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The Official Newsletter of The American Whippet Club
August 2012
In this issue
AWC: The Official Poop
The WRAP Report
Letter to the Editor
Carol H. Willumsen memorial
AWC Western Specialty
critiques
Judging In Sweden
Come Hell or High Water
Performance and
Obedience Reports
The American Whippet Club Table of Contents
OFFICERS
President’s Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
David Samuelson, President
651.454.4174, [email protected]
Editor’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lisa Costello, Vice President
Scot Northern, Secretary
Gail Boyd, Treasurer
AWC: The Official Poop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The WRAP Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Carol H. Willumsen memorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Board of Directors
Henry Heil, 619.445.1777, [email protected]
AWC Western Specialty – Judge’s Critique . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Christine Hopperstad, 206.322.5872, [email protected]
AWC Western: Sweepstakes – Judge’s Critique . . . . . . . . 32
Karen Lee, 610.932.4456, [email protected]
Judging In Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Crystal McNulty, 309.579.2946, [email protected]
Cindy Scott, 719.594.9974, [email protected]
The Swedish Whippet Club’s National Specialty. . . . . . . . . 40
Class of 2013: Henry Heil, Christine Hopperstad, David Samuelson
Come Hell or High Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Class of 2014: Lisa Costello, Scot Northern, Cindy Scott
Performance Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Class of 2015: Gail Boyd, Karen Lee, Crystal McNulty
AWC COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Obedience Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bo Bengtson, 805.646.3151
Futurity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathy Slater, 618.585.4677
Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Connie Austin, 217-498-8661
Dr. Connie Brunkow, [email protected]
Dr. Lisa Costello, [email protected]
Judge’s Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Dukes, [email protected]
THE WHIPPET NEWS
Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackie Hubble, 719.272.7037
Christine Hopperstad, Newsletter Editor
130 34th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112
Parade of Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice VandenBussche, 315.945.2672
Performance Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Lisa Costello, 815.695.1930
ROM Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gail Boyd, 919.362.4427
Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cindy Scott, 719.594.9974
Top Twenty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda Waggoner, 541.347.2171
Versatility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharron Lane, 615.418.7216
AWC Show Chairs
National. . . . . . . . . . . . . Cindy Scott, 719.594.9974, [email protected]
Eastern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harriett Lee, 434.295.4525, [email protected]
Midwest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Richey, 330.806.6945, [email protected]
N. Central. . . . . . . . . . . David Samuelson, 651.454.4174, [email protected]
S. Central. . . . . . . . Kathy Rasmussen, 913.681.8929, [email protected]
Southern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken Latimer, 706.296.5489, [email protected]
Western. . . . . . . Pam Magette, 562.598.8717, [email protected]
AWC Breeder referrals
Mary Downing, [email protected]
INDEPENDENT WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS
Whippet Health Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Beth Arthur, 414.355.4776
Whippet Rescue, WRAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Barbara Henderson, 301.490.6598
AKC DELEGATE
ASFA DELEGATE
Bo Bengtson, 805.646.3151
[email protected]
Claudia Miller, f/k/a CJ Foxx,
303.589.9238
Applications for AWC membership may be obtained either on request from
Membership Chair Jackie Hubble, 719.272.7037 or on the AWC website:
www.americanwhippetclub.net
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On the cover: Self-portrait of Keith McCandless and Deacon (Can. Ch. Alcyon
Tinker Tailor, owned by Anne Jacobs and Keith McCandless)
exploring back roads in eastern Washington.
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Kirsten Hopperstad, Associate Editor
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President’s Message
Greetings Members,
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of long
time Whippet enthusiast Carol Willumsen, Wilcare
Whippets. She was a breeder, judge and top competitor
for decades. In the show ring she had great success with
her Ch. Wilcare Aged in Wood. She, along with her good
friend Jean Balint, also enjoyed a joint venture on the
racetrack with Coalby of Wyndsor, a top competitor. Carol
was a lifetime member of The American Whippet Club
and dedicated much of her time as an officer of the AWC,
serving as Secretary and Treasurer. Although I did not know
Carol very well, I had the opportunity to sit ringside with her
good friend Kathy Davenport at the Waukesha supported
entry weekend in July shortly after Carol’s passing.
Kathy spoke of a recent trip she, Jean Balint and Claire
Newcombe had made to visit with Carol in New York. I
can only imagine the laughs and good memories. What a
comfort it must have been for Carol to share the company
of her good friends. An AWC donation to Carol’s charity of
choice, Take the Lead, was made in her memory. Please
see the Memorial for Carol on page 24.
The Board has been busy this month. As I reported in last
month’s newsletter, the By-Laws have been approved by
AKC. The newly approved By-Laws are now available on
the AWC website. Work continues on the update of our
not-for-profit status with the IRS. I am working with our
tax professional to complete all of the requirements. All
paperwork should be submitted by the end of this month.
I will keep you updated on the progress.
The Board of Directors entertained jurisdiction for charges
filed by a member against another member for alleged
misconduct surrounding the 2011 national held in Lexington,
KY. The hearing was held August 9, 2012. The hearing
committee consisted of seven Board members with the
two remaining Board members serving as witnesses only.
A decision was reached and details can be found in the
Secretary’s report of this newsletter.
In the coming months, the Board of Directors will continue
work in a variety of areas. The website redesign is still on the
agenda and we hope to have more to report on that soon.
Plans for the 2013 National in Eugene, Oregon are well
underway. Committees are organizing so please volunteer in
your area of interest. At last year’s National, I worked with
the Judge’s Education group to present the new Illustrated
Standard to prospective judges. We found it to be quite
helpful. I hope to incorporate a similar discussion for
breeders and exhibitors at this year’s national.
We discovered two discrepancies between information
listed on the website and the official roster in regards to
which states belong to each of the six AWC regions. After
consultation with members in Missouri and New Mexico,
both regions will move to the South Central region.
I would like to welcome new members Lorraine Burch
and Diane Murray to the club!
For those of you coming to the North Central Specialty,
I look forward to seeing you and your Whippets!
Until next month,
David
Editor’s Notes
Dear Readers: Another big issue this month and lots to
read and dogs to admire. – It’s been obvious in the last year
or so that Bo Bengtson has become a frequent contributor
to the newsletter on a variety of topics and I am never less
than delighted to have his submissions. Thank You Bo!!
– This month includes information about a recent Board
hearing addressing the Lexington National Specialty. –
Carol Willumsen, a very special member of the Whippet
fancy recently passed away. She had a deep and abiding
love for Whippets and an unforgettable presence and
it’s still hard for me to accept that she’s gone. You’ll find
memorial pages and a lovely recent photo of Carol
with several dear friends in this issue.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS: Liz Aiello, Clifton, NJ; Frances
Hochberg, Chicago, IL; Thomas Laurie, Panama City
Beach, FL; Katrina Nicholls, Tokanui, Southland, New
Zealand; Melissa Schnyder, Center Valley, PA; Candy
Stepan, Louisville, CO; Tammy Stephens, Young, NSW,
Australia; Nancy Tuthill, Sharpsburg, MD
WELCOME BACK: Ruth Brown, Scottsdale, AZ; Susan
Manthou, Lacey, WA; Mary Huff, Hartland, WI; Erin Rich,
Aptos, CA
TIME TO RENEW: Phillip Allen, James Clever, Kathy Winder
Christine
August 2012
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APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP
Diana M. Farthing, 2843 SE Virginia Ave., Topeka, KS,
66605, 785-250-7828, [email protected]. Endorsers:
Katie Rudolph and Robin Breit
Comments regarding applicants may be mailed to AWC
Membership Chair Jackie Hubble, 5472 Spoked Wheel Dr.,
Colorado Springs, CO, 80923, or emailed to sagehound@
comcast.net and should be sent no later than 30 days after
the applicant has been published in The Whippet News.
AWC SHOW CALENDAR
AWC National Specialy – Eugene, OR, April 21-27, 2013,
www.awc2013.com
AWC North Central Specialty – Friday, 8/24/12 (Specialty):
Sweeps Judge Dee Halley (Halstan), Breed Judge Karen
Dumke (Nonsuch); Saturday, 8/25/12: Breed Judge Cindy
Scott (Brookwood); Sunday, 8/26/12 (Supported entry):
Sweeps Judge Steve Hockstein (Bayleaf), Breed Judge
Connie Alexander (Kachina)
AWC Southern Specialty – Thurs 10/18/12 (MAWA
Specialty): Breed Judge Ann Meyer (Simbali Ridgebacks
and Whippets), Sweeps Judge Margaret Norkett (Kenmar
Whippets); Fri 10/19/12 Douglasville KC: Breed Judge Luc
Boileau; Sat 10/20/12 (Southern Specialty) Atlanta KC:
Breed Judge Judy Lowther (Pfyre Whippets), Sweeps
Judge Stephanie Mason (Mason Hill Whippets); Sun
