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BREED NOTES – 6TH DECEMBER 2015. [Tony - I am attaching Breed Notes. In them you will see that I am giving up writing the Notes Thank you so much for allowing me to use your page to publish them. It makes writing them worth while because so many people all over the world see them. I hope that Sue will continue to post hers to you. that is of course if you would like that.Ella.] {Terrier World would like to thank Ella for the interesting well written Notes that have been my pleasure to publish. Thirty years is a long time as a Breed Writer. In the time that Ella has been sending Terrier World her notes I have always found them informative and enlightening. Moreover, there was always an image attached to go with her Notes. Well done Ella and thank you for all of your contributions.}
BREED NOTES – 29TH November 2015. Manchesters have had some lovely wins in the show ring both here and abroad. Ike van de Posthoornwieke handled by Ruud Bergstom went BOB at the National Terrier speciality in Germany and then he went on to be BIS, out of an entry of 215 dogs entered. The breed judge was Peter Harsanyi from Hungary and then a panel of three judges chose BIS, from Austria and Hungary. That is a pretty fantastic win by any standards, but on the Continent the breed is even less well known than it is here it is a triumph. There was a good entry for Lesley Olbinson (Carapast) at West Midland Terrier and out of them all she made the Harrison’s Magpiebank Ash BOB and Doreen Barlow’s Nighfury Bold Venture was BP. Nightfury was BP again the next day at Lancashire County Show and PG4. The breed judge was Nigel Keats. Jane Ferguson’s Finn (Ch Felfree Rocket) had a successful weekend going BOB at both Reading and Guilford shows; G4 at Reading and G1 at Guilford. There is another picture of Paul Bundy and his MTs in the DOG WORLD Companion supplement this week. All publicity gratefully received.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 22ND November 2015. The BMTC Health Committee has a new member, Carly Priestman. Carly is a Veterinary Nurse in a practise down in Surry so she should bring a lot of practical experience to the team. Further to the recent publication 'Population analysis of the Manchester Terrier breed' by the Kennel Club. The Health Committee would like to draw your attention to an informative page on The KC website (please click on the link below), which might shed a little light on the above report. The Chairman, Jackie Brown, will be releasing a HC statement shortly, as previously promised. http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/health/breeding-for-health/inbreeding-and-genetic-diversity/understanding-inbreeding-and-the-importance-of-genetic-diversity/print.aspx Chrissie Bynam has had MTs for many years but she has abandoned us and bought herself a Tibetan Terrier. Her MT, Didge, is taking the new pup with a pinch of salt and Chrissie says it is a mid life crisis. In Holland Vilma van Vessem is arranging a Strandwandering for MTs. That is a walk on the beach and from the pictures from last year’s event it was a great success, with lots of people and dogs. Come on MT folk we have miles and miles of beaches, a get together would be wonderful. It is out of the holiday season so we would not upset the tourists. Chichester and DCS are scheduling, for the first time, Manchester Terrier classes at their January 2016 Open Show held in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 15TH NOVEMBER 2015. Liz Stedman has been telling me that the MT team has not qualified to go to Crufts in the Obreedience final. The heats were wildly uneven in numbers; one heat and only one entry, the others had about six and the one that our team competed in had 15. They were the only terrier entry across all the heats. It is a shame. On page 25 of Dog World this week is a picture of Paul Bundy and his Manchesters at the National Pet Show; lovely to see. There are lots of wins at shows this weekend. Doreen Barlows Nightfury Bold Venture was BP and them went on to be 3rd in the Puppy Group at Hyde And DCS Open show. Tom Harrisons ‘Blue’ was Best Puppy and another Group 3 at Bolsover show and this was his and Tom’s first show. Sorry I do not know his KC name Then Jane Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket was BOB and Group one at Camberley & Dist show. Liz Stedman’s Perry [Mansiya Dare to be Different] is now a very proud Grade 6 agility dog. Sue Pinkham has started to train her Lexi at Talking Dogs Scentwork and she has won her Stage 1 certificate. She had to search for a catnip scent marker indoors, among jumbled chairs and boxes with an audience of about 20. The trainer is Pam Mackinnon who works Customs dogs. I think that this is the first time an MT has started to train for this discipline.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES - 1ST NOVEMBER 2015. Mick Oxley had to leave the Club Championship show early as he had heard from Gill that their Danny was very ill. This is Mick’s story of what happened. “Just a quick thank you for the piece about Danny {Ch Digelsa Dictator] in your
Ella Eva BREED NOTES 25TH OCTOBER 2015. Terry and Delia Hemsells Inca has died. She was 13 and a dearly loved dog. They bred her [Tetani Princess of Darkness] from their T Daughter of Darkness by Gill Reeves Mimbre Marauder of Harkeats. Originally she was owned by them in partnership with Zena Wallace. When Zena died she came back to live with them. Messages of sympathy have come in from all over the world for their loss. Judy Thurlow organises and sets up the MT Breed Stand at Discover Dogs for us at the October show. This is her report of the first stand at Excel, “Well, finally home after a busy weekend at Discover Dogs. Each time I man a breed stand I am amazed at how many more people know about the breed and have come specifically for MT cuddles and to find out more about them. This is a testament to the many more breed stands club members run at the various country shows, pet shows and doggy days. It was also nice that many came to tell us about their Manchesters, one family even came back on Sunday with their Rosettia youngster to meet us. I had some amazing helpers this year who worked tirelessly promoting the breed, thanks go to Ollie, Gypsy, Daisy, Obi, Matilda, Halo, Merlin, Perry, Lexi, Billy, Binky, Dante and Troy. You were all stars!! And thank you all for bringing your owners with you to chat about you all day!! They are Carly Priestman, Carole Brown Barry Sara and Amy (who also helped me set up and pack down!), Liz Stedman, Debbie Wagstaff and Andrew,Sue Pinkham, Sonia Owczarek, Dave Chapman and Linda Shaw. And final thanks to my daughter Lisa who stayed home puppy-sitting all weekend allowing me to go off and do this, I really do enjoy it” This is Dave Chapmans account of the day; ”Linda Shaw and I, together with our Manchesters, Dante and Troy, arrived at the ExCel Centre at around midday for our stint on the BMTC stand. It was busy and straight away we were met by serious enquirers on a fact-finding mission, before we’d hardly got our rucksacks off. It felt good to be extolling the virtues of our wonderful breed to people with a genuine interest in the Manchester Terrier, with a view to ownership and joining our ranks. We were very well-represented on the stand by faces old and new and at one time I counted eight Manchester Terriers. Judy wowed the crowds with a demonstration of her Gypsy going through her dancing routine, clearly amazing some visitors by the versatility of the breed. All our four-legged ambassadors behaved impeccably and impressed the visitors with their sociable nature. All in all, it was a very worthwhile day raising the profile of our breed to so many. Great thanks are due to Judy for her tireless organisation and to the many members who gave up their time to make Discover Dogs so worthwhile for the Manchester Terrier. We travelled by rail to the event and it was Troy and Dante’s first experience of the Underground, escalators and the DLR . . . but hey! They’re Manchester Terriers, so they took it all in their stride.” Thanks from the rest of us to you all too. Our thanks go too to Vicki Bundy and her family for setting up the breed Stand at the Three Counties Autumn Show. It was another huge success for the breed with a continuous stream of visitors. At Devon and Cornwall Terrier Bethany Crawley handled Wendy Hiller’s Limoncello Celia Beaux to BP in B. Our Judge that day was Janet Alford. This was the pup’s first show and she went like a seasoned show dog. Bethany’s pair was Best Brace too. Nicola Jeynes Dodger has come home from a gv agility show literally covered in red rosettes. He is 11 now but Nicola says that she has to sprint round the courses to keep up with him. At Midland Counties our Judge was Colin Powell and his BOB was the Carter/Harrison Ch Digelsa Declaration with the BCC going to the Dale/Saxton/Emrick Rattustrap Imperial Red. Best Puppy once again was the Walshaws Talanors Diamonds N Dream avec Janmark. The RCCs went to the Knights Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors and the Oxley’s Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 18TH OCTOBER 2015. Carol Dunford was the judge at the BMTC ch show last weekend and here are some of her thoughts on the entry: “I enjoyed going over your super Manchesters, placed or not you go home with your best pal. The level of competition in some of the classes was very high, and on another day the results could be different again, I judge on the day. This is not the easiest breed to show, sometimes they are on the ball, but they can behave like spoilt children and refuse to look alert or happy with proceedings. To our newcomers, do not give up, try and find a show training class. The KC site will tell you where. We all started off as newcomers and it took years to be anything like professional. I do hope we will see you again at our open show next year, or perhaps at some of the open shows nearer to your home. Again many thanks for the wonderful entry. I had a tough but interesting time sorting them out.” Our chairman, Mick Oxley, had to leave the show early. He had a phone call from Gill to tell him that their dog Danny was very ill. Poor dog had to be put to sleep that afternoon. It must have been an agonising journey all the way back to Sheffield knowing he was so ill. Helen Fletcher’s Joemario Just a Dash is cutting a dash at both Rally and Agility. Helen has given up the show ring, despite Shimmy doing well as a puppy and now concentrates on the agility competitions with her dogs. Shimmy started rally obedience shows in April; this was just something to do before she was ready to compete in Agility. Helen now has the Rally bug, to go with the Agility bug, so the other dogs have been press ganged into Rally too. Shimmy started her agility career at Dog Vegas late May Bank holiday where she was only entered in jumping classes (she hadn’t quite conquered the seesaw in training), and she came second in one of the classes. She has had a continuous succession of wins both in jumping and agility all through the year in venues as far apart as the Wirral down to Blenheim; steadily progressing to grade 5 in both disciplines. As Helen says, “What a star, she tries so hard to please, and of course she thoroughly enjoys our little hobbies of Rally and Agility.” Discover Dogs has moved to the Excel Centre in London. Our stand there was organised by Judy Thurlow. It was a corner stand and from the pictures on the club’s Facebook page elegant, with pictures and cut outs of the breed and plenty of kind people taking their MTs to meet the public. The new venue seems to have the thumbs up from everybody. The parking is easier and it is easier to get to. I hope to have a full report next week. The Fergusons’ Ch Felfree Rocket visited the Isle of Wight show, going BOB and G1. He is making the show his fiefdom. I don’t know whether anyone went to Birmingham Gundog and Terrier show in Coventry. The entry across all the terrier breeds was poor. The entry was affected by several breed shows on the same day and of course Discover Dogs.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 11TH OCTOBER 2015. Stewart Morris’s Terworth Barley Sugar at Brookstream has died. She was born on the 26th March 2000, so she was a very old lady when she died. She was bred by Mrs. Hunter from Eaglespur Cinquefoil and Ch Brookstream Blueprint. She is the dam of many of Stewarts beautiful Calastoa MTs. It looks as though Mrs. Hunter only bred two litters and did not go on and breed from Cinquefoils progeny, which is a pity as we really need to have some modern input from the Eaglespur lines. We send lots of sympathy to Stewart; it is hard to lose such a beautiful old dog. The BMTC Club Championship show was held on the 10th October and the Judge this year was Carol Dunford of the Quixol MTs. Her principal winners were the bitch the Symington’s Talanors Secret Treat [Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors X Ch Talanors Trick N Treat] bitch CC and BOB. The dog CC went to the Norris’s Ch Brookstream Louis de Blue [Ch B Bowmore X B Be My Baby] and that, I think, is his 9th CC. BP was very thrilling, a new owner and new breeders, Doreen Barlow’s Nightfury Bold Venture [Mansiya Word to the Wise at Calastoa X Calastoa’s Lady Look] bred by the Henderson/Greatorex team. Best Veteran was the Goodwin’s Ch Digelsa Dionysus. Jenny Hough’s Barleydust Harvest Moon won the Dog RCC out of the Graduate dog class and the Palmer’s Ch Egloshayle Sea Lily the BRCC. By all accounts it was a very successful show with lots of people new to the breed showing and being successful in their classes. Thanks to them for their enthusiasm for the breed and for showing it off. Some other Vulnerable Breeds get much more national publicity for their breeds, but are envious of the new people who are attracted to MTs. They are the future of the breed. Thank you too to the Committee and Officers of the BMTC for such a good, well run show. A few of us went all the way to Builth and showed at SWKA. It is such a shame that the two shows clash. I was explaining to one of the Stewards that they would never get a good entry of MTs as the shows dates clashed. He said that we should hold the Club show at SWKA. I never did manage to make him understand that our Club shows were a social event as much as a show and non showing people would not be able to get themselves and their dogs into SKWA. As much as I dislike the club show venue and the journey there, getting to Builth is as bad; though a bit more scenic. Our retired Assistant Secretary, Vince Edwards, was our Judge and he made my Sophyla Sam Brown BD and the Jones family’s Barleydust Fayre Day the BB. The Rowbotham’s Calastoa Amber Gambler had a splendid day at Bolton Limit show, going BOB and RBIS. The Judge was Mrs J Neeld. I hope that is all correct as my writing is getting unreadable. At the Northern Terrier Club show Mark Walshaw’s Talanors Diamond N Dreams at Janmark was RBIS. I think that the show was the day after the Club s how, that is dedication.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 27TH SEPTEMBER 2015. Sue Pinkham and lots of MT fanciers went to the Midland Game Fair to show off our breed. This is her report; “We had another very successful weekend at the Midlands Game Fair. Thanks go to all the dogs that represented our breed so well and their handlers for their time and energy. The dogs were so well behaved and enjoyed all the attention. In a very enclosed, humid and crowded area they allowed hundreds of strangers to make the first approach, stroke them and feed them. We should all be very proud of them. Over the two days the breed stand was manned by Billy with Sonia Owczarek; Lexi with me; Mr Darcy with Lesley and Elsie Olbinson; Syd with Mandy Churms; Izzy and Suzie with Alison and Delia Jones; Itsy-Bitsy, Morticia and Romeo with Susan and Martin O’Boyle; and Sophie and Ash with Ann and Chris Harrison. We have done this show for a number of years now and the breed is increasingly being recognised. We had lots of repeat visits and lots of new visitors who were seriously interested in the breed. A number of farmers spent time talking to Alison and Delia about life on the farm with a Manchester. We also had a number of Manchester Terrier owners visiting us sharing their experience of the breed. The only disappointment at the weekend was the cancellation of the parade both days that showcase the breeds because other events had overrun. This was the first time that Sonia, me and the dogs stayed over in a caravan. What a big learning curve that was. So glad we remembered a torch, could not work out the lights at all on the first night. And we won't mention the lack of electricity for Sonia's hair dryer and straightener. With the help of Ann and Chris we thoroughly enjoyed our first experience of 'camping' although I have needed two days of total rest to recover.” Thanks to everyone for all the work they do for the breed at these shows. It is the best publicity that we could have. At Bedford show we had classes for MTs, the judge was Robert Brewster, BOB and TG4 was the Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM and RBOB was Liz Stedman’s Mansiya If You Dare. Sam showed off his new figure to no avail, despite being beautifully handled again by Robyn. Robyn also handled If You Dare to RBOB for Liz. She is a brilliant handler, standing in for the challenge despite never having met the young dog before. Rocket was BAVNSC Terrier at Portsmouth and Southsea show and TG1.
Louella Eva BREED NOTES – 13TH SEPTEMBER 2015. A young MT dog called Atticus is missing and has been for several weeks up in the Bootle area. He somehow strayed from his home. An MT was seen with a young girl in a park up there, and there have been other sightings too, but he is still missing. All the wonderful organisations who try to find stray dogs have been helping, but to no avail. We send much sympathy to his owners and hope that he will be found soon. Take heart, Pay Grant found her dog after she had been missing for months. I have heard a truly shocking story of an MT in Glasgow who was going to be dumped because her owner ‘could not be bothered with her’ and the poor thing is in whelp. Thanks to the power of Facebook and kind people she has been taken in and will be looked after. The owner was so crooked that he handed over the dog in a park in Dundee. I wondered when I heard of her whether she really is an MT, as so many black and tan dogs are called a Manchester when they are black and tan mongrels. The pictures of her confirm that she is indeed an MT and a rather nice one. Somebody must know if they sold her to man living in Glasgow. There are not too many MTs bred each year and somebody must have sold this dog to him, though of course could not have known that it would go so disastrously wrong. Many heartfelt thanks to everyone who went to her help and are looking after her now. Liz Hammett sold one of her puppies to a couple and their family in 2013. Unfortunately their young boy, who loved Oscar to bits, developed a very bad allergic skin problem to him. It affected his immune system and he was very poorly, having to have hospital treatment. “We had Oscar back for their holidays and also a 6 week period, to see if the lad improved, which he did. They were devastated and asked if I could find him another home. To cut a long, sad, story short, Oscar has stayed with us and settled very quickly with his Mum, Tess and his Dalmatian friends. I started training classes last September 2014, with him and we have quite a close bond now. He started classes not being able to concentrate and being very sociable, just wanted to play with all the other dogs. (i.e. disrupting the class) He has progressed so well, that I felt able to enter him for his KC. Good Citizen Dog Scheme, Bronze and Silver tests in August, and he passed both on the same day. I hope to get him through to Gold next year. I’ve started Agility lessons with him now that he’s got a bit more training behind him. Gosh, he’s a fast learner, really enjoys it and can’t wait for his turn”. Liz recons that MTs are so intelligent it is well worth having a go at training them if you have the patience and strength. There was a rather thin entry of 16 at Richmond show for out Judge Sherrill Goodwin. The Carter/Harrison Ch Diglesa Declaration won BOB and the DCC. The CC winner in bitches was the Saxon/Dale/Emrick Rattustrap Imperial Red. The Dog RCC and BP went to Walshaws Talanors Diamonds N Dreams avec Janmark and the bitch to Sharpe’s Rosettia High Hopes. For once at this show the weather was good!
Louella Eva BREED NOTES – 6TH SEPTEMBER . I am starting the Notes this week with a reminder from Terry Hemsell to call him if your dog has gone BOB at an Open Show this year. Terry compiles the list of winners for the Year Book. It seems to me to be unfair to expect him to ring you, think of his telephone bills. He is conscientious and does not want to leave any of your wins out of the list. His telephone number is in the Year book or you could email me and I will pass on the message. The winners at Birmingham show were, dog CC and BOB Carter and Harrison’s Ch Digelsa Declaration [Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors X Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM] and the bitch CC to his litter sister, owned by Scanlans, Diglesa Dixy Chick at Pentyclen]. The RCCs went to the Harrison’s Magpiebank Ash [Nz Ch Lindhorne Spellbound X Sophyla Sophie] and the bitch to Saxon/Dale/Emrick Rattustrap Imperial Red [R Black Sheep X Egloshayle Sea Sprite of R]. Best Puppy once again was the Walshaws Talanors Diamonds N Dreams avec Janmark [Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for T X Ch T Taylor Made Treat]. Best Veteran was the Goodwin’s Ch Digelsa Dionysus [Ch Calastoa Star Light X Ch C Dynasty]. The Judge this year was Max King. We started showing at the horrible hour of 9 am, much too early and a long long wait for those of us who entered Stakes classes as well. We were in the main hall which was nice as it was a lot warmer for us and the dogs than the outside rings, had a green carpet and a generous sized ring. The benching was horrible, the last line of benches hard up against the wall, and with a big terrier breed adjacent with all their pens, cages and trimming tables. We could not move or even get our dogs off the benches without a struggle and a bit of pushing and shoving. Why are we benched at the edges of shows? MT people use their benches unlike some other breeds who use the trimming areas or just set up islands of cages elsewhere. There was not one single empty bench in our aisle. It was the same last year. Dave Chapman and his Troy once again represented MTs at the Vulnerable Native Breeds stand at the Firle show and Horse show in Sussex. This year he was helped by Linda Shaw and Dante. The weather was perfect and there were a lot of visitors to the stand. Both dogs were relaxed and showed how friendly and endearing the breed were both in the marquee and whilst out stretching their legs. Visitors enjoyed seeing this vulnerable breed with quite a few treats being nibbled by the boys whilst questions were directed to the owners. The MT's showed their handsome appeal and hopefully a few more people went home keen to consider offering a home to this loveable breed, or at least knowing the difference between a Dobi & a MT! Thanks to both of them and Troy and Dante for representing the breed. There are not many MTs down in that part of the UK so showing off the breed there is invaluable. Horsey people too, Manchesters and horses go well together. Think of all those rats in the stables and barns.
Louella Eva BREED NOTES – 30TH AUGUST 2015. The Breed Record Supplement for the 2nd quarter 2015, April to June, has 44 Manchester Terriers registered out of 9 litters. The total for the two months this year is exactly the same as 2014, 90. All the litters were from a different sire, which is the right way to go. There is one export, to Switzerland. Four dogs were tested for vWD, three clear and one was a Carrier. The BMTC has another DNA test for the breed, this time for kidney function. All the available test kits were used up at the Fun Weekend, but Estelle Saxton, the Secretary of the Health Committee is ordering another batch and those will be sent to everyone who has asked for them. Gerrit Mengerink has compiled a list of all the character traits that make a Manchester a Manchester. She invited MT owners from all over the world to submit their ‘findings’ and this is the final list - It’s a Manchester Terrier Thing:
Manuela Schickling has created a web site for the 2016 Happening that she is organising in Frankfurt am Mein.
Louella Eva BREED NOTES – 23RD AUGUST 2015. Manuala Schickling is pleased to announce that the 2016 Manchester Terrier Happening will be held in Germany, in Frankfurt am Main, from June 3 for the weekend. There will of course be full details of the venue etc nearer the date. Manuela is looking forward to welcoming you all. Peter Bakewell judged Manchesters at WKC. DCC and BOB was the Knights’ Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors. BCC, her third, was the Scanlans’ Diglesa Dixie Chick at Pantycleyn, so she is now a champion, as is her litter brother Carter and Harrisons’ Ch Digelsa Declaration, who was RDCC. RBCC went to Peacham’s Felfree Touch Of Glam for Manrio. BP was once again the Walshaws’ Talanors Diamonds N Dreams avec Janmark and BV was Janet Forshaw’s Gloryline Lady Jane Grey. Ch Felfree Rocket does it again. He won BNSC terrier, G1 and then BIS at the Kent County Show. Handled as ever and owned by Jane Ferguson. That is his fourth BIS this year. The judges were breed, Andrew Dodsworth and group and BIS, Tim Bell. A nice man from the local council came to do a house survey. I, of course, put Sam on a lead. Then he said those words that makes every MT owners heart sink: “It is okay, I am good with dogs.” I kept Sam on the lead and thought, well you might be, but a Manchester is a bit different. The whole time he was here, Sam sat on his bench in the window, where he supervises the local cats, pigeons, squirrels and the postman. His tail was neatly folded round his feet, his ears in the correct ‘Standard’ position and he watched every movement that man made. Ordinary people do not understand that an MT makes up its own mind as to whether a stranger is okay and this one, in Sam’s estimation, was not. However hard the poor bloke tried, he was not going to be won over.
Louella Eva BREED NOTES – 16TH AUGUST 2015. The BMTC Fun Weekend was held at its usual venue at the Rugby Club in Witney on the 8/9th August. The weather was perfect and it was voted one of the best ever. The club is blessed with an exceptional team of helpers who make a unique event for the breed’s fanciers. Thanks to them all and thank you to the blokes who run the Club. The food is excellent, 50 people sitting down to dinner on Saturday night, a barbeque at lunchtime, plenty of lavatories and showers and a well mown, flat arena. The dogs and owners tried their hand at agility, racing and several daft competitions. As you know we seldom see other MTs during the rest of the year and a field full of them is exciting for the owners and for the dogs. Thank you to everyone who organised the two days and to everyone who came with their Manchesters and joined in the fun with such gusto.
Louella Eva BREED NOTES – 9TH AUGUST 2015. Sue Pinkam and Sonia Owczarek organized the breed stand for us at Stoneleigh Park Pet Show. This is Sue’s report on the weekend. “I have just about recovered from a very busy 2 days at Stoneleigh Pet Show. Such a well run show aimed at families. We had lots of visitors, although the majority had not heard of a Manchester before, some were coming back to visit again and a few who were seriously interested in the breed. The puppies and dogs were fantastic, so well behaved and enjoying all the attention. Handlers were OK as well. Our Saturday team was Sara & Mia with Vicky Bundy and Paul Bundy and children Owen and Felicity. The children kept the visitors entertained. They were in the puppy pen playing with blow up fleas. Syd and Poppy Churms brought Mandy Churms with them. Billy was with Sonia Owczarek and of cause Lexi with me. On Sunday Lexi and Billy made a return visit with a whole group of new friends, Troy with Dave Chapman. Itsy-Bitsy and Morticia (5mths) and Romeo with Susan and Martin O'Boyle; finally Hope and Ruby with Vicki and Laura Sharpe. On Saturday Lexi and I along with other dogs did an appearance with Richard Curtis who was demonstrating heel work to music and on Sunday Ruby and Laura joined him. He recognised the breed and commented on the tricks they were doing.
