East Anglian Collie held their Championship show on Sunday 2nd August where Shelley Skinner (Nikal) drew an entry of 11 Smooth Collies with 1 absent.
Lee & Elise Seager’s Blamorder Magic Maker with Freejack JW won Best Dog & RBOB (by Ch / Am & Can Grand Ch Cardross Red Dirt Road to Blamorder x McClelland Rule The World with Blamorder) and Sandy & Andy Metcalf’s Koczkodan Well I Never was Res Best Dog (by Blamorder New Dawn over Lionsridge x Koczkodan Steel My Heart).
Marianne Benton’s Ch Blamorder Double or Quits of Oakestelle JW won Best Bitch & BOB (by Ch Blamorder Audacity x Ch Blamorder The Hustler) and Michael & Rebecca Wensley’s Blamorder Starstruck by Versatilis was Res Best Bitch (by Ch / Int Ch Constella Hazy Cosmic Jive JW x Blamorder Eva Peron).
Jayne Llewellyn & Abby Lusty’s Blamorder Sunny Side Up won Best Puppy (by Coldelee Jupiter Rises with Blamorder JW x Blamorder Dare To Dream) and Marianne Benton’s Ch Oakestelle Artemis ShCEx VW won Best Veteran (by Juniperwood King Of Kings x Ch Oakestelle Venus De Milo VW ShCEx).
The “In show” awards were judged by Lisa Pettit (Lakebank) who awarded RBIS to Double or Quits & RBVIS to Artemis – well done!
Sadly no breed classes at Paignton Ch show Friday 31st July where Sue Bird judged the AV Pastoral NSC classes drawing an entry of 7 with 1 absent. The entry included 2 Smooth Collies. Jordan Rundle’s Shulune Imperial Bonny Blu won Best Bitch & BOB (by Ch / Multi Ch Winter is Coming To Tentola x Shulune Imperial Seduce Me).
We have also lost the breed classes at Bournemouth Ch show where Frank Whyte judged the AV Pastoral NSC classes on Saturday 8th August drawing an entry of 4 all Smooth Collies and all present.
Katy Warren & Abby Lusty’s Coldelee Jupiter Rises with Blamorder JW won Best Dog (by Ch Brackenhaye Fields of Gold x Ch Blamorder Sunny Sky) and Karol Riva’s Manordeifi Rock On was Res Best Dog (by Blamorder Bring Him Home x Manordeifi Button Rose).
Marianne Benton won Best Bitch, BOB & Best Veteran with Ch Oakestelle Artemis ShCEx VW and Res Best Bitch with Ch Blamorder Double or Quits of Oakestelle JW.
Artemis went on to take Pastoral Veteran Group 3 judged by Steve Bennett – well done!
Double or Quits also gained 2nd in the Champion Stakes judged by Christina Bailey and Artemis was 2nd in the Veteran Stakes judged by Bill Brown Cole.
Bournemouth also held an Open Show on Thursday 6th August where Marianne Benton had a good day. Ch Oakestelle Artemis ShCEx VW won Best AV Veteran Pastoral judged by Lorraine Ratter and BViS judged by Frank Whyte – well done!
Colne, Nelson & Dist held an Open show on Saturday 1st August where Denise Rowan (Rowancrest) drew an entry of 5 Smooth Collies with 3 absent.
Debra Jerrett’s Ch Coldelee Eternal Sunshine JW won BOB and went on to take Pastoral Group 2 judged by Maureen Bywater (Tachmamadra) – well done! (by Ch Brackenhaye Fields of Gold x Ch Blamorder Sunny Sky).
At Otley Open show on Tuesday 4th August Sheila Carlton drew an entry 7 Smooth Collies of which 4 were absent.
Michael & Rebecca Wensley’s Blamorder Starstruck by Versatilis won BOB and Debra Jerrett’s Ch Coldelee Eternal Sunshine JW was RBOB.
Starstruck went on to win Pastoral Group 2 judged by Richard Bott – well done!
Update to last week’s notes – at Evesham Open Marianne Benton’s Ch Oakestelle Artemis ShCEx won the Pastoral Veteran Group & RBVIS – congratulations!
Delia Moores