Chelmsford & District Canine Society

Chelmsford & District Canine Society - Open Show

Date: 5th May 2025

Venue: Brook Farm Training Centre, Stapleford Abbots, Essex.

Judge: Kathleen E Burnell (Fieldbank)

I would like to thank the Club for the invitation to judge their Pastoral breeds and the group. I received a warm welcome and the friendly atmosphere continued throughout the day; we even had the VE Day flying display team unexpectedly honour us with their presence low flying in formation during the afternoon directly above the venue! Thanks also goes to my ring steward Marion for her efficient organising skills throughout the day.

I previously judged for this Society in December 1988 forging my way through a snowstorm from the East Midlands to judge their open show, I judged 39 Rough Collies and 45 Border Collies. How times/entries have changed.

I was very pleased with the overall entry today and thank the exhibitors for both supporting the club and giving me the opportunity to assess their dogs. I found some quality exhibits and thank the competitors for accepting my decision making. I was very pleased to see my group winning Beardie POTTERDALE ROYAL SAPPHIRE OF ATHERLEIGH also take Best In Show.

PASTORAL GROUP

Group 1 POTTERDALE ROYAL SAPPHIRE OF ATHERLEIGH 

Group 2 CH TANELLIS BLOOMING PRIMROSE

Group 3 MOHNESEE’S DREAM DATE OF LIZMARK

Group 4 CH BROOKLYNSON JANE RUSSELL OF OAKESTELLE

PASTORAL PUPPY GROUP

Group 1 Benton & Belmans, Miss MK & Ms E BLAMORDEN DOUBLE OR QUITS OF OAKESTELLE Smooth Collie. Maturing well for her 11mths. Lovely clean lines on this blue merle. I found her sound throughout with a firm back, well sprung ribs and good depth to the chest. Good length of body, nicely angled over the rear and well let down hocks with good tail set. Well-proportioned correct wedge shaped head and medium sizes almond eyes. Movement was very solid, smooth and light footed. I feel sure she has a promising future ahead of her in the ring.

Group 2 CHELSASA PRIVATE EYE ON SCOTESHAM

Group 3 OAKCROFT GRACEFUL STAR OVER SAVENDIE

Group 4 JEZEBI JEZ

A.V.N.S.C. PASTORAL

Puppy 5/1abs

1st Cummins, JEZEBI JEZ, G.S.D. 8mths. Long-coated bitch, full of energy and character. A well balanced clean cut skull with dark eyes and correct bite. Well angulated over the forequarters and rear with good bone. Good reach on the move. Sound construction just needs to mature and firm up.

2nd King & Jennings, ORIGINAL BEAUTY LADY ORLEANSNOW (IMP CZE) Samoyed 7mths. Walked in the ring and stood to perfection. Pleasing head with a broad flat skull and well shaped eyes. A balanced body, firm for her age, just looking a little square at the moment. Well set tail and sound movement.

3rd Dodd’s, TANELLIS DARE TO LOVE, Swedish Vallhund B 7mths

Special Yearling 2/0abs

1st Mills’s KERJALEE ALL ABOUT ME, O.E.S. 21mths. A good square, natural outline on this bitch showing typical balance. A pleasing head pattern with correct eye set and colour. Good length of neck, well laid shoulders, good spring of ribs. Hocks set low with tight feet. Typical sound movement dropping her head a little with the pace. A little worried in the ring today but this did not distract from her obvious qualities. Reserve Best A.V.N.S.C.

2nd Sandells’s, AUSTMANS IN MY ELEMENT AT SHAWMUT, Australian Cattle Dog, 15mths. I would like to have seen this bitch with more bone and body. A steady mover who did not show me a free and easy gait.

Post Graduate 3/0abs

1st Kings’s ALTUSSI ALL THAT RAZZMATAZZ FOR GHOSTEYE, Australian Shepherd. A correct size, well presented bitch with a good head, correctly set almond shaped eyes, moderate stop and good pigmentation with a moderate length of neck. Movement was free and easy but I would prefer tighter shoulders. Rear action ok.

2nd Chapmans’s KONATIAN BAGGY TROUSERS, G.S.D. A good size dog with plenty of bone and correct body proportions. A clean cut balanced head of good width with a strong muzzle and full dentition. Good length of neck and well laid shoulders, good reach in front movement, moving away he appeared a little loose about the hocks. Tail well set and of good length.

