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Some Winner shows behind

A week ago two winner shows were organized in Helsinki and I am extremely happy to tell you that my boy Ricky got his 18th CAC and finished his Finnish Champion title the other day!! Nightdream dogs had a super weekend aswell, under you can find some results!

Saturday 8.12, Helsinki Winner
judge: Mark Cocozza, UK

Ricky, BM-4 with resCC
Nightdream Gabriella Ferri “Pirre” HEJunW-12

Nightdream Isidore Ducasse “Lettu” BOS & HEW-12
Nightdream Rhyme De Moines “Täplä” BOB-vet & HEVetW-12

FinJW-12 HeJunW-12 Nightdream Gabriella Ferri age 10 months

Sunday 9.12, Finnish Winner

judge: Juhan Juslin

Ricky BM3 with res-cacib and CC -> Finnish Champion

Nightdream Gabriella Ferri “Pirre" Finnish Junior Winner 2012!

FI CH BaltW-12 FinJW-11 Nightdream Ricky Martin

 

Week after that me and Pirjo travelled with petits and one grand to Stockholm for Swedish Winner. Judge for both breeds Paula Rekiranta

Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen Oona, Minskuhoffs Grand Olivienne did well, she won Best Bitch with CACIB and got a new title Swedish Winner 2012.

Ricky was 3rd Best Male with res cacib

Pörrö "Nightdream Jennifer Lopez" 3rd Best Female

Relaxing

Some pictures of Ricky taken on our balkony today:

By the way some extremely interesting things are going to happen in the near future! Stay tuned to read more!! :)

Shows on homeground and abroad!

Very late updates, but better now than never!

SWEDEN HÖGBO INT SHOWS

Two weeks ago me and my friend Salla travelled to Högbo international dogshow in Sweden. I had with me Ricky and his mum Lettu (Nightdream Issidore Ducasse), Salla had two schipperkes.

Ricky won Best of Breed with CACIB on saturday and Lettu was BB-2 with res-cacib. The breed judge was mr Bjarne Sörensen from Norway. We didn't stay for the finals while it was raining and everything we had was wet and muddy. 

On sunday Ricky was EXC/1 CQ BM-3 and Lettu EXC/1 CQ BB-2 res-cacib. Judge Elena Kruus, Estonia. The Schipperkes did also super, Linus (Coros Linus) acchieved Swedish and Internation Champion titles and Sissi (Coros Luna) Swedish Championship.

Monday was spent in Stockholm in a super sunny weather. Perfect trip despite the rain and mud in Högbo!

Lettu

Lettu

Son & Mother

Tourists in Stockholm

PORVOO all breeds show 
Judge: mr. Jens Myrman, Sweden

Ricky Best of Breed with CC! He was also picked among the 6 best in the group
Rickys sister "Pörrö" (Nightdream Jennifer Lopez) BOS and CC!

So proud of these two youngsters!

Basset Specialty and one INT show

25.8. Basset Specialty

judge: Jette Vind Ramvad

Mirepoix La Vraie Affaire "Tate" Best of Breed & BIS-3
Ricky, EXC/1 CQ BM-3 with CC. Also awarded the prize of being the best male born in Finland.
Täplä, Best Female, BOB-veteran and BEST IN SHOW VETERAN!
Nightdream Gabriella Ferri "Pirre", BOB-puppy and BIS-3 puppy.
Nightdream Isidore Ducasse "Lettu", BB-2

BOB & BIS-1 progeny Mirepoixs Sid Vicious "Sid", which included Ricky and his 3 sisters
BOB & BIS-4 breeder kennel Nightdream

My Madde participated with Julia in dog & child competition, which they won :)

A very nice day in super company!

 

Julia&Madde

26.8. Tervakoski INT show
Vicky Schneider, Australia 

Ricky, CC CACIB and BEST OF BREED
Tate, BM-2 res-CACIB
Rickys sister BOS with CC and CACIB

BOB & BOS Nightdream Jennifer Lopez

All photos by Sirpa Koivulaakso

Baltic winner and two other shows in Estonia.

We spend 3 days in Tallinn with some petits and "Oona" the Grand.

Friday 17.8. Group show for groups 6 and 7

judge: Aleksandras Kulesa, Lithuania

• Ricky, CC and BOS

• Täplä (Nightdream Rhyme De Moines), BB-2 BOB-veteran and BIS-2 veteran 

•  Oona won Best Of Breed out of 13 grands

Just for fun I entered son and grand mum to brace competition. Ricky & Täplä was BOB-brace and finally, after a bit of practice BIS-2 brace. 

