EAST ANGLIAN COLLIE ASSOCIATION
06/08/2017
ROUGH COLLIE DOGS

I would like to thank the committee for allowing me the honour of judging Rough Collie Dogs at their Diamond Anniversary Championship Show. I had the pleasure of being directly involved with the club from 1980 to 2008.  Firstly as a Committee member then for many years as the secretary.

These days entries are vastly down on the good old- days when a club Ch show would have Collies in the 300’s. However East Anglia is a club that is still going forward. Today they had a total entry of 140 dogs making an overall entry of 197 this must be apart from Crufts one of the largest entries this year.

Just a couple of points I would like to make: Tricolour has always been my favourite  colour, however It’s not enough to be just black. Tri’s also must have the true sweet collie expression which comes mainly from the eye, this I’m sorry to say is missing from many of today’s tri's.

Also whenever you hear all-rounders talking about Roughs all they seem to have to say is about the poor movement. Well they are WRONG if my entry today is anything to go by, because I can honestly say that there was not one bad mover. ( I have always been a stickler for movement so I don’t say this for the sake of it.)

VETERAN DOG (5)
Tremendous class of quality dogs
1st Jackson’s   SASSARI MADE IN SUFFOLK   Loved this shaded sable reminding me of my old Ch dog, unfortunately a rare colour these days, all male, super make and shape lovely head and eye, a little reluctant with his ears today, moved well.
2nd Wray’s   TAKHISIS HIGH VOLTAGE     B/M   excellent colour, nice head and eye, used his ears well, really good movement
3rd Scott’s   ANIESH PORTAIT IN BLUE  

              
MINOR PUPPY DOG: (4)
All were s/w and quite a mixture in type
1st Benton’s   BROOKLYNSON EL DORADO   Upstanding dog, good conformation, will need more time to mature into his frame, nice length of head sweet eye, could have moved better but heard later that he had cut his pad.
2nd Hull’s   LIZMARK GOLD SOVEREIGN Real baby with a nice head, used his ears well, moved ok.
3rd Bartram’s   AMBARTR KING OF THE RING

PUPPY DOG: (7)
1st Humphrey’s   SHASAM SIGN OF THE TIMES   Wow what a future this 10month old s/w boy has. Super showman, lovely head with sweet eye and expression, excellent shape, good bone, good ears, superb movement, shown and presented to perfection. (Nearly all the dogs here today had a 3 generation pedigree printed in the catalogue)
Looking at his, he is beautifully line bred and will surely be of great interest to breeder’s . BEST PUPPY IN SHOW & RESERVE CC
2nd Cronk’s           CHELBORN STORY TELLER   11 month old tri Unlucky today to come up against a puppy in top form. Lovely eye, excellent shape, moving well, just lost out but I’m sure he too has a great future.
3rd  Wray’s            TAKHISIS DREAM WEAVER

JUNIOR DOG: (4).
1st Lockyer’s       GATAJ BEAU OF SURPRISES   My comments about eyes certainly do NOT apply to this young Tri. He has a beautiful eye. He Is in superb condition his jet black coat just gleamed in the sunshine. Lovely shape, moved very well. Another one I will keep a close eye on.
 2nd White’s         MEJOLA DANGEROUS LIAISON   B/M lovely dark eye, good ears, really good blue colour, excellent shape moves really well as you would expect from his breeding, just starting to lose his coat
3rd Blake’s  CORYDON TRUMP THE LOT

NOVICE DOG: (5)
1st  Humphrey’s   SHASAM SIGN OF THE TIMES
 2nd  Wray’s      TAKHISIS DREAM WEAVER   S/W  just starting to lose his coat, nice eye and expression, moved well.
3rd Blake’s   CORYDON TRUMP THE LOT

GRADUATE DOG: (4)
1st  Page’s   LYNMEAD AMALIE BRING ME BACK JW  Very nice young dog, lovely head & eye, good shape, really good condition, moved very well, shown and handled excellently.
2nd Lister’s   JOTARS PLATINUM MOON AT NEWARP   nicely coloured B/M, judged him when he was a baby how well he has grown on, fitting his excellent frame, Super shape, shown in lovely condition, playful on the move today.
3rd White’s   MEJOLA FATE AND FORTUNE

POST GRADUATE DOG: (8)
1st Jones’s   ERJON EURASER   Tri nice head with a lovely eye & expression, good shape, super movement.
2nd Scott’s   ANIESH LEGEND IN BLACK   Tri a little smaller all over than the winner of this class, nicely placed eye good shape moved well.
3rd Maxwell & Wallis’s   TRENLEY TAVANAGH AT HAMISKS

MID LIMIT DOG: (3)
1st   Maxwell & Wallis’s   TRENLEY TATENAM AT HAMISKS   S/W excellent shape shown in full fitting coat, nice head  eye & expression another good mover.
2nd   Page’s   LYNMEAD AMALIE LET ME GO   Nice S/W dog found his head a little wide in skull,
Nice eye, shows well and again a good mover.

LIMIT DOG: (6)
1st    Ross’s      AMBERWISH FRANKIE FREDERIX   Shaded sable in lovely condition, Excellent shape , nice head with lovely eye & expression, moved very well.
2nd  Wray’s      TAKHISIS TRICK OR TREAT   Another dog in lovely condition. Tri gleaming black coat, nice eye & expression, moved well.
3rd  Bartram’s     AQUALITA ONE LOVE

OPEN DOG: (13)
A class full of quality dogs 
1st    Smedley’s    CH ATENDUS ERASURE   This is what I was looking for a dog that was all male but had the desired sweet collie eye, giving him a dreamy expression. His S/W coat fitted him perfectly no fluff just long straight hair.  Used his ears well, he just floated around the ring. In the challenges he just seemed to get even better. He must have thought I’ve done this before now I need a little bit extra. Pleased to award him the CC I think this is his sixth.
2nd   Quince’s        KARAFAYE BLACK QUILLIAN   A cracking Tri absolutely super shape presented in prime condition, Shown to perfection, Lovely head pattern not quite the sweetness of eye of the winner, Movement was superb, hope he does not have to wait too long to get his title.
3rd       Geddes’s       CH INGLEDENE  SPIRITS ARISE

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