3rd Birks’s, PAVOSKAS GALENA. Finnish Laphund.

Open 3/0abs

1st Dodds’s CH TANELLIS BLOOMING PRIMROSE, Swedish Vallhund, 7yrs. A very neat bitch with a shape and soundness that caught my eye as she entered the ring. A clean-cut head of good length with a well-defined stop, oval, dark eye and strong underjaw. Front assembly correct with upper arm lying close to ribs A sound well-muscled body of good length, rear, hindquarters well angulated with low hocks. Very sound, free, movement both in profile, fore and aft. Happy to award him Best A.V.N.S.C.

2nd Aylott’s HOLLY PIPPIN AT BARWAL, Welsh Corgi (Pembroke) 6yrs. A happy bitch with a typical foxy head appearance and shape with correct bite. Well laid shoulders and sound rear. Moved smoothly round the ring showing reach and drive. I would have liked to see more bone and substance overall.

3rd Aylotts’s BARWALL BADGER BOY (NBT)

BEARDED COLLIES

Puppy 3/0abs

1st Buswell’s CHELSASA PRIVATE EYE ON SCOTESHAM, 7mths, A well promising boy with a well-balanced developing head of correct proportions with good eye colour. Body of good length nicely angulated front and rear with a well-turned stifle. Sound movement won him the class. Best Puppy.

2nd Reynolds’s BEABEARDIES BLUE VELVET, D 10mths. Pleasing head, with good length of neck, and correct eye shape. Good size, moved well and with maturity his elbows should tighten to give a firmer front

.3rd Bevis’s BEABEARDIES BLUE MONDAY.

Post Graduate 3/0abs

1st O’Connell’s POTTERDALE ROYAL SAPPHIRE OF ATHERLEIGH. Having had some very excitable youngsters in the previous classes this team was the calm after the storm. My eye was caught by the presentation and overall balanced proportions. She has a feminine expression, a correct, neat head pattern in balance with her body. Good pigmentation, eye colour could be a shade darker nevertheless still matching her coat. A strong neck flowing into the withers giving a smooth level outline from head to the gently sloping croup. Front construction showed moderate angulation with a good depth of chest, hindquarters equally good. Well boned throughout and well bent stifles showing a correctly positioned stance. Correct tail set and coat texture. On the move I was not disappointed, supple, smooth and long reaching as the standard requires. This 2-year-old blue bitch was the star of the show today and I was pleased to award her Best of Breed, Group 1 Pastoral and watch her qualities shine through to be awarded Best in Show.

2nd Swaby’s KILTONDALE HOT FAVOURITE FOR MARSBY, A 2-year-old slate bitch with a good head and expression, well laid shoulders and correct body length, good angles to the rear with a gentle slope over the croup and firm well let down hocks.

3rd Bevis & Newson’s BEABEARDIES TREACLE TOFFEE AT BEARDORA.

Open 2/1abs

1st Bevis’s BEABEARDIES CINNAMON GIRL, 5yrs, A pretty, overall, well balanced bitch with a good head pattern, broad skull with moderate stop and strong muzzle. Well laid shoulders and tight elbows. Well ribbed and good rear angulation. Sound movement front and back keeping her topline going around the ring. Reserve BOB.

COLLIE (ROUGH)

Open 1/2abs

1st Bentons’s CH BROOKLYNSON JANE RUSSELL OF OAKESTELLE VW ShCEx. This veteran bitch is certainly carrying her 10 years well. Presented in super condition she has a very pleasing head pattern, clean wedge shape and flat skull with strong underjaw. A well-proportioned body and deep chest. A lovely firm topline which she kept on the move. Well angulated forequarters, equally good at the rear. On the move showed neatly tucked in elbows, parallel hocks and a smooth driving gait showing off her soundness. Stood alone in the breed classes but I am sure she could out moved many a younger dog. Best of Breed.

SHETLAND SHEEPDOG

Puppy 6/1abs

1st Mettan-Ure’s OAKCROFT GRACEFUL STAR OVER SAVENDIE, B 7mths, A refined head with a very sweet expression. On the move very much together for he age. Good front angulation with well laid shoulders, nice body length and a sound rear end. Good sound movement for her age. Best Puppy

2nd Winfield’s OAKCROFT AMAZING STAR B 7mths, litter sister to 1st Looking more mature in profile. Good eye colour, nice length of body. A little steep in upper arm and a tendency towards a hackney action on the move.

