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WOW oh WOW – what a weekend – 25 championship points – 5 majors – new champion! How much better can it get!

OK – so the low down
Bailey (Long Hair Dachshund) went Winners/Best of Winners on Thur for a 4 pt major, Fri and Sat back to back reserve wins, then on Sun Winners/Best of Winners/Best of Opposite Sex (over special) for a 5 pt major! This nine month old girl is now at 13 pts with both of her majors! YIPPEE!!!

Ciara (Greater Swiss Mountain Dog) went Winners/Best of Winners on Thur for a 3 pt major and then finished her championship on Sat going Winners for another major! This young lady came a long way with me, she got spooked of the ring with her mom and after spending time in what we affectionally called Rainbow Bootcamp, she came around and showed like a dream and is our 14th NEW CHAMPION for 2010!!!!

Cosmo (Siberian Husky) went Winners on Sunday with his Junior Hanlder Laur’en showing him and he earned a 4 pt major – so now he is at 9 points with one major! Way to go Ren

Frodo (Cardigan) oh poor Frodo – this young man is fighting becoming a show dog with all his might – what he doesn’t know is his mom is more stubborn than he is! Anyways, Frodo went Winners on Thur for 1 pt, Reserve Winners on Fri, Winners/Best of Winners for 2 pts, and then on Sunday Winners/Best of Breed/Best of Winners on another point! Good job young man!

Jose (Boxer) was shown by me for the first 3 days but it took being shown by his mom to go Winner/Best of Breed for a point! Way to go Jeannie!

In Dobe – Karlee with Zeigen got 1 reserve win and me with Johann got 1 reserve win.

In Juniors – Laur’en showed Ziggy to 3 fourth place wins (if I am correct) and then she showed Cosmo on Sunday and there she earned a 2nd place.

I think that’s it for our wins – it was a faboulous show! Way to go team rainbow!!!

Gigi did it once again! At the Enid Dog Shows, Gigi (Dogue De Bordeaux) earned her second group placement. Last year Gigi got the first group placement for a female Bordeaux and now is one of only 3 Bordeaux with 2 or more placements. It was an honor to be at the other end of the least.

I am currently on the road for 7 straight weeks and am falling behind on the blog and my website, bad handler I know.

In Enid, besided Gigi’s win – I handled Keppie (Border Collie) to back to back Best of Breeds. Ruby (Brittany) earned her 14th pt – one more to become a champion. Bailey (Long Hair Dachshund) earned her 2nd point and also another Best of Variety win. Laur’en showed Cosmo to another point and Best of Breed.

The next weekend we went down to Lawton, OK. Here Bailey (Long Hair Dachshund) earned 2 more points. Jessica guided Katcher (German Shepherd Dog) to her first point an a Best of Breed. Lauren Moore, another Junior that travels with us earned a Best Junior Handler.

Last weekend I went down to Austin TX. Here Katie (Curly Coated Retreiver) and Emma (Kerry Blue Terrier) both earned their first point and both earned Best of Breed as well. And King (Curly Coated Retreiver) earned his 14th point and another Best of Breed.

We have been getting a lot of reserve wins – all of those are being published on our web site show results. I was just trying to keep the babbling down here.

Headed to Missouri for the next two weekends, then back to Oklahoma and then down again to Texas. More brags to come!

I am so proud of Jessica Riffe and her Chinese Crested Ayden! Jessica showed up at Canine Sports Academy last year, wanting to work a Chinese Crested puppy in obedience, agility, and wanted to see what conformation was all about. Who would have ever thought that this young lady would now have a multiple Best of Breed winning, Champion and now Rally Novice title toy dog in less than a year!!!! Not only did Ayden earn his Rally Novice title he did it in style earning 3 placements along with his 3 qualifying score.

Ayden earned his Rally title at the Hot Springs, Arkansas show. He also earned another Best of Breed. We had a small string of dogs and Bailey (Long Hair Dachshund) brought home 2 Reserve Wins.

Our new puppy Fonzi attended this show with us and on my Facebook account, there is a cute photo album of the shows from his standpoint.

We stayed with my longtime friend Trudy for this show and we had fun helping her. She had a fabulous show earning a group 2 on her Curly Coated Retreiver “Bramble” and a group 3 on her Giant Schnauzer “Pablo”. She also finish her Plott Hound “Bobby” Championship.

I have the upcoming weekend off and then am on the road for 3 weekends – stay tuned!

CONGRATULATIONS to Larry and Narda Smith on Milo (Vizsla) on finishing his AKC championship at the Salina, KS dog shows!
Milo wasn’t our only winner at the Salina shows – Trouble (Rhodesian Ridgeback) earned her second major in style going Winner’s Bitch then onto Best of Breed over 2 specials. She got a 4 point major with this win! Her sister Astra took Reserve to her on this day.
The Brittany ring was super nice to us with Ranger earning both of his major with his mom Jodie handling him! He also went Best of Breed both days he was winners dog. I got to show him in group on the second day and WE MADE THE CUT! I hear he look fantastic in the group! I am so proud of Jodie for guiding him in the ring to his majors! Ruby also went Winner’s Bitch one day and reserve the next two days.
Ayden (Chinese Crested) pulled off one Best of Opposite Sex. Bailey (Long Hair Dachshund) got one Reserve Winners and Bailey (Labrador Retreiver) picked up another Reserve Winners as well.

