21 & 22 Breed Notes – Sth C’ties & 3 C’ties 2023

At Southern Counties Keesies were first in the ring with a 9.30am start for judge Howard Ogden who was awarding CC’s for the 2nd time; his first appointment was WKC 2019. He had drawn an entry of 27 dogs with 6 absentees. There were no entries in Graduate Dog, the Post Graduate Dog was absent, Good Citizen Dog Scheme Dog Or Bitch, Minor Puppy Bitch and Post Graduate Bitch.

DCC with Best of Breed went to the winner of Veteran, Natasha Hickson’s Ch Kichigai’s Only The Lonley (Bert von Ricara (imp Den) x Kichigai Special Edition) whilst it was another RDCC for the winner of Puppy Dog, the Matthews family & Tracy Lee’s Winklestar Deneb at Valindale (Winklestar Reggie x Winklestar Serendipity) who also won the BCC with Ch Winklestar Aurora at Valindale (Vivids Majestic Prince of Winklestar (IMP USA) x Winklestar Serendipity) The RBCC with Best Puppy was Jean Sharp Bale’s Neradmik Pandora’s Box (Neradmik Canache at Bisukees x Ch Neradmik Grace Kelly (Imp Can))

There are no CC’s on offer for Keeshonds at Three Counties where our judge Donna Whincup had drawn an entry of 10 dogs with just 1 absentee. There were no entries in Veteran Dog or either of the Puppy classes.

Best Dog was the winner of Junior, George & Sharon Rose’s Dianakees Inspector Morse at Esorkees (Rossvale Endeavour to Esorkees x Ednaaron Moon Dance) with Reserve Best Dog going to the Open winner, Vikki & Shaun Marshall’s Arabesque at Devonia (Imp Rus) (Rus Ch Naidjel Iz Mirashela x Rus Ch Felicita Iz Mirashela) who also got Best Bitch and Best of Breed with their Veteran, Torrikees Made In Heaven at Devonia (Ch Winklestar Hadar x
Ch Torrikees Victoria’s Secret) Reserve Best Bitch was Lewis’ sister – Simone Lush’s Dianakees Carolina Moon.

Some sad news that Pauline Wilson (Gallowtree) died peacefully last Monday; she had been in a nursing home receiving palliative care for the past few weeks. Although still a committee member of the North of England Keeshond Club and keeping her interest in the breed up until recently; Pauline never had chance to recover from the stroke she had just before lockdown happened, which robbed her of the ability to talk. A full obit will appear in the next issue of Walkee Talkees.
Her funeral will take place in Rotherham on Monday 26th June at 2.00pm, further details to follow. The family have requested that any donations are made to either Keeshond Health or Welfare. If anyone wishes to donate, please do a bank transfer to the NoEKC’s main account stating where you want it to go (Health or Welfare) and I will get the money transfered.

Anji Marfleet