BREED NOTES – 2ND AUGUST 2015. Betty Purkis who has the Chilsam MTs rang to say that her Chilsam Pretty Polly [Vivo Volcano from Chilsam X Eaglespur Red Maple at C] has died she was born on the 29th April 2003 and is the last of the Chilsam MTs. Betty says that she has been in the breed for 40 years and that the house is not the same without a Manchester. We were reminiscing about the good old days and remembering Phil Margiotta and Rhalou Kirby Peace. Betty’s son was a Keeper on Rhalou’s estate. Lots of people have sent their condolence and remember her Vizlas, particularly Chilsam Shropshire Lad who was one of the top winning Vizlas in his day. There is much sympathy to Betty from all of us in the breed. Some thrilling wins at Paignton show where our Judge was Jane Lilley. Bethany Crawley’s home bred Marlablue in a Twirl has won her first CC and BOB. The dog CC went to the Knight’s Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors. The RCC’s were won by Lesley Olbisons Paucelin Andonis by Carapast and the Dunfords Ch Paucelin Armana at Quixol. Best Puppy was once again the Walshaws Talanors Diamonds N Dreams avec Janmark. Then even more wonderful wins, he was Terrier Puppy Group 1. The Judge was Meg Purnell Carpenter. He then entered the Dog World Puppy Stakes and out of an entry of 20 with no absentees he won that too. The Judge was Stuart Hall. I was looking through the report of Blackpool show and there was a Manchester Terrier. The Carter/Harrison Digelsa Declaration was Terrier Group 3. The Judge was Tom Mather.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 26TH JULY 2015. Liz Stedman took her Perry [Mansiya Dare to be Different] to a weekend of Agility competitions. “Just come back from a brilliant weekend in Suffolk. The annual Weeting Steam Rally hosts a 3 day agility competition for all heights and grades of dogs. There are 7 qualifying classes, each class/dog start off with 25 points with any faults being deducted. A joker can be played in any of the classes which give treble points for agility or double for jumping. I left Perry's until the last agility class when I knew I was in with a chance of getting 2nd place in the Medium category. I was very keen & ridiculously nervous about getting a clear round which we did. His rival had faults in their last round which meant we had a run off for 1st place. This time it was against the clock which Perry won. The large dog also had the same number of points so he had to do a timed run in order to declare best overall dog.
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BREED NOTES – 19TH JULY 2015. There is to be classes again at the West Country Dog Club at its show on the Aug 31. The classes are sponsored and will now be judged by John Scanlon, in place of the advertised judge, Anthony Arundel. The venue is Thornbury Leisure Centre. This is a nice friendly show where we used to have classes, so it is good to see them back. Sarah Laurence went down to Cornwall for a holiday; she of course took the dogs with her and went to a show or two. At Stithyans her Am/Can Ch Jetcity Cat Woman Sings The Blues to Mansiya was BOB and G3. The Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket was BNSC, G1 and then RBIS at Romford show. The judges were group, Jayne Alpe and BIS Francis Richards. Sue Smith judged at Wombwell show, making her BOB the Knight’s Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors and BP the Sharpe’s Rosettia High Hopes. They both won their respective groups under Colin Woodward and then Blue Diamond was third BIS with our Jean Marshall judging. What a wonderful weekend of successes for the breed. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 12TH JULY 2015. Judith Woods writes a regular column in The Telegraph and often mentions her Manchester, Daisy, in her column. Daisy was not the easiest of MTs to live with and recently died aged seven of chronic kidney failure (note to the recently formed BMTC health committee – another one to add to the list of MTs dying of kidney failure). Despite all this Judith had bought two more MTs, Otto and Mabel, who are litter brother and sister. Judith describes the Manchester as a “quirky, rare British breed that they have grown to love.” When I am asked to write about the breed I often say that they are an addiction, from which you seldom recover. It looks as though Judith and her husband have succumbed. There is a picture of her and the two new additions on the sofa together. There were classes again at the East of England show, without CCs of course. The entry was affected by absentees, but out of those who made it to the ring, BOB was the Fergusons’ Ch Felfree Rocket and RBOB was Ann Hebb’s Paucelin Falster. There were no puppies entered. Our judge was Rachel Leeson. Rachel used to own MTs and was at one time the club’s assistant secretary. Rocket was in the last six for the terrier group too. The judge was Jack Watson. Christy Straughan came to the show to see other MTs, as like all of us she seldom, if ever, sees any others than hers. She thanks everyone there who made her welcome. Christine Parry is hoping to become an MT owner and laments that she had never seen one round and about so to speak. Then, while on holiday in Austria she saw two. The club site and now our Facebook page is doing wonderful things to get the breed known outside the rather shut showing scene, that was, when I first came into the breed, the only place where they were on show; people enjoying the gossip and above all the pictures of MTs on there. Helen Fletcher’s Joemario Just a Dash has at her first attempt won grade 3 agility and is now qualified for grade 4. Helen is so proud of her. She’s a clever girl. At Evesham there was a decent entry for David Manito. Rocket was BOB and G2 under Jane Withers. Pauline Smith and Beverley O’Neill have not shown for a long time – welcome back. Mrs Adams entered her Eaglespur Prince Charming, but missed her class. He was also entered for two stakes classes, but I never did locate the BIS ring to find out how they did. It is great to see the Eaglespur affix in the show ring again. Enid Teague-Knight is now in partnership with Ann Colley and her daughter. The Eaglespur kennel has a huge gene pool that has been closed to us for too long. In Germany at a terrier show another Eaglespur dog had a successful weekend – Ruud Bergstöm was showing Eaglespur Hanna Lynn who won the CAC. I Am Ike van de Posthoornwieke was BOB and then third BIS. Ingrid Carstensen has bought two Mabel Bonnets for her Binta and Daisy for the very cold winters in Switzerland. They are becoming the must have winter outfit for MTs. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 5TH JULY 2015. THE 24TH annual Happening was held this year in Hoenderloo in Holland, organised by Sandi and Auk Krijgsveld of the Thunder Dragon MTs. There were 59 entries and the judges this year were Dexter Hockley and Mick Oxley. After two days of various competitions, including a quiz about the breed, racing, where Thunder Dragon Axel came first, running the 50 meters in only 3.82 seconds, a wheelbarrow race, obstacle race and a helmet and spoon race[!], clog shooting, dressing up and conformation the overall winner was Judy Thurlow’s Erkenwyne Lady Guinevere JW from the UK. BD from the conformation classes was Grete Nyhuis de Haan’s I Am Ike van Posthoornwieke, handled by Ruud Bergstrom. BVD was Guard Gino von Mainhattan, best veteran bitch was Black Bandits Hopefull Harriet, best baby bitch was I am Metheora. Apart from a short shower the weather was good and everyone agreed that it was a wonderful occasion, meeting old friends, making new ones and seeing so many Manchester Terriers at one time. That is a rare luxury even in the UK and even more so in Europe where the breed is spread even more thinly than it is here. The 2016 Happening is to be held in Frankfurt. Many thanks to the Kirjgsvelds and all their helpers for organising the weekend. Dave Chapman asks if “there is anyone who would be able to join me in running the breed presentation stand for Manchester Terriers at the Firle Country Show on Sunday 30th August? It’s at Firle in East Sussex, clearly signed just off the A27, in a beautiful country park and we have a stand in the Endangered Breeds marquee, which features about a dozen breeds (last year we were next to the Lancashire Heelers). It would be nice for members of the public to have more than just one example of the breed to view, so please, is there someone who can spare some time on that Sunday to do their bit and help promote our wonderful breed?” Dave’s contact details are in the yearbook. Windsor dog show was fine and warm, but not the sweltering heat of the previous day. There was a good entry for Ken Bartlett, our judge and out of them he made the Fergusons’ Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM BOB and gave BB to the Walshaws’ Ch Digelsa Diva avec Janmark and BP to their Talanors Diamonds N Dreams. The puppy was in the last six for the puppy group, judged by Paul Eardly. The entry of 24 was higher than some of the other terrier entries who had tickets. It is such a pity that we no longer have tickets there. It was a long wait to go into the ring and thank you to our cheerful and efficient Stewards, Messers Patterson and Smith who kept things moving along nicely. The Groups were very late, I did not get home until 7pm and I live about 20 minutes from the show ground. Liz Stedman’s Perry (Mansiya Dare to be Different) is doing well at agility, age has steadied him. He was first in grade 5 jumping and the only one not to be eliminated; held in the sweltering heat at Wellingborough. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 28TH JUNE 2015. Blackpool show was held at its new venue and MTs had a new Judge, Moray Armstrong, giving his first set of tickets in the breed. His BOB was Ch Westbank Blue Diamond at Talanors, owned by the Knights. The BCC went to the Dale/Saxton Ch Rattustrap Top Totty, the RCCs were won by the Norris’s Brookstream Louis de Blue and Sue Smiths Simjest Kiara’s Candy Girl. The Walshaws puppy, Talanors Diamonds N Dreams at Janmark continued his winning ways by going BP. The new venue seems to have met with approval by most people, despite the weather. At the Derbyshire County show, Wilma, Ch Digelsa Diva avec Janmark, won the Open class then BOB AVNSC, the Judge was Maude Hawks. Then Wilma handled by Jan was foot perfect & was awarded RBIS, Judge Lee Cox. At the Boston & District Premiere Open Show Rattustrap Imperial Red was awarded BOB from a good MT entry, Then Group 1, Judge Mr Paul Harding. Bolly is 14 months old and owned by Estella Saxton, Phil Dale and Jo Ann Emrick This is the weekend of the European Happening, held in Holland this year and organised by Auk and Sandi Krijgsveld of the Thunder Dragon MTs. I have not had a report from there yet, but I hope that the weather is better than it has been here. Nicola Janes took her old man, Dodger, to the Bromyard Gala Companion Dog show and he was BIS; winning for himself a huge hamper of food and treats. He had to share his spoils with his little friend, Maisie, who only managed a 4th, out of 5. Nicola says that showing Maisie was ‘interesting’. A Manchester is being trained to be a boar hunter; there seems no end to this breeds versatility. A big hessian sack is stuffed with cotton material and dragged over the floor at speed. The dog has to run, catch the bag and then wait until the human hunters catch up with him. The MT caught the bag, gave it a good shake until it was well and truly ‘dead’. Then he did it again and again until his people caught him and pulled him off. Perhaps it is just as well it was not a boar. Mind you he did enjoy the chase and kill. In Holland a puppy socialisation class has been set up like a children’s nursery class. There are boxes of coloured balls for them to lark around in, a slide and lots of other toys. It certainly is more entertaining than the puppy classes I have taken my pups too; sitting around the Vet’s waiting room in a circle and letting the pups get to know each other. It never really works because terriers play differently to other dogs and the evening always ended with the CKCS being scooped up and held while the MTs and Cairns etc ran riot.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 21ST JUNE 2015. Pay Grant farms in Wiltshire and has MTs who are farm dogs and her house dogs too. Her second MT, Jody went missing seven months ago. She has not been seen since and even more worryingly she was in season. The good news is that she has been found and she and Pay are together again. There was a nationwide search for her to no avail, then out of the blue Pay got a phone call from a vet 70 miles away saying he had Jody and the person who had been looking after her. Pay Grant says she was lost for words when she received a phone call on Saturday morning from Croft Veterinary Centre in Brackley, Northamptonshire, telling her that her Manchester Terrier Jody had been found. Jody was taken to the vets to get her microchip read. She was living with a young man and his girlfriend. The man walked out one day leaving the dog behind and his girlfriend did not want Jody and took her to her mothers. The mother was worried that the dog may have been stolen and took her to the vet to find out. Mrs Grant said: “I thought I was never going to see her again. She is very happy to be home and went absolutely ballistic with joy. She is now investigating all the smells and things. I was overcome with tears. She is my day and night companion, head dish washer and co-driver.” Jody, who is now four, went missing on Nov 12, 2014 when Mrs Grant was near Fifield Bavant helping put up some electric fencing. “I let her out with the other dogs and after about ten minutes I realised she was not with me and thought she was chasing pheasants.” After she did not appear when she was called, Mrs Grant spent hours searching for her and contacted councils and vets to see if she had been found. “We were convinced someone had picked her up and hoped she would be handed in, but we heard nothing. I was worried she had got into the hands of a puppy farmer.” Ann Harrison is looking for volunteers for the breed stand at the CLA Game Fair this year: “Manchester Terriers have a large stand, and we do need dogs who are happy to meet and greet the general public (especially children). Ideally they should get on with other Manchesters as we have quite a few on display at a time. We restrict everyone to half day duties as it is usually at a very hot time of year, and the crowds are huge! The owners will be asked lots of questions and should be happy to offer information along BMTC guidelines as well as from a pet-owning point of view. The dates are July 31-Aug 2. This year it is being held at Harewood House near Leeds.” Ann’s email address is in the Yearbook. Mark Walshaw took his puppy Talanors Diamonds N Dreams avec Janmark to Border Union where he won BPNSC and PG1. Bethany Crawley who has the Marlablue MTs has had another judging triumph. At Yeovil open show the SBT she gave PG1 to went on to BPIS. That is the second time this year her choice has been BIS, the first on was the Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket Ell Eva. BREED NOTES – 14TH JUNE 2015. British Manchester Terrier Club has formed a Health Committee, Mick Oxley write “The Manchester Terrier has always been seen as a breed with little or no significant health issues, and thankfully genetic disorders are also few, to our knowledge. Awareness of vWD and proactive breeders carrying out DNA screening tests ensures the condition remains under control. To ensure the breed remains relatively healthy, the committee of the BMTC has made the decision to form a Breed Health Committee. The purpose of the Health Committee will be to monitor the results of any breed specific health surveys, to liaise with the Kennel Club, the Animal Health Trust, other experts in related areas of veterinary science, genetics etc., and to set up a dialogue with other breed clubs both in the UK and worldwide.” The Health Committee will be chaired by Jackie Brown, the Secretary is Estella Saxton. On the Committee are Mick Oxley, Carol Dunford and Jean Geraghty. Regular (quarterly) reports will be sent to the General Committee in order to give updates to the members. At the 2015 World Show in Milan the BOB was from Germany, Andrea Barkowskys Black Bandits Rylee. She then went BOB again the next day and is now an Italian Youth Champion and a World Youth Champion. The BOS was from Poland, Izabela Gwardyńska’s Black & Bright Cosa Nostra. The Judge was Dan Ericsson. There have been some wonderful wins at Open shows in the UK too. Jane Fergusons Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM was Best in Show at Poole Open Show. That is his third BIS this year; the Judges this time were Mrs Mooney, breed and Group and Mrs Warrington BIS. At Newmarket Show Carol Wicker’s Mimbre Bombette was BOB. RBOB was Jamie Reads Erkenwyne Go for Broke. Jamie has suffered a lot from nerves in the show ring, but this week he relaxed and enjoyed himself. I am sure that the dogs go better for a relaxed handler. Then Sandra Sharples took her Jasper, Talanors Taylored Diamonds, to Honley show. It was her and his first show and he went BOB, BP and Group 4 and Puppy Group 2. Now that is a dazzling start to their showing career.
Ell Eva. BREED NOTES – 7TH JUNE 2015 At Three Counties it was sunny and warm. I don’t think that anyone used their benches except to collect their ring numbers. We all sat about near the ring on the grass, ate local strawberries and cherries and gossiped. There was a nice entry for Mike Vickers to go over considering it was a mid-week show and no CCs on offer. The Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket was BD and BOB and Dale and Saxton’s Ch Rattustrap Top Totty was BB. The reserves went to my Sophyla Sam Brown and the Peacham’s Felfree A Touch of Glam for Manrio. BP was Val Sharpe’s Rosettia High Hopes. Mike Vickers breeds and shows trimmed terriers and we were anxious as to whether he might be a bit heavy handed with our single coated dogs, but he handled them gently and briefly. After all you can see all the good points and the faults; you don’t have to man-handle them like so many do. Thank you from us all to him. The Pynes and Lawrence Boggis were showing for the first time for ages. It was good to see them again. Mark Walshaw had a great day today at Ripon show. His Talanors Diamonds N' dreams avec Janmark was BPNSC and also beat the adults to BOB. Then in a terrier group of 14 took G2 and PG1 under Gary Lewthwaite. In the main ring he showed very well and was rewarded with BPIS. The judge was Frank Whyte. All that and he won £85, crystal engraved whiskey glasses and dog food. In Finland a Manchester Terrier meeting was organised by Heidi Niemelä where 33 MTs attended. Heidi thinks that it is the biggest event ever held for the breed in Finland. There was a lure coursing competition during the day. One of the MTs called Roope completed the 80 metre course in just 7.05 seconds (25.38 mph), which seems to me to be an astonishingly quick time. There is a video of them all chasing the lure and golly can they run, ears flat to their heads, only coming forward when the lure stops and they can pounce and worry it. The companion show season has started and MTs have had some nice wins. Chris Boot took his Phoebe to the local Harlington village carnival where she won the best small dog class and then RBIS. Not to be outdone Linda Shaw and Dante went to the Holyport Fair where he was second in the best conditioned dog. Linda was proud of him when an autistic boy who is normally afraid of dogs was able to stroke him and feed him treats. This is the sort of publicity that is vital to our breed – ordinary people outside the showing world seeing the breed at its best. Aprille Wildhurst was walking her Archie yesterday in Nottingham and overheard a woman saying to a friend: “Oh no, not more Dobermanns.” When Aprille said that he was not a Dobe the reply was “I should know love, I’ve got three.” Aprille politely responded “He is a Manchester Terrier, love”. Game, set and match to her and Archie. Portia Elizabeth reckons she has the ultimate Dobermann/MT story. On her way into Crufts somebody stopped her and said: “Is that a Dobermann? I have one.” As Portia says, this was Crufts! Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 31ST MAY 2015. IAN BEALES has died after a long and brave battle with cancer. Ian was the BMTC chairman for many years and with his wife Brenda bred the Brenandi MTs. He came into the breed in about 1980, but resigned from the chairmanship and judging, showing and breeding MT some time ago. His daughter, Joanne, used to handle her parents dogs and did some judging too. All of us who knew Ian will send sympathy to Brenda and his daughters. My office is still stuck on the attic steps so I cannot find any details of the dogs they bred, but there were many champions. There was a half way decent entry at Southern Counties show and we were judged outside which was a luxury. It was a long wait though, after over 160 Pugs. Our judge Howard Ogden, judged both breeds and made his MT BOB the Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM BOB and he was pulled out in the last six for the terrier group; judged by Johan Juslin. Then the Walshaws’ Talanors Diamonds N Dreams went BP and PG4. It was all worth a very long, rather cold, windy wait. Because Mark was showing in the Bedlington ring, Dreams was handled by Georgie Ferguson. He is such a happy, confident young dog that he was not fazed at all by the change of handler. Mark’s wife brought the dogs to the ringside and then they were handed over to other people to handle. The poor Steward was confused as people brought dogs into the ring without ring numbers to hand them over to others who were waiting for the critiques to be written. I think that he washed his hands of us and allowed us to sort ourselves out! The icing on the cake for me was that Sam won his Good Citizen bronze award. The first time we tried was a fiasco as he left the down stay to play with the Tibetan Terrier bitches showing in the next ring. It was a long old day with tortuous journeys to the show ground as the junction of the M4 to the show ground was closed. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 24TH MAY 2015. We had an exciting day at Bath show as far as Manchester Terriers were concerned. The weather could have been better, but by Bath standards it was not too bad. Our Judge was Albert Wight and his BOB and the bitch ticket went to the Saxton/Dale Ch Rattustrap Top Totty JW ShCM [Ch Diglesa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms ShCM X Egloshayle Sea Sprite of R] and the dog ticket went to Gill Buxtons Ch Millacome Made in Heaven ShCM [Ch & Int Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz X Talanors Magic Moments for M]. The RCCs were won by the Dunford/Akrigg Ch Paucelin Armana by Quixol [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM X Q Black Bryonia] and the Harrisons Magpiebank Ash [Nz Ch Lindhorne Spellbound X Sophyla Sophie]. The Best Puppy was exciting; Mark Walshaws Talanors Diamonds N Dreams avec Janmark [Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for T X Ch T Taylor Made Treat] won. He then went on to win his Puppy Dog of the Year class and then was top puppy of the day in the Gundog and Terrier section. None of us can remember an MT winning in this competition before. They have to return on Monday to compete in the final. All our fingers are crossed for them. He was 4th in the Terrier Puppy Group too. I can only remember one other dog to getting placed in the Puppy Group and that was another Talanors, Int Ch & Ch T Hellova Treat for Sipowitz. Linda Shaw and her Dante went to Paws in the Park and this is her account of the weekend. [“Paws in the Park - Ardingly 16 & 17 May - The newbie's! My first trip with Dante to a full on weekend Dog Show with that fun element which allows you to try different things out. Not sure who was more excited, Dante or me! Of course there is always that trepidation that having a 13 month old MT on a weekend out camping could all be too much for us both, but I was amazed with how well we both coped.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 17th MAY 2015. At SKC our Judge was Andrew Brace and he gave the dog CC and BOB to the Harrison’s Magpiebank Ash [Nz Ch Lindhorne Spellbound X Sophyla Sophie] and that is his first after several RCCs. The BCC went to the Symington’s Talanors Secret Treat. The RCCs were won by the Walshaws Talanors Diamonds N’ Dreams avec Janmark and to the Oxley’s Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM. I am sorry that I only have the sire and dams of the BOB dog, but that is the only one that I know by heart. My office is once again in chaos; most of it stacked on the attic stairs and I am typing on a wobbly picnic table. There was an entry of 17 dogs for Andrew to go over. So far I have not heard what the weather was like or the organization. Accounts from other breeds was that it was chaotic with judges being given too many breeds to judge, consequently them having to scoot into the Group ring late. The catalogues sold out long before those who ordered them could collect theirs and the rings and benches were substandard. Here are some thoughts on toplines from Amanda Kelly in Canada. Amanda breeds and shows Manchester Terriers. “I think one of the issues with incorrect topline is that it is in the topline that you "see". The topline isn't always just about the topline. If the rear angles aren't correct, the dog might be high in the rear, for example, which isn't a problem of the back or any of the pieces making up the topline itself but rather the structure underneath. If the shoulders are upright it shows in the topline. Front to rear angulations imbalances often show in the moving topline as the dogs work to compensate. And then there are all the elements of the topline itself that could have a fault -- a tilted pelvis, for example, a steep croup, a bad tailset, a dog that is too short in body for its height, a ribcage that is too long or short, a loin that is too long. All of these things have different but notable effects on how the moving topline looks, where the rise appears to start, where it ends, etc. Most single structural faults will impact the moving topline somewhere and in some way...and yet, they are still just single faults. So, to say breeders don’t care isn’t necessarily fair. The reality is that there isn’t a perfect dog out there and all of them are going to have faults and some of those faults are going to be structural. Which ones you can forgive and for what reason is a personal choice and emphasis in the context of everyone individual breeding program” Helen Fletcher has been showing her Shimmy [Joemario Just a Day] in both Rally obedience and Agility; she has qualified out of Level 1 in the former and had several 2nd and 3rds. Another Joemario dog, Joemario Made of Jazz, has been show with great success in Ireland by Pat Thomas and is now an International Ch.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 10TH MAY 2015.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 3RD MAY 2015. The now, annual St Georges Day parade took place in Manchester city streets on the 24th April. This is Ann Harrison’s account of the day. Manchester Terriers were once again invited to take part in the parade.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 26TH APRIL 2015. The sun shone on WELKS, well nearly all the time and for the first time for about 12 months or more we were judged outside on grass rings. A very good thing too, as we were benched in the same hall as the Huskies and the noise they make is awful; howling and barking. Malcolm Abbott was the judge who arranged the weather for us. His two winners could not have been more popular. Jill Buxton’s Millacombe Made in Heaven ShCM [Ch/Int. Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz X Talanors Magic Moments for M] won the dog ticket and that is his third. There were shouts of congratulations all round the ring and Jill was in tears. Jill is not able to get to many shows, but Bath is about as local to her as possible. It is her first MT Champion too. The bitch ticket was just as exciting. The American Bred Am/Can Ch Jetcity Cat Woman Sings the Blues to Mansiya [Am Ch J La Cucaracha Pooch X Am Ch Bellflower I Believe in Nola] owned by Sarah Leigh and Lisa Nonog took her first CC in the UK; again to applause all round. She was in the last seven for the Terrier Group under Paul Wilkinson. Breeding from the USA is important for us in the UK. Most of the other dogs in Europe and Australia are ultimately bred from UK stock; the American dogs are new to us. We need the new genes. The RCCs went to Val Saville’s Ch Calastoa’s Man in the Mirror of Dobermatian ShCM and the bitch to Janet Forshaw’s Calastoa’s Lucky Star JW. Best Puppy was the bitch, the Palmer’s Egloshayle Queen of the May. The Harrison’s Magpiebank Ash was 5th in the Good Citizens Stakes out of a huge entry. We had some welcome visitors to the ring too. Christopher Baloch and Lidice Shweizer were in the UK on holiday and showed their English bred dog here. They organised the Manchester Terrier Happening last year in Wengen in Switzerland. The Beardows came with their son to cheer along Jill’s dog who was bred out of their Ch. It was also wonderful to see Mesdames Young and Sandlands who were asked to take their dogs out of the ring at Southern Counties show last year; great to see them and to see that they have not been put off showing forever. Both their young bitches won their classes too. It was a good day with decent weather, grass rings and good light to show the dogs coats off at their best. This is the Sunday of the St George’s Day Parade in Manchester city streets, where Manchester Terriers have once again been asked to join in the parade. No news yet of course, but we all hope that the weather is fine and dry for them. We have had a preview; one of the local papers has a picture of Manchester with a St Georges flag bandana. She is of course the Mighty Mabel.