10/21/12 Newnan KC: Breed Judge Stephan LeVan (Irish
Wolfhounds his initial breed)
PAST WHIPPET SPECIALTIES
The following records of Whippet specialty shows which
have not already been recorded in WN were listed on AKC’s
website on July 17, 2012. Sweepstakes results, Best Puppy,
and Awards of Merit are not published by AKC.
The large discrepancy between the number of entries
and number of dogs competing at the afternoon SCWA
specialty on April 13 is due to the heavy rains and hail which
almost caused the show to be cancelled.
47. Number of competitors: 22 (11 dogs, 11 bitches). BOB
Ch. Oxfords Princetons Center of the Universe. BOS GCh.
Fanfare’s Cordova at Runners. Select Dog N/A. Select
Bitch GCh. Orion’s The World Is Not Enough. WD & BOW
Tobell’s Bold of Lightnining of Poli. RWD Chelsea Body
Like A Rock Star. WB Premiere Sportingfields Naughty By
Nature. RWB Darjeeling She’s Bone-A-Fied Sonsteby.
American Whippet Club, Huron, OH on April 18, 2012.
Judge Dr. C. S. Brunkow. Number of entries 502. Number
of competitors 439 (185 dogs, 254 bitches). BOB GCh.
Winway Million Heiress. BOS Ch. Talk of the Nation De Sud.
Select Dog GCh. Fanfare’s Cordova at Runners. Select Bitch
Ch. Fanfares Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. WD Fanfare’s Forgetmenot
Hillbilly Rock Star. RWD Aberdeen’s Bookmark. WB & BOW
Kamada’s New York Minute. RWB Plumcreek Heartlight.
Results from the AWC specialty held with Oklahoma KC
on June 30, 2012, were not yet posted by AKC on July 17.
Bo Bengtson
NOTES FROM THE WESTERN
Once again the weather gods smiled upon us as exhibitors,
dogs and spectators enjoyed a beautiful day at the AWC
Western Regional Specialty. And, even though the lumpy,
bumpy grounds were still evident, they were, at least,
camouflaged by a greener, more manicured lawn that
helped to showcase our lovely 100+ entry.
Great thanks are extended to our judges for the day: Jeanne
Lambertsen (Watch Me) who presided over our Sweepstakes
entry of 41 romping Whippet babies; and Mrs. Patricia Trotter
who adjudicated our Breed entry of 106. I know all exhibitors
appreciated the judges’ obvious enjoyment of the challenge
at hand; as well as their thoughtful consideration of all exhibits
from an experienced breeder’s perspective.
Big kudos to our Ring Steward, Doris Bandoian, for managing
the ring so efficiently, and for sharing her mother, Agatha,
who willingly sold catalogs and lent a hand where needed.
Southern California Whippet Association, Silverado, CA,
on April 13, 2012. Judge Tracy P. Hite. Number of entries
43. Number of competitors 43 (20 dogs, 23 bitches). BOB
GCh. Solaris Saxon Shore Hypnotiq Kamio. BOS Ch. Watch
Me Life In The Fast Lane. Select Dog Ch. Countrywinds
Vapor Trail. Select Bitch Ch. Oxfords Princetons Center of
the Universe. WD Tangens Triton X-100. RWD Nysa Hill
Timeless Tempo of Bohem. WB & BOW Zafara Cat in the
Hat at Summit. RWB Summit Hoop Dreams.
The day could not have happened without the unwavering
support and assistance by my crackerjack Show Committee:
Rachel Amado, Trophy Chairman; Daniel Lockhart, Auction
Chairman; Henry Heil, Kim & Tim Tucker and Christy
Nelson—our Hospitality team extraordinaire! Extra special
thanks go to Tim Tucker for his fabulous performance as
“right-hand man” and “chief lugger.” Unfortunately, when
the BIG day came, some of my key members were on the
D.L. (disabled list). Rachel battled a sprinkler…and lost…
damaging her knee; and Daniel’s back flared up at the most
inopportune time…necessitating a back-up crew.
Southern California Whippet Association, Silverado, CA
on April 13, 2012. Judge Harold Tatro III. Number of entries:
Words cannot describe my relief when pinch-hitters Ed
& Mary Jean Odron stepped in to take command of our
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auction and assist with the exhibitor reception following the
show. Both were great sports and I was selfishly delighted
that they were not exhibiting this year. Special thanks also
to Dianne Bowen, my mom Lois and a whole crew of my
non-Whippet friends who happily collected auction bids
and helped wrap up (literally) the day! And, on behalf of all
in attendance (and those who were not), great appreciation
to our shutterbug, Angie Diehl, for capturing the day on
“film” and sharing her pix.
In addition, my heartfelt thanks go to all of our trophy donors,
auction contributors and exhibitors who came together in
support of another successful Western Specialty.
Finally, just a word about next year’s relocation of the
Western to the wonderful oceanfront property adjacent to
the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. There
were many opinions expressed at the show, everything
from consternation to great delight. There were several
factors at play in the decision, not the least of which was
improved accessibility for ALL western region Whippeteers;
better quality and safety of the show grounds; and the
logistical challenges of presenting the event in the middle
of nowhere. The Long Beach venue, with its spectacular
shoreline views and follow up shows, including the Kennel
Club of Beverly Hills and the Long Beach Kennel Club,
offers a beautiful end-of-June alternative that fits the bill.
I hope for the fancy’s indulgence and collective open mind
as we move forward with this new adventure. I promise to
do all I can to create the high caliber event you all deserve.
See you at the beach!
Pamela Magette, Show Chairman
Western Regional Specialty
Show Report
EUGENE NATIONAL
Sue Carbajal, Red Tatro and I are working out the details
for the new Show Treasurer which we will be implementing
in 2013.
The website is www.awc2013.com and you will soon start
seeing info about the National on the site.
The trophies this year, besides the plates will be the
beautiful artwork of Yvonne Sovereign.
WESTERN REGIONAL
Pam Magette, the Western show chair will be posting some
other info in this edition but I just wanted to throw in a big thank
you to all that helped out this year for the last show in Lompoc.
Secretary’s Report
On June 13th, 2012, an American Whippet Club member
brought charges against another AWC member for conduct
prejudicial to the American Whippet Club. Specifically, the
charged member “abused the position as the 2011 National
Show Chairperson to further their own agenda; i.e., converted
AWC funds for their own use.” In accordance to the By Laws,
a hearing was scheduled for August 9th, and both parties
were advised of such, and asked to submit witnesses to
provide testimony. The hearing committee, was comprised
of 7 of the 9 current Board members (the two most closely
involved in the situation served as witnesses only).
On Wednesday, August 8th, the Secretary and President
were notified via email that the charged member was
sending a certified copy of their resignation letter to the
Secretary. As of August 15th, this certified letter had yet
to be delivered. However, although the charged member
attempted to resign from the club, via an unsigned word
document attached to an email, prior to the hearing,
according to the By Laws: Article 1, Section 4, Termination
of Membership. “Membership may be terminated: (a) BY
RESIGNATION. Any member in good standing may resign
from the Club upon written notice to the Secretary; but no
member may resign when in debt to the Club.” Therefore,
resignation was not an option, even had a certified signed
letter been received.
A hearing was conducted on August 9th in accordance with
the current rules set forth in the AWC By-Laws. Witnesses
were interviewed and bank statements and other expense
reports with relevant dates were considered, particularly
those from dates well past the period where charges could
legitimately have been consigned to the 2011 National.
During the hearing, the charged member chose not to
call in, and advised their previously submitted witnesses
to not participate.
The hearing continued as scheduled. Based on this review,
the hearing committee determined that the charges would
be upheld. The hearing committee then voted unanimously
to suspend the charged member from the American
Whippet Club until the next Annual Meeting (held at the
2013 National), at which time the hearing committee is
recommending that the membership vote for expulsion
of the charged member from the AWC, in accordance to
the AWC By Laws. Additionally, pursuant to the AKC’s
“Rules Applying to Dog Shows: CHAPTER 11, DOG
SHOW ENTRIES, CONDITIONS OF DOGS, AFFECTING
ELIGIBILITY, SECTION 15” the American Whippet Club
continued on page 6
Next year it will be a new adventure in Long Beach and
hopefully will draw a great crowd.
Cindy
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continued from page 5
will instruct all AKC licensed superintendents to “decline
any entries…from its show for cause,” and prohibit the
charged member from entering all American Whippet Club
events until full restitution has been made to the AWC. The
AKC was consulted and notified the AWC that declining
entries would include any and all dogs where the charged
member is listed as either the owner or co-owner.
Until next time, hugs to your Hounds,
Scot Northern, AWC Secretary
Futurity Report
I am pleased to announce that Rhonda Gifford will be
the new Futurity Chairman starting with the 2014 Futurity.
Rhonda will publish all of her contact information, as the
switch over time gets closer. Join me in welcoming Rhonda
to the position!
For your planning purposes, Bitch Nomination Forms,
starting with litters whelped on or after October 24, 2012,
will need to be sent to Rhonda. If you have a litter due close
to this date, send that nomination to me and if necessary, I
will forward it to Rhonda.
The 2013 Futurity will be held on April 23, 2013, in Eugene,
Oregon. Nominated litters born on or after October 18,
2011, up to and including October 23, 2012 are eligible
for the 2013 Futurity.
It’s time to start thinking about your possible nominations.
The nomination process to select the 2013 Futurity Judge
will begin in November. Breeders will be asked to nominate
