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News from Finland

What happens in Finland, our neighbour country. What shows will run during the year, who wins and which breeder have a huge success? All this, and a lot more, you may now be able to follow.

We are very proud to present our reporter from Finland, Sara Swanljung a reporter who
has Sideways Cavaliers together with her Mum.

All the best wishes to my readers - please keep
sending me any comments, requests or reminders
what I should write about. My next report should
reach you in February - 'Ta ta for now!'

Sara

I have finally managed to ‘steal’ a few moments from
the Christmas & New Year’s hassle to write my very
first report from the Finnish cavalier front. I am really looking forward to bringing a few greetings from the active scene here in Finland, hopefully as often
as a couple of times a month.

I have a great topic for my first report as last
weekend (17.-18.12.2005) we had the pleasure
(and not to mention the stress) to hold two extremely large exhibitions within one weekend – some of
you might know about the Nordic Winner show that
was held on Sunday the 18th of December – but in addition to this we also had the top event of our
show-dog year, the Finnish Winner, on the
very same Saturday.

The Cavalier judges for the events were definitely interesting for both the viewers and the exhibitors,
but surprisingly the exhibition pulled only 25 dogs
and 31 bithes on Saturday and 24 dogs and
24 bitches on Sunday. I would like to speculate
the cost of the exhibition entry to have some weight
in this matter as well as the choice of judges.

The results for the Saturday’s Finninsh Winner 2005
were as follows:

Judge; Ann Horan, Great Britain
25+31

JUNIOR DOGS
VG1 Babbler’s Caravan Sky
VG2 Marjaniemen Willimies
VG3 Babbler’s Smoke Signal
VG4 Baletta’s Just Crazy

INTERMEDIATE DOGS
EXC1 Stonepit Tyler, BD3, CC
EXC2 Simon Tries Biely Demon, RCC
VG3 Gillespie Dream Catcher
VG4 Eliitin Xmas Issue

OPEN DOGS
VG1 Eliitin Ebony Rousseau

CHAMPION DOGS
EXC1 Babbler’s Mc Mozart, BD1, BOS, CACIB, WINNER-05
EXC2 Baletta’s Jet Li, BD2, R-CACIB
EXC3 Babbler’s Paparazzi, BD4
VG4 Panda’s Chaffeur

VETERAN DOGS
VG1 Deeriem Thelonius Of Anncourt

JUNIOR BITCHES
VG1 Babbler’s Female Power
VG2 Harmonic Change For Magic
VG3 Visakoivun Nerissa Arwen
VG4 Breeze Tee For Two

INTERMEDIATE BITCHES
VG1 Gillespie Dream Design
VG2 Panda’s Best Before
VG3 Anncourt Louise
VG4 Harmonic Valentine

OPEN BITCHES
VG1 Campanards Melrose At Oak’s
VG2 Nenemo Rusetti

CHAMPION BITCHES
EXC1 Longbody’s X-Tra Smart , BB1, BOB, CC, CACIB, FIN CH
EXC2 Babbler’s Mary Popping, BB2, R-CACIB
VG3 Crianza’s Autumn Jade
VG4 Anncourt Voulez Vous

VETERAN BITCHES
VG1 Anncourt Secret Dolls

BREEDER
1. Babbler’s, HP

A load of dogs not seen in these results were
awarded with ‘Very Good’ and ‘Good’ – amongst these dogs/bitches that were unplaced were also ones that
are champions or have been awarded with a
CC/RCC in the past.

As surprising as the results might have been, they
were also somewhat expected - if we look back at
the last time we had Ann Horan to judge here in Finland, only one dog was awarded with an ‘Excellent’ out of 31.

