Sir Darnley's annual review 2005
For us a remarkable year with lots of highlights!
For me the year started with a personal highlight: On 01.01.2005 I started my own business with my "Dog Styling" trimming studio! Finally I had the courage to make this dream come true.
The start of a new period of my life - of course - also is a challenge. At last no longer defenceless part of big consolidated companies. No longer at the mercy of often mysterious decisions and 180° twists of the managements! On the other hand I have learned a lot in these companies. That has given me the commercial equipment to take the chance of my own small business.
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I have the great chance to turn my hobby into a profession! Especially I am very pleased with the great response of my courses for show handling and with the nice successes of my students! Even if it sounds overacted: I enjoy every day! More informations about
my trimming studio can be found here: www.dogstyling.de. |
| However - the year 2005
also started with a lost battle.
In November 2004 we took Sir Darnley's Kilted Kate into care from her owners and tried to give her back some more quality of life. Regrettably this was only temporarily succeded. on 22.01.2005 we had to let her go for ever. We truly would have loved to give Kate the pleasure of some really nice years. This brave Scottie girl will always have her place in our hearts. |
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Sir Darnley's Kilted Kate January 2005 |
| In April our Ch. Sir Darnley's Nosy Nellie
had her first litter. Father of the puppies is Ch. From Dash Mountain Farm's
Merlin.
This is the 5th. generation in my kennel. Sir Darnley's Principal Prince now lives with Yvette Sacré in Brussels (B) and Sir Darnley's Portia Powderkeg has found her new family Detemple in Kerpen, not far from us. Both have already been shown in puppy class and both got 2 x "very promising". You will find a lot of pictures about their growing up in the gallery of the "P-litter". |
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Even if the last years were very successful for the Sir Darnley's, the show season 2005 will be hard to beat!
I have visited 25 shows personally and from 19 shows we came back with the best of breed Scottie and I am specially proud that we can celebrate these succeses with 5 different Sir Darnley's: Mortimer, Magic, Nellie, Orla and Olivia. And not to forget Nugget, who also was best of breed handled by her owner Gerda van Stuivenberg. On 11 shows the Sir Darnley's represented both, best male and best female!
And these are the titles that Sir
Darnley's Scotties won in 2005:
2 x KFT Youth Ch., 3 x German VDH Ch., 2 x German KFT Ch., 2 x International
Ch., 1 x Dutch Ch., 1 x Belgium Ch., 1 x Luxembourg Ch., 1 x European Winner, 1
x Bundes Winner, 2 x German Club Winner!
The Highlights:
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Sir Darnley's Kiss-Curl Kylie
Kylie mainly was shown in Veteran class. She went best Veteran on the Scottie Special under breed specialist Nellie Taylor (Wildermist, GB). Kylie had 12 puppies in 3 litters. Thereof 4 are already German Champions, 3 others have nearly finshed their title and 2 also are International Champions. Also her grandson From Dash Mountain Farm's Jolly Jock already is German Champion. |
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Ch. Sir Darnley's Kiss-Curl Kylie at the age of 8 years |
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Sir Darnley's Mylord Mortimer Owner: Helma van Wieringen, NL Mortimer was only shown 3 times, with phantastic results: BOB, BIG and res. best of the day CACIB Leuven (B) BOB and best low legged Terrier OG Aachen. He also completed his VDH-Ch. and International Ch. |
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Multi Ch. Sir Darnley's Mylord Mortimer |
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Sir Darnley's Magical Mascot Owner: Marianne Roos-Otten (NL) Magic again was the shooting star. He went 10 x BOB, 1 x Res. BIG, 2 x best low legged Terrier und 1 x best in show! He gained VDH-Ch., International Ch., B-Ch., LUX-Ch., NL-Ch. and also won all official German day titles of the year: European Winner, Club Winner and German Bundes Winner. Magic's son From Dash Mountain Farms Jolly Jock (Breeder + Owner: Gerda van Stuivenberg) gained his German Ch. title and also went several times BOB. |
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Multi Ch. Sir Darnley's Magical Mascot |
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Ch. Sir Darnley's Noble Nicolson Owner: Helma van Wieringen (NL) Like Mortimer also Nick was shown sparingly last year as both had to defer to Magic. Nick won 3 x CAC and was 2 x best male. Now he is waiting to complete his German Ch. title. Surely he will be seen more often in the show rings in 2006. Furthermore we are looking forward to see the developement of his offspring. |
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J. Ch. Sir Darnley's Noble Nicolson |
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Sir Darnley's Native Nugget "Esprit" Owner: Gerda van Stuivenberg Esprit gained 3 x CAC and 1 x CACIB and also went BOB. At the age of only 27 months she was German Ch. and VDH Ch. In October she had her first litter by Multi Ch. Raglan Roslin Williams. The two promising puppies will stay with their breeder Gerda van Stuivenberg (Kennel: From Dash Mountain Farm's, NL). |
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Ch. Sir Darnley's Native Nugget |
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Ch. Sir Darnley's Nosy Nellie As already mentioned also our Nellie had her first litter with 2 puppies by Ch. From Dash Mountain Farm's Merlin. Both were already shown in puppy class and were judged "very promising". After nursing her litter Nellie has only be shown 3 times. She gained 2 x CAC, she also went BOB and finished her German Ch. title. In 2006 Nellie will also be back into the international show rings. |
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Ch. Sir Darnley's Nosy Nellie |
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Ch. Sir
Darnley's Orla Online Oasis Owner: Rainer Schnock + Maren Bichel Orla went KFT-Youth Ch. and Landesjugendsieger Thüringen. Furthermore she won 8 x CAC in 3 countries and 1 x CACIB. She was 6 x BOB, 1 x 2nd. low legged Terrier and 1 x best low legged Terrier. |
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J.Ch. Sir Darnley's Orla Online Oasis |
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Darnley's Olivia Offbeat Obsession
Olivia always won her class when she was shown. She also won 7 x CAC in 4 countries and 3 x CACIB. Furthermore she was 6 x best female and 1 x BOB. She gained her KFT Youth Ch.title, went Club Winner and Limburgse Winner (B). |
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J.Ch. Sir Darnley's Olivia Offbeat Obsession |
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Sincere thanks to all judges for these phantastic results!!! Many thanks of course also to all the busy hands that helped to realise these successes. Above all Helma van Wieringen, Rolf Conrads and Rainer who now is the co-owner from Orla! |
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=>Here<= you find a chronic of all shows and results that we have visited in 2005.
=>Here<= are all results according to each dog.
Now we are already
looking forward to the new show season 2006 which will start soon. Nick, Orla
and Olivia are on their way to finish their title in Germany and Portia waits to
start in youth class.
Besides that we surely will be on shows in the surrounding counties.
In the middle of the year we hope for our next litter, even though neither mother nor father are certain.
I wish all Scottie enthusiasts further on to enjoy my site
and of course health and a lot of success in 2006!