two different names of individuals with the qualification of
“hands on experience” with the Whippet breed and who
are in good standing with the AKC. You must be an AWC
member to participate in the nomination/voting procedures.
Late Bitch Nominations waive their right to participate in
the judge selection process.
As a reminder, copies of CERF Certificates or a copy of the
application for a CERF Certificate (the actual exam paperwork
marked normal in both eyes) must be submitted for both the
sire and dam with the Bitch Nomination Form. If the exam
paperwork is submitted, copies of the CERF Certificate(s)
must be sent with the Litter Nomination Form. CERF
examinations are valid for one year. Nominations received
without the required CERF paperwork will be returned.
At this year’s National, the AWC Board of Directors clarified
the wording covering sires/dams over the age of 8. The
simplified wording is as follows:
“If you use a sire/dam over the age of 8 it has to have a valid
CERF over the age of 8.” A copy of the last CERF Certificate
must be submitted with the Bitch Nomination Form.
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Example: If the stud dog is 10 years old and received a
CERF Certificate at the age of 8, he would not require
another CERF exam for the litter to be eligible for the
Futurity. The CERF Certificate at age 8 would have to be
sent in with the Bitch Nomination Form. So, remember to
keep those expired CERF Certificates over the age of 8!
Please include the registered name of the bitch on all
correspondence. As always, I will acknowledge receipt of
all nominations so, if you don’t get an acknowledgment,
drop me an email.
Kathy Slater, Futurity Chairman
241 Prairietown Road, Dorsey, IL 62021
[email protected] | 618-585-4677
From the Annual Editor
Hello All,
The 2011 AWC Whippet News Annual has mailed. There
are extra books available, so if you would like to purchase
a 2011 Annual, or any other back issues, you may do so on
the AWC website at: http://www.americanwhippetclub.net/
awcpages/awcannualbackissues.html
Or you can send a check or money order, payable to
Whippet Annual, to the address below.
I would like to offer special recognition to those who helped
make the 2011 Annual possible:
Jill Baum for gathering the AWC Specialty results;
Bo Bengtson for his several contributions, in particular
the wonderful AWC archives article on Mardormere
Kennels and bringing us the fabulous Landseer portrait;
Lisa Costello for her amazing performance reports;
Espen Engh for contributing his classic article on the first
English Whippet champions; Barbara Parsons in her last
appearance compiling the Top Producers (Thank you,
Barbara, for your many years of volunteer service!!); to
excellent proof-reader Lois Obelcz; and, finally, to Donna
Miner for help with the ads and the best moral support
ever. Also, thank you to those who submitted club reports
and annual reports, keeping us all well-informed.
Bringing the Annual together often feels like a solitary job,
but it actually takes a lot of people pulling together to make
it the wonderful keepsake that it becomes. Thank you all,
named and un-named.
As always, if you have any questions, let me know.
Wendy Clark, Editor
AWC Whippet News Annual
5088 Breckenhurst Dr, Hilliard, OH 43026 USA
2011 Whippet News Annual CORRECTION
Where better to misspell a kennel name than in the Kennel
Listings! Apparently my Editor brain found it necessary
to “correct” the spelling on Donna Bost’s kennel name.
My sincere apology to Donna for my error. So please take
out your permanent markers and change the name of her
kennel AND the associated web site address:
FREE FLITE – Donna Bost; 1216 Parsons Trail, Denver,
NC 28037; 704.400.1987; [email protected];
www.freeflitewhippets.com
Thank you!
Wendy
THE AWC ARCHIVES
The AWC archives were started in the 1980s and have
mushroomed over the years to such an extent that they
now take up quite a lot of space both on the shelves in
my dog library and in the garage. Initially the idea was
that the material was going to be displayed at the National
Specialties, but this has proved impractical for several
reasons. (Even if someone is willing to bring the archives
by car, they take up way too much space for most people’s
vans, and they are too expensive and too fragile to ship.)
The Internet was not a consideration in those days, and
although the archives would seem ideal for being displayed
on the club website, those of you who have followed
AWC affairs in recent years will be aware that this has not
worked out well. The archives that were up on view for a
while were of course completely separate from what I’m
in charge of, and there’s still hope that eventually it will be
possible to put up all the old material the club owns on a
historical AWC website. Meanwhile, we’ve started printing
some of the photos in the AWC Annuals and in Whippet
News, together with accompanying text.
Below is a list of some of what the archives currently
consist of. It’s not a complete list, but just about as
comprehensive as I can make it right now:
A historical AWC album containing various documents:
a copy of the club’s application for recognition from the
American Kennel Club (May 6, 1930), posters, racing
programs and catalogs from the 1920s and 1930s,
including two from AWC’s predecessor, The Whippet
Club of America, as well as some AWC specialty
catalogs from the 1950s.
Album with clippings from England and the US,
purchased by AWC from a dealer at the 1988
National Specialty.
The Christine Cormany album, photographs and
pedigrees donated by Christine Cormany of the Strathoak
Whippets, many from the early 1900s.
The Mardormere album, photographs and clippings of
Mrs. George Anderson’s dogs, most of them donated by
Desmond J. Murphy and John Simm.
The Stoney Meadows album, photographs from Doris
Wear’s dogs, including the original pedigree of her first
top winner, Ch. Stoney Meadows Masquerade (1948).
The Jay Hyman album, photographs of mostly English
dogs from the 1960s, donated by Jay Hyman of the
Rolling Rhodesian Ridgebacks (and earlier Whippets).
The Pennyworth album, photographs donated by Margaret
P. Newcombe and her daughter Claire Newcombe,
including the complete win record for Ch. Courtenay
Fleetfoot of Pennyworth, BIS at Westminster 1964.
The American Kennel Gazette, July 1941, containing
the original 5-page Mardormere kennel story.
American Whippet Club specialty winners, album
containing photos of most of the dogs who won AWC
specialty BIS from the early years up to the early 1990s
(when digital images started to replace print photos).
AWC National Specialty albums from most of the early
National Specialties: 1987-1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992,
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997.
There’s a lot more, including a large number of photographs
donated by generous AWC members and others —
sometimes people who are not even involved in the breed.
We also have many hundreds of hours of video taped at
past AWC specialties: far too much for anyone to be able
to go through alone but could potentially be condensed into
one shorter “highlights” video.
If someone can provide a forum for displaying the archives
on the Internet it would be great. There’s just too much
interesting history here for it NOT to be made available to
all AWC members!
Bo Bengtson
AWC Archivist
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from Board member Karen Lee
I’m writing this letter to share some of my experiences as a one of
the three new AWC Board members of the class of 2015. I have
to say that it has been a bit of a baptism by fire, and I’ve asked
myself more than a few times if I had known what difficult matters
the incoming Board members would be faced with, would I have
accepted the nomination to run? In hindsight, I’m still glad that I
accepted and grateful that the voting members have given me this
chance to serve the AWC membership and by extension, the Whippet
community in the USA. But geez—we sure got a gut-wrenching
plateful from day one!
It is no small thing to be obliged to judge the conduct of people who
have been friends to many of us or with whom most of us, at least,
have not had any personal negative experiences. The current AWC
By-Laws give us the broader template to adhere to, but they are by no
means a complete and sturdy guide to how to handle these difficult
matters. If we were on a jury, we would not be there if we knew any
of the main parties involved on a personal level, but this isn’t a court of
law, no matter how much people try to speak of it as such, nor is the
AWC a business, which must attempt turn a profit and can hire or fire
people at will…in the end, we are attempting to run a functional social
club, formed for the purpose of fostering the future of the Whippet
breed and putting on the best events that we can within the constraints
of our budget and the larger dog hobby community. As such, we
are sometimes faced with difficult decisions about whether or not
someone we know socially should be allowed to remain a member in
good standing of the AWC, given an accusation against them.
The Secretary’s report is printed elsewhere in this newsletter and
contains a brief account and the outcome of the most recent AWC
Board Hearing regarding the suspension of a longtime member.
If I were still on the outside looking in, I would have a number of
questions about this process and so I decided to write this letter in
order to help the membership understand what the Board can and
cannot do, given the constraints imposed by both the AWC By-Laws
and by the AKC, and also other questions such as why these things
always seem to take so long, and what was actually considered in
coming up with the decision that we reached.
A hearing starts with charges being filed against a member by another
member. A Board member can certainly file charges, and in this most
recent situation, I would wonder why that did not happen. The reason