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BREED NOTES – 12TH APRIL 2015. The BMTC AGM was held on the 12th April at Shenstone Village hall. It is such a nice venue, why can’t we have our Club shows there? The Committee stays the same as there were no new nominations. We have a new Vice Chairman as H has stepped down. His new job with the Kennel Club involves a lot of travelling and he says he would not be able to give the Club the time it needs. The new Vice Chairman is Vicki Crawford who most of us know as Vicki Reeve. Because of her parents involvement with the breed she was reared with MTs! She was one of the best of our Junior Handlers and also handled her mother’s dogs. For the past few years she has had an adventurous career in Marine salvage assessment, then marriage and a baby and has not been involved much on the MT scene. It is lovely to welcome her back and we hope to see more of her in the future. Judges for the two 2018 shows are Estelle Saxton for the Open show and I am not supposed to say who the choice for the Championship show is until the appointment is ratified by the KC. Once a long time ago I put the judge’s name in Breed Notes; which resulted in a fearsome ticking off from the then Secretary Phil Margiotta. It still rattles around in my head and I don’t want to give Phil the trouble of arising from her grave to remind me of my sins. The Agenda was the usual standard stuff without any disagreement from the members present. But a new clause to be included in the Club’s Code of Ethics about Stud Dogs was thoroughly debated by those present. After looking up the KCs requirements for the use of stud dogs, a wording was finally agreed and the amended Proposal was accepted. ~ The Phil Margiotta Trophy was presented to Sue Pinkham for her work for the breed at all the stands we have now at dog celebrations all over the UK. Sue was surprised and had a wonderful round of applause. She was a popular choice. The Betty Napthine trophy was won by a VERY surprised me. I was touched and honoured, especially as Betty was a good friend and with the help of her lovely dog Ch Hardway Hornblower Peter and I started to breed some nice MTs. A lot of silverware was won by a lot of people. We are blessed as a club with lovely cups, mostly old and telling the history of the regeneration of the breed after the war. Look back a long way in your pedigrees and you will see the names of the people who donated the trophies. Many thanks to Terry Hemsell for keeping track of all the wins at shows over the year and to Carol Dunford for collecting together all the cups for wins at the Shows during the year.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 5TH APRIL 2015 Ann Harrison writes that it is once again coming up to the annual St Georges Day parade through the streets of Manchester; “Sunday 26th April is the date of the St Georges Day Parade through the city of Manchester. It is about 2 miles long, starts at 11 am, and takes about 2 hours to complete the route which starts and finishes in Varley Street, Miles Platting and passes through Piccadilly Gardens. OBVIOUSLY Manchester Terriers are the centre attraction of the Parade and we are accompanied by a Brass Band, floats of every description, horses, Morris Dancers, Winston Churchill and everything else English. They are very inclusive, we do also have Bagpipes and Belly Dancers and huge puppets of St George and the Dragon; but without a doubt the crowd’s favourites are the Manchester Terriers and boy do they let us know it!! It is a thoroughly Family Friendly occasion, ALL ARE WELCOME. Ella Eva
[Betty Napthine Trophy presented to Ella by the BMTC for her long years in MTs and all that she has done for the breed also of course her tireless work writing the Breed Notes. Ed.]
BREED NOTES – 29TH MARCH 2015. Nicols Jeynes Dodger is no longer satisfied with his increasingly successful career as an agility dog and the fish and chip suppers that earns him. He is now a top model. A portrait of him and his small friend Maisie has won the pastoral section of the photograph of the year in the Agility Voice Magazine. The photograph was taken by Eric Thompson, who Nicola says is talented and patient. Now what supper does that win Dodger, lobster? There are hazards in walking dogs in the US that we cannot imagine over here. Liisa Noong has had a cougar sniffing round her premises. He is more interested in her neighbour’s livestock than the dogs, but when they go for a walk they are on the lead and she is armed. The cougar has now been trapped and taken to a more suitable home and the dogs can run free again. The Dutch MTC arranged a dog walk before its AGM. Max de Gids has sent pictures of the dogs running wild on what looks like a white sandy beach. The owners have on their winter warms but the dogs are playing without leads or coats on. It seems a very good way to entice more people to attend AGMs which can be regarded as a bit boring. Some of our members are hoping to arrange an MT get together on the sands at Weston-super-Mare. There are a lot of MTs in the West Country and two for sure in Weston itself. It would be a way of meeting other fanciers and letting the dogs have a wonderful run on the beach. The tide reach in Weston is one of the furthest in the world and the beach is amazing. There is also a first class fish and chip restaurant in Weston. I am not sure what the sea gulls would think of it but the dogs would love it.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 22ND MARCH 2015. Mick Oxley wishes his dogs a Happy Birthday; “Happy 10th birthday today to Danny, Digger and Izzy; also known as Ch Digelsa Dictator, Ch. Digelsa Dig Deep at Brockenella and Obedience/dancing/agility expert Digelsa Deep Purple.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 15TH MARCH 2015
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 8TH MARCH 2015. At Crufts our Judge was our Chairman Mick Oxley of the Digelsa MTs. Out of his entry of 57 dogs, including several from overseas, he made the Knights Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors [T Smart Treat X T Star Struck at W] BOB out of the Open Dog class. The bitch CC was something of a spectacular triumph. Rattustrap Top Totty [Ch Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms X Egloshayle Sea Sprite JW ShCM] was exported to Finland having won 2 CCs. She now has a string of European Ch titles. She came back to the UK for Crufts and won the wonderful 3rd CC. The RCCs were won by the Buxton’s Millacome Made in Heaven ShCM [Int Ch and Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz X Talanors Magic Moments for M] and the Dunford/Akrigg Quixol Soiree [Ch Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms X Q Quartz]. Best Puppy was another Rattustrap, Rattustrap Imperial Red [R Black Sheep JW X Egloshayle Sea Sprite JW ShCM]. Carli Priestman’s Felfree Top Oscar won his Junior class and with it his JW. Gill and Blue Diamond looked good on the TV footage of the Terrier Group; his coat glowing with health and fitness. It was a brief glimpse of him, but better than in previous years. At least we saw him on the judging table and moving and had some reasonably informed commentary. Pat Bunyan came to Crufts to watch the MT judging. She was amazed at how many new owners there are since she was showing her Bertie; but said that everyone was as friendly as ever. Like the rest of us she found it a treat to see so many MTs all together. As she says, Bertie is the only one in her part of Lincolnshire and he is very seldom recognised as such. She tried to get to the Breed Stand at Discover Dogs, but the crowds were so thick that she gave up. Thanks to everyone who helped with the Stand. It really is worth it; many people who did manage to get through the crowds and visit the stand said how friendly the dogs were and the people on the stand were helpful. Nigel Keats’s Mighty Mabel has had her photograph in both the Daily Mail and the Sun. She is wearing her yellow ear warmer hat, specially designed and made for her by Nigel,. Sadly neither of the papers said what breed she is. Georgie Ferguson showed her Ch Felfree Rocket in the Junior Handling stakes class and was placed 3rd out of a big entry of Terriers. Jane says that as she got him down from his bench before showing at least 3 people asked what breed he was. As she says “...and this was Crufts.”
Ella Eva BREED NOTES 1ST MARCH 2015.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 22ND FEBRUARY 2015. THE BREED Records Supplement shows that 63 puppies have been registered out of 13 litters. These are the figures for the last quarter of 2014. The final total for the full year is 187. This is 11 down on last year, which was the highest number recorded since 2005. These high figures owe a lot to Eaglespur litters. There is not much spread among the stud dogs used. Two dogs were used three times and one twice. Eight dogs have been tested for vWD and worryingly, two of them are carriers. Looking at their breeding, they have pretty well nothing in common. I have written recently about the Kennel Club’s rather feeble efforts to publicise and make more popular the native vulnerable breeds like ours. Two more breeds have been added to the list and still there is no real initiative from the KC; introducing a competition for these breeds in the show ring is not doing anything at all to make them more visible to anyone outside the show circuit. It might of course bring them to the attention of others in the show world who might take on one or two to show and breed from. This was of course the saving of our breed after the war. It is clear that we will have to continue our efforts at Discover Dogs, the country fairs we have stands at and the now many world wide websites there are. It is working though – our numbers grow year on year at a steady rate, compatible with the rather restricted gene pool that there is and puppy sales seem buoyant. In addition a lot of young people are coming into the breed, both here and in Europe. Some of the vulnerable breeds simply do not attract new fanciers and those there are, are getting on in life. Interestingly there is a bit in the 2004 Highlights where the then chairman Peter Eva says that he has "tried to remind the KC through its chairman that rare British (English in our case) breeds, particularly terriers are very vulnerable.” If you do your sums, that is 11 years ago! At Aston-under-Lyne Nigel Keate’s Mighty Mabel (Rattustrap Roaring Meg at Haamblet) went BOB and G3. He and she are rather pleased with themselves. Nicola Jeynes’ Dodger took part for the first time in UKA champion steeple chase with a clear round and was placed second. Nicola is proud of him; he is not afraid to be up against the standard Collie height.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 15TH FEBRUARY 2015.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 8TH FEBRUARY 2015 Our Vice Chairman and Club Archivist H Hockley now has a job with the Kennel Club in its department dealing with Good Citizens. H has been with the Luton Borough Dog Warden Section for many years. In that time H and his team have won awards for Luton for the excellence of their Dog Warden work; here’s wishing H all the very best in his new job. Angelo Sartori’s Black Idols Nuvolari went BOB at a show in Italy and won the Group too. The judge was Mr Adinolfi Henrey [I hope that I have the name right]. Angelo has written on Facebook thanking the judge. He writes, “Thank you for being one of the few to recognise the quality of the subject and the courage to give a Manchester Terrier a first place in Italy”. As you know it doesn’t happen here a lot either. At both Rugby show and Cheltenham on the same weekend Jane Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM went BOB. At the first show he won Group 3 and at Cheltenham Group 2. At Rugby Liz Stedman’s Mansiya If you Dare was BP.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 1ST FEBRUARY 2015 She was born 3rd April 2005 and was the dam of Ch Calastoa Amber Nectar and Ch Calastoa Ruby Tuesday from her first litter with Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks. Between them they won many CCs; Amber Nectar winning four of them in successive years at Crufts. Her third litter produced Calastoa's English Rose to Mansiya, one CC and a BOB and Calastoa's Lady of Meltham At Simjest also one CC and a BOB plus they both have won reserve tickets. She herself won 3 CCs and 3 RCCs all between 2007 and 2009. Stewart writes about her; “I can't put in to words how we feel; she is sadly missed and will be for a long, long time”. There have been many messages of sympathy for Carol and Stewart.
This is written on the 1st February and I have turned over my Manchester Terrier calendar page. January’s picture is a classic; it is of the Palmers MTs racing towards the camera over the beach with a calm sea in the distance and a wonderful peach sunrise behind them. Dave Palmer took it. He says that it was just by chance, being in the right place at the right time. One of the dogs is their Ivy who died recently, so it is full of nostalgic memories for them. BREED NOTES – 25TH JANUARY 2015. The club have been offered a new venue for Club shows in the Forest of Dean. It has ample parking, space for caravans and chalets to let. There are lovely walks for the dogs and of course it is accessible from the M5. The motorway is convenient for those coming from the south and from the north. The offer of sharing a hall with the Airedales at Manchester show has been vetoed because it would not be possible for visitors to come with their pet MTs and puppies to meet their breeders and to socialize. That is a very good reason, we do have a wonderful social atmosphere at the shows now and it is a treat to see the news pups. Kath Noden of the Joemario MTs is the top MT breeder in Ireland this year. Bethany Crawley had a good day at the Newton Abbott show when her Digelsa Dancing with Darla went BOB and Group 4 and her puppy, Marlablue in a Twirl was BP. So far in the south we have not had any snow. But on the continent the snow has arrived and there are pictures on the various MT sites of Manchesters pulling sledges, one of them harnessed beside a Husky and another of them pulling their owners along on their skis. We do have a versatile breed. They seem to be able to do anything that is asked of them.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 18TH JANUARY 2015 There was a good turn out of 21 Manchesters at the Manchester show, particularly as it was a week day and without tickets. Our Judge was Julian Barney who had hurt his ankle over Christmas and was still in a massive dressing. It was literally an heroic effort. He made the Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM BOB and the Dunford’s Ch Paucelin Armana by Quixol BB. Best Puppy was the Dale/Saxton/Emrick Rattustrap Imperial Red. We were benched and judged once again in the Argyle Suite, which is nicer than the main hall and much nicer than the draughty annex to the main hall that we sometimes have to endure. We can if we wish hold our Club show at the venue in conjunction with the main show. One of the Airedale Clubs use one of the halls and it is big enough to hold two shows at the same time. Just think of the effort it would save setting up the show and how much easier it is to get to Stafford than Tomlisons. The latter is a barrack of a place either freezing or too hot and the wind rattles the walls when the weather is bad. The food is pretty dire too and the food at Stafford is excellent. Zoe Lindopp has found a book written in 1920 I think in America, that comments on the name Manchester Terrier for our breed, rather than Black and Tan Terrier. He says that “Manchester has by far the larger number of fanciers....it is a pity that some of those who have written regarding the “unwarranted assumption” of Manchester claiming the large Black and Tan did not look up their own Stud Book.” I have never seen another good explanation of why the name was changed and this seems to be as good as any other. H found some medals awarded to MTs at shows in 1890 where the breed is called The English Terrier/Manchester Terrier. It is called The English Terrier in a dog book called “Anecdotes” published in 1823. The author is a Captain Brown. Annie Salmon went to an exhibition of paintings at the Queen’s Gallery. It was about the Georgians and the monarchy. She was attracted to a painting by Philippe Mercier of one of George II sons playing the cello because her husband plays the double bass and there in the left hand corner was a smooth coated black and tan dog looking up at the musicians. The painting is dated 1733. Our breed has a long history.
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BREED NOTES – 11TH JANUARY 2015.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 3RD JANUARY 2015.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 21ST DECEMBER 2014. Best wishes from Sam and I to everyone for 2015. I hope that there will not be so many Manchesters going missing in the New Year. There seems to have been a rash of them in the last few months of this year. Most are home again safely, but even one still missing is too many. Thoughts are with all the owners who are still looking for their dog.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 15TH DECEMBER 2014. I think that all the Manchester Terrier owners that entered at LKA, win or lose, would vote it a super days showing. We were second in the ring after a large entry of Parsons so no horribly early start for us. The weather was kind, the motorways working well and the new halls and layout an improvement. We were benched just beside our ring; our Judge was Beverely O’Neil of the Megellan MTs. We had a buffet lunch before showing, organised for us by Sue Pinkham. There was enough food to feed everyone at the show. Thanks to Sue and all those who contributed. The atmosphere was lovely with everyone exchanging Christmas and New Year greetings. Nigel Keates had bought all the dogs’ presents of bells to attach to their collars. My Sam jingles sweetly on his walks. His friends in the park sniff carefully at the bells when he greats them! The Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM X Ch Mansiya Casting Circles with Felfree] was BOB; winning his 4th CC. He was attacked by a Labrador a day or two before the show and was very lame as a result. Happily for the Fergusons he made a full recovery in time for the show. The Bitch CC out of the Limit Class went to Sue Smith’s Simjest Klara’s Candy Girl [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM X Calastoa’s Lady of Meltham at S] and that is her second. The RCCs were won by the Chris and Ann Harrison’s Magpiebank Ash [ NZ Ch Lindhorne Spellbound X Sophyla Sophie] and by Carol Wicker’s Mimbre Bombette [Westwytch Bolt for Gold X M Solitaire]; both of them out of the Junior Class. There were eight puppies entered and the best of them all was Ann Hebb’s dog Paucelin Falster [Ch Digelsa Dig Deep at Brockenella X P Anna]. Liz Hammett’s Mansiya If You Dare at his first Championship show was second in his puppy class and then won his Bronze Good Citizens. Dave Chapman has sent a picture of a pavement artist drawing a head study of a Manchester Terrier. It is very good indeed, but sad that it is not permanent. He should be commissioned to draw the same on paper. Thank you to everyone for their cards and for all the news and pictures you have sent for the Breed Notes during the past year. Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year from Sam and I.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 7TH DECEMBER 2014 Ann Harrison reminders BMTC Members that subscription renewals are due on 1st January. For those of you who have joined since 1st November your joining fee covers the 2015 membership, and some have already paid (with their entry for the October Show for example) The rates are as follows: Single £9.00 Joint £14.00 Senior Citizen Single £7.00 Senior Citizen Joint £10.00 Junior (up to 16 years of age) £2.00 Family Membership (2 Adults and 2 or more Children under 16) £16.00. There are many ways to pay: Send a PO/cheque payable to the BMTC to Ann – address in the Club Year Book. To set up a standing order email her for a form. Pay by PayPal on the account attached to the Secretaries email address; but please be sure to mark your payment 'Gift' or the Club has to pay a fee on your behalf. If you have any queries, or you are not sure if you have already paid please do not hesitate to contact Ann. I am reorganizing my office. This involves moving a number of files which are of old Breed Notes, of pictures and show results. It takes a long time because I sit down and read them instead of putting them up in the attic. In one of the 1980’s files there is a letter from Nerolie which among other things says that in 1980 there were only two Open Shows putting on classes for the breed. Things really have changed for the better. There are now almost too many shows with classes for us. The other thing that is a bit shocking is the number of specialist judges that regularly gave BOB and tickets to dogs of their own breeding. That was one KC rule change for the better. I have pictures of Specialist judges giving tickets in the breed that we never see now but are still on our Judging Lists. They are never seen at shows either; perhaps they should consider having their names removed from the Lists as they no longer have any interest in the breed? There have been some nice wins at Open shows, but as none of them give details of the shows, the judges or the KC names of the dogs I can’t really give details of them here, but congratulations to everyone on their wins.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 30TH NOVEMBER 2014. The KC has at last announced what form their new initiative for the Vulnerable Breeds is to take. It is to be a competition where the dogs win points at both Open and Championship shows. The dog with the most points in each breed will take part in a competition to be held at Crufts to become the dog of the year. The points will be for BOB or BAVNSC and for Group placings, but only at Championship shows which seems a bit odd. It is to be held for a year on a trial basis and is to be sponsored by Eukanuba and the final will be at Crufts. Once again the MT does not really have any hope of being the top dog on points as we rarely get places in Championship show Groups. Only the glamorous ones like the Skye, Lakeland, Irish and Kerry etc. will be able to get these points. I should think that the Glen of Immal people feel much the same. The KC hope that Open shows with classes will be sponsored by the breed clubs so that they will be encouraged to pick listed judges and if the entry is not good it will not count against them in the overall calculations for dogs per class. The latter requirement by the KC is what is slowly killing the Open shows. What on earth does it matter how many dogs there are in each class? It is an Open Show, there are no KC awards on offer at these shows. Carol Wicker has already had requests from Open show secretaries for sponsorship of their MT classes. It seems to me another pot hunters competition. I suppose that we should applause some initiative for us Vulnerables by the KC.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 30TH NOVEMBER 2014. Peter and I have no children so Christmas day is spent with family and their children. Our dogs are left at home with a promise of a turkey doggy bag when we return. It is a very good excuse to rush off after lunch saying we have to walk the dogs. The walk is always peaceful and quiet as everyone else is at home digesting their turkey meal.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 23RD NOVEMBER 2014.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 16TH NOVEMBER 2014. I had some good news today. David Bond rang to say that Razzle who is one of Enid Teague Knight’s puppies has settled in to being a house dog with him and Phil. Razzle was one of the dogs that had to be rehomed when the Enid’s kennel was closed. David and Phil had had a dog from me when they live in the Isle of Wight. They had to move up to Staffordshire and were by then dogless. I thought of them when we were looking for homes for some of the dogs. Razzle went from a kennel life to a domestic life, which can be a difficult time for both the new owners and for the dog. David says that she settled in immediately. They have had only one ‘accident’ and now when she want to go out into the garden to relieve herself she come to them and shakes her head. That is self taught. Once when she came up to them and they asked if she wanted to go out, she shook her head. Dave says that she almost talks to them. I don’t know about you, but it is wonderful to hear of dogs settling happily into a new life. Jane Ferguson has been showing her Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM in Belgium and he has won two CACIBs and one CAC. One of the judges was English from our A list and the other was a European Allrounder. As of writing this they are waiting for the Group, but as there are about 30 dogs in a European Terrier Group she is not very optimistic. Jane was 4th in the Handling classes on both days and was the highest place UK competitor overall. At the Penzance show the Palmers young puppy, Egloshayle Queen of the May, only six months and one week, went BOB, BP, Terrier Group 4 and Terrier Puppy Group 1. The judge was Sue Garner. The Breed Record Supplement for the 3rd quarter of 2014 is published. 34 dogs have been registered out of 7 litters. That is 124 so far this year, a few dogs down on this time last year. Six terrier breeds have even fewer registrations than us. Out of the seven litters two studs were used twice. There is one export, to Sweden. One dog has been tested for vWD and is clear. Ella Eva 01628 290714 07581 780786 Louella.eva@gmail.com BREED NOTES – 9TH NOVEMBER 2014. Our Breed stand at Discover Dogs at Earls Court was once again organised for us by Judy Thurlow and Pam Stubbington. It was very busy each day and was voted by everyone working on it the best designed stand there. Not that they were biased in any way of course. Thank you to Judy and to everyone who went along with their dogs; they are so good. Leonie St Claire noticed a bit of change in the public this year, more people seemed genuinely interested in the character of the breed and the pros and cons of owning an MT, not just how 'cute' they look. Lots of sensible questions including how much socialisation they need. Earls Court is not easy to get to with dogs and as it was the same weekend as the Lord Mayors Show and the Remembrance service too this year, it must have been even worse than usual. It is the last time DD will be held there. There is now a wonderful team of people who help at both the Discover Dogs events and all the other events where we are invited to have a breed stand; must not forget the dogs as they are the stars, working so hard being petted and stroked all day. I say it every year but it is amazing just how steady and social the dogs are now. There have been some nice wins at Open shows for the breed. At Torquay show Bethany Crawleys Marlablue In a Twirl was BOB and Group 3. The Palmers were showing their new puppy, Egloshayle Queen of the May who was BP and PG4. At Yorkshire Sporting Terrier the Charlton’s Ch Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms was BOB and in the short list for BIS. The judge was Joanne Vickers. Then at Liverpool show Val Savilles Calastoa Isadora at Dobermatian was BOB and won the Terrier Group. We have a gold medal winner in the breed too. The Harrisons Magpiebank Ash has won his Good Citizens Gold. Many congratulations to both him and to Chris who handles and trains him. At an agility event, UKA Bromyard, Nicola Jeynes Dodger did very well, winning one first and three seconds. His new companion, Maisie, went along to get a feel of what a day’s Agility is about. Dodger had his usual fish and chip supper as his reward. He shared it, grudgingly, with Maisie. My Sam is handled for me occasionally when she is able to by Robyn Arnall. Robyn has just won the best Junior Handler of the Year. Many, many congratulations to her from Sam and I. Sam is seriously in love with Robyn. Though he will have to behave better than he did when Robyn last handled him or she might not be happy to take him into the ring again. He sat down on the table and refused to take any more part in showing and even stopped short of the judge at the end of the triangle. Mind you he and all the other MTs showing that day were badly mishandled by our non specialist judge. Is it necessary to lean over an MT and feel all down both sides of the dog and then fiddle endlessly with the rest of his anatomy? The judge was heard to grumble about the quality of his MT entry, but perhaps he should think again about his approach to judging an MT. It was one of those days when you wonder why you go to shows! Ella Eva 07581 780786 Louella.eva@gmail.com