Oona BOB and BOS was her father, Picture: Maria Aaltovirta

Oona, Photo: Maria Aaltovirta

Täplä BIS-2 veteran! Photo: Maria Aaltovirta

Saturday 18.8. BALTIC WINNER 2012

judge: George Schogol

• Ricky did great, he won CACIB, BALTIW WINNER 2012 title, BEST OF BREED and BIG-3!
• Tate BM-2 and res-cacib
• Lettu (Nightdream Issidore Ducasse) EXC/1, BB-2 with CACIB -> BALTIC WINNER 2012!
• Täplä BB-4, BOB-veteran which means she is now also BALTIC VETERAN WINNER 2012! Täplä got also her 3rd Estonian veteran CC, this mean that she is now also Estonian Veteran Champion. 

Photo: Maria Aaltovirta

BOB & BOS Marshmellow vanTum-tums Vriendjes, photo Maria Aaltovirta

Tate on the move, picture by Anastasia Krylova

 Sunday 19.8. Group show for group 6

• Ricky Best of Breed
• Täplä BB-4 BOB-vet and BIS-4 veteran

Some weeks ago in Forssa INT show

Madde was borrowed by Hilde Fredriksson to junior handler competition. They did very well together and Madde was happy to be in ring again after one year. They ended up winning the whole junior handler competition. Well Done! Hilde is a very talented young handler!

© Sonja Kaurola

© Hilde

Mikkeli and Pori INT show

28.7. MIKKELI
judge, Dick Rutten

I showed Grand Basset Griffon Vendeen Minskuhoff's Grand Olivienne "Oona" in the ring, she was BOS.


29.7. PORI INT
judge, Bo Skalin

Ricky, BOB CC CACIB and Group 4th!
Lettu, BOS
Tate, BM-2

Also GBGV "Oona" was in the ring, again BOS

Photo Sirpa Koivulaakso

Oona in Mikkeli, Photo by Jari Kunnari

22.7. Mäntsälä all breeds show

Beautiful weather, excellent show place and super results!

breed and group judge: Jari Fors

Ricky won BOB CC and GROUP 1st!
Tate, BM-2
Lettu, BOS

I also showed 2 year old "Oona" MINSKUHOFF'S GRAND OLIVIENNE, she was BOS.

Mum and Son

 

BOB MINSKUHOFF'S GRAND OLIVIER and BOS MINSKUHOFF'S GRAND OLIVIENNE

 

Photos by Jari & Eija Kunnari

8.7. Karjaa INT

Judge: Harry Tast

Ricky BM-2 CC and res-cacib
Tate BOB CACIB and 2nd in Group!
Lettu BOS

All photos taken by Jari Kunnari

Helsinki and Kotka INT shows

17.6.2012, Kotka INT
judge: Jean-Jacques Dupas, France

Ricky won CAC, CACIB and BOB

16.6.2012, Helsinki INT
judge: Salvatore Tripoli

Tate: CACIB and BOS
Ricky: BM-2, CAC and res-cacib

Ricky in pictures 20 months

More shows

3.6. Mänttä-Vilppula, all breeds
breed and group judge: Aila Lehmussaari
Ricky: BOB, CC and BIG-2!
Tate: BM-2
Lettu: BOS

Tallinn, Estonia (Estonian Winner 2012)

The plan was to be one day in Tallinn, leave at 8am with ferry from Helsinki and return at 10pm in the evening. Our show ring was calculated to start at 13:13 so we thought we had lots of time to get to the show ground. Our one day in Tallinn ended up to be more stressful than I and my friend Salla could have thought. Because of the bad weather our morning ferry was cancelled and we were transferred to a ferry leaving at 10am. One hour later that ferry was also cancelled which ended up in a situation where we had to book the ticket from and other company. We arrived 12.45 to Tallinn with the ferry, which also was late. We had so much luck with us, the 4 petits made it to the ring. With wonderful results!!

Breed judge: Jose Homem De Mello, Portugal
Group judge: Aase Jakobsen
Best in show veteran: Andras Polgar

Tate: Best of Breed, CC, CACIB and Estonian Winner 2012. Later also BIG-3!
Ricky: BM-3
Lettu (N. Isidore Ducasse): BOS, CC, CACIB and Estonian Winner 2012
Täplä: BB-2, Estonian Veteran Winner 2012 and BIS-3 Veteran!

 

BIS-3 Veteran

 

Tate Group 3rd, Photo by Pia Saares

Thank you for the photos!

Järvenpää 27.5.
judge: Juha Putkonen, FI

Ricky: Best of Breed and CC