was that a member stepped forward to file charges before the final
deadline of reconciliation the Board had given the soon-to-be-charged
member had passed, therefore, it was not necessary for a Board
member to file charges; however, if no member had come forward,
a Board member would have most certainly done so following the
passing of that final deadline. A great deal of time and leeway had
already been given to attempt to reconcile the matter without going
so far as charges and a hearing. Then, more time was required to
give plenty of notice (at least a month) regarding the hearing date and
time, and so witnesses can be contacted and everyone can clear their
schedule who needs (or is willing) to take part.
Now, once charges are filed, the Board examines the charges and
decides whether or not to entertain jurisdiction. This is all in the
By-Laws. The decision to entertain jurisdiction is not a judgment
of whether or not the charges are true. Now, a lot of people might
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assume that if the Board chooses entertain jurisdiction, they
have already decided that the charged member is guilty. If you
read carefully the wording, you will see that the entertainment of
jurisdiction is based solely on whether or not the charges themselves
IF PROVEN would constitute “conduct prejudicial to the breed or
to the AWC”. To give an example: If Suzie Breeder charges Harriet
Handler with having told a potential stud fee client that Suzie
Breeders’ dog “has a bad temperament” and Suzie Breeder feels that
Harriet Handler has slandered her dog and should not be handling
Whippets, that’s not something the AWC Board would entertain.
That’s a personal dispute between two members, but not conduct
prejudicial to the breed or the club, regardless of what the Board
thinks of Suzie, Harriet, or the situation described. But in the most
recent two cases, the charges involved conduct prejudicial/harmful
to the AWC if proven. So, we moved forward to a hearing.
The hearing committee must be comprised of three Board members,
but can include more up to the entire Board. I feel that while both
hearings that I have been involved in have been run in accordance with
the By-Laws, that they have exposed some troubling deficiencies in
the By-Laws. The By-Laws work well for the Board hearing charges
by one member against another for conduct that did not at any point
involve any of the Board members (for example: If Suzie was accusing
Harriett of having engaged in loud fighting at an AWC event where no
Board members were present, thereby giving a bad image of Whippet
people and the AWC to the public), but it really does not address the
potential appearance of bias if there are Board members who have
already engaged in substantial negative interaction with the charged
individual. I feel particularly strongly on this point—that the appearance
of an unbiased hearing committee should be a goal to strive for. For
now, since the By-Laws do not address this situation, we decided that
those Board members who had engaged in substantial interaction with
the charged member would serve as witnesses, effectively removing
them from the hearing committee while allowing them to share and be
questioned on their pertinent information.
The AKC rules on hearing committees were used to guide us as
well. Both sides have the opportunity to present witnesses and
question them before the hearing committee. Witnesses do not hear
the testimony of other witnesses, due to the miracle of moderated
conference calling. It is possible our By-Laws should be altered
somewhat to reflect these modern capabilities, as opposed to how
they read now, which I believe to be a relic of when you would be
lucky to get three Board members who could conveniently travel to
a location near both the person who brought the charges and the
person charged.
While in neither of the two most recent cases did the member being
charged attempt to mount a defense, that option was available to
them. It is a pity from my standpoint that neither person chose to
avail themselves of this opportunity to speak to the three new Board
members in particular, but as they did not, we did not hear their side
in the hearing. That was, however, their choice.
Now, a few things really surprised me with regard to the limitations
of what the Board can do, assuming that the charges are upheld, as
in both of these cases, they were. Really, all we can do is suspend
a member for six months, or until the next general membership
meeting. We can then recommend expulsion, but the Board cannot
expel a member. Only the membership can expel a member, and
that would have to happen by a 2/3 majority vote at the general
membership meeting. This means that an individual Board can
NEVER throw a member out for life. And that is a good thing,
because the membership may not agree with the Board. This is
YOUR club and you have the right to accept a suspended member
back into the fold once they have served their suspension, OR you
can decide that what they did was so egregious that they should
never again be a member. The other thing that we found we could do
is to keep a suspended member from entering dogs they own or coown in AWC specialties. And that is the limit of what we, as a Board,
can do without taking the charges further into either criminal justice
or civil court. Most offenses are not going to rise anywhere near to
that level, where going before a magistrate or reporting a member to
the local sheriff would be warranted or advisable.
Now, what about the AKC? Can we get the AKC to suspend one of
our members with the concurrent much greater penalty in the dog
hobby that an AKC-suspension would carry? Well, this was another
thing that really surprised me. The AKC is not going to take a parent’s
club word for it that a member has done something that warrants
AKC suspension. The AKC will not recognize our suspension of a
member. The only way a parent club can get a member suspended
would be to obtain a signed confession letter from that member
stating that they were guilty of the serious charges (in the most
recent case, misappropriation of AWC funds) OR the AWC Board
would have to put the matter before either a civil or criminal court
and get a verdict against that member. Both of these avenues were
explored, and many members may wonder why we decided in the
end not to go down that path. While our representative was assured
by an attorney that there was a good chance of getting a verdict in the
AWC’s favor, the attorney costs for a civil verdict would be in excess
of the amount we felt certain we could ascribe to misappropriation,
and collecting those sums could be very problematic. This would not
be a good stewardship of club funds, given the already substantial
losses we were looking at in other areas.
situation, as anyone who has ever written a big check for something
and gotten neither the item purchased, promised service, or a refund,
would doubtless concur.
I think it is fair to say this has been a painful process for everyone
involved. Nothing would have made us happier than to get receipts or
reimbursement for the charges that appeared for personal items and
goods. But since none of that was forthcoming, and communications
with the charged member were unsatisfactory to say the least, we
had little choice but to reach the unanimous decision that was made
by the seven members of the hearing committee.
It has certainly been an eye-opening experience for me, and one
that was endured with a lot of heavy hearts and sadness by all. In
all of the discussions, compassion for family and close friends and a
sincere desire to see as little collateral damage for those people was
never far from our thoughts and actions.
We now put this matter to rest, and are excited about the ideas we
have been working on concurrently, namely, plans to insure that our
volunteers who help us to put on future Nationals get the help and
oversight that they need to make sure that we never have a situation
like this happen again. We definitely do not want our volunteers to
feel like if their event does not make money that we will be looking
at them with suspicion. We have all learned from this experience as
a Board and I believe as a club, and I hope that as we go forward,
that the results of these lessons show in a tighter ship, and smoother
sailing for all of us who work on and attend the AWC Nationals.
Karen Lee
So, the decision is as given in the Secretary’s report. I want the
membership to know a couple of things. This decision was not about
the 2011 National losing a lot of money. This decision was about
charges that continued to be run up on AWC credit cards months
after the National was complete, without any sort of documentation
or receipts that would show that those charges were not for personal
expenses. It was based on actual bank records, obtained from the
bank accounts used before, during, and after the 2011 National. It is
important to me personally, and I feel that most of my fellow Board
members are with me on this one, that the membership gets the
transparency they deserve given the legalities of what we can, and
cannot, put in print regarding this very difficult period in our club.
We questioned the witnesses about many of those line item
charges. Every effort was made to differentiate losses from simple
poor budgeting, bad recordkeeping, overpayment, overgenerosity,
financial mismanagement—serious matters to be sure, but not
misappropriation—from charges that could not be reconciled with
any reasonable National or AWC-related expense. There was also
a breach of contract on goods/services paid for which were never
received without any money being refunded. That’s quite a clear-cut
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from Judy Lowther, 2012 National Show Chair
2012 National – financials Huntington Bank Checking Account for AWC 2012
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Huntington Bank Checking Account for AWC 2012
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