BREED NOTES – 2ND NOVEMBER 2014. Auke and Sandy Krijgsveld are organising the 24th Manchester Terrier Happening on the weekend of the 26th to 28th June 2015. It will be at the Het Veluws Hof in Hoenderloo in Holland. Location: Camping Het Veluws Hof, Krimweg 152-154 ,7351 TM Hoenderloo. The website is ready: http://www.manchesterterrier-happening.com/ The program is ready. There is plenty of camping space; there will be dog games, a BBQ, a walk with your dogs in the forest and a demonstration by Sandy of her dogs playing with the Frisbee. Everyone from the UK is welcome. It is well worth getting your dog a pet passport and booking a place on the tunnel train. Holland is very accessible by car from the UK. Sandy says that everyone who would like to visit this happening in Holland should go to the website for information; click on the picture, you will enter the information part. Sandy and Auke hope to see a lot of English friends in Holland. Christianne Beardow and her Ch Int Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz have had a wonderful win at one of the Channel Islands shows. Stui won Best in Show at the Guernsey Kennel Club Winter Open Show under judge Gavin Robertson of Soletrader. Gavin also judged the Terrier Group. She and Mark are very happy as you can imagine. It also qualifies Stui for the prestigious Dog of the Year competition in Jersey in 2015. They have been trying to qualify for several years but you can only do so by winning either the Puppy Group, Adult Group or Best Veteran in Group at any of the shows held in either Jersey or Guernsey. You have to qualify every year to take part in the final, which is then held in February the following year. A few of us went to the Coventry Foleshill show at the weekend and Sue Pinkham brought Lexi to meet us. If you remember it was Lexi who went missing from the Pet Weekend in Manchester. She is still very battered round her head, above her eye, but her paws are healed. Sue took her for a walk locally and she was quite composed, but she was obviously unhappy at the show with all the crowds and noise. We wish her better and hope that she is back to her happy self again soon. Sadly another young Manchester is missing in the Oakdale, Blackwood area which is in Gwent. Her name is Ella, she is 16 months old and she belongs to Nigel Price. I have just heard that she is home after being missing for two days. “Unbelievable news the wanderer returns. ELLA IS HOME SAFE AND SOUND and apart from wanting her tea and an early bath, Seems none the worse for her adventure.” Nigel wishes to thank everyone who looked for her in all weathers and all hours. She was in someone’s front garden and they thankfully knew how to approach her and coax her into the house. Nigel says that it was the most harrowing Halloween ever and he hopes never to have another one like it. The Oxleys Ch Diglesa De Ja Vu JW ShCM went Best in Show at the Manchester Sporting Terrier show. The Judge was Mike Vickers. A wonderful win for her and the breed and I think the second BIS win she has had. Ella Eva 01628 290714 07581 780786 Louella.eva@gmail.com
Squirrel hunting BREED NOTES – 26TH OCTOBER 2014. Sue Pinkham was setting up the Breed stand at the Manchester pet show with the help of Lesley Olbison and others. It was not the normal calm orderly day on a breed stand. This is Sue’s account of what happened. “On Saturday we were doing a Manchester breed stand at the family pet show at event City Trafford Park Manchester. Unfortunately when I had nipped to the loo and to get something to eat Lexi escaped from the stand and came looking for me. With so many people trying to catch she took fright and she escaped the centre into the car park after a guard stood in front of the automatic doors. Nigel Keates from the stand was in hot pursuit and after 2 laps around the centre she crossed a dual carriageway into another network of car parks. She was last seen running up the middle of a dual carriage-way packed with speeding cars. By this time me, Nigel, Portia, Elizabeth and Sonia Owczarek were in hot pursuit. However despite sightings from public, no trace. We split up and went in different directions me with Portia, Sonia and Nigel. One driver saw Lexi on the road running in the opposite direction and turned around to try and catch her. He saw Sonia with her orange bandana on the verge and stopped and asked her if she had lost a dog with an orange bandana. When she said yes he said jump in and he took her to where he had last seen her and they drove around searching the area. However she had disappeared. By this time Harvey's Army who were at the show heard of our plight and they joined the search. I joined one car whilst Sonia and Nigel stayed on foot searching the verges. Nigel's pedometer said that at the end of the day they had run and walked 9.6 miles. By this time another Manchester owner Lesley Olbinson who lives in Manchester had picked up mine and Nigel's voice message seeking her help in the search. We also had dog search involved, the police, dog warden, BBC radio, security guards, ambulance drivers, taxi drivers, dog walkers all in the search. She had disappeared at 13,00 and we reconvened at event city at 17.30. By this time I feared the worst and rang John to tell him the bad news. I had lost Lexi. At this point I lost the plot and was in the process of starting the search again in my car. Rightly I was stopped from driving. And then a miracle happened. My phone rang and it was Lesley. She had found her over 5 miles away. Lesley had been searching in her car in a radius from the last sighting. 1.5 hours into her search she was in the area where she lived. A friend coming out of a shop told her she had seen her dog going down the next residential road. Lesley knew this must be Lexi and was in hot pursuit. And there she was cornered at the bottom of the road by a young boy on a bike who was trying to catch her after seeing her knocked by a car going at a slow speed. Lesley jumped out of car and with some gentle talking and treats managed to coax her to come to her and get a lead on her; nothing more than a miracle. She rushed her to me and then rushed us to the vets. I left Nigel, Sonia, and Portia behind sorting out my car which was left open. Unfortunately in my haste I had thrown the keys into the boot of Lesley's car when I lifted Lexi out of the car. Lexi’s paws are in a mess and her nails are down to the quick. So she is finding it hard to walk. She has cuts and scrapes all over her and especially on her knees and elbows. We think the car hit her on the left side of her head where she has chunks of fur missing. Her left ear seems to be bothering her so I will get that checked today. She did tell off the paperboy this morning and she is eating and drinking. I am more worried about her reaction to roads and traffic when she is fit to go out. By some miracle called Lesley, Lexi is with us today. I cannot thank her enough; also my thanks to Sonia my rock, Nigel and Portia. Also to Craig Laycock and Lee who looked after the other dogs and the breed stand all afternoon, plus Harvey's Army. I will keep you up to date with her progress. I am one lucky person to have such good friends around me. I have managed to write this today without too many tears. I am slowly getting over the shock. I hurt from top to toe and my back is in spasm but that is nothing compared to Lexi's ordeal.” T his is Nigel Keats account of the hunt. “This has honestly been one of the most stressful, terrifying days of my life - we spent most of the afternoon running across dual carriageways, roundabouts, motorway bridges and massively busy Trafford Centre traffic trying desperately to find her, the relief when we heard she'd been found by the amazing Lesley Olbinson was just massive. Lexi is certainly a very, very lucky girl, I have no idea how she managed to cross some of those roads. Even we nearly came a cropper at one point! There had been an amazing response from the public & others at the show, a wonderful team called Harveys Army sent two cars out looking with Sue in one of them & they were just the most lovely, helpful people who certainly ended up mopping up a few tears. Today was the day, my blood curdled as I pursued Lexi one and a half times round Event City as she kept on running towards every single motorway sign and thank goodness inexplicably turned left at the last junction, to be found 5 miles away, I could not begin to calculate the odds of the dog being found 5 miles away from the busy Trafford Centre and Man utd traffic across 6 lanes of traffic, 5 miles along mostly the centre of dual carriageways. Cars were passing us at blinding speed as we walked the verges. It Is nothing short of a miracle that Lexi was not only found but survived the ordeal. That poor dog must have been terrified. These Manchesters are made of stern stuff. “ What an ordeal, but with a happy ending. To more mundane matters, though the winners will not think they are. At Midland Counties show with Paul Wilkinson judging, the Knights Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors was BOB. The bitch ticket was won by the Scanlan’s Digelsa Dixi chick. The RCC went to the Hough’s Barleydust Harvest Moon out of the Junior class and once again the Dale/ Saxton Rattustrap Top Totty. The Rattustrap team also won BP with Imperial Red. At Gravesend and Medway Towns open show the Fergusons Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM went BAVNSC Terrier under Marina Scott and then went onto win the Terrier Group and RBIS. The judge was Derek Allsopp. The Jane/Finn team keep flying the flag for Manchesters. The list of judges for 2015 is nearing completion. We have Mick Oxley once again at Crufts, Bill Brown Cole at National Terrier, Pauline Gore at WELKS, Martin Phillips at Birmingham Nat, Andrew Brace at SKC, Albert Wright at Bath and then a long gap to Jane Lilly at Paignton and Alan Small at LKA. Carol Dunford judges the Club Championship show and Janet Forshaw the Open show in February.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 19TH OCTOBER 2014. We seem to have too many classes on for Manchesters at too many shows. I never thought that I would say that. It has gone from about 12 shows a year to several shows in a weekend. They may be a good distance apart but if you have the choice of one show on Saturday near to you, you are not going to make the effort to go to a show on Sunday much further away which you might have done if there were no shows with classes for several weeks. On the weekend of the 18/19th October there were at least three shows for the breed up and down the country. At Birmingham Gundog and Terrier the Ferguson’s Ch Felfree Rocket ShCM went BOB and my Sophyla Sam Brown JW ShCM was RBOB, handled for me by Mary Small. Sadly they were the only representatives of the breed. This is a well run show at a very accessible venue in the middle of England; much better than when it was at Great Barr in Birmingham, which was too small and not easy to get to. Finn was in the last 8 for the Group and all the Terrier breeds are classified at the show. On Sunday the breed had classes at the Devon & Cornwall Terrier show and I think at Hillsborough show too. There are just not enough MTs to go round! It seems too that every month there is another show putting classes on for the breed, asking for the show to be mentioned in Breed Notes so that they get an entry. It may be because entries for some of the breeds you could rely on to get a good entry and pay the rent, like WHWTs have dropped to just one or two and organisers are looking for other terrier breeds to fill the gap now that most shows are run on the Group System. Chrissie Bynam’s Didge is continuing her successful career in Agility and is now qualified for Group 6. She is a Gold Good Citizen too! Here are some new responses to the question we all get asked pretty well everyday when we say that our dog is a Manchester Terrier. One man got rather cross when told that the dog was an MT. He told the owner that he had been conned and robbed if he thought the dog was an MT, it was certainly a Doberman as his friend had a Dobe. Another one was told more or less the same thing but this time it was a Min Pin as he walked his friends Min Pin and he knew better. I was advised to have some business cards made with a picture of an MT and all the details of the BMTC web site and to hand those out to people asking what they were. Now that my Minn has died and I only walk one, the queries have almost ceased as I am sure that people think that Sam is a mongrel, or more fashionably a ‘cross breed’. My best one was a couple who asked what they were, which I told them. When they walked away, I heard the wife asking the bloke if he thought they really were MTs. He replied “of course not”. Another one who was walking several Affenpinschers said that if I really thought they were MTs then that was my business. As I had two Champions out of the three on the leads, I was a bit miffed. Manchesters are marvellous. I have just heard that a Manchester has been helping a child face her deep fear of dogs. She was so scared of dogs that when she saw one she was sick. Part of her treatment for the phobia was to live with a dog for a few days. That is where the Manchester came in. When she first met him she cried. The dog sat still beside her not moving and eventually she has been able to touch and stroke him. She cried too when the dog was taken home, because she did not want him to leave her. 
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 12TH OCTOBER 2014. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 5TH OCTOBER 2014. Enid Teague Knight has celebrated her 90th birthday. The Club sent her a card signed by all of us with flowers. Enid is the long term saviour of our breed; continuing the work, over decades, of others like Kenneth Cassells, Diana Snelgrove and many others. Happy Birthday Enid. Mellissa Clifton and I were invited to judge at the 23rd Manchester Terrier Happening this year. Mellissa had to decline and Janet Forshaw and I went to Wengen in Switzerland for the weekend of 19th to 21st September. Wengen is a small town situated at the foot of the Jungfrau Mountain. There could not be a more spectacular venue for a dog show! We were met at Zurich airport by Ingrid Carstersen, who drove us the very long way to get the eclectic train to Wengen. It is the only way to get to the town. There are no petrol cars, no airplanes, just wonderful quiet and pure air. We arrived on Thursday along with our minders and companions, Doreen Barlow and Alice Stanton, on the Thursday. On Friday the contestants, dressed to represent their country, all got together on the local playing field which was the venue for the sports and the judging. We Brits could not think of an English National costume so we draped ourselves in St George’s flags. We were greeted by Rolf Wegmüller, the Director of Tourism. He reminded us that the Brits were among the first to come to the Jungfrau to climb and were a strong force in the town and that the town is dog friendly. The MTs were most inattentive, barking during his speech, he ignored them. The weekend was organised by Christopher Balogh, Ingrid, Lidice Schweizer and Thomas Carstersen. Christopher is the Chef de Cuisine of the Hotel Bernerhof so we were fed most royally during the whole weekend. The first day began with us all walking through the town in our costumes, the dogs dressed too, to the venue then there were games for which the dogs accumulated points to add to the ones they scored at the judging the next day. The dog that won most points in all the competitions won overall and took home the replica of the George Candling Trophy. The most exciting competition was where the dogs had to find articles in a big pile of straw. They had fun, digging and scattering straw everywhere. Anne Dales who is English, now living in France has a puppy which she and her husband had only met the day before. The little one took part in the racing. Ears flying everywhere, she hurtled down the track only hesitating once on the way. Most of the day she slept in her families arms or on their laps. In the evening there was a wonderful candle lit banquet in the covered hall and Anne gave us a violin recital even breaking into ‘When I’m Cleaning Windows’ in imitation of Mick Oxley on his ukulele. On Sunday we got down to the serious business of the conformation competition, me judging dogs and Janet the bitches. Our winners overall were Sandy and Auke Krijgsveld’s bitch Thunder Dragon Caitlin from Denmark. The best dog was Irena Piotrowska’s Azir Metheora from Poland who won the most overall points with him, winning Best in Show. One of the classes I liked best was the Pet Dog class. This gives the people who do not show their dogs a chance to win the overall BIS. It is a thought for our Fun Weekend. It encourages all to stay for the two days so they are in with a chance of winning BIS. Add to that there are some lovely dogs amongst the pets. One dog did not like me going over him and told me so very noisily; but he was lovely and I had to place him. After all we have ‘discerning’ in our Standard and he was vocal but not aggressive. It was a wonderful weekend with lovely dogs, friendly people, good food and endless talk about Manchester Terriers. Thank you to Ingrid, Thomas, Lidice and Christopher for inviting us and making such an unforgettable weekend.  I have just heard of a Manchester being short listed for the Terrier Group being called “Er ummm” when will we be better known?! Ella Eva 01628 290714 07581 780786 Louella.eva@gmail.com BREED NOTES – 28TH SEPTEMBER 2014. LESLEY BRANDER phoned with news that Trevor Gore died. He had been battling cancer for some time. He and Pauline bred the Jabledy MTs and both gave CCs in the breed. Their first love was Dobermanns and like many, they downsized to MTs. Trevor was also the treasurer of the club for several years. I am always grateful to him for his ability to keep track of the Highlights accounts for me when I received cheques for the magazine that included subs for the club. He was a kind, friendly man, always immaculate in a suit. He judged at SKC, which might have been the first set of CCs he gave. It was appallingly windy. The SKC committee members wore hard hats it was so bad. Trevor was his usual immaculate self with no concessions to the dreadful weather. Pauline did not want any cards, letters or phone calls after he died and the funeral was private. The club did send a card from all of us and all those who knew him sent messages of sympathy on the club site. Sue Pinkham organised the breed stand at the West Midland Game Fair and writes: "Another great weekend promoting our lovely breed. Thanks go to Sonia Owczarek with Billy and Evie, my grandaughter Jenna with Lexi, Ann and Chris Harrison with Sophie and Ash and Lesley Olbinson with Darcy for manning the stand. We had some lovely visitors, a number of whom were really interested in the breed. We were located next to the English Toy Terriers which led to some interesting discussions about the history of both breeds and our common genetic pool. We will be back next year.” At Northern Counties Sporting Terrier Show the Walshaws’ Digelsa Diva avec Janmark went BIS against very strong opposition. The judge was Jim McGie. It is always enjoyable to win at the terrier shows; it also qualifies for the finals at National Terrier. At Portsmouth show the Fergusons’ Ch Felfree Rocket went RBIS with Jenny Miller as the judge. At Driffield, the wins were the same, but in reverse to those at Darlington. The Oxleys’ Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu went BOB this time and Rocket was BOS. Our judge was Clare Akrigg, who is in partnership with Carol Dunford with the Quixol Manchesters. At Bedford Rocket went BOB and G1. He also helped Jane Ferguson to a second in the senior handling and Antonia Leech to a third in the not-so-senior handling. This latter is such a difficult class with the age range from 17 to 39. My Sam was handled most beautifully by Robyn Arnall and he and Robyn were placed second in 12 to 18 years handling. They both worked so hard all day and we took two tired dogs home. Nigel Keates did his first stint of judging at Bridgeford where he made the new Rattustrap entry, Rattustrap Imperial Red, BOB and BP and went on to G2, PG1 and RBPIS. That is quite a debut for both of them. Four of us went to Wengen in Switzerland for the 23rd Manchester Terrier Happening. Janet Forshaw and I were to judge and Doreen Barlow and Alice Stanton came to keep us company. Wengen is at the foot of the Jungfrau Mountain. You can only get there by the mountain railway. There are no cars, no planes, the silence and pure air are, to me, unique. The Happening was organised by Christopher Balogh, Lidice Schweizer, Thomas Höusermann and Ingrid Carstensen. Christopher is the head chef at the Bernerhof Hotel where we stayed, so we were royally fed and looked after. There is so much to write that it will have to keep for another set of breed notes.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 14TH SEPTEMBER 2014. In past Notes I have written about other people’s Manchesters that have died, so please forgive if I write a little obituary for my Minn who died on the 5th September. Her KC name was Sophyla Secret Formula. She was born on the 13th June 2001. She was bred out of my Ch Sophyla Sunrise, her sire was Bellbrock Gambling Man. She was a strong dog with the wonderful temperament of Gambling Man. With that wonderful temperament went a complete, and I mean complete, lack of terrier instinct. She would watch a rabbit walk across in front of her without any interest at all. If her mother and daughter disappeared after a fox or deer she would stay by my side, I am sure, wondering what the fuss was about. She won one CC at the Club show in 2002 and three RCCs. Her quarters were not her fortune and despite Peter saying that she was the best dog that we had ever bred, I knew her faults. She was Peter’s dog; spending every evening on his lap. A good excuse not to get up to answer the phone! She stayed beside him until he died. She was the mother of Ch Sophyla Sable and the grandam of Ch & Int Ch Sophyla Sorcerer of Mansiya and through him a host of progeny all over Europe and in the Americas; including Ch Mansiya Casting Circles With Felfree, Australian Champion Mansiya's Yurrugar By Design and Swiss Champion Mansiya Breaking The Rules. To me she was just The Most Beautiful Thing in the World. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 7TH SEPTEMBER 2014. There are two pictures of Manchesters in Dog World. One of Mick Oxley and his Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM winning the Terrier Group at Bakewell show. As he does not take this paper I suppose he will not see it. The other is the Finnish dog in Andrew Brace’s article, winning BOB from the Intermediate class at the World show. She is Ruska-Ahon Oikea Missien Missi. Andrew says that she has American, British and Finnish lines in her pedigree. The British lines are Tyburn, as Nerolie and Liisa Koskinen virtually started the breed in Finland back in the 80’s. There was a breed stand at the Firle show in Sussex. It was manned by Lydia Parker and her Mini and Dave Chapman and his dog Troy. This is the second year they have organised the stand and as last year they and the two dogs were very busy, with lots of interest in the breed and cuddles for the dogs. There is to be another one at Weston Hall is Staffs and Sue Pinkham is organising the stand there for us. Richmond show was dry and warm on Terrier Day. Our Judge was Jeff Horswell. He made Chrstianne Beardow’s Ch & Int Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz BOB. This is the first show that Christianne has shown him after the birth of her son Lucas. She brought Lucas along to show him to us. He is just beautiful, but unimpressed with our cooing and baby talk as he slept through it all. The bitch CC went to Mark Walshaw’s Diglesa Diva at Janmark JW ShCM. The dog RCC was won by Jill Buxton’s Millacombe Made in Heaven out of the Limit Class. The dog CC winner is the sire of the dog RCC winner. The Bitch RCC went to a delighted Carol Wicker with her Mimbre Bombette out of the puppy class and she of course was BP too. Richmond is horribly badly organised. We were directed up to the top car park which is about midway between our benches, but the Terrier catalogues were at the other entrance of the show. Our ring was among the working pastoral breeds well away from all the other terriers. The ring was arranged so that the judge and the show table were under the covered part of the ring. That meant that wherever you sat to watch the judging the sun was in your eyes. The weather forecast for the day was good, the grass was dry and it would have been much better for both the exhibits and the spectators if the judging had taken place at the open end of the ring. The dogs had to trot back to the judge from bright sunlight into the dark and pretty well all of them hesitated as they passed into the dark. The organisers copy Windsor show and put the benching tents behind the ring of trade stands so that you are completely cut off from what it going on in the show and the rings; added to that our tent was a long way from our benches. No wonder so few people use the benches. It may all look beautiful, but it is not nice or easy for the customers, the people who show their dogs. A group of us made an encampment near the ring and after judging went back there to celebrate or lick our wounds depending on how well we had done. We never went near the benches except to collect our ring numbers. Come on Richmond, we are the ones for whom you put on the show, make it user friendly please. One thing that was nice was that spectator dogs were allowed in the show and we met several people who had their Manchesters with them, who were not showing but came to see other MTs and have a good gossip. This is a Canadians comment on dog showing – “ Signs of Dementia - I got up at 4:30 am on Saturday and 6 am this morning in order to spend two long days in the middle of a field alternately freezing and boiling. Now, granted the weather at the show this year was actually pretty good to us, but when one considers we were all there in pursuit of 25 cent ribbons I wonder whether or not any of us would actually pass a check of our sanity. Perhaps we should just pool our funds, make a ribbon order and pass them out over a bottle of wine. It seems safer and saner.”
