Following on from last week’s notes – starting with the 2025 puppy winners. There were 6 different puppy winners sharing 12 Best Puppy awards plus 6 shows with no puppies present. Three puppies gained puppy group placings. They were Blamorder Side Hustle with Mournebrake JW who gained Puppy Group 3 at Working & Pastoral Breeds of Wales, Ch Blamorder Double or Quits of Oakestelle JW who gained Puppy Group 4 at SKC show 2 and Breckamore’s Eye Catcher for Wizzizz who gained Puppy Group 3 at City of Birmingham.
The 2 top winning puppies taking 3 Best Puppy awards each were Marianne Benton & Emily Bemelmans’ Ch Blamorder Double or Quits of Oakestelle JW (by Ch Blamorder Audacity x Ch Blamorder The Hustler) and Michael & Rebecca Wensley’s Blamorder Starstruck by Versatilis (by Ch / Int Ch Constella Hazy Cosmic Jive JW x Blamorder Eva Peron).
The two puppies who won 2 Best Puppy awards each were Heidi Thomas & Abby Lusty’s Blamorder Side Hustle with Mournebrake JW (by Ch Blamorder Audacity x Ch Blamorder The Hustler) and Stephanie Rixton & Sharon Jefford’s Breckamore’s Eye Catcher for Wizzizz (by Wynele Show Time x Wynele Now Look At Me).
The final 2 puppies with 1 Best Puppy award each were Bob Naulls’ Wynele Limited Edition (by Ch Wynele Indian Ink x Ch Wynele Cover Girl) and Debra Jerrett’s Coldelee Busy Bein Fabulous (by Wynele Strike One x Coldelee Eternal Sunshine JW).
7 Veterans shared the 18 Best Veteran awards and one gained 4 Group placings, Ch Blamorder Ice Cream Dream VW gained Veteran Group 4 at Working & Pastoral Breeds of Wales, Veteran Group 3 at SKC show 1, Veteran Group 1 & Res Best Veteran in Show at Driffield Ch & Veteran Group 1 at Driffield 49th show.
The top winning Veteran winning 8 Best Veteran awards was Abby Lusty’s Ch Blamorder Ice Cream Dream VW (by Ch Foxearth Flintab x Juniperwood Just A Dream).
2nd winning 3 Best veteran awards was Nick & Ann Smith’s Ch / Int Ch Winter Is Coming to Tentola (by Ch Foxearth Frappuccino x Jack Mack’s Hefin Huw). Equal 3rd taking 2 Best Veteran awards each were Elaine Cowling’s Koczkodan Serenity VW (by Ch Foxearth Flock Master for Breckamore JW x Ch Manordeifi Satin Doll of Koczkodan VW) and Sarah Flower’s Ch Breckamore Butterfingers ShCM ShCEx (by Ch Foxearth Flock Master for Breckamore JW x Finnish Touch for Breckamore).
The final 3 winning 1 Best Veteran award each were Marianne Benton’s Ch Oakestelle Artemis ShCEx VW (by Juniperwood King Of Kings x Ch Oakestelle Venus De Milo VW ShCEx), Pat Corben & Ray Glover’s Stormsett Snow Crystal (by Legend of Camelot’s Confusion at Ryecombe x Oakestelle Indie Rock at Stormsett) and Trevor & Birgit Hayward’s Ch Foxearth Fletch (by Ch Foxearth Flintab x Foxearth Finnish Romance).
4 dogs shared the 8 Special Beginners awards, 3 of which gained Special Beginners Group placings. Shulune Imperial Bonny Blu won Spec Beginners Group 1 at National Working & Pastoral Breeds, Constella Vega Luminosa won Spec Beginners Group 1 at Leeds & Blamorder Unlucky For Some gained Spec Beginners Group 3 at Welsh Kennel.
Jordan Rundle’s Shulune Imperial Bonny Blu won 4 Best Special Beginners awards (by Ch / Multi Ch Winter is Coming To Tentola x Shulune Imperial Seduce Me) and Lou Watkins’ Blamorder Unlucky For Some won 2 Best Special Beginners awards (by Ch Blamorder Audacity x Ch Blamorder The Hustler).
Winning 1 Best Special Beginners award each were Emma Caulfield’s Constella Vega Luminosa (by Blamorder Bring Him Home x Blamorder Marvellousness with Constella) and Brenda Leavesley’s Lizoni Lone Ranger (by Ch Blamorder Opulence at Himinnsaga x Koczkodan Sweet Dreams of Lizoni).
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