 
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
 


 


 
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


 


 


 




 



 


 













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


 




 



 


 



 



 
 

 



 



 



 







 





 



 


 


 
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

 
 
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

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
 


 
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
 
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
 
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
 


 


 
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
 
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
 
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

 
 
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

 

 



 


 


 
 


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2012 AWC National
Line Item Income/Loss
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





















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




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

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
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
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 
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Prepared by:
Judy Lowther, 2012 Local Show Chairperson
August 2012
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The Art Show is back!
The Art Show is Back!
It’s time to start thinking about your next Whippet art
project. Whippets are the perfect art subjects! The 2013
AWC National will once again include an Art Show.
Watch The Whippet News for further details...
For an application and complete rules please contact:
Jenny Howe
(360)388-7043
or email to [email protected]
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AWC Top Twenty
Li st of the Top 25 Conte nders fo r the 2013 Top Twe nty Stats f rom January 1 throug h June 30, 2012 G CH . Able aim Q ue The Musi c MC GCH . B o-‐B ett ’s S peed Dem on GCH . Ch arlam ar’s Pai s ley At R edcl iffe JC GCH . C ount erpoint Paint ed By Bohem SC G CH . De K otan s S und ay Se rm on C H. Des tiny Pin ewoo d B ella donn a of Nysa H ill G CH . End eavor’s W h ite Ros es O n Nys a Hi ll G CH . Fan fare’s C ordova A t Run ners GCH . Fes ti va’s L ucy Is Fa shi ona ble La te JC G CH . K arasa r’s Rem em bren ce G CH . Li berty’s A bsen t Mi nde d Pro fe ss or JC G CH . O xford R owi ng dale F earle ss G CH . Pip ers S om e Li ke It Hot G CH . Prophecy’s Si lver Su rfer GCH . Sn ow H ill Be atrix S oul D eli ght JC CA G CH . So laris Sa xon S hore Hypn oti q Kam i o GCH . Sp orti ng F ie lds Ba ham a S ands * G CH . St arli ne’s Cha nel JC GCH . St arli ne’s Oxford V ict im O f L ove GCH . St arli ne’s W in dborn S weet Li be rt y GCH . St one ledg e ‘N Sn owcap ’s Dou bl e Dare GCH . W hi m sy’s S wi ftsu re K i lo K ai G CH . W il dbriar W hi m si cal O f L ong les son GCH . W il dwoo d’s Torrey Pin es S C GCH . W in way’s Mi lli on He ires s * Ine li gi b le, pa st w inne r August 2012
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The WRAP Report
Donations
In Memory of Doug Hoxsey From His Friends - $550
Daniel and Lynne Chipman of Bridgewater, MA $100 - Special
thanks to Jean Riganati for helping with new Whippet puppy
Annie Andrews and Kim Waterworth of Fairvax, VA $50
International Longhaired Whippet Club Board & Members $50
- Special thanks to Jini Druliner for helping with two rescues
Bobby and Nita Hale of Tomball, TX $25 In Loving Memory of Joy,
the beloved pet of Ross & Andi Jacobs
Michael Rivera of Charlotte, NC $300 in honor of their wonderful
new Whippet family member
Jason Cohen of Germantown, MD $150
Nestle Employee Community Care Campaign/
Marianne Lu of Oakland, CA $60
Canada Del Oro Kennel Club
Mary Lou Carmody
Robert Edison and John Jarvise
John and Tracy Hite
Edward and Mary Jean Odron
Gary Quick and Lynn Brown-Quick
Arizona Whippet Club
In Memory of Brigitte Greenberg from
The Whippet Playdate Club of Washington DC
Margaret Martin of Columbus, MD $30
Christi Shewman of Alexandria, VA $50
Christi Shewman of Alexandria, VA $80 UPC Donation
William and Jean Brown of Lewisberry, PA $50
Lisa Olson of Lorton, VA $50
Tara Murphy of Baltimore, MD $50
Julie and Ronald Mann of Anniville, PA $100
Frances McHugh of Glen Burnie, MD $50
In Memory of Brigitte Greenberg
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Adoptions
Charlotte Firor of Washington D.C. adopted “August”
Nancy Fagin and Ronald Weber of Chicago, IL adopted “Jelly Bean”
Aaron Bean of Berkley, MI adopted “Zeke”
Darren and Kimberly Guarnaccia of Newberg, OR adopted “Jet”
Helen Kaufman of Canada adopted “Delilah and Lily”
Donations may be sent to:
Whippet Rescue and Placement, Inc.
c/o Jean Schroeder, Treasurer
17502 S. 750 W, Wanatah, IN 46390
www.Whippet-rescue.com
WRAP is a 501(c)3 registered non-profit.
Interested in volunteering for WRAP?
Please go to www.Whippet-rescue.com/roster.html and click on
the Regional Advvisor for your state to find the contact information.
PReSentinG tHe WRAP StORyBOOk – Our StOrieS
Help support a fundraiser for
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We’ve created a beautiful black and white 56-page booklet packed with images and heartfelt
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paths into our hearts, including narratives from all over the country.
All proceeds from the sale of
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OUR STORIES
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Thank you for your support!
GCh. Ch. Snow Hill Beatrix Soul Delight JC, CA
(Ch. Crossing the Rubicon De Sud SC x Ch. Snow Hill Mind Body & Soul JC ROMX)
Two Group wins on
bAck-To-bAck weekends!
Lone Star State Classic – Trinity Valley Kennel Club
Dallas, TX – July 6, 2012
Breed Judge Bonnie Linnell Clarke & Group Judge Sharon A. Krogh
River City Cluster – Comal County Kennel Club
San Antonio, TX – July 12, 2012
Breed Judge Gerardo Bernard & Group Judge Harold J. Pybus
A 2012 Top TwenTy whippeT * & MulTiple Group plAcinG
Miss Trixie Delight
William Dvorak
Susanne Hughes, DVM • Snow Hill Whippets
H a n d l e d & p r e s e n t e d By: Gerry L. Thornton
Owner:
Breeder & CO - Owner:
*Canine Chronicl Point System – May 31, 2012 (Both Systems)
Letter to the Editor
I would like to comment on some of the statements
from the last Annual Meeting published in the June 2012
Whippet News. “The Triathlon chair quit in the middle of
planning and didn’t tell Lisa. Agility is still an issue. The
current chair, Sharron Lane will finish out the year and then
is done… Versatility competition, which includes Agility, had
13 entrants of which 11 were double entered in the Triathlon
competition. John Heffernan, who developed this program
quit so this leaves Lisa to do all of it.”
First, I developed the Versatility Competition after agility
was dropped from the Triathlon as a place where agility
enthusiasts could complete in a multisport competition
again. After running the competition for many years and
being Versatility Chair for many more, I did resign. I helped
my successor, Sharon Lane with the scoring. I am not sure
why it was stated that the performance director was left
“to do all of it.” This is the responsibility of the Versatility
Chair. I resigned after many years of faithful service to AWC
right after a national so a successor could be found in plenty
of time.
Second, if all the people mentioned are resigning and
other national agility chairs have resigned; the AWC
should determine why it is so difficult to keep people in
these positions. Perhaps a Board member should contact
the individuals involved and/or a confidential survey be
developed to determine the issue.
While I understand that people do need to set up to the
plate to these positions, the AWC should make sure that
people are supported and appreciated in their volunteer
positions around versatility and agility. For 2011, there were
1173,391 conformation entries (3688 less than the previous
year), AKC Agility had 956,638 entries (88,536 more than
the previous year). Agility is will soon surpass conformation
in terms of total yearly entries.
Third, it was stated that, “It is very expensive to put on a
breed specific trial.” I chaired the 2006 Whippet only agility
trial in Boston at a very nice facility. We lost $168 if you
don’t count agility trophy donations; we probably broke
even if you count those. (I could never get an exact number
from the trophy chairman.) With the challenges of getting
5 club members to be at an all-breed agility trial for all the
days, it might be time to look at a breed specific trial again.
I also liked it better; it’s just Whippets, it goes fast and it’s
cozy and fun. While this may not work with the small West
Coast numbers, it should be considered for other nationals.
John Heffernan
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NORTHWIND’S JAY WALKER (Ch Plumcreek Fortune Walking On Heir X Ch Northwind’s Cresta Run De Sud) “Walker” has been heating up the rings this summer in Minnesota. Shown winning 2 points under judge Desmond Murphy, he now has 12 points and 3 majors, including Winner’s Dog at the AWC Supported entry July 14, 2012 in Duluth, MN. Thank you to all the judges who have recognized our beautiful, big moving boy! Owner handled by Sue Hendrickson. Breeder and co-‐
owner: Kay Nierengarten, Northwind [email protected] Photo by Laurie J. Erickson (Ch. Euphrates de Sud x Ch. Wheatland Delta Dawn, SC)
GCh Wildhare Good Ride Cowboy, FCh, CGC
1 preliminary run
1 final run
1 First Place tie run-off
1 Best of Breed run
1 II Best in Field run