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 31ST AUGUST 2014. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 17TH AUGUST 2014. The Kennel Club has decided to do away with the Breeders Competition as of next year. They seem to be wondering why it is not as successful here as on the Continent. Where do these people spend their time when they are not at HQ at a Committee meeting? It is held very late in the day. It is as a result not easy to ask your friends to stay on for a few more hours at a probably wet, cold, uncomfortable show when your own breed was judged at 9am and they had to set out for the show at about 5am and had a weary journey down a jammed motorway with endless road works and will have to face the same going back. I agree that there does not seem to be any other time in the show day to hold the class; but it does not make it any easier on the show goers, who are after all their customers. The Hemsells are about the only ones in MTs who show in the class and that is because by some miracle of training Delia handles her team herself. I was once told by a Breeders judge that my team was excellent but it was let down by some bad team work. I thought they were judging the dogs! The consolation is that they are once again going to start promoting the Native Vulnerable Breeds. That is good news, though we are not told what form it is to take. It is poignant for me as Peter was very much involved with the first initiative. At a weekend Horse Trials and Country Fair at Firle Place in Sussex at the end of August there will also be a Dog Festival. Manchester Terriers will have a breed stand there, organised and manned by Lydia Parker and Dave Chapman and their MTs. Sarah Turner is coming along to help with her young dog too. She says he is not a show dog nor does he do Agility. That does not matter Sarah, a Manchester is a Manchester whatever he does or does not do. As the Fairground men used to shout, “Roll up, roll up, everybody welcome.” In America an MT has been disqualified, or NQ’d as they say, from a Barn Hunt trial. I think that is a ratting session without rats. The reason was that he lifted his leg on a straw bale. I find that extraordinary. He is a dog after all and scent marking is an animal’s equivalent of Facebook. How else do they let anyone know who they are and that they have been there. The bale probably smelt delicious to him too. At WKC the winners were the Dunford’s Ch Quixol Alexander winning another CC and the Dale/Saxton Rattustrap Top Totty JW ShCM winning the bitch CC and BOB. The RCCs went to the Knight’s Ch Westbank Blue Diamond For Talanors and the Symington’s Talanors Secret Treat. Best Puppy was once again the Priestman/Freer Felfree Top Oscar. Best Veteran was the Forshaw’s Gloryline Lady Jane Grey. Our Judge was Tom Mather giving tickets for the first time for the breed. Several judges have passed by the Judges Development Panel to give tickets in MTs. They are Lesley Crawley, Dr Geoffrey Curr, Patsy Hollings, Phillip Horspool and Andrew Westwood. Pauline Gore is to judge at WELKS in2015 and Many Churms at Bath in 2016.  Ella Eva 01628 290714 07581 780786 Louella.eva@gmail.com BREED NOTES – 10TH AUGUST 2014 The Rattustrap kennel’s exports are doing well abroad. They have received doubly good news. Finnish, Estonian and Belarussian Champion Rattustrap England’s Own JW ShCM, owned by Paivi Hituri & Timo Virta, was awarded two CACIB’s at The Sawo International Shows in Finland. Onni now has 10 CACIB’s. Then Rattustrap Proper Job (Guinness), owned by Pat Thomas, was awarded his seventh Green Star in Ireland. He is now an Irish Junior Champion and has enough Green Stars to hold the title Irish Champion but must win a Green Star after 15 months of age. Guinness is only 13 months. Wilma van Vessem kindly sends a history of the Manchester Terrier in Europe in recent years. “The first person to import a Manchester into Belgium was Mr. L. Peeters from the kennel v. Edele Brabant, he imported Eaglespur Eastknoyle Belinda. This was around 1964-1965. After him Mr. Dewinter started breeding and then Mr. Lu Peeters and Mr. Kraewinkels. In Holland Mrs. v.d. Ende imported Eaglespur Rosemarie and she kept her daughter (Lady Audrey of the Manchester Ratters). Audrey was mated by Quick v. Edele Brabant and out of this litter Theo van Vessem bought a boy and a girl and started breeding with them in 1971. The first dog that went to Germany was Corduroy's Tiresome Sunny (1971). BREED NOTES -3RD AUGUST 2014. A number of Manchester people attended Gordon Ralphs’ funeral. The crematorium was packed to bursting, people were standing at the back and in the aisles, with his friends, work colleagues and of course Chris and their families. There were several rembrances of Gordon and a short video of him as Jack Black dancing with his MT Inka and then of him with the Olympic torch on its journey through Reading where he and Chris lived and where he was born. Inka came to the service and Pam Stubbington who bred her came with her own MTs; though they stayed in her camper van. It was lovely to see Alison McIntyre and Chrissie Bynham again who have Manchesters bred by either Chris and Gordon or Pam. It was a sad day, but he was remembered with great affection and joy by so many. We have at last had a report on the AGM. Sadly Enid Teague Knight has stepped down from being President and Nerolie de Lavis Trafford has taken her place. Ian Beales was elected Vice President and Lesley Olbison has taken Anthony Arundels place on the Committee. The Officers and other Committee Members stay the same. Why we have to wait until the Secretaries Newsletter for a report of the AGM I do not know. Most of the Members are on email and what goes on at the AGM is important to us all. We are after all members and not all of us are able to get to the AGM. This year was more important than most with the resignation of Enid. She has been at the helm of the Club either as Chairman or President for a very long time indeed. We owe her a debt of gratitude for her devotion to the breed. There cannot be anyone either in the UK or for that matter in Europe and Australia etc who does not have Eaglespur dogs in their pedigree even if it is not for several generations. The news of Gill and Clive Knight’s Ch Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors third place in the Group at Paignton show is not really news now; but it was a splendid win and such a day for the breed, as they say it does not happen every day! Vanessa Cox was our judge, giving tickets in MTs for the first time. She made Blue Diamond [Talanors Smart Treat at W X Talanors Smart Trick at W] BOB out of the Open dog class and that is his third CC. He is the first MT Champion for the Renshaws who bred him and I think that I am right in saying it was their first MT litter too. The Knights wonderful day did not stop there as their Ch Talanors Taylor Made Treat took the RCC, handled by Clive. The bitch ticket went to the Oxley’s Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM and the RCC to the Fergusons Ch Felfree Rocket Sh CM. BP was another Felfree, F Top Oscar owned jointly by Felicity Freer and Carli Priestman. The breed was invited to have a stand at the Pet Show for the first time. Sue Pinkham organised things for us with a lot of help from friends and other club members. One of her friends had made black and tan bunting to decorate the stand. Sonia Owczarex helped to for the first time too. Sonia has owed Manchesters for a long time so it was great to put a name to the face. This is Sue’s report; “This is the first time at this show and we were made very welcome. The dogs behaved so well and were a great hit with the public, so were the handlers. We talked about the Manchester Terriers for two days and I loved every minute. We met a family who had rescued a Manchester's boy last year and they were grateful to have found someone to talk to. I hope we can continue to help them. Thanks go to the following people for their help over the 2 days: Sonia, Judy, Nigel, John, Glyn, Dave, Vicky and Paul; also a big thank you to all the dogs. Without them we would not have been there: Lexi, Billy, Evie, Kita, Ollie, Troy, Sara and Mia. The age span was 14 months to 14 years. Sandy Krijgsveld from Holland has made up her Thunder Dragon Caitlin to an International Campion at a show in Bremen. Thunder Dragon Declan was the Best Dog. What a weekend the breed had.  Ella Eva 01628 290714 07581 780786 Louella.eva@gmail.com BREED NOTES – 27TH JULY 2014. This is Anne Harrisons report on the breeds annual appearance at the CLA Game Fair; “Once again 11 Club members and their 14 dogs represented the Breed in the Working Terrier pavilion at Blenheim Palace where the 2014 CLA Game Fair took place last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Leeds show was blisteringly hot; it must be the first time for two years that it has been too hot for a Manchester! The winners out of the good entry for Paul Eardley, our Judge, were the Dunford /Akrigg Ch Paucelin Armana by Quixol BOB and the Ferguson’s Felfree Rocket DCC. That is his third CC, making him up to Champion and the first Champion in MTs for them and I think the first Manchester Champion too with the Felfree kennel name and out og Felicity’s first MT litter. The Felfrees had a good show as Carli Priestman’s puppy Felfree Top Oscar winning BP too. That is his 4th Best Puppy in Breed and he is only 8 months. The RCCs went to Saxton/Dale Rattustrap Top Totty and the Knights Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors. The Hemsells had a good show too, winning Best Veteran with their Tetani Princess of Darkness and coming second in the Breeders competition. They are good to represent the breed in this competition as it is generally on so late. It is tedious waiting so long to get into the ring for virtually no reward at all. It was nice to see Graham Goodman back in the ring with a new entry, Joemario Moonlit Shadow and winning PGD with him. In his quiet way he has been for a long time a faithful supporter of the breed. I remember one hot Windsor show Graham’s mum had been sitting beside the ring for a long time as our judging was badly delayed. When the time came for her to take her dog into the ring she was missing. Our judge that day was Terry Thorn and he waited for her to arrive, saying that she had been so patient he could not go on until she was ready. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 21ST JULY 2014. There was a minor biting incident reported involving a breed known for its equable temperament. The Judge involved said that he was as much to blame as the dog. A few weeks ago I went on a bit about some of the awful handling our poor Manchesters have to endure. I wonder if any of those involved asked themselves whether maybe it was their handling that made the dogs so jittery. Sadly, I don’t think so; in fact one of them mentioned the poor temperaments in the breed at the moment. That is not true. Some of those who reacted badly to the handling were seasoned show dogs who stand on the table like rocks and endure all sorts of indignities; like having their testicles pinched, their feet picked up and being picked up by the rump and dropped back on their feet. Is anyone in the breed brave enough and with the authority to speak quietly to the judges involved so that our dogs don’t have to endure such handling again? It is all right to say that we can vote with our feet and not show under them again, but what about the newcomers to the breed and those in frantic search for the last JW point or the third CC? Recently Nicola Jeyne’s Dodger won his way into the top band of Agility competition. At a show last weekend he won the Dovedale Speed and Power Final. He was barked on his way to victory by Sharon Hough’s Ruby. Manchesters stick together! I have no idea what the Speed and Power race is, but is sounds impressive.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 20TH JULY 2014.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 16TH JULY 2014.
In Holland at a Dutch Open show in Hoogeveen the puppy I am Ike van de Poosthoornwiek was Best Baby Puppy in Show out of an entry of 135 under Judge Mrs N Horsten. This is news for us as his sire is Banksie [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM]. He gets about that young man. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 6TH JULY 2014.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 29TH JUNE 2014. We all arrived at Windsor with our wellies and wet weather gear as the forecast was for heavy rain and thunderstorms. In the event we had a slight sprinkling of rain for a few minutes and the rest of the day was perfect Manchester Terrier showing weather; not too hot but sunny. Chris Harrison (Magpiebank) was our Judge this year with an entry of 22 dogs. That is excellent as there are no CCs on offer at Windsor now. There is a big rumour going round that at least three championship shows will lose their CC status. If they are those at which we have CCs it would be great to get them again at Windsor. We have always given them a good entry, before, during and after CCs were on offer there and even when there were no classes. I remember the late Arthur Westlake saying when judging the NSC classes that it was Manchesters against the rest. Chris’ BOB was the Fergusons’ Felfree Rocket with the Dale and Saxon Rattustrap Top Totty winning BOS. The other two winners were Val Saville’s Ch Calastoa Man In The Mirror of Dobermatian and the bitch was Judy Thurlow’s Erkenwyne Lady Guinevere. The Felfree kennel of Filly Freer had a good day as the puppy Felfree Top Oscar, who she owns in partnership with Carli Priestman, was BP. It was a lovely show, sociable and gossipy, the weather of course helped and because we were rather late being shown most of us stayed on to watch the group. No luck as usual for the MTs. The puppy had been beaten in one of the stakes classes so was unable to compete. Mind you he did get a very creditable third out of an entry of 29. The BMTC fun weekend is next week and all the weather pundits in the breed say that this dry sunny weather will last until then. I hope so, it is such a good way to get to know people in the breed, to meet other fanciers who don’t appear on the show circuit, pet owners and of course a sunny dry weekend helps. It is also a delightful way to get your Manchester/Black and Tan fix for the year; a whole day with no one asking if it is a miniature Doberman or a Miniature Pinscher. Chris Garret and Gordon Ralphs have been married in a quiet wedding with only their immediate family present. My best wishes for a happy life together and hope to see them again at one of our events. Chris and Gordon if you read this best wishes are coming to you from people in the breed. Gordon is a wonderful photographer and this picture of Sam as a puppy was taken by Gordon.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 22ND JUNE 2014. Some really happy news to start the Breed Notes; Christianne and Mark Beardow have a baby son. He arrived a bit early, but they are both well. Congratulations to them and we look forward to meeting him soon.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 15TH JUNE 2014. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 8TH JUNE 2014 At Three Counties this year our judge was Delia Hemsell (Tetani). She had a good entry for a show without CCs and out of them made Judy Thurlow’s Erkenwyne Lady Guinevere BOB out of the junior class. BD was Leslie Olbison’s Paucelin Andoni and BP was the Cawleys’ Marlablue In A Twirl. Mrs Stewart was showing there after her unpleasant day at Southern Counties. I hope that it was a happier day for her. The Breed Record Supplement for the first quarter of this year has 24 MTs registered out of five litters. This is well down on the 51 registered in the same quarter last year; but is about average as most people usually have their puppies in the summer months. Five different stud dogs were used. One dog has been exported to Finland. Only one dog was tested for vWD and that was clear. I was watching one of the programmes about the D Day campaign and there on one of the maps of Normandy was a village called Rainville. That was the affix of Mr Smith who bred and campaigned his Manchesters in the ’70s and ’80s. He drifted out of the breed and we have not heard from him since. There have been two Manchester sightings in one week. The house next door is having major renovations. One of the blokes working there asked if the dogs were MTs. He knew the breed because his wife works in the registration department of the Kennel Club. Then the man who came to service my wood burner said that his girlfriend had a black and tan dog from one of the local rescue centres and was told that it was a Manchester. They had looked it up on the web to find of course that it was no such thing! I have been to one or two of the rescue centres fundraising companion shows with my dogs. What do we have to do to get the breed recognised? Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 1ST JUNE 2014 Ann Hebb phoned with the news that her Ollie (Ch Sophyla Sterling Silver from Bellbrock) has died. He had been diagnosed with cancer of the liver. Ann had decided that as long as he seemed happy, was eating well and was active she would enjoy his company as long as possible; but the inevitable happened. She came down one morning to find him very ill indeed and had to call the vet to him. Ollie was born on June 4 2003. Peter and I bred him especially for Ann, from the lovely dog Bellbrock Gambling Man; who was bred by Marie Brocklebank and lived with and was campaigned by the Harrisons. He was one of those dogs who could have had a splendid Summer arrived just in time for Southern Counties. It was perfect weather, sunny but not too hot. There was a respectable entry of 17 for our judge Hans Lehtinen from Finland, considering there were no CCs on offer. He was to judge a great many breeds and sadly we were the last. It was a very long wait indeed to get into the ring. The eventual winner was Val Saville’s Ch Calastoa’s Man In The Mirror for Dobermatian and BB was the Walshaws’ Digelsa Diva. While we were still being judged they were calling for the BOB winners. They went on calling for the MT winner and the Bedlington winner. The snag was that Mark Walshaw had also won BOB with his Bedlington and with the best will in the world neither winner could get to the ring. BP was Carle Priestman’s Felfree Top Oscar. He just managed to get to the puppy group ring in time and was rewarded by Ben Reynolds Frost by being pulled out in the last few for consideration. The day was marred by Mr Lehtinen withholding from three of the bitches. That is the second show in a row where this has happened. This time it was from people new to the breed and dogs that they had bred themselves. I hope that they are not too upset by the decision as we need new people to come into the breed, show their dogs off in the ring and maybe go on to great things. We have never had any tradition in MTs of only some dogs being suitable for showing. We simply do not have the numbers to be that picky. Neither do we have dogs that are only good enough to show at open shows. The number of open shows with classes for the breed is huge in comparison with 20 or so years ago but they are not numerous even now and everyone is welcome to show at any level of show where breed classes are offered. After all with no CCs this show is the equivalent of an open show. At Melton Mowbray the Fergusons’ Felfree Rocket ShCM was BOB and then won G1. The breed judge was Mr Manito. If he does not mind me saying so that is a good Affix for someone in Manchesters. He then went on to take BIS under Tom Mather. That is something special for a Manchester Terrier. It does not happen very often. The Fergusons floated home despite all the holiday traffic and the hold ups on the M1! Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 25TH MAY 2014
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We have just heard that Alec Reeve has died after being ill for some time. We all signed a card for him at the National show; but were told that he was very ill indeed. Alec was part of the Harkeats team of Manchesters with his wife Gill and daughter Vickie. He was a quiet, good humoured man, always at Gill’s side helping wherever needed. If you had a problem with your car, needed a dog being held at the ring side, the washing up done or anything else Alec helped with gentle good humour. He and Gill have not shown their dogs for some time and maybe some of the newer people to the breed have never met him; but those of us who did know him will mourn his death. We send our sympathy to both Gill and Vickie
SKC show did not get a good report this year. For once the sun was shining at a comfortable 20 degrees outside; but apparently we were packed into a dark and dingy hall with a black roof and no room to swing a mouse. That is Mick Oxley’s description of the day. He goes on to say that there were hardly any trade stands, they forgot to order the beer licence and charged £5 for the privilege of parking there; what a shambles. I have heard too that getting to the show rings with your trolley and gear was difficult as the path was rough and stony. Jane Ferguson did not mind, her Fin, Felfree Rocket (Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks ex Ch Mansiya Casting Circles with F) won his second CC and BOB. BCC went to the Oxleys’ Ch Diglesa De Ja Vu (Ch Newtonian Slim Shady ex Ch D Double Entendre). BP was the Peachams’ Felfree Touch Of Glam (Ch Mansiya Word To The Wise at Calastoa ex Ch Mansiya Casting Circles with Felfree); beating her litter brother Felfree Top Oscar, owned by the Priestmans. Our Judge this year was Jennie Miller who was giving her first set of CCs to Manchesters. Ella Eva
BREED NOTES – 11TH MAY 2014 This year at the National our ring was in the Argyle Hall. I don’t think we have ever been in that hall at any of the shows held at Stafford. It was a great success, there was plenty of room, a good sized ring with the benching a few feet away. The best thing was that we were able to park about 50 yards away from the benching. There were enclosed grass rings outside where you could let the dogs off the lead and let them have a bit of a run. What more could we ask for? Well, better weather would have been the icing on the cake. Our judge was Jean Lanning who is a Manchester enthusiast and gives us a bit of publicity when she can. She chose as her BOB the Ferguson’s Felfree Rocket (Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks ex Ch Mansiya Casting Circles with F). That is his 1st CC after a string of reserves. It is the first CC that the Fergusons have won in MTs and the first that his breeder Felicity Freer has won with a Manchester that she bred. All very satisfactory, we need new owners to be successful so that they continue with the breed. He then went on to be pulled out in the last seven in the terrier group. I watched with Bethany Crawley and her Lollie; we clapped and gave him a bit of a cheer. Lollie didn’t, she slept peacefully on Bethany’s lap. It had been a long day for a pup. The BCC win was just as good. A newcomer to the breed, out of the first litter she has bred and her first CC for Sue Smith’s Simjest Kiara’s Candy Girl (Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks ex Calastoas Lady Of Meltham at S). RCCs went to two dogs bred by the Dunford/Akrigg team. The dog went to Ch Quixol Alexander and the bitch to their latest puppy, Quixol Soiree (Ch Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms ex Q Quartz). She had never been to any training sessions and this was her first show. She put in a faultless performance and of course went BP too. She was handled by Claire Akrigg, who we have not seen showing for some time. BPD was the Browns’ Talanors Sweet Dreams (Westbank Blue Diamond for T ex Ch T Tomorrows Dreams). The Browns have not shown their Manchesters much recently; it was a splendid comeback for them. The Hemsells team won the breeders competition and were placed second out of four other terrier teams in the final. There was no one to cheer them on because the judging did not start until the terrier group was called. It is not surprising that few people bother to enter this competition. It was a very long wait for them as MTs were judged at 9am. The good times for Manchesters did not end there. Felfree Top Oscar jointly owned by Felicity Freer and Carol Priestman was fourth in a large puppy stakes class, judged by Michael Coad. It was great to see newcomers to the breed winning with their dogs and to welcome back to showing those who had been away from the show ring for some time. At the show we all signed a card for Alec Reeve who is very seriously ill. Writing out the names of the dogs who won and remembering to include their ‘gongs’ made me realise just how hard it is in MTs to win the JW award. Felfree Rocket has won several RCCs, quite a few BPIS, reserves and terrier groups; but because there have been no other MTs in the class in which he was shown he was not able to win the JW. I am sure that this is the same for other dogs in the breed. Down here in the South we do not get many MTs showing and two to a class is the norm. It is an odd way to collect points. If your dog goes BOB then it has generally beaten several other MTs in the other classes though there might only have been one or two in its class. They tightened up the qualification, but now it seems too rigid. When I was showing my Mikey in the ’70s you just had to win your class and as there were virtually no dogs being shown at the time because the champion Eaglespur dog won everything, he managed without a great deal of effort to amass 59 JW points. The points scoring did need a tweak, but it seems to have gone too far the other way. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 4TH MAY 2014 The Annual St George’s Day parade was held in Manchester and as usual MTs took part. The day is organised for us by Ann and Chris This is Ann’s report on the day: "We had the most wonderful parade today – 12 dogs and their families marching through Manchester for St George’s Day. The weather was perfect – sunshine and a cooling breeze, I think the best we have ever had. We were much closer to the front of the column this time, with 50 participating groups it is a huge line-up. This year they had massive puppets of a golden dragon and St George on a white charger at the front of the parade – it looked truly magnificent. It reminded me of the girl and dog they had going round Liverpool, although not quite so big, but the Dragon did have flapping wings! We all had our photos taken by official folk and we did a short interview on camera for Salford Radio. "Fancy dress winners had to be the Hall family, Jack Black (with furry rats that he managed to un-nerve quite a few spectators with), his good lady wife and their two children, one a young maid and one a Victorian chimney sweep; complete with soot covered face and chimney brush. "Lesley’s mum Elsie was the best in patriotic costume with some novel uses for the red and white flags. She came so well equipped even the spectators without flags soon had one to wave! "Trish and Barry C. had travelled the furthest to join us – hope you had a safe journey home, guys! "Our merry band consisted of Izzy, Mr D, Jazz, Fy Meistres, Dee Dee, Bentley, Bella, Lily, Newton, Ernie, Sophie and Ash. They were accompanied by Val and Val the photographer, Lesley, Elsie, Barry, Gayle, Tabitha, Freddie, Dennis, Martin, Trish, Barry, Jane, Phil and son, Emma and partner, Chris and yours truly. Sorry for those names I did not catch, but you were all fabulous company and your ‘Little Mancunians’ (as one gentleman in the crowd called them) did us proud. "The organisers have already invited us back next year, so please join us if you can. Dressing up is half the fun, but we did get some odd looks when we called in to John Lewis to collect a duvet cover on the way home.”
