Breed Notes
21st October 2022

First news concerns Collie Rescue, our breed’s only registered and official rescue. The AGM will be held on November 13th, at 1.30pm at The Princess Royal Hotel, Retford Road, Sheffield S13 9WG. Also a reminder that the lovely Xmas Cards and Calendars are now on sale. Please contact Chris Slater on 0114.2347440 or by e mail to: rodchris@talktalk.net
News for your diaries concerning two of the most looked forward to events in a New Year. Firstly from Miranda Blake to say that the popular Carvery lunch will return for those attending EACA Collie of The Year. To be held Saturday 8th January at Littleport. Please contact Miranda direct for application forms or, I think they are available on the EACA pages. Once you have recovered from this, British Collie and their Rough Collie of The Year Contest will be held Saturday 28th January at the usual venue of Novotel, Bostocks Lane, Long Eaton, Notts. Invitations will be sent out shortly to all qualified contestants, information concerning room availability and attendance at the much renowned Disco will be available on the Club FB pages or direct from Jo Hodges.
Now to some show news. Lancashire & Cheshire held a well supported Open show at the Lightning Club, Warton, Preston with Secretary Ray Wilkinson (Pockethall) judging. Taking the entries was Bill Rogerson, Vice Chairman and Treasurer.
Ray is an approved judge for a few Pastoral breeds, including Border Collies, GSD, Lancashire Heelers and Old English Sheepdogs and he is B Listed on their own club list. He was also nominated to judge the Smooth Collies but do an oversight, was replaced by Committee member, Marianne Grindley. The entry for Roughs was a good 50, however, the results showed a few missing on the day with 13 Smooths and a lovely SAC entry for Shelley Skinner (Nikal)
Here is a list of class winners: Blamorder Gold Plated who won MP with 2 entered. No Puppy dogs were present in Puppy and single entrant, Luminous Moon Over Lenosann won both Junior and Maiden. Monsolana Aspire to Inspire Over Barrenclough was the only entrant in Graduate. PG went to Barrenclough Diamond Skies who was also alone. Another Barrenclough, Heart of Gold won a Limit class of 3. Open had 5 entries, with 1 missing and heading this class were local exhibitors, and Committee members, Colin, Anne Jones and son David with Brooklynson Black Diamond at Dancol. Veteran was also a well supported class of 4 and winning BVD was Cariadhaf Crazy Dream. Best Dog went to the Open winner, with Stacy and Brodie taking RBD. BPD was the only one present, Blamorder Gold Plated.
Bitches had a few more absent and the following won their classes: MP Beldones Clementine, all entrants in Puppy, Junior, Maiden and Novice were missing. Graduate went to Bluchip Syrah of Skyeshelm. Uffspring Ultravox won PG with 4 present. Limit originally had 7 and no absentees marked and Ingledene Nitesky of Skyeshelm won this. Open with 2 present was won by Ingledene Lace’n’Grace whilst Veteran went to Monsolana Madam Blues Over Barrenclough.
BB was Ingledene Lace’n’Grace with Uffspring Ultravox taking RBB and Beldones Clementine BPB and Madam Blues won Veteran. BOB rough was the sable of Valerie Geddes and BVIB was a lovely win for Stacey Steven and Brodie but no confirmation as to BPIB Rough. BIS went to Ingledene Lace’n’Grace, with Foxearth Finnish Spirit at Jimjack, owned by Jacquie Hartley but handled on the day by Eleri Bluck and took BOB Smooth, Reserve BIS and Best Veteran In Show. BPIS was the smooth.
Shelley Skinner (Nikal) had some good numbers in her SAC classes and found her winners in the following collies: Luminous Moon Over Lenosann won Junior, Demelewis Double Take won Post Grad and the Open winner was Aqualita It’s A Miracle.
The same weekend, our KC held their “Discover Dogs” and setting up the stand for our breed were representatives of London & Provincial CC and the following is a report direct from Di Collino, Secretary for L&P. Thanks very much.
DISCOVER DOGS - OCT 15 & 16 - LONDON EXCEL from Di Collino Secretary, London & Provincial
London & Provincial Collie Club represented the Rough Collie breed at this prestigious event where the Kennel Club had attracted what seemed like a large number of visitors to meet lots of breeds of dogs. It was certainly very busy around the breed booths and the retailers appeared to be doing well too. The Club had decided that it was time to refresh the look of the booth and with a big dollop of help from our Smooth Collie friends, Keira & Matt Martin, invested in 8 large banners depicting different aspects of our Breed. These included exercise requirements, grooming, activity levels and more. They were a really useful tool for helping the public ask meaningful questions so that instead of ‘I bet they take a lot of grooming’, we were asked ‘how often do they moult’, etc which is a proper question and can be answered sensibly. It was good to see the public looking at the pictures of collies being active and reading the information provided. Some amazing photographs were donated for the banners (many thanks to all those people from the showing and agility world who provided these) so that the final result actually exceeded the Club’s expectations and L & P plan to use these not only for public exhibitions but also when running seminars in the future. The banners also make it incredibly easy to dress the booth quickly and remove everything afterwards for storage which is a real bonus! The icing on the cake was that another breed came forward and asked to take photographs of our stand because they plan to copy the idea! Huge thanks to my fellow committee members, Peter & Gina Stillwell, Alexis Swain, Jenny Hopper and Janine Hanson, plus good friend Becky Christmas who all worked on the stand with me, and last but not least our fabulous rough collies who were total stars and proved yet again that the temperament of a good rough collie is second to none! Please take a bow - Chatter, Alfie, Sienna, Tuppence, Rita and Kaydee.

Carole Smedley
(Antoc)