I have always thought it is good to find a judge who
is not afraid to use the entire scale in his/her judging. There are no rules for the minimum amount of
‘Excellent’ to be awarded for each sex. I feel that if
the judge is invited for the show and a dog brought in front of the judge for a critique, the results should be appreciated as a specialist’s opinion. Of course I would like to think the quality of Cavaliers in Finland to be slightly better than what the results from Saturday
might imply – but that’s just an afterthought! ;)

Already on Saturday it was announced that Herbert
Heim would not be able to judge and would be replaced by Joyce O’Connor. This judge also took a look at the King Charles Spaniels on Saturday, so we got a little ‘taste’ of what she might be doing the following
day with Cavaliers.


     
                                     Sara with a puppy

On Sunday, the results ended up as follows:

Judge: Joyce O'Connor, Ireland
(replacing the original judge Herbert Heim, Germany)
24+24
 

JUNIOR DOGS
EXC1 Babbler's Caravan Sky, JUNIOR NordW-05, BD3, CC
EXC2 Anncourt Yesterday, BD4, RCC
EXC3 Baletta's Just Crazy
EXC4 Elfstone Light Of Dawn

INTERMEDIATE DOGS
EXC1 Gillespie Dream Catcher
EXC2 Stonepit Tyler
EXC3 Spicy Bushman
EXC4 Magnumin Agent

OPEN DOGS
VG1 Eliitin Ebony Rousseau

CHAMPION DOGS
EXC1 Babbler's Mc Mozart, BD1, Nord W-05, CACIB, BOB
EXC2 Elvenhome Finlandia BD2 , R-CACIB
EXC3 Sperringårdens Castroneves
EXC4 Babbler's Paparazzi

VETERAN DOGS
EXC1 Deeriem Thelonius of Anncourt, BOB VET

JUNIOR BITCHES
EXC1 Babbler's Female Pover, JW&NordW05,BB1,CC,BOS
EXC2 Anncourt Savoy Truffle, BB4 , RCC
EXC3 Breeze Takes Two to Tango
EXC4 Crawford Good Gracious

INTERMEDIATE BITCHES
EXC1 Foxfield Easy Choice
EXC2 Anncourt Louise
VG3 Aneridee Party Queen
VG4 Harmonic Valentine

OPEN BITCHES
VG1 Crawford Carmencita
VG2 Panda's Flash Princess
VG3 Nenomo Rusetti
VG4 Campanards Melrose At Oak's

CHAMPION BITCHES
EXC1 Babbler's Mary Popping, BB2, CACIB
EXC2 Longbody’s X-Tra Smart, BB3, R-CACIB
EXC3 Pilliwink's Millenium Star
EXC4 Aneridee Rainbow Glitter

BREEDERS
1. Babbler's, HP

We can decide that the weekend was a really good
one for the breeder/owner of any dog that was
awarded with an ‘Excellent’ on Saturday and of course
it must have been great if the ‘Excellent’
was repeated on the next day.

The Finnish Winner show held on Saturday was
actually the largest one-day international event
ever held in the world of dog shows. We have to be extremely proud of having managed to host an event
of that size as efficiently as it was (and that is most probably as efficiently as it must have been possible!).

The amount of entries on Saturday was 7800 dogs
(and on Sunday 7600) - these dogs came from 23 different countries and represented 305 different breeds. The events were huge and it was great to be present and part of them – but in the end, both days were extremely long for the people and their dogs.

Personally I would have to say I prefer the events to be held over two days.

I was manning together with the great help of my
mother Anita Savolainen the information booth of the Finnish Cavalier Club – which we have been doing now for the last 4 years on a row. It was a great pleasure
to talk with old & new friends of the breed once again!
It was also a positive observation to notice that people were more informed and conversing more freely about the health matters. As usual, our info-booth was the most photographed booth amongst them all – and who could not admire 2-3 lovely cavaliers slouching away
on their ‘royal throne’. Warm regards to all the people who we met during the weekend!

My next report should reach you in January – I’m
looking forward to receiving any comments &
suggestions of what you would like me to write
about or which event you would Iike me to cover.

I would like to wish you all a happy &
successful year 2006!

Sara Swanljung, Sideways Cavaliers