Lancashire White Rose open show was held at the Ledston Equestrian Centre. It is a touch grim. One lady with a young MT dog had to go home without showing him as her asthma was flaring up due to the dust. Sue Smith’s Simjest Kiara’s Candy Girl was BP, PG1 and RBPIS. Val Saville’s Querceti Isadora for Dobermatian was BOB and G2 under breed Judge Nick Gourlay and group judge Graham Tain. BIS judge was Shelagh Tolladay. Then at the South of England show the Fergusons’ Felfee Rocket was BNSC and won G1. The judge was Ken Bartlett. This is a big two day show so they had to return the next day for the BIS judging. It was well worth the trip as he went RBIS. The Judge was Bob Brampton. As a result we did not go to the Marlborough show. This one is held at another equestrian centre and one does suffer from rising damp. We should not grumble, venues that will take dogs are scarce and at least they welcome us. Eaglespur Cedric has gone BOB and G2 at Hardenberg show in Holland. He is owned and bred by Greetje Njhius de Haan and was at this show handled by her young niece Gaby. There is news from Ireland of MT wins. Pat Thomas just about managed to get to South Tipperary ch show where Manchester terriers Int Ch/Ch Jo Mario Maid Of Jazz took BGS and BOB and to our surprise, as it is only his second show, Rattustrap Proper Job took DGS and RBOB. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 27TH APRIL 2014. BREED NOTES – 20TH APRIL 2014 SHEILA Mitchell in Denmark has managed to arrange lessons with Richard Curtiss to train her Manchesters in dancing with dogs. Her MTs already compete to a high standard in agility and rally-o. This will be a new string to their bow. Here in the UK, Chris Dunning and her Ebbie perform in this discipline; including a demonstration at Crufts each year. There is an interesting article in this week’s DW commenting on the almost complete lack of training courses for would be judges in the art of judging, from the point of view of the psychological pressure on judges as opposed to ring discipline, requirements etc. There is one, but it costs £500 and on-one seems to have taken it for a good few years. In my opinion, you should look forward to judging any breed of dog and especially your own breed. If you feel fear or have trepidation then don’t put yourself through the experience. Your attitude should be that you are going to have the privilege of handling a great many of the breed that you love, going over them, talking to them and watching them perform for you and you alone. What could be better than that? With luck too you will have a decent ring to send them round, some good stewards to keep things moving for you and in this country the luxury of your critique to explain your decisions. That is my idea of heaven. Perhaps too you should ask yourself why you want to judge. If it is for anything other than being able to watch and handle dogs then don’t even think of judging. You are not there to reward your friends or your own breeding. You are not there because you fancy yourself being the centre of attention. There are of course a great many things that you will have to face. If you are judging your own breed, you will know pretty well all the exhibitors and many of them for a great many years. You may have to put their dog down the line, but you have the critique to explain your decision. Then in our small, numerically, breed you might be on the club committee and have to face the club’s officers and committee members; but you should be looking at the dog and not the handler. There is nothing more of a giveaway than the judge who looks carefully at each dog in the line-up and then up the lead at the handler. You find then that newcomers to the breed seldom get a high placing! The other article that caught my eye was the probability that the removal of dew claws for ‘cosmetic purposes’ will be banned in Ireland as well as docking. We in the UK routinely remove dew claws from our MTs. In my experience it makes a lot of sense, they can get tangled in clothing or undergrowth causing a lot of pain and panic to the dog. It is difficult to keep MT nails short and harder still to restrict the growth of the dew claw which does not get worn down at all. It is also a bit unsightly as the MT does not have hairy legs! If you judge on the continent you have to get used to dew claws as they are generally left on. I don’t see the reasoning behind the ban. Puppies’ dew claws are removed when they are a few days old and they don’t feel discomfort. Their mum might at seeing her pups being handled. There were three specialist terrier shows over the bank holiday weekend. At Birmingham Gundog and Terrier, Mandy Churms of the Wystry MTs had a super entry and out of them she awarded BP to Sue Pinkham’s Talanors Fantasy Dreams for Pinkadees, who later took PG4. At Northern Counties Sporting Terrier the Walshaws’ Digelsa Diva avec Janmark was BOB and BIS4. The judge was Margaret Hooley. She was also BOB at Manchester Sporting Terrier. In Holland at the international show Sandy Kirjgsveld’s Thunderdragon Declan was BOB, BD and won an excellent in the youth class. He is now a Dutch youth champion. Eaglespur Cedric, owned by Greet Nyhuis de Haan, has had some great wins too on the Continent taking BOB. At both Camberley and Chertsey shows over bank holiday weekend at the Montem Centre in Slough the Fergusons’ Felfree Rocket was BNSC and G1. At Chertsey he was handed by Georgina and at Camberley by Jane. He does love winning. When the winners are sent round the ring being clapped, he larks about, leaping and showing off trying to grab the rosette. My Minn won was there and had a great day too. She is another one who loves the show ring, but I am sure that she is there just for the bribes. What a splendid weekend for the breed. Ella Eva
BREED NOTES – 13TH APRIL 2014 Ella Eva Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 6TH APRIL 2014 Leseley Norris of the Brookstream Manchesters was our judge at National Terrier with an excellent entry. Max King had ensured that we had a good ring, not in one of the draughty annexes as he knows just how much the breed hates the cold! BCC and BOB was Dunford and Akrigg’s Ch Paucelin Armana by Quixol (Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks ex Q Black Byronia) and DCC, his second, went to Val Saville’s Calastoa Man In The Mirror for Dobermatian (Ch Mansiya Word To The Wise at C ex Ch C Ruby Tuesday). BP was Carter and Harrison’s Digelsa Declaration (Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors ex Ch D De Ja Vu). It was a nice win as he is very young and showed his socks off and the owners are new to Manchesters. The Hemsell’s team won the breeders competition and were placed fifth in the final. RCCs went to the Dunford, Akrigg and Walton’s Ch Quixol Alexander (Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks ex Ch Q Betony) and the Greenslades’ Calastoa’s Material Girl, who is the same way bred as the winner of the DCC and was handled this time by Malcolm Abbott. It was lovely to see among the spectators at the ringside Pauline and Trevor Gore. Trevor has been battling with cancer and seems to have won and Pauline her usual elegant smiling self. They were there with Margaret Clowes who used to be the secretary of the club; great to see them again after some time away from the world of showing and Manchesters. Our Judge at Crufts, Kay Aspin, dropped by too for a chat. It was a great day for the breed, we had three wins in other classes, De Ja Vu was placed second in the competition for the best of the terriers who have won BIS at open shows and Henrietta Stewart’s Eulalies Mustard Seed was fifth out of an entry of 18, with Liz Cartledge judging, in the PD stakes; another nice win for a newcomer to the breed and a new breeder, Miss Sandlands. The Fergusons’ Felfree Rocket was placed again in his YKC members stakes class with Mick Vickers judging. Nicola Jane’s Dodger is now in the champions agility competitions and at his very first attempt at this very high grade of agility he had a clear round in the agility, then another clear round in the jumping competition; finishing seventh. Nicola says he might have been placed even higher if she had not made a mistake at the tunnel, waving her arms like a windmill! An onlooker said that the arms were not like windmill sails, it was a split second hesitation before the tunnel. At all events it was a pretty good win. ELLA EVA, 01628 290714, louella.eva@gmail.com BREED NOTES – 30th MARCH 2014 Carol, Barry and Sarah Brown had a really great time when their Daisy took part in a Horse and Hound event. This was a fun event held at the stables where Sarah rides. How it works is that the rider goes round a course on the horse, jumps off, puts on a funny hat and then runs round a smaller version of the course with a dog. Fastest time wins. A friend who doesn’t have her own dog asked if she could borrow Daisy. Daisy had recently had a season and they were wondering whether she would get a bit over-excited with all the running and spectators cheering, but in fact she was brilliant! Out of 12 riders, Carol (the rider), Daisy (the dog) and Rodney (the horse) came joint second! It was a lovely achievement for Daisy and positive promotion for the breed. Daisy’s performance certainly gained her a few additional admirers! She was a star! Bethany Crawley had a good day at Bristol open show where Darla (Digelsa Dancing with Darla) won PG in NSC and Marvin won open in NSC open; as she says "beating the fluffies!” Darla then won BNSC, then beat of the rest of the fluffies to take G1. Our Judge at Crufts 2015 is our chairman, Mick Oxley. He last judged at Crufts in 1999 and is the first to judge at Crufts twice since my records began in 1990. I was scrunching up an old issue of DOG WORLD to make firelighters and there in front of me was a Manchester Terrier. It was in an advertisement for a photographer. There are three pictures of him, looking cheerful and alert. One of his ears in one picture is held sideways. He is looking towards you as though he is just about to take off and do something more interesting. They are lovely pictures and will attract people looking at them more than the formally posed ones that we normally see. I was once severely lectured, and I mean severely, for putting a picture in Highlights of a dog with ears all akimbo that went to work with its owner to Christies, the fine art auctioneers. She used to be allowed to wander about the Chinese porcelain section where the girl who owned her worked. I thought then that it was more interesting to show just how trustworthy and dainty a Manchester was than worry about her ear carriage! We had another picture in DOG WORLD, a sad one though as it was in the obituary for the Oxleys’ dog Ch Diglesa Double Entendre. ELLA EVA, 01628 290714, Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 23RD MARCH 2014. I understand that work is going ahead on research into kidney disease in the Manchester Terrier with the Animal Health Trust. It is not so far a serious problem for the breed, but like most dogs we do get incidents of kidney failure in Manchesters. It will be reassuring to know whether the rate is quite normal or whether we should take some steps to avoid it becoming a problem for us. BREED NOTES 16TH MARCH 2014 There is sad news from the Oxley family. These are Mick’s words on the tragedy: "She has been an ambassador for our breed, the all-time breed record holder with 30 CCs, BOB at Crufts, many championship show terrier group placings, but most importantly she had the most perfect temperament anyone could wish for. You know, to us she was just our Roxy, we can’t recall a time she was ever naughty, she never had an off day, she was our perfect pet. God bless you Roxy our little Princess, words are not enough.” Her Kennel Club name is Ch Digelsa Double Entendre and she was bred out of Stewart Morris’s lovely dog Ch Calastoa Star Light and her dam was Digelsa Dynasty. She was born on Oct 6, 2006. There have been messages from all over the world on her death. London and Home Counties Terrier Club is 50 years old this year and to celebrate it is holding an anniversary show on Sunday Sept 7 at Lockmeadow Market in Maidstone, Kent ME16 8LW. The BMTC, only one of four breeds, has been invited to have a breed stand at the show. Club secretary Gill Thomas is hoping for a good turnout for this special show. Back in the ’70s the show was very grand, held at Picketts Lock in East London, with benching. It was the only terrier show that scheduled every terrier breed. Over the years it slowly went downhill with decreasing entries. The AGMs were held at Caxton Hall in London; each breed had a representative on the committee which made it large and unwieldy. I took over from Betty Napthine as the MT rep. At the first AGM I attended there was a move to change the structure of the club entirely. As a result Mick Homan took over as secretary and Pat Burke was elected chairman. The venue for the shows was changed to Catford in South London; entries improved and the club became financially viable. The biggest entries came from Staffordshire Bull Terriers. It is fair to say that they paid the rent and kept the club alive, SBT people also serving on the committee and doing the jobs that are required to run a show. Manchesters did their bit too with Peter and me on the committee. He took over as chairman when Pat Burke became too ill to continue. Rachel Leeson had a good entry of 16 dogs when she judged at West Torrington. Out of them she made the Fergusons’ Felfree Rocket BOB and he went G2. The Walshaws’ Diglesa Diva at Janmark was BP and PG1; a successful day for the breed. West Torrington is one of the shows that put classes on for the breed way back in the ’80s, when there were very few shows with breed classes. I think that Suzanne Moorhouse persuaded them to put us on and they have kept the classes on all these years, despite some years with very low numbers showing there.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES 9TH MARCH 2014 CRUFTS seems to have gone off smoothly with no long waits as the breed was first in the ring. Our judge was Kay Aspin, who has not judged us since 2009, at WELKS. There must have been a lot of new faces for her this time, especially as there was a good entry of overseas dogs. BOB was the dog, the Charltons’ Ch Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms, handled as ever by Mick Oxley. BCC went to the Dunford and Akrigg’s Paucelin Armana. The two RCCs were won by the same team, with the addition of Rose Walton with Ch Quixol Alexander, and the Oxley team’s Ch D De Ja Vu. BP was Mansiya How Soon Is Now and he is owned by Helen Pais, her daughter and Sarah Leigh. The Pais are new to Manchesters – what a wonderful start to the pup’s career as a show dog. He has a large fan club on Facebook, where he is known a Murray the Mint. There were dozens of messages congratulating him on his win. Gill Knight organised the stand at Discover Dogs for us. It was as ever very busy. Thanks to everyone who helped on the stand and of course to their wonderful dogs. The Keates’ Mabel has a very fetching knitted yellow hat that keeps her ears warm in the cold weather. She was modelling it on the stand and appeared in the Sunday papers wearing it. All publicity is welcome! This is Nigel’s thoughts on Mabel’s hat and his first time helping on the stand: "I am rather chuffed, the dog is Mabel and my daughter Portia. Mabel wore the hat on the Discover Dogs stand on Thursday to gain a little attention from the public and to encourage them to visit our stand. Most thought it rather cute some asked why the hat... I, on occasion regaled my tale of Mabel being bitten by a bull shark on the ear while swimming off Anglesey! Their faces were a picture until I confessed it was just for fun. "Many of the trade stalls saw Mabel sporting her fetching hat and took pictures to pop on their respective Facebook or twitter pages as we visited their pitches. From there the Daily Express photographer somehow managed tracked us down on show day and left his card on our cage – we contacted him and set up the photo. "We were royally treated by Gill Knight and everyone who we worked alongside at the DD stand were fantastic. I can’t wait until next year where I will offer mine and Mabel’s services should we have been deemed to have represented our breed in a positive light. I will have learned and know much more by then, but the hat stays!” Two young Manchester handlers qualified their dogs for the final of the YKC stakes, held at Crufts, Bethany Crawley and Georgina Ferguson. Georgina and her Felfree Rocket won the heat on terrier day. I think that this is a first for the breed, to have two MTs in the competition. Frank Kane was the judge. Ella Eva BREED NOTES 2ND MARCH 2014 Those of us who give CCs for the breed are sometimes asked to sit beside the ring when someone gives CCs for the first time for MTs. We do this on a voluntary basis, only getting paid petrol money. We are asked by the Kennel Club to comment on the general competence of the judge, their ring discipline etc. We are not asked for our opinion on the judge’s placings. I have done several, all with the best intentions. It is not easy, if the judge is a breed specialist they are probably someone one has known for a number of years and if an all-rounder you have seen them around the showing scene for years. One thing that I look for is the way the dogs are handled. The Manchester is not a dog that takes to strangers readily, they take their time and the show ring can be a strain for them until they are used to the routine. There is a word in the Standard ‘discerning’ and it is there for a reason. They also have a single coat with all the faults and good points of conformation for you to see without having to sort around under a long coat. Most of us appreciate a judge who handles as little as possible and who approaches the dog on the table quietly, in a friendly manner. Most of us too deplore the judge that goes back down their line-up and bends down to feel the shoulder. To my mind they should have done that while the dog was on the table and surely they can see the lay of the shoulder, bend of stifle etc, there is no coat hiding the limbs and body. From comments in the media, I understand that the KC is only interested in the judge’s adherence to the KC’s requirements for judges in the ring. The fact that they have upset just about all the dogs that they have handled doesn’t seem to be important! Perhaps that is why we are judged by some, including breed specialists, who make even experienced, older dogs nervous and jittery on the table. Why do we sit there, filling in the forms, when we can see that that particular judge should not be allowed to put a hand on a Manchester ever again, knowing that if they are otherwise a competent judge and will be passed for CCs? Our assistant secretary has to find someone to do the job which is not easy. If our very real reservations are ignored then the task will be just that much harder. The Walshaw’s Digelsa Diva is continuing her winning ways. As Mark says: "This is her lucky seven. Wilma went BPIS at Newark, her seventh such award. She also did very well in BIS taking RBIS. We are totally delighted with this young lady, she never stopped showing all day; a long day as we did not finish until 5.30pm. "Wilma is now relaxing in front of the wood burner and I am pretty sure I will be partaking in a mighty fine red or two. The breed and group judge was Mr A Norcross and the BIS judge the all-rounder Irene McMannus.” Judy Thurlow’s Erkenwyne Lady Guinevere qualified for the East Anglian Supermatch. She writes: "We had a fantastic day at the East Anglian Supermatch, a very well organised event with lovely food, lots of dancing and great company. Kita did me so proud by going through a number of rounds beating a Norwegian Elkhound, a lovely Belgian Shepherd and a rather decent Siberian Husky. "She’s a very special dog to me, a great character to live with, and showing great promise at agility, the showing just being the icing on the cake; very special icing though!” The breed had two special wins at the Martini Dog show in Groningen. Greetje van der Haan’s Eaglespur Cedric was first junior youth class and best dog at nine months old, handled by Ruud Bergstrom. Cedric is by Eaglespur Nelson who the Khars’ imported to Norway from Enid Teague Knight ex Eaglespur Merry Legs. She is another bred in the UK by Enid. I have no record of Cedric and am assuming that Greetje bred him. What is intriguing is the use of the Eaglespur affix. At the same show Sandy Krijgsveld’s Thunder Dragon Caitlin won excellent in the champion class, went BB and BOB. Ella Eva BREED NOTES 23RD FEBRUARY 2014 
There is a lovely picture of Rattustrap England’s Own in Andrew Brace’s column this week and a nice write-up. He is owned by Paivi Hituri and Timo. They took him to the Tallin international show in Estonia. He was awarded the CAC, CACIB and BOB by Andrew Brace. This makes him Fin/Est Ch Rattustrap England’s Own. His breeders Phil Dale and Estelle Saxton are a bit proud of him. At Jarrow and Hebburn the Walshaws’ Diglesa Diva won the following: open NSC, BOB, G2, PG1 and BPIS. This was Wilma’s third BPIS in the last three shows/weekends. It is Wilma’s fourth such award this year and also her fifth in total. She has also been RBIS on two occasions. The BMTC held its ch show recently where the judge was Janet Palmer of the Egloshayle MTs. These are her thoughts on the show: "A big thank you to all who entered under me at the open show; I really enjoyed my day (even though I may have looked like a rabbit in headlights a lot of the time!). "There were a lot of quality dogs, the depth was amazing and cracking puppies which augers well for the breed. You made my task very difficult! "Thank you to everyone who made my day so enjoyable. A special mention must be made of my excellent steward Jeanette Geraghty who ran the ring like she had been doing it forever! (Even though I believe it was her first appointment). Also to Anne Harrison who kept me pointing in the right direction with the paperwork. I could not have done it without you both! "Everyone was so sporting with my decisions and your lovely dogs; as you know you all took home the best one.” Thank you too from all the rest of us to the BMTC hierarchy for putting on the show for us. Janet’s BIS was Dale and Saxton’s Rattustrap Top Totty and the BOS was the Dunfords’ Ch Quixol Alexander. RBIS was Val Saville’s Querceti Isadora at Dobermatian and BP was the Walshaws’ Digelsa Diva and BV the Knights’ Ch Int Ch Talanors Trick N Treat. There was a good paper entry of 78 dogs but with a high absentee rate this dipped to 52. There were lots of visitors, including some from overseas. As is usual now, people came along with their pet MTs to let their pups and adults mix with other MTs and to get a proper ‘fix’ of Manchester terrier. This is about the only place to see a lot of MTs all in one place. The other is of course the Fun Weekend which is back in its usual slot of the weekend of July 5-6 and as usual held at Witney in Oxfordshire. All details will be on the BMTC web site or from our secretary Carol Wicker. There are two serious shows over the weekend, which is perhaps one too many, but they do generate some income to fund the weekend: but there is a lot to do apart from that and the place will be awash with black and tan. Ella Eva BREED NOTES 16TH FEBRUARY 2014 The Breed Records Supplement has been published for the last quarter of 2013. It shows that 196 Manchester Terriers were registered during the year. This is the highest number by quite some way since 2004 and the highest that I can remember. The wonderful thing is that it is possible to sell these puppies to good homes, as there does not seem to have been any steep increase in the number of dogs needing rehoming. From October to December 53 puppies were registered from 14 litters; including three with the Eaglespur affix in the joint names of Enid Teague Knight and Ann Colley. They are the first Eaglespur litters for some time. In the past the breed relied on Eaglespur to keep the numbers bred respectable. Only one stud dog was used twice which is a great step forward on previous quarters where some studs were used several times. Two dogs were exported to Finland and Switzerland respectively. In the year five dogs were exported. Four dogs were tested for vWD and only one is a carrier. The Walshaw’s Diglesa Diva at Janmark has won yet another BPIS at an open show. What a career the pup is having. Carol Wicker, the club secretary, has issued the AGM notices and with them a reminder of the Kennel Club’s attitude to aggression in dogs. It is a breed characteristic that entire male MTs will take a lunge at other entire Manchester males. This is not aggression in the true sense and most of us accept it and steer clear of other male Manchesters with our dogs. It does not seem to happen when the dogs are loose and able to avoid each other naturally. They run loose at the European Happenings and when we have a bit of a party at shows like Blackpool and run them all loose on the beach. However, there are some exhibitors who persist in bringing their dogs around the ring and seeming to deliberately make other exhibitors dogs go off pop. I have hidden behind pillars with my young dog on my lap to avoid the known people but it seems they always find you. They even work their way round a crowded ring so that they can upset a dog in the ring who they know is going to have a go. I, for one, wish they would stop doing it and I know that many others do too. In this month’s Dogs Today there is an article about MTs and the star and the cover girl is Barry Hall’s Tudorbrook New Jazz Age. She is of course named Jazz. Barry is calling her the ‘pin-up princess’ now! He has sent a picture of her to Dogs Today. She is apparently closely studying her picture. It is on their website and as of Sunday had over 1,000 hits. That is wonderful publicity for the breed. Jazz is not the only dog featured; congratulations to everyone involved, it is great for the breed. Ella Eva BREED NOTES 9TH FEBRUARY 2014. Suddenly there is so much news it will take a week or two to get it all in but we start with sad, sad news from Ann and Chris Harrison: "Sadly we had to say goodbye to Monty (Sophyla Salute The Flag). He was 15 years and seven months. "Ella and Peter kindly rehomed him to us at seven months when his first owner died suddenly. He immediately set about introducing us to the world of Manchester Terriers. He won his CC and BOB at National Terrier Centenary Show in 2003, having won RBIS at Manchester and District Sporting Terrier open show the previous week. He then won BIS at Astbury companion show having won the class for the best trick. He was first runner-up in a Lowry dog look-a-like photo competition, run by The Lowry in Salford; a collie-cross won – we was robbed. He won a fun agility competition for different breeds in a pilot TV programme that never made it to the small screen, but he did get to be congratulated by the presenters, Richard Arnold and Julia Bradbury. "His most favourite days out were on breed stands. No matter how long the day or how tired we all were, he would always amble to the front of the pen to wave his tail at visitors and say hello. I remember one occasion when he was so smothered in a pile of toddlers I only had a lead sticking out from the pile, and then another time two oriental ladies grabbed him from behind when he was on the table and one thrust her cheek against his for her friend to take a photo – his face was a picture. "He also has a list of exploits that are not quite so laudable. Like the time he escaped from Chris’ work van and ran round the centre of Stafford, crossing two dual carriageways and a main roundabout before being cornered in a casino – he only caused one (gentle) car crash that we know of. "He was top dog in charge of our house to the very end; no-one took liberties with Uncle Mont. He is buried in the garden next to his best friend Gracie.” Monty’s breeding was ex Ch Sophyla Madame Jacques and by Bellbrock Gambling Man. With a Madame for a mother and a gambler for a father he should not have turned out such a charming dog! I think that he had a wonderful interesting life with Ann and Chris and their beautiful white Lurcher, Gracie, and was charming as a result. My, and I know Peter’s thanks to them for taking on a troubled young dog and giving him such a wonderful, long life. Ann reminds everyone that Manchesters are invited again to take part in the annual St George’s Day parade round Manchester city centre. The date this year is April 27. It involves a gentle two hour walk, starting at Miles Platting; contact Ann for more details. Everyone and their Manchester are welcome. The dogs love the day with other MTs and the admiration from the crowds. Let us hope that it has stopped raining by then. There is a very respectable entry of 65 dogs at Crufts this year for Kay Aspin. The monthly dog magazine, Dogs Today in Fido Facts is featuring the Manchester Terrier. It is published on Feb 13. Barry Hall’s Jazz (Tudorbrook New Jazz Queen) is the dog modelling for the article. There is a picture of her on the front cover as well as in the article.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES 1ST FEBRUARY 2014. Manchester Terriers are hitting the high spots; last week I reported on two dogs qualifying for the East Anglian supermatch, now Dave and Janet Palmer tell me that their Quixol Misty Ivy at Egloshayle is qualified for the Top Dog of Cornwall competition. She is 11 years old and is of course competing in the veteran section. Jane Ferguson tells me that her Felfree Rocket has been invited to the Hampshire Dog of the Year competition. Best of luck to you all, have a lovely evening and we will all be rooting for you. Mark Walshaws Digelsa Diva avec Janmark has won three BPIS awards over about 6 weeks. That is really impressive. Well done to the team Janmark. I understand that there is to be a change of judge for LKA this year; our scheduled judge has been invited to judge the Eukanuba competition in America, which will clash with LKA. There is not much news at the moment. The only current topic of conversation is the horrible weather and an endless procession of muddy dogs to be cleaned up after they have been out for their walks. The washing machine is going full time washing towels and dog coats. We are, I suppose, luckier than those with coated dogs; but if your car is anything like mine it is mud spattered inside and out with Manchester Terrier paw prints everywhere. It must dry up soon?! Ella Eva BREED NOTES 26TH JANUARY 2014. Not one but two Manchester Terriers have qualified for the East Anglian Super Match this year – Judy Thurlow’s Erkenwyne Lady Guinevere (NZ Ch Lindhorne Spellbound ex Brenandi Genteel Gypsy at E) and my Sophyla Sam Brown (Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks ex Ch S Sable). Sam has had to send his apologies but Judy and Lady Guinevere will be there. Judy is buying a new outfit for the party. The match is a very swanky black tie affair and we all wish Judy and the puppy the very best of luck. We have had some splendid wins at various shows this year. The breed is really being recognised now and not before time. I have not been able to keep up to date with them all, but congratulations to everyone for their wins. What awful weather we are having, not MT weather as they hate the wet. I went to a show at the weekend just in Reading, only half an hour’s drive away. The floods have gone down in the past week and we are able to drive from one side of the river to the other without long detours but in just one morning the rain was so heavy that the floods are coming back up with fields and towpaths flooded again. We are very quick to grumble about the organisation of shows, but the Henley show committee did wonders as their outside rings were underwater and all the breeds had to be crammed into the main hall. It all went smoothly and on time. Sam won his class. I am reporting it because he was exquisitely handled for me by Robyn. She is very young but my goodness she knows how to handle a dog to perfection. I think that Sam is in love again. Ella Eva BREED NOTES 19TH JANUARY 2014. Shirley Watson was to be our Judge at Boston show and had drawn a good entry for a show with no CCs. Sadly she was not able to judge. She sends her apologies to everyone who entered and her thanks for the lovely entry.
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BREED NOTES – 25TH NOVEMBER 2013. There have been some nice results in the show ring and three puppies have won their Bronze Good Citizens awards. Why do judges fiddle with MTs in the ring? It really is not necessary. The short coat means that the dog’s conformation is there to see. All you need to do is run your hand over the body to check for muscle tone and coat quality, look at the teeth and maybe check the ears to make sure they have not been tampered with. George Candling used to check the ears. He said he was looking for that strip of tan just inside the ear, but in fact was looking to see if the ear had been cut to make it fall in the right place. We don’t do that sort of thing these days, do we? We manipulate, glue, massage, cross our fingers and hope that they return to the right place after the pup has finished teething.