1 II Best in Field re-run (thanks to the Pharaoh)
=
2.78 Miles run in one day for the performance of a lifetime
International Invitational Sunday Best of Breed
High Scoring Bench Champion
Owner:
Dr. Lisa M. Costello
[email protected]
Breeders:
Paula and Dwight Caffee
Wildhare
Good Boy Mango!
Carol H. Willumsen memorial
Your wings are ready
In the early 70’s I was fortunate to meet Carol Willumsen
at an American Whippet Club Annual meeting that was held
in Las Vegas, Nevada. We had an instant connection and it
was the start of a long and beautiful friendship.
Carol was a strong, kind, dynamic woman who truly loved
the Whippet breed. She was never happier than when she
was at a show looking at a ring full of lovely Whippets. I
don’t have to tell anyone that Carol and I had completely
different opinions. She was not a fan of Whippet racing
but tolerated my great passion for the sport. We had many
heated arguments pertaining to the different venues of
Whippet activities. It was amazing how many times Carol
managed to win the argument. However, in spite of our
differences it never jeopardized our incredible friendship.
any situation. It was constant laughter when you were in
her company. Those fun and happy times will be missed by
her many friends.
Two weeks before Carol died, Kathy Davenport, Claire
Newcombe and myself planned a trip to visit Carol in New
York. We were blessed to spend some quality time with her
and will never forget those last memorable days together.
Carol was a special lady and I know she will be greatly
missed by her many loyal and dear friends. We must all
try to find consolation in remembering all those wonderful
times we shared with her.
I know that Carol’s last communication was with God. He
said, “Carol we are waiting for you. Your wings are ready.”
Jean Balint
As many of you know, Carol was quite a character. She
always had some smart and witty remark to make about
A HOLE IN MY HEART…
I’ve known Carol Willumsen for as long as I can remember
and she always called me her adopted daughter/niece.
She was a long time dear friend of my mother, Peggy
Newcombe & my father. I remember Carol coming to
Pennyworth up in New Hampshire on several occasions.
She loved the Whippets, and when my mother was
disbanding the kennel in 1969, for our move to Florida,
Carol took with her Ch. Pennyworth Would You Believe.
Woody, as he was called, would be Carol’s love, and
foundation stud dog for her Willcare Whippets. Carol only
bred a handful of litters, as she did not have the means to
be an active breeder. She also worked as a county forensic
toxicologist for Suffolk County N.Y. until she retired in the
late 1980’s. I attribute a lot of Carol’s sense of humor to
being a toxicologist. She hated liver, and used to have the
dry heaves whenever I or someone else at the dog show
would put liver in their mouth, so one day I asked her why,
and she responded by saying “My dear Claire, if you had
seen the many bad livers that I have seen over the years,
you would turn green also”.
Carol’s last homebred litter was a mating between Would
You Believe and her Ch. Willcare’s Decoupage; from that
breeding she got a young dog, Ch. Willcare’s Believe You
Me. Ian, as he was called, was not a flashy dog, but had a
pedigree to die for. Carol at this time had moved down to
Orange City, Florida to take care of her ailing mother. Mom
and I had been trying to figure out how we should breed a
bitch, named Ringmaster’s Reggae, that mom had purchased
form Paul and Sue Abraham of Ringmaster Kennels. Finally
after many discussions with Carol, Ian came to Pennyworth
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and was bred to his first bitch at the tender age of 12 years
old. Carol was so excited that she came immediately after
the litter was born. Carol had a fancy for 2 bitches in the
litter. My mother ended up giving her a puppy with white
with blue-grey brindle markings. Her name would be
Willcare’s Aged In Wood. Carol, being tied down with her
mother, could not take Aged In Wood home with her so
asked if we would keep her, and asked me if I would show
her till she finished. I accepted and so then Carol asked
what is her call name? I said we have left that up to you,
what would you like to call her? Carol thought for a moment
and said I would like to call her Claire. I asked why and she
replied: ”Because you my dear got the breeding between a
maiden bitch and a 12 year old maiden dog.” So Claire stayed
at Pennyworth, I showed her, and Carol went to almost every
show where she was shown. Aged In Wood was everything
that Carol wanted and then some.
I will never forget all the dog show trips. Carol ended up
getting a motor home so she could stay on the show grounds
like mom and me. Sometimes, I thought that I had made a
big mistake since having 2 mothers was a little bit more than I
had asked for. I remember being up at the Garden and Lesley
Potts and I were in the bar having a drink and in walks Carol
unbeknown to either of us. All of a sudden, I felt these hands
that were like meat cleavers around the back of my neck.
“Young lady what are you doing? You have a dog to show in
less than 36 hours, you have no time for this foolishness!” Let
me remind you that Carol was a reformed smoker and drinker,
DUH. From then on I tried to discourage Carol from going to
any more shows with me.
Carol had a gift for making people laugh and
for telling great stories. Carol was a strong
woman and tough as nails who spoke her
mind. I never argued with Carol, LOL, as SHE
WAS ALWAYS RIGHT. She was very smart
and would not tolerate bull crap. Carol had
great passion for life, and the sport of dogs.
Carol was on the Board of Directors, beside
was secretary, treasurer, for the AWC.
I have been very fortunate to have Carol in my
life; her strength is what kept me going after my
mother passed. For those of you who knew her,
need I say more! For those who did not know her
you missed out on a loyal and dear friend.
Carol, I for one will miss you terribly, but know
you are in a better place with God.
I am sure Daze Richardson was the first to
greet you, and say “Welcome Home Digger,
Glad you made it.”
The last thing that Carol said to me on the phone
was, “Claire you’ve known I’ve had a Hole In My
Heart for a long time.”
I guess now it’s been filled!
Seated: Carol Willumsen, standing from the left: Kathy Davenport, Jean Balint and Claire Newcombe
Claire Newcombe
Obituary
Carol H. Willumsen, 79, passed away at University Hospital
at Stony Brook on Friday, July 27, 2012 surrounded by
her loving family. She was born in Southampton, NY on
February 22, 1933 to Fredrick G. Willumsen and Dorothy
Schwenk Willumsen.
She is survived by her nieces and nephew, Linda Jones
of Water Mill, Susan Willumsen of Kingston, NH, Patricia
DiBenedetto of Lincoln, RI, Robin Gibbs of Calverton, Gail
Willumsen of Los Angeles, CA, Brien Willumsen of Calgary,
Canada and Michelle Willumsen of Los Angeles CA. She
is also survived by her sisters-in-law, Jeanne Willumsen of
Southampton and Jacquie Willumsen of Calgary, Canada.
She is preceded in death by her brothers, Theodore
Willumsen of Calgary, Canada and Robert L. Willumsen
of Southampton.
Carol’s career was in forensic toxicology for the Nassau
County Medical Examiners Office. Her true passion was her
love of dogs, especially Whippets. In the 1960’s, under the
Willcare name, Carol began the breeding of Whippets and
the tradition of dog breeding continues today through her
niece, Susan. Carol was a recognized AKC licensed judge
whose assignments took her far and wide. She was
a mentor and a friend to many in the sport of dogs.
In her retirement she enjoyed many activities; her hobbies
included: swimming, card games and gathering with
friends. She will be immensely missed by all those whom
she has touched.
A future memorial service will be announced. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be made to “Take the Lead”, PO
Box 6353, Watertown, NY 13601, an organization close
to her heart.
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The Diary of a Winter Litter Continues…
GCh. Northwind’s Round House Kick x Multi-Select Ch. River Nymph de Sud
The Terrible Ten, bred by Kay Nierengarten, Kathy Armato and Andrea Meyer, are now 8 months old
and off to their first shows, and the first two months have been fantastic!
Northwind Phoenix Rising de Sud “Phoenix”
Bred by Best in Show, Bred By Group 2, both majors, 8 points, 2 major reserves
Northwind’s Decisive Moment de Sud “Dash”
Both majors, 8 points
Northwind’s Saving the Best for Last de Sud “Lydia”
Four point major/BOW, Puppy Group 1 & 2, 5 points, 1 major reserve
Northwind’s Side Kick de Sud “Ollie”
One major, 5 points, Puppy Group 2, 2 major reserves
Northwind’s Tango de Sud “Tango”
One major, 6 points, Puppy Group 1, 3 major reserves
Northwind’s Dreamwalker de Sud “Walker”
BOW for 2 points and a Puppy Group 2
Northwind Drops of Jupiter de Sud “Juno”
Three major reserves
Northwind’s River Myst de Sud “Tempe”
Placed nicely at the Western Specialty in competitive puppy/sweeps classes
The sire, GCh Northwind’s Round House Kick has also been doing
well (see opposite page), receiving a Group 4 placement in Fargo,
ND, under Judge Leslie Hiltz; along with many BOB and BOS wins
so far this year!
And congratulations to Andrea Meyer and Kathy Armato,
co-owners of the dam, Multi-Select Ch. River Nymph de Sud!
Good luck to everyone this summer!
Ollie, Lydia, Juno, Dash, Tango, Phoenix and Pebbles are all
in Minnesota; also watch for Tempe and Walker in California!
New Bronze Grand Champion!
PHOTO By STeve SurFMAN
“Norris”
GCh. Northwind’s Round House Kick
(GCh. Northwind The Daily Show de Sud x. Am/Can Ch. Northwind’s Echo of Poetry, FCh, CGC, CD, RN, CAV)
