The Cape Terrier Club

This year, the show was held at the Brackenfell Sports Club – a new venue for our club and one that will definitely be up for consideration in the future. The weather was unbelievably hot in the morning but luckily started to cool down slightly once the wind came up and showing was not too uncomfortable for the dogs or exhibitors.

We had a decent entry of 97 dogs with more than a third of the exhibitors making the journey from outside the Western Cape – a big thank you to all of you for making the effort and supporting the Cape Spring Show Fortnight! Best in Show went to the Scottish Terrier that has taken the Cape by storm, Ch Gladwen Black Magic, bred by the late Mrs Gwen Steyn and owned by Mr George Loock from Pretoria, with the Reserve being awarded to the Port Elizabeth Norfolk Terrier, Ch Shamanda Last of a Legend, owned and bred by Miss Amanda Young.

For the first time, we ran a Members’ Challenge after the Best in Show and had a very nice entry of twelve dogs including Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Airedale, Irish, Scottish and West Highland White Terriers. The challenge was won by a Staffie, with a Westie second and a Scottie third, each of which won a nice cash prize.

Lindsay Frith
SHOW SECRETARY

Our annual championship show went very well. Thank you to our sponsors Hill’s Pet Nutrition and to everyone who contributed to the event. A full report will be posted in the next few days. Meantime, please visit our Gallery to see some of the photographs taken on Friday. More to follow shortly…

Regards
Joyce

The Stanford Charity Dog Show went fantastically on Saturday! We had 60 dogs enter – each a number of classes. Despite the gloomy looking weather, the show went on. Much fun was had by all. Thank you to everyone who entered! We have already been asked to hold this event again next year!

If you would like to see the photographs taken, please go to our Gallery. If you would like to have any of these photos emailed to you in ‘print quality’ please contact Lindsay Frith.

This event will be held at the SPORTS CLUB HOUSE, GROOTE SCHUUR HIGH SCHOOL, OFF KEURBOOM ROAD, NEWLANDS
ENTRY: R20 PER PERSON

This seminar will be of interest to all terrier judges, aspirant judges, and professional groomers. For further details, please contact Alwine Pretorius: Tel 021 933 2289

The entrance fee is R20 per person and lights snacks will be on offer and beer, wine and cooldrinks will be on sale.

RSVP to joyce (at) goldschmidt.co.za if you are planning to attend!

The Cape Terrier Club is pleased to be assisting Lindsay and Royd Frith with the running of a charity dog show due to be held in Stanford (near Hermanus) on 6 October 2007 on the Village Green – to mark the 100th anniversary of the village of Stanford. Judging starts at 10:00 and entries on the day start at 08:30. There will be a Farmers Market in one corner where produce, food and other amazing goodies will be on sale. If you feel like taking a drive out into the country, please be sure to come and spend the day on the village green: buy lunch, buy raffle tickets and hope to win one of the wonderful prizes on offer, and support the Stanford Animal Welfare Society. For further information, please contact Lindsay on 028 341 0896.

The Cape Terrier Club will be hosting a Grooming and Presentation Seminar on 23 October at Groote Schuur High School, Vredenhof Street, Newlands. The seminar will be of interest to judges, aspirant judges, professional groomers of show dogs and owners of show dogs. Please diarise this date and watch this space for more information.

Kind regards
Joyce

Your committee is hard at work on the final details of the Cape Terrier Club Annual Championship Show which is due to be held at Brackenfell Cricket Club on Friday 26 October 2007. Please visit our events page to download a copy of the show schedule.

Regards
Joyce

Hello Everyone,

If you would like to download a PDF copy of the July 2007 edition of Terrier Times, click on the link below, and save the file to your desktop. You can then either read it on your computer, or you can print out a copy.

Terrier Times – Winter Edition Jul 2007.pdf

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Kind Regards
Joyce

The day dawned bright, chilly but fine and sunny so we were blessed with the weather! Our open show venue proved excellent – with clean, well-mown surfaces and access to very nice clubhouse and cloakrooms.

Entries came in steadily and we received a respectable total of 42 entrants. Particularly gratifying was seeing the few “first-time” exhibitors – puppies and owners alike – who came along and tried their hand at this wonderful sport. One of these First Timers went on to triumph as the Best Short-Legged Terrier in Show and walked off with the Ruth Howison Trophy for this achievement – not a bad start to a new show career!

Our judge, Mrs Stephanette du Toit, did a thoroughly professional job for us and gave Best in Show to the young Bullie bitch, Anmor Lunar Pearl of Sunraige owned by Juan Slabbert. A Staffie puppy bitch owned and bred by Jumarie Knoetzen, Jumarcha Lady Luca, came second, with Ms Cynthia Barnett’s junior Airedale bitch, Albenor Casino Girl in third place. Fourth position went to the young Scottie dog, Angus, owned and shown for the first time by Rudolph du Plessis. Well done to one and all!

Excellent catering provided by the Girl Guides was available and a most pleasant day was shared by all who attended.

Note: If you would like to view the show results, right click on the link below, select “Save Target As”, then save it to your desktop.

Cape Terrier Club 2007 Open Show Results PDF

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Royd and I hope to see you ringside once again in October at our Championship Show!

Kind regards
LINDSAY FRITH
SHOW SECRETARY

Hello Everyone,

I hope you will all agree that the show on Sunday 6 May was wonderful: we had a good entry, the weather was kind to us, the catering was fantastic – and there were no dramas! Many thanks to everyone who exhibited and all those who came to support us.

Our Chairlady returned from her trip to South America in time to attend the show, and our Show Manager returned from his Caribbean cruise (it may be more accurate to call it a booze cruise!) safely and in time to be at the show. More about their trips in the newsletter!

Lindsay is busy tying up all the loose ends and will write a Show Report for us in a day or so.

Many thanks to our two photographers, Sue Impey and Alwine Pretorius. They worked tirelessly to take some lovely shots of everyone in action. I hope you enjoy viewing the pictures in our photo gallery.

If anyone has an article to submit, an advert, a story or a photo they wish to publish in the June newsletter, please send it to me as soon as you can!

Kind Regards
Joyce Goldschmidt
Honorary Secretary/Editor
E-mail: joyce (at) goldschmidt.co.za (written in a strange way to escape spam!)