynele Double Trouble at Foxearth, Ch Coneypark Golden Brown, Ch / Int Ch Indigo Aura Agree To Disagree with Breckamore & Ch Blamorder Double Or Quits of Oakestelle JW. Ch / Int Ch Constella Hazy Cosmic Jive JW gained his International champion title and also won Pastoral Group 3 at South Wales Ch Show.
The top winning dog & overall top winning Smooth Collie was Trevor & Birgit Hayward’s Ch Wynele Double Trouble at Foxearth who won 7 CCs & 1 RCC (by Ch Wynele Indian Ink x Ch Foxearth Fudge Wynele).
2nd was Julie Sewell’s Ch Wynele Strike It Rich to Lewarne JW who won 4 CCs & 1 RCC (by Ch Foxearth Formula One x Wynele Blu Alice) and 3rd was Keira & Matthew Martin’s Ch Sturtmoor Arceus’s Legacy JW who won 2 CCs & 1 RCC (by Manordeifi Bow Regard x Shandlmain’s Shuri with Sturtmoor). Equal 4th winning 1 CC & 1 RCC each were Abby Lusty’s Ch Blamorder Audacity (by Int Ch Winter is Coming to Tentola x Blamorder Tango for Two) and Nick & Ann Smith’s Ch / Int Ch Winter Is Coming to Tentola (by Ch Foxearth Frappuccino x Jack Mack’s Hefin Huw).
Equal 6th winning 1 CC each were Michael & Rebecca Wensley’s Ch / Int Ch Constella Hazy Cosmic Jive JW (by Blamorder Bring Him Home x Blamorder Marvellousness with Constella), Hilde Bjørnstad’s Int & Multi Ch Merryville My Kind of Star (by Int & Multi Ch Clingstone’s King Himself x Int & Multi Ch Blamorder Supa Fun Surprise) and Trevor & Birgit Hayward’s Ch Foxearth Fletch (by Ch Foxearth Flintab x Foxearth Finnish Romance).
9th winning 4 RCCs was Heidi Thomas & Abby Lusty’s Blamorder Side Hustle with Mournebrake JW (by Ch Blamorder Audacity x Ch Blamorder The Hustler), 10th taking 3 RCCs was Georgina & Christopher Howard & Michelle Fort’s Shulune Imperial Inkheart with Casatentola (by Ch / Int Ch Winter is Coming To Tentola x Shulune Imperial Seduce Me) and 11th with 2 RCCs was Lee & Elise Seager’s Blamorder Magic Maker with Freejack JW (by Ch / Am & Can Grand Ch Cardross Red Dirt Road to Blamorder x McClelland Rule The World with Blamorder).
Equal 12th winning 1 RCC each were Charlotte Rodgers’ Blamorder Mischief Maker with Jerdoni (by Ch / Am & Can Grand Ch Cardross Red Dirt Road to Blamorder VW x McClelland Rule The World with Blamorder), Katy Warren & Abby Lusty’s Coldelee Jupiter Rises with Blamorder JW (by Ch Brackenhaye Fields of Gold x Ch Blamorder Sunny Sky), Di Howe’s Lizoni The Drifter (by Ch Blamorder Opulence at Himinnsaga x Koczkodan Sweet Dreams of Lizoni) and Sandy & Andy Metcalf’s Koczkodan Well I Never (by Blamorder New Dawn over Lionsridge x Koczkodan Steel My Heart).
Top winning bitch & 2nd overall was Marianne Benton & Emily Bemelmans’ Ch Blamorder Double or Quits of Oakestelle JW who won 4 CCs & 4 RCCs (by Ch Blamorder Audacity x Ch Blamorder The Hustler).
2nd was Anne French’s Ch / Int Ch Indigo Aura Agree To Disagree with Breckamore who won 4 CCs & 1 RCC (by Int Ch Clingstone’s Conspiracy Theory x Lt Ch Diamondfox Absolute Cotton Candy).
Equal 3rd winning 3 CCs & 2 RCCs each were Tracey & Dave Holmes & Abby Lusty’s Ch Blamorder Makers Mark JW (by Ch / Am & Can Grand Ch Cardross Red Dirt Road to Blamorder x McClelland Rule The World with Blamorder) and Abby Lusty’s Ch Blamorder Ice Cream Dream VW (by Ch Foxearth Flintab x Juniperwood Just A Dream).
Equal 5th winning 1 CC each were Jean & David Sweeney & Abby Lusty’s Ch Blamorder Do Quite Nicely AW(B) (by Blamorder Bring Him Home x Ch Blamorder Ice Cream Dream), Sheila Beeney’s Coneypark Golden Brown (by Ch Brackenhaye Fields Of Gold x Ryecombe Jolly Jonquil at Coneypark), Andrea Richardson’s Koczkodan Sweet Dreams of Lizoni (by Ch Breckamore By Design x Breckamore Bittersweet for Koczkodan) and Elaine Cowling’s Koczkodan Serenity VW (by Ch Foxearth Flock Master for Breckamore JW x Ch Manordeifi Satin Doll of Koczkodan VW).
Equal 9th winning 3 RCCs each were Debra Jerrett’s Coldelee Eternal Sunshine JW (by Ch Brackenhaye Fields of Gold x Ch Blamorder Sunny Sky) and Denise Cole & Michelle Fort’s Shulune Imperial Rum Punch (by Int Ch Winter is Coming To Tentola x Shulune Imperial Seduce Me).
Equal 11th winning 1 RCC each were Jo & Richard Denton’s Ch Brackenhaye Heart and Soul (by Ch Foxearth Formula One x Ch Brackenhaye Shape O’my Heart), Jordan Rundle’s Shulune Imperial Bonny Blu (by Ch / Multi Ch Winter is Coming To Tentola x Shulune Imperial Seduce Me) and Marianne Benton’s Ch Oakestelle Artemis ShCEx VW (by Juniperwood King Of Kings x Ch Oakestelle Venus De Milo VW ShCEx).
The top kennel was Blamorder with 8 winners, both Koczkodan & Shulune had 3 winners each and Wynele & Coldelee had 2 winners each. The other 10 winners were from 10 separate kennels.
Puppy, Veteran & Special Beginners winners & group placings in next week’s issue.
Delia Moores