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BREED NOTES – 17TH NOVEMBER 2013. JUDY THURLOW once again organised the breed stand at Discover Dogs at Earls Court. This is her account of the weekend: "Just home after a great weekend at Discover Dogs. "I would like to thank all those who helped on the breed stand – Pam Stubbington for helping me set up on the Friday; the youngsters had a great time chasing around in our empty part of the hall. On Saturday Sonia Owczarek, Martin Kirkbride, Leo St Clair and Carol Brown, especially her two daughters who were superb at giving the Manchester Terrier patter and on Sunday Chris Dunning, Chrissie Bynam, Sarah York, Dave Chapman and Liz Stedman; but mostly to the many dogs, who were as usual the stars of the show. Apparently on the Saturday there was only one breed that had more dogs than us. Well done team. "Lexi and Sue should have been with us too, and I hope Lexi is now recovered from yet another of her ‘adventures’. See you next time. "As we have said at previous events like this there are more and more people coming to the stand knowing what they are and having them on their ‘shortlist’. This can only be good for the breed and a testament to those who give their time to promote the breed. Saturday was certainly very busy with a constant crowd around us vying for the chance to find out more about them and stroke the dogs Dave Chapman and his Troy took part and this is his thoughts on the day: "Thanks for the opportunity to promote our breed at DD. Troy played front of house all day without flagging and just loved all the meets and greets. "Many thanks to the other members for their sterling work, people loved seeing the daintiness of the bitches there and watching them at play. "A great deal of interest was shown by the visiting public, we told them the history and answered all their questions – they all seemed delighted in their MT experience and the profile of the breed was definitely raised.” Thanks to all of you from all of us for all you do for the breed at DD and at all the other displays during the year. As the old song says, ‘you have earned your little bit of corn’.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 10TH NOVEMBER 2013. DIGELSA Diva is Mark Walshaw’s first Manchester; she has started her career in the show ring in style. At Hillsborough show she was BP, PG1 and then RBIS; this at only six months. She did it again at Chester le Street show, this time going BP and BOB out of NSC, PG1 but going one better than Hillsborough with BPIS. Then again at Yorkshire Sporting Terrier with BP and RBPIS; the breed judge was Judy Thurlow. She made the Goodwins’ Ch Diglesa Dionysus BOB. The Breed Records Supplement has been published and I eventually got my copy. It had been addressed to Peter, even though I ordered it and paid for it. It was delivered to the old house. Very influential people at the KC have tried to get them to understand that Peter is dead but they do not seem to take it in. It eventually arrived here only through the kindness of the people who have bought the house. There were 39 puppies registered out of eight litters, which is the same number in this quarter as last year. The registrations for the first two months were well up on previous years, so we are doing very well keeping numbers up. There are precious few stud dogs being used. The Harrisons now have a kennel name for their first litter – Magpiebank, which is where they live. They tried for Bear Town; Congleton, their nearest town, was once known as Bear Town. The Burgers of Congleton had saved up to buy a bible for the town but bought a bear for baiting instead. Twenty four puppies have been tested for vWD; out of them 11 are clear and 13 carriers. This is a surprising number, showing that the condition is still very much a concern in the breed. There are a number of wins at open shows all sent via Facebook; I hope that I have it all right. Lydia Parker’s new puppy, Doris (Mansiya Decadent Days), was BP at Romsey show and then went PG3 at just six months and two days. At Torquay DCS show, Liz Stedman’s Mansiya Dare To Be Different was BOB and Sarah Leigh’s new pup, Murray (Mansiya How Soon Is Now), was BP. The judge was Beverley Deacon who was so patient and kind to the new kid, who occasionally put all four paws on the ground at the same time. I think that he enjoyed his day out. I have to rely on Facebook as I still don’t have a phone line and the dongle is temperamental. The latest date for the line to be fixed is Monday; do I believe them, no I don’t. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 2ND NOVEMBER 2013. BREED NOTES- 20TH OCTOBER 2013. BREED NOTES 29TH SEPTEMBER 2013. MARGARET Clowes rang with the sad news that her Ch Churnet Cavetina has died. She was 16 nearly 17. She was born on May 26, 1997 out of Margaret’s Churnet Capoushka and Bernie and Margaret Evan’s Coombelane Figaro. She won five CCs, the first in 1999 at National Terrier, where Peter Eva was the judge and then again in 1999 at Leeds and City of Birmingham with Les Aspin and Eileen Needham judging. The last two were won at Paignton in 2000 under Kay Aspin and at SKC in 2001, Brenda Banbury judging. She also won two RCCs in 1999. She is, of course, much missed, she had been for so long part of Margaret’s household. She will be buried in the woods adjoining Margaret’s old house along with all the other house dogs. I am not able to give you any of her progeny etc as my Pedwins programme of all the MTs registered with the Kennel Club in the UK, which was donated to me by Gloria Weiss, does not list her. The whole program seems to be in jeopardy and looks as though I will not be able to keep it up to date from now on. Various boffins have been to see it and tried to solve the problem without any success. Samantha Avenell in Australia has given me some advice on how to get going again, so there is a glimmer of hope. Failing my programme and none forthcoming from the KC, if you want details of dogs, their progeny and background you will have to ask Samantha. The BMTC club show was held at its usual venue and for once we had good weather. The thin metal wall that is usually icy cold making the place like a refrigerator, was hot to the touch this time and the doors had to be opened front and back. It was a welcome change. It was its usual gloomy self though as no sun gets through the high windows. The judge this year was H Hockley and out of a good entry of 82 dogs he made the Charltons’ Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms (Ch Newtonian Slim Shady ex Ch D Double Entendre) BIS and that is his third CC and the first champion for the Charltons in MTs. BCC was Nerolie de Lavis Trafford’s Tyburn Lotis (Eaglespur Nightlight ex Ch T Faedra). RDCC and RBIS went to the Goodwins’ Ch Diglesa Dionysis (Ch Calastoa Starlight ex D Dynasty). I don’t know who won the RBCC as we had to go home after the dogs were judged, but I will try to catch up next week. BP was Judy Thurlow’s Erkenwyne Lady Guinevere (NZ Ch Lindhorne Spellbound ex Brenandi Genteel Gypsy at E). Best breeder went to the Hemsells with their team. We had a good few overseas visitors, the Gregorys from Germany and Theo and Wilma van Vessem. The von Vessems have been breeding and showing MTs in Holland under their Corduroys affix for many more years than most of us in the UK. Theo is the chairman of the MTC of the Netherlands and they are organising a breed championship show in Holland on June 8. The judge will be Mrs J Bode from Holland. Theo is inviting us to go over there ‘in great numbers’. For further information and places to stay with your dogs send an email to them at info@mancheserterrierclub.nl. The day after the show there is an international show in Arnhem offering CAC and CACIB. If you were lucky you could win three CACs in one weekend. I am not sure whether this will clash with the European Happening which will be held in Switzerland in2014. As ever the club show was well run and our thanks to everyone involved, our steward this year, Martin Kirkbride, of course our Secretary, Carol Wicker, Chris Harrison who sets up the show and posts those invaluable direction signs to the show ground and to all the others who did all the work to make it such an enjoyable day for everyone, the dogs, the people showing them and the visitors. We had a good few delightful puppies there as well. ELLA EVA BREED NOTES 15TH SEPTEMBER 2013. A Manchester Terrier has qualified for the Nationwide finals of the tracking contest in America, it is the only terrier. The only problem is that the event is to be held about 2,000 miles away from where the handler and owner live: and we grumble about going up to Scotland. I believe that the American club is raising funds for them to go there and compete. I am still clearing up for the great house move and have come across a South African magazine called Heads and Tails . It is the May 1989 edition. There is an article on what they call Rare Breeds. The Manchester is one of them. The first MT to be registered with the SA KC [KUSA] was in 1892. It was a dog named Prince, owned by D Home. In 1908 another dog named Sam was awarded 3 championship points. That seems to be the last heard of them until 1950 when two ETTs were imported by a Miss S H M Green of Capetown. Then in 1988 Twisel Spirit of Devon was imported into Botswana and shown in S A. That dog was of course bred by Bernie and Margaret Evans from Torquay. Getting up to date 1989 Rannie Scheltens imported Keyline Tatler and K Glorious Disa from the Moorhouses. Apparently at the time there were 5 MTs in Zambia among them one bred by Les Aspin who was our appointed judge at Richmond this year. Darlington show had a decent entry for our Judge Keith Baldwin even though there are no tickets on offer there. Val Saville had a good day, her Calastoa s Man in the Mirror at Dobermatian was BOB and her puppy Querceti Isadora at D was BP. The Forshaw s also had a double, their Gloryline Lady Jane Grey was Best Veteran and Calastoa s Luck Star JW was RBB. The Ferguson team had another double; their Felfree Rocket was RBD and won the YKC Terrier stakes for the fourth time running. Did you see the lovely picture in Dog World this week of him and Georgie? We don t often have pictures of the breed in the paper and this is the fourth one. At Westbury Show Jill Buxton s Millacome Maid in Heaven won BOB out of a big MT entry and then went on to be 3rd in the Group. It was nice to meet Dave Chapman at the show with his Troy. He and Dave were the ones who did the photo session for an article in Dogs Today and with Lydia Parkers help organized and manned a stand at Firle dog show for the breed. The two dogs, Mini Man and Troy were petted and showed themselves off to crowds of people all day without flagging. The puppy, Doris, had to have a sleep during the day, she was so tired. Thanks to the dogs, Dave and Lydia for representing the breed decorating the stand. Ella Eva BREED NOTES 8TH SEPTEMBER 2013. Dave Chapman and Lydia Parker had a great day, representing the Manchester Terriers in the Endangered Breeds marquee at the Firle Dog Show. It was a bit cosy with 10 other breeds and dogs had to be on leads at all times, but all the Manchesters behaved impeccably (3 dogs and 2 bitches), and Ann and Ruth with their rehomed MT's join us for part of the day.
Dave writes Our corner had the best display of all, with great public interest and the dogs were absolute stars, relishing all the hands-on attention and cuddling. By mid-afternoon, poor little Doris (at just 17wks),ran out of steam and just had to retire for a much-needed snooze; but Troy and Mini-Man carried the flag 'til the end of the day, meeting and greeting everyone (canine and human) as if they were friends. One could not have asked for better ambassadors for the breed. I thought of a good way of making the Manchester Terrier experience for our visitors last a lot longer than just one day, by inviting the children to sit, cuddling an MT on their lap, for a photo, which, having got the email address from their parent, I sent to them the next day (including contact details, of course). Feedback reveals they were delighted! The Breed Record Supplement for the three months, April to June this year, shows that there were 63 new registrations from 14 litters; which makes 106 dogs born this year. As the total for 2012 was 124 we are having a wonderful year so far. Several sires were used more than once which is a pity, but I suppose that we have so few studs it is to be expected. There was one Junior Warrant, the Dale/ Saxton Rattustrap Top Totty. Richmond show is arranging their benching tents like Windsor show, with the tents behind a row of trade stands, so that one sits on ones bench cut off from from all the people, dogs, rings and stands; looking out onto a wide strip of grass and the back of tents. The result is that the path that is left on the other side between the stands and rings is narrow and congested and in bad weather gets badly chewed up. Have any of the Committee shown their dogs at the show? I suppose not. You can t leave your dog on the bench when showing another one as you can t see the ring and the progress being made in the judging. The result at both Windsor and now at Richmond, is that we all decamp with dogs and gear and set up with our friends well away from the benches and near our ring. It makes for a much more sociable show for us and our dogs. After all that is one of the reasons we go to shows at such expense. We most of us don t win; we go there to see friends and look at the trade stands. As the weather was good we all had a lovely day in the sun with our dogs. Clive and Gill Knight had a wonderful day too as their Talanors Taylor Made Treat [Ch Newtonian Slim Shady X Ch & Int Ch T Trick N Treat] won her third CC and BOB. The dog ticket went to the Charlton s Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms [Ch Newtonian Slim Shady X Ch Digelsa Double Entendre]. The RCCs were won by the Beardows Ch & Int Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz and the Greenslade s Calastoas Material Girl [Ch Mansiya Word to the Wise at Calastoa X Ch Calastoa Ruby Tuesday] and Val Savilles Querceti Isadora for Dobermatian was Best Puppy. We were judged very late, because our Judge Les Aspin had had to withdraw and Brenda Banbury stepped into the breach. She had a full days judging anyway and we must have been a bit of a burden to her. But she got on with the job and our BOB winner reached the Terrier Group ring just in time. Thanks to her for taking on the judging as she is on our list. Liz Steadman was rather pleased with her Perry, Mansiya Dare to be Different, as he went 5th in a huge Good Citizens Stakes Class, 63 evtries. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 1ST SEPTEMBER 2013. BREED NOTES – 18TH AUGUST 2013 Ella Eva
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BREED NOTES – 28TH JULY 2013. The breed had a stand at the CLA Game Fair again this year. It was held at Ragley Hall in the Midlands. This is Ann Harrison’s account of the day.SMART VIEWS “We had a super spot for our Breed Stand, on the front of the Terrier Marquee with an indoor and outdoor section. This meant we had an outdoor pen 3m square covered with a gazebo for shade, and an indoor section that benefited from open sides to keep us cool. It was a perfect situation but required two full sets of helpers to man front of house and backstage at all times. We had two parades in the KC ring, when we once more had a dozen Manchesters all running loose to the delight of the crowds. The dogs behaved perfectly, in the 3m square ring we had up to 7 dogs from 3 different owners all in there off lead and all getting on famously. Felicity Bundy (aged 3) was in there most of Sunday as well! There were several serious enquiries from visitors from Scotland to Sussex, and one young lady who had been promised a dog when she got to 12 years of age shyly asked if she may go in the pen with the dogs. "Of course!" was the answer, and she was delighted to meet them at close quarters. We also had a couple of visitors who brought their own Manchesters to meet others for the first time, and as is traditional we managed to get one of them to join in the parade with us as well. With a careful rota we ensured that none of the dogs were affected by the heat, and they all got on extremely well, from Monty aged 15 yrs to Josie aged 6 months. Even Martin and Bob managed 3 whole days without killing anything!! None of this would have been possible without the Club members who generously gave of their time and brought their wonderful, patient and dependable dogs with them. I know a couple of owners were nervous that their dogs might not be suitable candidates for the task, but they all behaved like trusted old hands: Carol Wicker and Tony with Solo, Chloe and Josie. Judy Thurlow with Ollie, Gypsy and Kita. Martin Kirkbride with Bob and Tiggy. Linda and John Martin with Marmite. Vicky, Paul and Felicity Bundy with Sara and Mia. Sue Pinkham and her brother Glynn who are most able helpers, and will feel more complete when the puppy arrives! On Friday we met Vicky Lonie with her Rattustrap dog and on Sunday we had the Greaves family with Rosie who had great fun running around in the parade with young Miss Greaves; not forgetting our own Mont and Sophie. Thanks guys, you all did the Breed proud.” Thanks too from all of us to the Harrisons for once again organising everything. They make is a wonderful, happy day. The result is that more and more people are volunteering with their dogs. Believe me a ring full of Manchester Terriers is a wonderful site and draws spectators to the ring side. Even us fanciers have seldom if ever seen a collection of them together. Somebody asked me why we show our dogs as they are traditionally wary of strangers and perhaps to stand them on a table to be handled by total strangers is asking too much of them. I gave the usual answer about seeing other breeders stock, bringing them to the notice of others in different breeds etc., but in fact the main draw to the show ring is to see a collection of them all at one time. How else do you get your fix of Manchester Terrier? At Leeds show our Judge was Max King and the winners were Ch Diglesa De Ja Vu and Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors with Rattustrap Top Totty and Ch & int Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz winning the RCCs. Best Puppy went to Top Totty. She was also place in the Leeds City Puppy Stakes as was Mrs Fergusons Mimbre Gold Medallist. The other Ferguson’s Felfree Rocket won his YKC Stakes Class. Val Savills pair did well at Tonge Show with the puppy, Querceti Isadora for Dobermatian, going Group 4. There was a good turnout of Manchesters at the agility weekend at the Weeting Steam Rally in Suffolk. John William’s Tara won her class with Liz Stedman’s Perry fourth. Sue Williams Rhum won his Veteran class. Ella Eva 01628 634955 ella.eva70@yahoo.co.uk BREED NOTES – 14TH JULY 2013 Here is some lovely gossip about Manchester Terriers doing the job for which they were bred. A friend’s neighbour rang to say that she had seen a rat in her greenhouse and she understood that Manchesters were ratting dogs. Bronte was taken to the greenhouse; she found the rat, shook it until it was dead, left it neatly on the path and walked away. It all took about 20 seconds. It was an impressive performance; all done without a sound and leaving no marks on the rat. Bronte has done a Dolly; she was taken to a neighbouring child’s school, where he gave a talk on the breed, helped by Bronte’s mum, who showed her on a table. The only thing the children did not like was the story about the rat. The downside for Bronte was that she had a very small dinner that night to compensate for the dozens of treats she was given by the children. Mick Oxley has found a reference to Black & Tans in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, Ruddigore. In the first performance of it, the hero who is of course a goodie, but for some reason has to prove that he is really a baddie, sings about all the good things about him and one of them is that he has a Black and Tan. Sadly the song was omitted from the subsequent versions. The operetta was not a success and was tweaked in the hope that it would then succeed. It took some research to find the reference. Talking of Black and Tans our breed has been registered with the KC since its inception and in all that time there is no record of one of them winning BIS at a Championship show. What a fuss has been made of the lovely King Charles Spaniel going BIS at East of England. It is the first for umpteen years apparently. Why are we never recognised? Because we are in the terrier group and cannot compete with the trimmed brigade. We are told that it takes several days to prepare a trimmed dog. Well it takes a dog’s lifetime to prepare a Manchester; breeding, exercise, preserving the coat intact without a scratch or a mark etc etc. If you own and show a Manchester you do it for the love of the breed and not for fame. At Wombwell show the Dale/Saxton Rattustrap Top Totty went BOB and then went onto win Best Puppy in Show. The Breed Judge was Mark Walshaw who has the Janmark Bedlington Terriers and the BPIS judge was Mrs S Taylor. In addition Top Totty won her JW and ShCM . What a marvellous win and day, the sun shone and the new venue for the show was approved by all. At Evesham show the Fergusons Felfree Rocket was BOB and by entering all the classes for the breed he managed to win one JW point. It is impossible these days in the south for a dog to win JW as there are not enough dogs competing. Finn has won numerous BPIS and not one of them contributes to JW, it is a frustrating competition. Evesham is such an agreeable show. It is the day after a Championship show; which means that benches are available under cover if needed. The rings are laid out and all the trade stands from the day before are still trading. This year the sun shone and we arranged our crates in the shade of the trees. The summer has taken a long time to arrive and we are enjoying it. Ella Eva 01628 634955 ella.eva70@yahoo.co.uk BREED NOTES – 7TH JULY 2013. The summer arrived with a vengeance in time for the East of England show. It was hot, almost too hot, but such a relief from the cold wet weather we have had at shows for about 18 months. There was an entry of 14 for our Judge, Ann Bradley. Out of them she made my Sophyla Sam Brown JW ShCM BOB and the Dale/Saxton Rattustrap Top Totty JW Best Bitch and of course Best Puppy. There was a contest for Best Terrier Puppy. The class was a special in memory of Peter Winfield. Top Totty did not stay because it was too hot; which was a pity as Dan Ericsson was judging and he is familiar with the breed and would have given her a good look.
BREED NOTES – 30TH JUNE 2013. Pauline Gore rang this morning with the awful news that Trevor has lung cancer; he was to start his chemo therapy but has had a bad fall, damaging his nose and blacking his eye. He is now in hospital recovering from the fall, which has of course delayed the start of treatment. Pauline wants to apologise to everyone who showed under her at Blackpool because her critique will be delayed. She is visiting Trevor in hospital twice a day and to add to her burdens they have the builders in for alterations that were organised long before he was told he had cancer. She says that when she can she will of course write one. It is terrible news and much sympathy to both of them. To cheer her up I told her how much we had enjoyed her judging. She handled the dogs with sympathy so that they all responded to her. We have had some awful judging this year even at Championship level, with normally steady dogs spooking on the table; it was wonderful to have them handled well. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 23RD JUNE 2013,At a windy and over cast Blackpool show we had some new winners, some taking their first CC. Our Judge this year was Pauline Gore. BOB was the Knights Westbank Blue Diamond of Talanors [T Smart Treat with W X Talanors Star Trick at W] and the Bitch ticket went to the Norris’s Calastoa Whose that Girl with Brookstream [Ch Mansiya Word to the Wise at C X Ch C Ruby Tuesday]. The RCCs were won by puppies; the bitch Val Saville’s Querceti Isadora at Dobermatian [Ch Mansiya Word to the Wise at C X Brookstream Blue Lady]. That is three firsts; the pups first BP, RCC and two new Kennel Names for the breed, Querceti and Dobermatian. In fact there is another first, the pup is out of the first litter of Manchester Terriers that Fiona Steele has bred and she travelled down from Scotland and saw the triumph. The dog RCC was won out of the puppy class by the Ferguson’s Felfree Rocket [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM X Ch Mansiya Casting Circles with F] and that is his first too. Again it is the first Manchester Terrier that the Fergusons have owned and out of the first litter of Manchesters bred by Felicity Freer. It was you might say a very satisfactory day. It is an odd show, rather difficult to get around with the long grass making wheeling trolleys and prams around a serious work out, but so friendly with enough space to watch from the ringside in comfort. Val Saville is having a great time with her Manchesters. The RCC at Blackpool with Izzy and BOB at the Cheshire show, out of a good entry of 14, with her Bodie [Calastoa Man in the Mirror] and a Group 3 to go with it. The breed judge was Joanne Byrne and the Group Marita Rogers. It was not the best showing weather for MTs; very windy with paper blowing round the rings. Bodie was not put off by it all. Not to be outdone Finn [Felfree Rocket) was Best AVNSC Terrier Puppy and was Puppy Group 1 at Whistable show the next day Ann Harrison was reading her copy of the Countryman’s Weekly and came across an article about the KCs Native Vulnerable Breeds. There was nothing in there about the Manchester Terrier, but a stunning picture of a Manchester to end the article. He is sitting down like a Trafalgar Square lion with his head turned to the camera. At the moment we have no idea who the dog is, but he is a handsome fellow. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 9TH JUNE 2013. Manchester Terriers have been invited to take part in the Country Fair and Dog Festival to be held on the 1st September at Firle Place, Firle, Lewes Sussex. Last year some of the Kennel Clubs Vulnerable Native Breeds were invited to take part with a stand each, with leaflets etc about the breed; it was so successful the organisers have decided to invite all the breeds on the list. David Chapman and his Troy are going to represent us. He lives in that part of the country and says that his Troy is used to people and new places and loves attention. I think that Leonie St Clair is looking for another volunteer to help Troy with the work. It is a long tiring day for a dog however enthusiastic. Publicity like this brings the breed to the attention of dog people who probably have never heard of the breed or may not have seen one in the flesh. Thanks to Paul Keevil for arranging this and for keeping the flag flying for the Vulnerable Breeds, the Kennel Club seems to have forgotten that we exist. Paul has a web site for all the breeds, which is worth dropping into when you are using your computer. He welcomes feedback too. The site is called British Heritage Dog Breeds . There is a picture of you all at the St Georges Day Parade and the one and only parade we were allowed at Crufts with Gordon Ralphs as Jack Black. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 2ND JUNE 2013. The Breed Record Supplement for the 1st quarter of this year shows 43 Manchester Terriers registered from 10 litters. Seventeen of them were dogs. This is a huge increase on last year when only 13 were registered in the 1st quarter. Nine different stud dogs were used. The only one siring two litters was a New Zealand import which is fair enough as he brings new lines into the UK and not before time. Another import, from Norway this time, also sired a litter. There was one export, to Australia. Only three dogs were tested for vWD and one of them was a Carrier. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 26TH MAY 2013. Martin Kirkbride is a Pest Controller up in Oldham. He has a Manchester Terrier who he took on after his owner died. Bob was grossly over weight and Martin has managed to get Bob’s weight under control. In addition to that, he realised that Bob had a talent for rat catching. Martin now works him commercially very successfully indeed. Martin chooses the work that Bob does so that there is no danger of injury. He has a 100% kill rate, with only one bite. The rat got him on the nose, which he resented, and responded by tossing it in the air and then crushing it. He must be the only working Manchester Terrier ratter in the UK and possibly in Europe. Jean Price used to work her Manchester Terriers, but had to give up with the introduction of poisons. Jean was employed by a local council so her work had to be done in the cheapest possible way. Enid Teague Knight has sold several dogs who worked in stables keeping down vermin and guarding their owner’s vans. Pam Stubbington also used her Manchesters in the stables when she worked there. Sarah Leigh has a twice yearly appointment with a neighbour to clear the rats out from under the garden decking. I have been asked rather patronisingly when we have shown our dogs at local working terrier shows whether there is any kennel of working Manchesters. There are not of course, but the breed has lost none of its skills. BREED NOTES – 19TH MAY 2013. English bred dogs have done wonderfully well at the World Show in Budapest. Sarah Leigh’s Ch Sophyla Sorcerer at Mansiya JW ShCM was BOB, handled by Ruud Bergstrom. He was also short listed in the Group. The Balogh’s Swiss Ch Mansiya Breaking the Rules was Reserve Best Dog. Ruud also handled Grete Bertlesens Tess van de Posthoorwieke to the Bitch CC. Sorcerer was also BOB at the European Seiger Zuchtsehau in Dortmund.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 12TH MAY 2013. The breed has had some good wins at Open shows. The Dales and Estella Saxton’s Rattustrap Top Totty was BAVNSC Terrier Puppy at the Newark Agricultural show and then was BAVNSC Terrier and Puppy Group 2. She could not win Group 1 as the RBIS was a puppy. Then at The North West Red Rose Special show Val Savilles Izzy, Querceti Isadora for Dobermatian, was BAVNSC Terrier Puppy and TPG2 as well. This pup is out of the first litter of Manchester Terrier that Fiona Steele has bred.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 5TH MAY 2013. The Judge for Crufts next year is Kay Aspin and the Club show was graded Excellent by the Kennel Club Field Officer. Well done to everyone involved. I had sent in the Breed Notes with the results of WELKS before I heard that two Manchesters had been short listed, the Oxley’s De Ja Vu in the Terrier Group and Jane Ferguson’s Finn in a big Puppy Stakes. In addition the Norris’s Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM has in fact sired puppies that have won 5 BPIS. Ann Hebb writes about the problems of doing agility with an entire Manchester Terrier “Oliver and I ( two veterans) have been doing a bit of agility indoors, only a small village hall with only low jumps and all very enclosed; so no A frame. Anyway a small show was organised at Bardney playing fields on Sunday for Grade 1 and veteran. No idea what that means. It was our first time on grass. It was blowing a gale and a bit nippy, thermals required. Ollie was rather high, spring is in the air. We got to have a two minute practice in the ring as no practice ring was available. It was a very large ring with a lot of open green spaces. We managed the first jump then he was off round the ring completely out of control deaf to everything. After that I walked him round the perimeter of the field a couple of times. We went in to the first class With a few obedience commands we did the first half of the course then he saw a couple of terriers playing outside the ring and off he went again; another walk round the perimeter before the next class. Which was a jumps speed for the first half then agility the second half. This time we completed the jumps without a fault and did all but the A frame in the second half. There was another just jumps class after this but unfortunately my transport had to leave early. For those who compete on a regular basis, I put Ollie in medium instead of veteran to see how he coped with higher jumps. I wished after the practice round that I had a nice little bitch. Then I thought well they can be very stubborn. I did wonder if those using a dog seriously have them castrated. Anyway it can be great fun so I will stick with Ollie.” Ann did add that he was so naughty. I can remember watching Chrissie Bynam with her Norman competing in one of the parks in Slough. Norman regularly went out of the ring to say hello to the girls he fancied or to visit the burgher van to see if there was anything that he could scrounge.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 28TH APRIL 2013. The Norris’s have had to put their Bez to sleep. “Our Brookstream Becharmed [Ch Digelsa Don the One X Ch Brookstream Babycham] has been given sleep, at nearly 14 years. She won an RCC & was a lovely specimen of the breed. She didn't really like showing, but proved her worth as a Mum. She leaves two champions sons Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW SHCM & Ch Brookstream Bowmore and grandson Ch Brookstream Louis De Blue. She was known at home as Beryl the Peryl. R. I. P. Bez.”