We had a blast at the Salina shows and I am sorry I didn’t report the results as fast as this. We hung out with all of our friends, had dinner parties, it was such a fun show. I also must say CONGRATS to Barbara Perry on her group1 with her German Shorthair Pointer Billy. It was great watching her win!

BIG HUGE CONGRATS to the Suchan family from Houston on “King” Carapciu Phillips GB Kingston, a Curly Coated Retreiver on earning a Group 4 at the Elk City dog shows! King only needs 2 more points to become and AKC champion. He and his house sister “Katie” came up all the way from Houston, TX to compete in this show as we knew there would be another Curly Coated Retreiver competing. The trip paid off as King got closer to his championship and earning his first group placement along the way! What a wonderful win!

Elk City was super busy for me as i was running from ring to ring showing 11 dogs each day. I am proud to say that I only missed one dog. I could not have done it without my assistants – Jessica Riffe, Laur’en Jordan, and Jennifer Duffy! They helped get my dogs groomed, stood at the rings with the dogs, passed dogs to me, and helped with the over all care of the dogs at the show. It was awesome teamwork from some awesome ladies!

King wasn’t our only big winner for the weekend. I will only list the dogs first names to save time. Our show results page on my web site has the dogs complete names:
Trouble (Rhodesian Ridgeback) earned 2 winners for 2 championship points

Joes (Boxer) earned 2 Winners and 2 championship points, plus he was awared Best of Breed one day

Bailey (Long Hair Dachshund) went Reserve Winners and then Winners/Best of Breed earning her first championship point

Hummer (Great Dane) went Winners earning his first championship point

Jennifer Duffy showed her Moet (Boston Terrier) to Winner’s/Best of Opposite Sex for 1 championship point

Jessica Riffe showed Ayden (Chinese Crested) to 2 Best of Opposite Sex’s

Reserve wins went to Stormy (Golden Retreiver) and Riley (Lab)

I also want to congratulate Lauren Moore on winning her two Junior Showmanship classes – qualifying her to enter the Westminster Dog Show and also for earning Best Junior Handler on Saturday! She also showed her Lab to Best of Breed on Sunday! Lauren also showed her new Boxer to Winner’s for a point. Lauren and her mom Tonya are part of our traveling group and it’s always wonderful watching them win!

Also Congrats to Bruce and Joanne Barnes for finishing Windy (Siberian Husky). Windy is the sister to our Cosmo! If I am correct, this is the 2nd champion of the litter. We hope to start bringing Cosmo out this fall. He’s been sitting at home growing up.

And, Stephanine Wetzel and Dawn Livesay came all the way from Missouri – Stephanine guided Diva (Siberian Husky) to Winner’s for 1 point. Dawn in one of our shutterbugs who takes some of our wonderful photos from the shows!

Remember – you can see more of the photos on my facebook page, I post them every week after the show. I also try to update my web site but it’s so fast to do facebook!!!

I am home for a weekend. I was on the road for 4 weekends. It is nice to have some down time but I am gearing up for the Salina, KS shows next weekend! Then I am the photographer for the 4 days of Bulldog specialties in Oklahoma and am headed to Hot Springs, AR the week after.

More Later!

Kansas City dog shows brought us another NEW CHAMPION for Rainbow Showdogs! “Dash” aka Wolfriver Just For Me En Vogue (Siberian Husky) finished his championship winnng a 4 point major!!! Thank you to Stephanie and Dawn for allowing me to help guide Dash to half of his necessary wins to his AKC championship. Also at these shows – FC Cynara’s Astral Phenomenon SC “Astra” (Rhodesian Ridgeback) went undefeated in the bitch competition and picked up 3 more points. She is now on the elusive “major” hunt. Other big news was that CH Escada’s Fiery One “Ayden” (Chinese Crested) earned a Best of Breed over the #2 Chinese Crested in the country! And “Ayden” also earned his first 2 rally novice legs – with 2 4th place awards! We are all so proud of Ayden and his mom Jessica! And, in our traveling group – Jennifer earned another point on “Moet” (Boston Terrier)!

I think this picture says it all! Memphis (Siberian) brought home the biggest win for the Rainbow Gang at the Little Rock dog shows. This was my first weekend with Memphis to start her specials career. She won Best of Breed both days and on Saturday brought home her first group placement. Memphis is the 3rd of the Angelfire Siberians that have been awarded group 2’s this year!!!! A huge accomplishment if I do say so myself.

Memphis wasn’t the only winner of the weekend. Jennifer Duffy brought her mother/daughter combo of Boston Terriers and earned Winner’s Bitch both days with Moet for her first two points. Jennifer is showing Moet in Bred By Exhibitor and we are really proud of these wins! Lilly, Moet’s mom competed in Best of Breed and was awarded Best of Opposite Sex both days.

We had two of our dogs earned Reserve Winner’s both days – Jose (Boxer) and Trouble (Rhodesian Ridgeback) Jose has been with me for the past two weeks for training and this was my first weekend to show him. Trouble has been sitting at home maturing and if just starting the fall show circuit, we are looking towards the fall shows with them.

Ayden (Chinese Crested) also won Best of Breed one day of the shows. He started playing games with his mom and didn’t show worth a hoot on the first day – he deserved to lose. He started to play games with her on Sunday, so i took him in the ring and guided him to Best of Breed. Jennifer showed him in groups to work him through his issues and did a good job at that.

Next weekend is Topeka, Kansas – will be showing my cardigans! YIPEE!