Winter show season has started

Nordic Winner was a great family trip

Last weekend was maybe one of the last chances to take all three father, mother and their daughter to the Nordic Winner show. The success in the show was made by our Zara, Chelines One-And-Only. This Multi Champion veteran was shown after one year's break and she took the ring as strong as ever with NORDVW 2011 title. It is hard to guess her age when you see all that energy. Zara really is an unbelievable and unforgettable show dog. Surprising was that she was placed only BB3, which has not happened very often. But the most important thing this time was just to show her and Mikko and Zara had at least as much fun as in the old days. Zara also placed herself in the top eight in the BIS veteran competition. Zara's was the only success for the day. Judge Hans Lehtinen (who also took the BIS veteran) decided that our Fenway and Ziri were not prepared for the show. And he meant their coats. Both got very good critics. Even worse day was to one of the best pepper and salt miniature schnauzers in Sweden this year: a green ribbon was something else than expected. We have to say that the message was clear.

This year we decided to show only our juniors in Helsinki. We had three pepper and salts in the ring on Saturday. Lucky was the first in the ring. He really surprised us by winning the Junior class and taking the Helsinki Junior Winner 2011 Title. Heidi did excellent job with Honey placing the little girl in Junior class 4th. Ziri remained unplaced with Excellent judgment. So three Imbrez dogs, all with Excellents and one Junior title.

On Finnish Winner show on Sunday we had juniors in two colours. Heidi handled Hani to very good critics with no placement and Niina handled Ziri to Excellent also without BB-placement. Annamaria handled black and silver junior Ansa also to Excellent. This time it was almost refreshing not to take 4th best female place, but indeed a placement would have been nice.

We just have to say it is incredible to have these great friends around us. Thank you Annamaria, Heidi and Elina. You made this year's Helsinki miracle possible.

Two days and two shows. This time we had Imbrez dogs in the ring in three colours. Annamaria started by showing Rocky. This young man took his first steps in the show ring and did it very well. Annamaria guided him to very good judgement and the dude looked like a real man in the ring! Niina handled Oz to Best Male and to a CACIB, which we really have been looking for. Mikko handled Ziri to Junior Class first. Annamaria started the day with Rocky and finished it with black and silver Ansa, again with excellent style.

I think the biggest work of all was this time done by Annamaria. She ring-trained Rocky, took care of all the preparing work for two dogs and handled them so well in their first big shows. That was huge. Thank you!