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 21ST APRIL 2013. First of all an apology to the Hemsells for my mistake in reporting that they had come third in the Terrier Breeders competition at National Terrier. They came second. I carefully looked up the competition on the Fosse Data site and then put in the result incorrectly. Sorry Terry and Delia, a stupid mistake. We all make mistakes, in a critique in this weeks paper, my Sam was called a Cairn. I was talking to Paul Keevil about the disappointing lack of support from the Kennel Club now for the endangered native breeds. This sort of occasion and airing for the breed must help enormously in getting the breed better known. Thanks again to everyone, it sounds as though you all had fun.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 14TH APRIL 2013. Mandy Churms went to see Enid Teague Knight after the Club’s AGM. “Just to let you all know that Enid would like to say thank you to everybody for her flowers and certificate of appreciation.
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BREED NOTES – 7TH APRIL 2013. What a day we had at National Terrier, the sun came out; it was dry and almost warm. The dreadful winter seemed to be over for one day at least. We even had a ring in the main hall so that the dogs were in the warm and could show themselves off properly. Bev O’Neill of the Megellan MTs was our Judge with a super entry. She made the Oxley Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM BOB winning her tenth ticket. The DCC was won out of the Novice and PG classes by Jill Buxton’s Millacombe Made in Heaven [Ch & Int Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz X Talanors Magic Moments for M]. This was his second Ch show; he won the RCC at the first, Crufts, and now the CC. The RCCs went to the Hituri/Virta Rattustrap Englands Own and the bitch RCC was won by another Rattustrap, Top Totty, who was also BP. The Hemsell’s team won the Breeders class and were second in the overall Terrier Breeders competition.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 1ST APRIL 2013. There is good news from Eaglespur. Enid is up and about. A stair lift has been installed and she is able to get around in the house on a frame. She is feeling much better and is looking forward to maybe seeing us all again.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 24TH MARCH 2013. There has been what was called “A technical hitch” in the distribution of the BMTC Year Book. Ann Harrison gives the details: - “Just to let everyone know that Carol Wicker has now posted out the 2013 Yearbook to all Full Members who had not already collected one in person at the Club Show or Crufts. Unfortunately there appears to be a gremlin in Norwich Mail Centre who does not like Manchester Terriers, as I received yesterday a package of 6 Yearbooks in a plastic bag with a note to say: "The enclosed items were found loose in the mail at Norwich Mail Centre. We hope this does not cause you too much inconvenience. We handle large volumes of mail every day and try to keep these occurrences to a minimum." Presumably I got them because my address is on the inside cover. The Club held a very successful Seminar on the breed last week at Shenstone Village Hall. Weren’t we lucky with the weather? A terrier show due to be held at the hall this weekend 23/24th has had to be cancelled because there was so much snow. Here it has not been too bad, but so cold with biting easterly winds. The young dog does not mind, but my poor old Minn hates it. My niece’s Weimaraner is telling her that he needs a bed made up on the sofa, in front of the fire and a duvet to cover him. If she ignores him he shivers and groans. It is not only MTs that are suffering! Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 10TH MARCH 2013. Crufts had a big entry for Trevor Gore [Jabeldy] to sort out. His eventual winners were the Morris’s Ch Calastoa Amber Nectar [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM X Brookstream Flower at C] going BOB and winning his fourth consecutive CC at Crufts and his second BOB. For those of you who collect wins and statistics, I am fairly sure that no other dog has won so many at consecutive shows. That is his 10th CC. The bitch CC went to the Oxley’s Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM. BP was Jill Buxton’s dog Millacome Made in Heaven [Ch & Int Ch Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz X Talanors Magic Moment for M] and he won the dog RCC as well. His litter sister, M Maid of Magic, was Best Bitch Puppy; a lovely win for someone so new to the breed. The Bitch RCC went to the Knight’s Talanors Taylor Made Treat [Ch Newtonian Slim Shady JW ShCM X Ch T Trick N Treat].
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 3RD MARCH 2013. Sheila Mitchell in Denmark has had some lovely wins with her Manchester Terrier Terri. On Saturday she was entered in rally-o in the "experience" class which is the 2nd class in rally here and she passed with 95 points out of a 100 and came 3rd in the class. As it’s the 3rd time she has qualified she is now a master in that class. Then on Sunday she had her first go at obedience and much to Sheila’s surprise she worked really well and qualified and came 2nd. in the class.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 24TH FEBRUARY 2013. The BMTC held its Open show on the 23rd February with an entry of 64 for our Judge Felicity Freer of the Felfree Manchester Terriers. The BIS winner out of the Limit class was Paucelin Armana by Quixol [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM X Q Black Bryonia], bred by the Sandrings and owned by the Dunfords, Clare Akrigg and Rose Walton. RBIS was the Oxley’s Ch Digelsa De Ja Vu JW ShCM and BOS Hituri & Virta’s Rattustrap England’s Own, handled as ever by Estella Saxton. The Dale/Saxon team won BPIS too with Rattustrap Top Totty [Digelsa Diamond Geezer at Lizelms X Egloshayle Sea Sprite of R]. Best Veteran was Nerolie de Lavis Trafford’s Ch Tyburn Faedra [Eaglespur Faithful Edward X Ch T Berenice]. There was a great atmosphere at the show, so many people new to the breed brought along their puppies who all were playing with each other and with the big dogs, not a cross word to be heard all round the show ring. Lesley Howard Smith and her daughter Charlotte said that their Monty had a wonderful time, as did Carole and Barry with Daisy and Dave Chapman with his Troy. It was heartening to see them all. My Sam fell in love several times over. There were many new to the breed showing, many new Affixes too. That is what we need to keep going as so many older members are retiring. I hope that some of them stay with the breed for the future. The Field Officer visited and gave the show a gold star. The only grumble was that the place was freezing. Our dogs had their padded coats on and were bundled up in blankets; when they came out to show or go outside their ears and feet were very cold. The owners of the venue had changed the heating arrangements and despite the Treasurer shovelling coins into the meter hourly it was very cold indeed. I dislike the venue and this was the last straw. There are other venues out there, central, warm and not too expensive surely we can find another. We have a single coated breed; it is perfectly hardy but starts to shiver when asked to stand in the cold for any length of time and that means in the show ring. On a personal note, the sound equipment was new to the show. It had been bought by Peter Eva for Slough & DCS, when that folded it sat in a cupboard in our garage for several years. I found it when clearing out the garage prior to moving and donated it to the Club in his name. Thank you from all of us to Carol Wicker and the Harrisons and all those Committee Members who put on a well run, friendly show. We do appreciate it. Ken Broxup was Steward for the day; thanks to him too. The Forshaw’s Calastoa’s Lucky Star qualified for her Junior Warrant at the show; congratulations to them and to her.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 16TH FEBRUARY 2013. Because she is so ill the Eaglespur kennel of Enid Teague Knight has had to be closed and the dogs dispersed around the UK. This is the end of a lot of Manchester Terrier history. Enid did not actually save the breed after the war; she was one of several people, Kenneth Cassells [Sorisdale], Miss Snelgrove [Evorglens], Miss Mankin, Billy Hardwick [Oldlane], Miss Samuel [Sajoka] and Miss Keefe [Hallgarth]; but she is the only one surviving who has continued to breed and show her Manchesters. There is probably no Manchester Terrier in the world that does not have an Eaglespur dog in its pedigree. Kenneth Cassells remembers going to her home in Shatterford, Worcester on the way down to shows from his home in Scotland; staying the night and literally talking the night away about the breed. They discussed all aspects of the breed, who to mate to who, temperament and health. These talks were vital at the time as there were precious few Manchester Terriers left after the war and they wanted to avoid the problems that could arise from inbreeding.
BREED NOTES – 10TH FEBRUARY 2013. The Finnish dog, Rattustrap England’s Own JW, bred and shown in the UK by Estella Saxton qualified for the POTY awards. He is the first Manchester Terrier to do so. Estella says that it was an honour to represent the breed among the cream of young dogs. She says that Onni did us proud and went like a dream. They had lovely, positive comments about him. She and Phil would like to thank everyone for all the kind messages on Facebook, emails, phone calls and cards. Onni won BOB at West Midland Terrier Show and was short listed in the Group too. Our Judge was Bethany Crawley, judging the breed for the first time.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 3RD FEBRUARY 2013. The Norris’s are arranging the Super Pups competition on the 20th April 2013 at the Hemswoth Miner’s Welfare Club in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. The closing date for entries is the 6th April. You can get all details of the event and entry forms from Nigel on 07714957733. The puppies must be between 6 months and 14 months of age on the day of the competition. The Dales went last year and said what a good evening it was. I hope that we get a few MTs entered this year. Val Saville has a pair of rubber boots which were sold to her as ‘indestructible’. Just to keep them out of the reach of her Manchester Terriers she puts them behind the dog gate. She came down this morning to find no boots, just a lot of black rubber fragments all over the kitchen floor and her two Manchesters, Bodie and Izzy, with innocent faces. They of course had nothing to do with the accident. It must have been a rubber boot fairy. Jane Ferguson took her Finn, Felfree Rocket, to Rugby show. There were no classes, but he needs the practise as his attitude to showing varies from perfect showmanship to complete hooliganism. He must have shown well because he won Best AVNSC Terrier Puppy and the Terrier Puppy Group. The judge was Vanessa Cox of the Pettypaws Australians and ETTS. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 20TH JANUARY 2013. I was reading the critiques in Dog World to find that the Pynes new puppy had a wonderful win at Exonian show at the beginning of December last year. There was one class for the breed, with eight entries and the Judge, Robert Greaves, made their Brockenella’s Chancer at Budleigh BOB, Best Puppy and he won both the Terrier Puppy Group and the Group. Not mentioning the win is too modest of the Pynes. It is a pleasure to put this sort of news in Breed Notes.
Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 13TH JANUARY 2013. Barbara Simpson of the Leircote Manchester Terriers has died after a very brave battle with cancer. Barbara came into Manchester Terriers after a long association with Belgian Shepherd dogs and Chows. She wanted a dog that was smaller and easier to maintain. She bought Sophyla Shotgun Affair from Peter and me in 2005. By the time these Notes are published the funeral will have taken place in Leicester. On behalf of all her friends in Manchester Terriers, I would like to send much sympathy to her family. Ella Eva BREED NOTES – 6TH JANUARY 2013. I see from Dog World that the American import, Am Ch Oakwoods Special Edition was the Top Brood Bitch for 2012. I don’t usually comment on this type of win as they smack of pot-hunting, but this time it is special as I think that she is the only import since the 1940’s that has had such an effect on the breed; the other being the American dog, Gwinny Willows Thunderstorm, imported by Enid Teague Knight. He, like Shelby, was not able to be shown as he had cropped ears. She was imported in 2008 from Kimberley Schiff and is out of a bitch with English lines behind her, Keyline and Sophyla. On her sire’s side she has Gary Anderson’s Scooter behind him who also has Keyline in his pedigree. Shelby has had two litters - one to Ch Calastoa Amber Nectar producing Ch Mansiya Word to the Wise at Calastoa and a litter to Ch Sophyla Sorcerer of Mansiya producing Ch Mansiya Casting Circles at Felfree. Children and grandchildren have been exported to America, Canada, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Australia where Aus. Ch Mansiya's Yurrugar By Design has been crowned top Manchester Terrier and best Rising Star for 2012. There are many grandchildren in the ring here and most have gained their studbook number. Her latest grandson to enter the ring, Felfree Rocket, went BPIS at his very first show. Ella Eva Manchester Terrier Breed Notes 10th February 2012 Carol Wicker Manchester Terrier Breed Notes Monday 15th August 2011 Nice to see that there were 9 different stud dogs used this quarter and for 7 of the bitches it was their first litter. There were 8 Stud Book entries, 1 Champion certificate and 1 Junior Warrant awarded if you come across any judges at Open shows who look as if they need to learn about the breed then don't be shy and tell them about it too. They can always contact me for details. Also, Mandy is in need of articles for Highlights so get your pen and paper out and tell us about something interesting that you have done with your MT. Carol Wicker Manchester Terrier Breed Notes April 12 2011 Well, once again my apologies for the lateness of these notes - I just don’t know where the time goes. All the puppies went to their new homes at 8 to 9 weeks and have all settled in well. I have kept a girl and one is just as difficult to care for as six. She needs entertainment and training although I must say she is really very good. She just does what the adults do, most of the time. This weekend Ann Harrison and a band of helpers are once again taking part in the St Georges Day parade through the streets of Manchester City centre – they had a brilliant welcome last year and are hoping for a repeat experience this year. If you live in the North West and can get to Manchester contact Ann if you wish to take part or alternatively just turn up to cheer them on their way along the route. Well, that`s about all for now. If you have any news you would like me to mention in these notes then please get in touch. Carol Wicker Manchester Terrier Breed Notes Sunday 13th February 2011 Hello everyone, Phil Dale has asked me to include the following piece about the virtual dog show being hosted by the Americans Payments can be made in person at shows etc or sent to me, please no cash by post. Carol Wicker Manchester Terrier Breed Notes Friday 14th January 2011 Hello everyone, Manchester Terrier Breed Notes Thursday 23rd December 2010 Hello everyone,
Manchester Terrier Breed Notes Friday 10th December 2010 Hello everyone, I hope you are all coping ok with this Arctic weather we are having. Here in the East it has not been too bad, most of the main roads are passable although it is a slippery affair on the side roads. Over in Norway, Eaglespur Nelson, the latest addition to Kirsti Kahrs family, won Best of Breed with CC and CACIB at his very first show - The Nordic Winner Show . He also got the title Nordic Winner 2010. There was an entry of 25 Manchesters. Carol Wicker Manchester Terrier - Breed Notes 23rd September 2010 AGILITY NEWS. The UKA had a 3 day show last weekend at Thatcham and MT’s had a very successful time. Chris Garretts Lacinka Liquid Silk (Bee) won, on both consecutive days, the beginners steeplechase and on the last day Chrissie Bynams Lacinka Liquid Gold (Didge) won the steeple chase. Carol Wicker and Solo won the points needed in the steeple chase to move up to novice. We also have a new enthusiast who has a Rattustrap dog, Turpin, who did 2 runs in the steeple chase and got 4 very respectable clear rounds giving him 3rd and 2nd places. Judy Thurlows Gypsy got 3 clear rounds and 2 4th places in the steeple chase and jumping. While her Ollie also got 2 clear rounds. Well done to all of you. Sandra Boards Lacinka Liquid Fire (Flame) came 2nd in the Cani-x race Paws in the Park show handled by her brother as Sandra had hurt her back. I hadn’t heard of this kind of event before – you have your dog attached to you with a lead and have to get from one point to another in the fastest time to win. So they must have gone like the clappers! SHOW NEWS Christianne Beardrow and Stui went to France, I don’t have the name of the show but he won CAC, CACIB, BOB and was short listed in the terrier group. Chritanne said she was made very welcome despite not speaking very good French. Trevor (Harkeats Intrepid Icon at Gwenkaz) passed his silver KC good citizen award and was handled by Denise. H was even more pleased because the Luton Dog Wardens received the GOLD award fo the 3rd year running for their stray dog procedures – I know how much hard work you all do so well deserved. Keith Irwin from Austrailia updated us on the case of Teena the MT. A court case had been brought against her owner, who’d owned her for 8 years, for cruelty. He said she’d attacked him but was proved wrong. Keith would like to thank all those who wrote about the MT’s chracture in her defence – it paid off and she free of him and living with a new family and he was found guilty and fined $3000 plus court costs. The James Wellbeloved magazine featured MT’s this month and is very good I’m told. I’m looking forward to seeing a copy. Sad news. Janet Benton has lost Buffy (Megellan Equinox) a few weeks ago. Janet is very upset as Buffy was her constant companion. They did sponsored walks and agility together and were a great team. I’m very greatful to Janet that she gave Buffy such a loving home as she didn’t have a great start in life and needing a new home. Thank you again Janet. Bev O’Neill - beverly.oneill@fsmail.net Manchester Terrier - Breed Notes13th September 2010 Birmingham Ch Show, Winners were: • BOB – Palmer’s Egloshayle Black Rosewyn Sh Cm Richmond Ch Show, Judged by Alan Small (Bethane) • BOB – Oxley’s Ch. Digelsa Double Entendre It was also decided that the GM should stay at Birmingham and not rotated as in previous years. There have been two new trophies presented, one is for the K.C Breeder class at the Club Champ Show, and the other is for wins in the breeder class at general champ shows. Val Hart would like to donate a trophy for agility wins, with a points system to be worked out. Maybe the club should look at more as so many members now do agility and are doing extremely well. In any other business Judy Thurlow wishes to pass the appointment of Cup Steward on for champ shows. It was decided that the cups would be awarded at the AGM exept for Crufts & the Club Show, as it’s so hard to keep track of them. The Club Seminar will soon be upon us (25th September) if anyone would be interested in attending the morning session, please let Mandy Churms know, as spaces are limited. All places for the judge’s assessment are now filled. Manchester’s really are getting places frequently and are winning at all kinds of shows in agility. Well done to you all, it’s really good for the breed. Bev O’Neill – beverly.oneill@fsmail.net Manchester Terrier - Breed Notes1st September 2010 A few things which I left out last time are the wins for the Hemsell dogs. At Alfreton open show on July 11th under Roger Crooks, Tetani Spirit Vision won best AVNS Terrier and Tetani Wizard of Dreams won best AVNC Terrier Puppy and puppy group 1. At Bakewell Show on 3rd August, Tetani Wizard of Dreams won Best Puppy in Breed & PG2. What a great start for the young chap! At the Welsh K.C Champ Show Peter Bakewell judged and made the Morris’s Ch. Calastoa Ruby Tuesday BOB. RBCC was won by Gill Knights Talanors Special Treat, The DCC was won by Lesley Branders Churnet Concerto at Menfreya and the RDCC was won by Stuart Morris’s Mansiya Word To The Wise at Calastoa. Best Puppy was won by Mr. Tyrell’s bitch pup Larkswing Grand Glider. There’s a few now sitting on 2CC’s, I hope they get their titles very soon! On 25th August at Mansfield & Dist C S Limit Show, the Hemsell’s Tetani Kesseny Dhu won Best Veteran In Show. Monmouth Show was held on 26th August, there were no classes for MT’s but Mrs. Foy judged the AV Terrier classes and made Liz Hammetts new puppy bitch, Digelsa Take for Brydel was Best AVNC Terrier Puppy & PG2 Good news, Flump from the Golden Oldie’s website has now got a new home and is doing really well. Thank you Nicola for sending me information on how the agility shows work! If anyone has any news please contact me on: beverly.oneill@fsmail.net Beverly O’Neill Manchester Terrier - Breed Notes August 2010 A very busy month indeed, so I’ll only write a skeleton report. The fun weekend was held at Witney Rugby Club on 31st July – 1st August. The terrier racing was won by Friday Fitch owned by Fay Fitch. Pet dog show main winners were: • BIS – Cocker Spaniel, Abbie There was a get-together in the club house in the evening with a quiz, auction and games (see club site for photos). Sunday was the limit show with Keith Baldwin judging dogs and Barbara Simpson judging bitches. Limit show winners were: • BIS & BPIS – Dale and Saxton’s Egloshayle Sea Spute of Rattustrap A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the fun weekend such a success. Paignton Show Judged by Lesley Brander • Sh.Cm BOB Palmers Egloshayle Black Rosewyn, • BOB – Norris’s Ch. Brookstream Marcus Banks JW Sh.Cm Bournemouth was judged by Mrs. C Cartledge and her winners were: • BOB – Oxley’s Ch. Digelsa Double Entendre JW Sh.Cm Megan O’Neill – beverly.oneill@fsmail.net 30th November 2009 Mansiya Word to the Wise owned by Sarah Leigh,Stewart and Carol Morris won Best Puppy in Breed, best of breed and Reserve Best Puppy In Show today at Manchester Sporting Terrier. The judge was Max King 15th November 2009 Good news has come in from Bolsover Show today, Gill, Alex & Vicky Reeves new puppy came out for her first show and won best Manchester Terrier Puppy and Best of Breed. Gill tells me Harkeats Imperial Imp went on to win best AV terrier puppy and then went onto win reserve Best Puppy in Show. The judge was Rodney Oldham. Its so good to hear that Gill is back in the show ring again and that the long journey to Newark was worth the trip. mandy.churms@virgin.net Mandy Churms. Notes 12th August 2009 Hi, Notes 23rd July 2009 Hi I am particularly keen to have stories about Muriel and any stories about rehoming. Notes 7th July 2009 Preparations are continuing for the the BMTC fun weekend (1st and 2nd August). If you still havn't booked in then download the forms from the BMTC website and get them sent off asap. Notes 26th June 2009 Blackpool Championship Show was held today, 26th June 2009. Best of Breed went to Stuart Morris and his Calastoa Ruby Tuesday. Judging was consistent with all but one of the first place winners being sired by similair lines.
http://www.fossedata.co.uk/entry.asp?ref=WMTS_NOV_09 Bev O'Neill tells me that she currently has three male dogs in need of rehoming. Mandy Churms Notes 7th June 2009 West Midland Terrier Society held a Breed Specific Seminar & assessment on the Manchester Terrier. It was run in association with The British Manchester Terrier Club. The whole event went really well and feedback was very positive. Notes 7th April 2009 National Terrier saw Mrs Kay Aspin judge the Breed. She made Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM Best of Breed Mandy Churms Notes 24th March 2009
Sunday 29th March 2009 10.30am Mandy Churms Notes 9th March 2009 Discover dogs at Crufts proved a great hit for all that came to see. Gil Knight and myself spent a healthy 3 hours on Wednesday afternoon getting the booth ready. Mandy Churms Notes 22nd February 2009
Best Puppy - Harkeats Her Highness Hope you are all looking forward to Crufts 2009 Mandy Churms Notes 5th February 2009 I Will try and keep news running more prompt this year. 1) Gil Knight is putting the 2010 calendar together and has asked BMTC members to thnk about sponsoring a month. Please send any requests to her directly. She has 9 months already booked so interest is keen. 2) I still have a few 2009 calendars for sale. I will take them to the club show if you wish to purchase one, alternatively please send a cheque for £6.00. 3) West Midland Terrier Society is hosting a Manchester Terrier Breed Seminar in Association with the BMTC. It will take place at Shenstone Village Hall on the Sunday 7th June. More details will be available soon, please check out the WMTS website. www.wmts.org.uk 4) There are still a few test kits for vWD (Type 1) available from Ray Dunford at a price of £55 this price will only be for a short time. 5) Keep a look out for the forthcoming Manchester Terrier health survey, the breed needs a good response to prove we are a healthy breed. 6) the BMTC fun weekend has been confirmed as the first weekend in August. Again check out the BMTC website for more details as they come available. 7) The BMTC club open show will be having its Open show 21st February. If you are interested in seeing the breed you will be made welcome. 8) BMTC Membership is now due, no reminders are sent , if you have not paid please contact Ann Harrison. annandchrisharrison@tiscali.co.uk 9) Please remember to look at your recent newsletter and try and attendthis years AGM. Mandy (now Mandy Churms) NOTES 7th July 2008 Results from the world show are hot off the press, it looks like we have the first British home bred International Champion to congratulate, in Gill andClive Knights CH/INT CH. Talanors Trick N Treat. She has 6 CC's here plus 2 equivalent CACIB's in Belgium and has gained her Crown today in Sweden with another one.Winning the Champions class on Wednesday at the speciality and then the Champions class again today with Best of Breed at the World Show proper. Fantastic news and congratulations to Gill and Clive and of course Tia. NOTES 30th JUNE 2008 The Manchester Terrier Breed rescue will now be co ordinated by by Mrs Ella Eva. www.british-manchester-terrier-club.co.uk NOTES 6 MAY 2008 The British Manchester Terrier club have anounced that the new breed rescue
The British Manchester Terrier Club held its AGM on Saturday 23rd March. After the meeting the membership sat down and had an informal chat about Mandy McFadden
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showing career, but just would not show. He was handsome, well made and had the very best of temperaments. A puppy from him would continue Ann’s line from her famous dog, Ch Midnight Marine. The first puppy to be born was a bitch and so were the next four. I began to despair of getting a pup for Ann. My Sunrise suddenly decided, after seeming to have had finished whelping and had settled with the pups that she had another one and to my joy it was a dog. You can imagine that pup was precious; he was looked after like the crown jewels. Ann campaigned him and made him up. He won five CCs and three RCCs from 2003 to 2006 from some very distinguished judges. He was the first in the breed to win both JW and ShCM. He and Ann competed in Britain’s Got Talent, dancing together. After his showing days were over, though he still was winning from the veteran class, he and Ann competed at agility. Many members of the BMTC have sent their sympathy and I of course do too. Peter and I were very proud of him and happy that Ann and Dave gave him such a good home.
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JW ShCM X Ch & Int Ch. T Treat and Treat] [That is what the catalogue says is the dam’s name, but I think that it is Trick and Treat] BOB. The Bitch CC and her first went to the Walshaws Digelsa Diva avec Janmark [Westbank Blue Diamond for Talanors X Ch Digelsa Double Entendre JW ShCM] out of the Junior Class. The RCCs were won by Val Savilles Calastoa Man in the Mirror at Dobermatian ShCM [Ch Mansiya Word to the Wise at C X Ch C Ruby Tuesday] and out of Puppy Sue Smiths’s home bred Simjest Kiara’s Candy [Ch Brookstream Marcus Banks JW ShCM X Calastoas Lady of Meltham]. Best Puppy was of course Kiara’s Candy. 