3rd Straw’s EVAD HALOWEEN TZARINA FROM DUKESON, B

Special Yearling 3/0abs

1st Winfield’s ISKANDER BOHEMIA CLASSIC FOR OAKCROFT (IMP CZE) 12mths. A sable dog with a masculine expression and good width and depth of skull. Nicely arched neck with enough length. Nice front with elbows neatly tucked and very good shoulder placement. Level topline and pleasing slope over the croup. Sound on the move fore and aft showing good extension on side profile. Reserve BOB.

2nd Mettan-Ure SAVENDIE MELEYS, B 9mths A tri with a neat feminine head, lovely expression, good eye shape and well balanced. Good length of neck and good bone coming through. Moved well but not able to compete with the extra maturity of the winner today.

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3rd Clough-Diprose’s AUBERSWELLSTAR TROUPER, D

Post Graduate 3/1abs

1st Hoare’s STANYDALE OCEAN WAVE, D 2yrs. A masculine blue merle with a nice head, correct eye shape and colour, well set ears. Well laid shoulders and rear angles. Moved soundly fore and aft with good reach and drive. Good bend of stifle with well let down hocks In excellent coat and condition. Nice type.

2nd Leaver & Wright’s FELTHORN GIRL FRIDAY AT GORDCHELLY, 2yrs. A feminine, tri bitch. A little fine in bone for me and out at the elbows. Moved ok and kept her topline.

Open 3/1abs

1st Hull’s MOHNESEE’S DREAM DATE OF LIZMARK JW, D 7yrs. A lovely masculine dog of good breed type with a very pleasing head and sweet expression. Well placed dark almond shaped eyes and well tipped ears. Nicely muscled, medium neck joining a nice angled front good body and topline and graceful sweep over loins to the gradually sloping croup. Well let down hocks. Shown in good coat and best mover in the breed today showing very good reach and drive. Best of Breed

2nd Clough’s EVAD LITE BREEZE, D 4yrs. Ok head pattern with good ear carriage though eyes could be more almond in shape, enough front angulation and kept a level topline on the move, tail short in length and set a little high. Steady on the move.

A.V. IMPORTED BREED PASTORAL

Open 1/0abs

1st Glading’s RABBITVILLE FAUVE AVEC MAVAYA (IMP DNK) Picardy Sheepdog. This was the first time I have had the pleasure of judging this breed. Which I have admired from the sidelines. She is a solid well-muscled, fawn bitch with a harsh topcoat and dense undercoat. A typical head of good proportions with convex forehead, defined stop, long eyebrows and a strong foreface, very natural high set ears. Strong neck Close tight fitting shoulders and good angulation reflected over the rear. Movement was sound fore and aft; side profile showed a level topline with moderate reach and drive giving the impression she could keep the pace over a long period if working. Best A.V.I.R.Pastoral.

A.V. PASTORAL

Puppy 8/1abs

1st OAKCROFT AMAZING STAR

2nd EVAD HALOWEEN TZARINA FROM DUKESON. B, 6 mths, very much a raw youngster with a sweet expression. Placed above her litter brother being just a little more together

3rd SAVENDIE MELEYS

Post Graduate 4/1abs

1st Clough-Diprose’s AUBERSWELLSTAR TROUPER, D. Shetland Sheepdog. Placed 3rd in his breed class. Pleased to see he was more settled and give a better account of himself overall in this class.

2nd Bevis & Newson’s BEABEARDIES TREACLE TOFFEE AT BEARDORA Bearded Collie. Placed 3rd in her breed class. Improved free movement showing better reach and drive.

3rd KONATIAN BAGGY TROUSERS

Open 4/0abs

1st RABBITVILLE FAUVE AVEC MAVAYA.

2nd Bevis’s BEABEARDIES CINNAMON GIRL.

3rd EVAD LITE BREEZE.

Veteran 4/3abs

1st CH BROOKLYNSON JANE RUSSELL OF OAKESTELLE.

Kathleen E Burnell

21 May 2025