Norris has started out this year with multiple BOB, BOS and Select
placements, along with a Group 4. His first litter (see opposite page)
is doing beautifully! Norris is loving the show dog life and will be
travelling around the Midwest this summer with his owner/handler.
OWNeD By
Sara Krieger | [email protected]
Kay Nierengarten | www.northwindcatalog.com
BReD By
Kay Nierengarten and Irene Mullauer
AWC Western Specialty – Judge’s Critique
The American Whippet Club is one of our outstanding parent clubs,
so to be honored by the club and allowed to evaluate your breeding
stock at the Western Specialty at Lompoc was quite the thrill.
Furthermore, you Whippet fanciers know how to “make my day” as a
judge by starting out with a superb 6-9 Puppy Dog Class and ending
up with outstanding veterans, stud dogs and brood bitches!
The weather was perfect, the trophies fabulous, club officials were
on top of everything and ring stewards kept things moving. So what
was the fly in the ointment? The gopher community that has steadily
trashed Ryan Park over the years. The rough ground is hard on man
and beast. Unfortunately, funds are not available to combat the
problem, so dogs and handlers were on their own. Nonetheless, the
best dogs handled it well as Whippets are natural athletes designed
to take all footing in stride. And of course those that did not were
accordingly handicapped on the day.
Because there is a vast difference in a puppy that just turned sixmonths and one about to move on to the 9-12 Class, I always stagger
large 6-9 classes in the following manner: The 8 month olds in front
followed by the 7-8 babies and last, but certainly not least-the 6-7
month old group. Bohem Last Call, the outstanding winner of this
superb class of 6-9 male puppies, used himself with athletic grace.
He is a very smooth eight-month old with a proper front assembly,
correct curves and plenty of puppy poise. His closest competitor, sixmonth old Winway Lexie Personal Appearance, also presented a good
outline with much promise for the future. This entire class was made
up of youngsters with varying virtues including outstanding pigment,
smooth and efficient gaiting and depth in numbers. One would expect
to see great things in the future from the competitors in this very
tough class!
Festiva’s Liquid Force emerged the winner in the 9-12 Puppy
Dog Class, which was also filled with some potential future stars.
Although overall the fronts and shoulders in this class were not as
strong as in the previous class, youngsters in this class were blessed
with strong second thighs. In my own breed, the 6-9 dog puppies will
often be more together on the day than the same puppies when they
age into the next age categories. Fortunately they pull themselves
back together later. Young males go through some interesting
adjustments in the growth and maturation process!
The lone American Bred Class entrant Fast For Sure Phoenix In Full
Flight is a dog that personifies the breed’s deep chest that contributes
so much to the tuck up. The Open Dog winner Kimeras Panama Red
is a well-balanced symmetrical hound that moves well. Second place
went to FC Tangens Riley Outback Runner SC, a dog with a very
defined shape working well with his handler. This class had some
very nice dogs that moved well. In fact, my notes indicated a couple
looked better moving than standing, a positive for any sporting hound.
Functionality is always the highest priority.
The Winners Class lineup featured quality males that tested the
adjudicator. The final selection boiled down to a contest between the
11-month old Windborn N’ Starline Movin’ Out and the eight-month old
Bohem Last Call. The nod went to the older youngster using his assets
to perfection on the day and Reserve Winners to the youngster.
The 6-9 Puppy Bitch Class is always my favorite class to judge at any
specialty. When walking down the line the judge can observe their
delightful faces and almost smell the sweet puppy breath.
Winway Classic Madeline won this lovely class at six-months and 10
days of age with her cleanliness of outline and movement. She is very
free on her front end and turns out to be the littermate of the second
place puppy in the 6-9 Dog class. What a lovely smooth pair this sister
and brother are. In second place was Northwind’s River Myst de Sud,
another with a nice make and shape for symmetry of outline. This was
a super class of babies with some giving on the day because of their
playfulness preventing exacting evaluation of their movement.
Princetons Falling In Love At Starline edged out her sister Princetons
Sweet Emotion At Starline in the 9-12 Puppy Bitch class. The two
littermates are very nice packages that are well balanced. Although I
thought I was going with the runner-up at first, the eventual winner kept
coming on as the class progressed. Another interesting puppy in this
competitive class was the third-place Elain-Ward N’ Festiva’s Hail Mary
Pass, a puppy with potential just needing to settle down a bit on the day.
Crestfield Blonde Bombshell was also in the ribbons thanks to her wellmuscled body, nice backskull and ears. The 12-18 winner Tobell & Poli’s
Red Sky At Dawn took the blue with her balance and usefulness.
One or two of the 12-18 Class were at that stage where they were
somewhat gangly and on the verge of pulling themselves back together.
Tobell’s Bolt Of Lightning Of Poli was the attractive typey winner of this
class. The strong-quartered Forget Me Not The Chancellor Of Runners
was right on his heels in second place. For some reason my notes are a
little jumbled on this class, and perhaps I was troubled by the ewe neck
and wheeled back on an exhibit or two. We must always select for the
correct rise over the loin, as that is where the flexibility occurs allowing
the execution of the double suspension gallop. When the curves of the
sighthound are in the area over the rib cage rather than over the loin, the
animal lacks the flexibility to perform properly. Muscling and strength
over the loin are paramount.
Windborn N Starline Movin’ Out did just that in the BBE Class to take
the blue. Mature beyond his 11-months, this youngster features ears
that are well folded and a look that features the correct expression.
He uses himself well in action and would go on to Winners Dog on
the day, edging out the 6-9 Puppy winner in a very close call.
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by Pat Trotter
WD: Windborn N’ Starline Movin’ Out
WB, BOW and Best Bred By: Lakota’s Witch Witch Are You
No class at a dog show is more important than the BBE bitch class,
for it truly is the showcase for the future foundation bitches of the
breed as well as the progeny of the foundation bitches of the past.
The amazing element of this class of 14 (with two absentees) is that
every individual belonged in the gene pool. Just as a judge is so very
disappointed when the BBE class has rather mediocre animals, the
judge is elated when quality appears in depth in this class. And this
was the case at your show!
The eventual winner, Lakota’s Witch Witch Are You, may not be
fancy, but she is oh so correct! A 22-month old fawn bitch that
exudes usefulness, she is outstanding in so many ways. She
exemplifies the words of the standard “A true sporting hound that
covers a maximum of distance with a minimum of lost motion.” An
animal combining both strength and grace in a well-balanced package,
she is the type of bitch (for her breed) that I have always counted on
to produce the best of their generation in my own breeding program.
Furthermore, as the class wore on, she never wore out. With good
legs, correct angles and subtle Whippet curves in the right places,
the winner gave the impression she could execute to perfection the
job description of the Whippet breed.
Second place went to the worthy yearling Tobell’s Moving Heaven
And Earth. Her well-muscled rear and athleticism were admirable as
she pushed the winner all the way. This is a well-balanced bitch just
starting to feel her oats. Third went to still a third puppy from her litter
to catch my eye on the day-Winway Ramona. Like her littermates,
this well-balanced six-month old is poised and confident with a nice
profile and efficient sound movement. Fourth to mature three-year old
Silverhill Say Amen, a strong bitch yet not coarse with smooth neck
into shoulder and good side movement. This class challenged the
judge with individuals of all ages competing and allowances for the
differences accompanying this diversity were necessary. One could
only regret the lack of ribbons available for other valuable animals in
the class.
The lone entry in the AmericanBred Class was a deserving elegant
package with well-defined curves that were showcased nicely by
her handler. The Open bitch winner-Premier Sporting Fields Naughty
By Nature-was a competent mover of good breed type. Second in
this class to Kamio’s Flight Of Fancy, a very good bitch of correct
sighthound type. I liked this bitch and regretted she seemed to be
bothered by the bumpy ground on the day.
Third place in Open bitch went to Kimera Sugar Magnolia, a nice
picture with subtle curves and good legs and pushed by 4th placer
Avita Coup De Foudre JC, another good package that stood well and
moved well.
The Winners Bitch Class was a glorious picture that should make
all breeders proud. The BBE bitch was WB with RWB going to the
baby puppy from the lovely litter previously mentioned. (Sired by
Ch. Starline’s Sovereign X GCh. Winway Redford With A Splash
and born only in mid-January of this year!) Their breeders Dr. Suzi
Fosnot and Valerie Nunes-Atkinson should be justly proud of the trio’s
accomplishments at such a young age.
The magnificent BOB Class was loaded with quality and Whippet
character with the final winner being an athletic smooth-moving dog
who uses himself so well, Ch. Tangens Triton X-100. This threeyear old has the true Whippet profile and strides over the roughest
SBIS/Best of Breed Winner Ch. Tangens Triton X-100
of ground with ease and efficiency. He is all male - muscular and
powerful - while retaining the elegance of the breed both standing
and moving. He was flawless on the down and back and strong
throughout the duration of the class.
BOS to him was lovely GCh. Starline’s Victim Of Love, whose
topline and underline combine to present a pleasing profile picture of
symmetry which she holds well on her side gait. BOW went to the
very fit WB. Select dog went to GCh. Counterpoint Painted By Bohem
SC and Select Bitch to Ch. Kamio Solar Flare.
My overall general impression of the breed as presented to me on
the day is quite favorable and encourages me that fronts seem to be
improving while hindquarters remain strong. Although there were a
few ewe-necks and also a few wheelbacks, the general outline for
the breed seems consistently correct. Hackneyed and bicycling gaits
were noticeably and thankfully absent as was general unsoundness.
One area of concern that I have is the loss of the correct eye on dogs
across the breed and for that matter-across the land. Are Whippet
breeders selecting for skulls too narrow to allow for the correct eye
and expression? This is a question that only breeders can address,
and no one knows the degree of difficulty in breeding more than I.
Sometimes it seems you can improve your stock in one area only
to take a few steps back in another. Yet our passionate pursuit of
perfection is what motivates us to keep trying. Again, my sincere
thanks for including me in your great sighthound weekend.
Pat Trotter
Photos courtesy ©Angie Diehl, Nysa Hill
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AWC Western: Sweepstakes – Judge’s Critique
Lompoc, California, Friday, July 27, 2012
Being selected to judge the AWC Western Regional sweepstakes
was a tremendous honor and privilege. My sincere “thank you” goes
out to the talented and dedicated show chairman, Pamela Magette,
and her wonderful committee members who put on a smoothly run,
organized and beautiful show. Also essential to the ease of judging
was the outstanding talent of my ring steward, Doris Bandoian. Her
expertise with ring procedures kept the classes and recording in
efficient order and she was a delight to work with.
Many excellent puppies were presented by talented breeders, owners
and handlers during the sweepstakes judging. The total entry was
42 Whippets with 7 absent. We began promptly at 9:15 am on a cool
morning with a damp marine overcast. The weather, while great for
the exhibitors and judges, made some of the entries frisky, bouncy
and playful. The handlers gently worked to keep their pups moving
in a fashion for judging. I was pleased to see no heavy-handed
corrections, but gentle encouragement. Alas, not all of the pups
cooperated and responded to redirection. One lovely bitch even sat
down on the examination ramp essentially stopping my examination
despite her talented owner’s efforts to persuade her to stand. Sadly,
these frisky and sitting puppies prevented me from fully evaluating
them during the brief time allotted. My job was to put up the best
dog at the time. I am certain all these youngsters will perform much
better at future events and improve their winning chances.
The AKC standard for Whippets includes: “a true sporting hound
that covers a maximum of distance with a minimum of lost motion…
Symmetry of outline, muscular development and powerful gait are
the main considerations. The dog being built for speed and work; all
forms of exaggeration should be avoided.”
Soundness of movement being the Whippet’s ability to do its job of
running and coursing, helps create the form, type or symmetry of
the Whippet. Hence, I sought out Whippets with effortless, efficient,
daisy clipping front reach without loaded shoulders that possessed
rear drive with well-bent stifles, not inefficient over angulated rears
causing sickle hock movement. An oval, not round body, having
length, breadth and elasticity of loin without a steep or flat croup
were selected.
A number of the entries readily met these criteria. I wish I had
more ribbons to award! A couple of entries had the movement and
symmetry qualities but did not make it into the ribbons due to a
narrow, borzoi type head that was not “fairly wide between the ears”
or non-dilute pigmented Whippets having undesirable light eyes. This
amounted to only a couple of Whippets as the majority of the entries
had fabulous heads and expression.
The 6 – 9 month of age classes were extremely tough to judge due
to the vast developmental differences between the puppies just
reaching 6 months of age and those nearly nine months of age.
Judging is how they present on the day in conformity to the AKC
standard. Those who were not winners today may certainly do so
in the future as they mature and develop.
by Jeanne Lambertsen
6-9 month puppy dogs
1. Bohem Last Call: a handsome puppy who won the day with
his effortless, daisy-clipping reach and sidegait. He seemed so
comfortable on the go around that he could continue all day tirelessly.
He had great length of loin with superb underline and angulation front
and rear. Lovely head, dark eye and expression. His rose ears were
perfectly correct during my judging. After judging, I learned this pup
had 10 points and both majors. Best in Sweepstakes.
2. Winway Upendo: gorgeous youngster with great soundness
coming and going with nice reach. Good angles front and rear.
Excellent head and expression. Could use a little more rise and
arch to the loin. Most likely a growing phase to develop into.
Certainly one to watch.
3. Aikerskaill Onyxx Resolution: classic Whippet type with deep
oval chest, underline curve to nice bending stifle. Good shoulder
and neck with lovely rise to the loin. Clean coming and going. Good
head and expression. Didn’t move with quite the daisy clipping reach
this morning, he’s likely to be less frisky and move with better ease
on the go around next time.
4. Bohem Final Act: brother to the class winner. This pup also had
superb length of loin, underline, oval deep chest and ideal angulation
front and rear. Clean mover. Beautiful head and expression. Not as
effortless moving on the go around as the class winner this morning,
yet very promising and surely a future winner.
9-12 month puppy dogs
1. Sportingfield Harmony’s Gotta Be Me: won the class with his
tireless, effortless sidegait on the go around. Clean moving coming
and going too. Great angles front and rear, beautiful underline plus
rise to the loin and length of loin. A bit leggy at this age and should
fill out with time. Very promising.
2. Festiva’s Reign The Wake: Clean mover coming and going with
nice reach on the go around. Lovely head and expression. Good deep
chest. Could use more bend of stifle and a bit more rise over the loin.
Possibly a growth phase as he’s one to watch.
3. Crestfield Captain Courageous: Handsome youngster with lovely
depth of chest, underline and bend of stifle with good length of loin.
Clean moving coming and going. Not quite as effortless on the go
around as the class winner today.
4. Elain-Ward N Festiva’s Touchdown: Irish marked male with plenty
of bone and development. Deep chest. Head, expression and eyes
very nice. A bit steep in the croup, but may have been how he was
stacked. Moved well on down and back with fairly effortless reach
on the go around.
12-15 month dogs
1. Forget Me Not The Chancellor of Runners: Smooth youngster with
all the right curves- underline, topline, neck to shoulder and bend of
stifle. Beautiful head, expression and dark eye. Clean moving coming
and going with nice daisy clipping reach on the go around. Was a
serious contender for Best in Sweepstakes.
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Bronson
Bohem Last Call
(SBIS GCh. Counterpoint Painted by Bohem, SC x GCh. Charlamar Sashays In White Linen)
Bronson has been shown four weekends and won
10 points, including both majors, before turning 8
months old.
Bronson has so far not been defeated by any other
puppy. Thanks for all the enthusiastic comments.
EVERYONE loves Bronson!
He is pictured at the AWC Western specialty in Lompoc,
where he was Best in Sweepstakes under judge Jeanne
Lambertsen (Watch Me, 42 entries), as well as Best
Puppy and RWD under judge Patricia Trotter (78
entries). Handler Paul Lepiane.
C O - Ow n e r s :
Ow n e r s : Toni & John Comerford • Ridgesetter Whippets • NSW, Australia
Dick & Barbara Rupert • Oakhurst Rhodesian Ridgebacks • Fallbrook, Calif.
B r e e d e r & C O - Ow n e r : Bo Bengtson • Ojai, Calif. • www.bohemwhippets.com
AWC Western: Sweepstakes – Judge’s Critque
2. Tobell’s Bolt of Lightning of Poli: Beautiful spring of rib, deep
chest with nice underline. Topline nicely arching to the loin. Fine
mover on the down and back. Good head planes with lovely Whippet
expression. Not quite as effortless on the go around as the class
winner, however, may improve with maturity.
15-18 month dogs
1. Nysa Hill Timeless Tempo of Bohem: Sweeping underline with
nice bend of stifle without over angulation. Could use more length
of loin as croup seemed a bit steep. Nice head planes, dark eye and
expression. Moved well on the down and back. Won the class with an
effortless sidegait.
the puppy’s preference to play and knowing that the puppy was
making it difficult for me to see her fine qualities. Littermate to class
winner and possessed many of the same beautiful characteristics.
4. Onyxx Secret Circle: mature, athletic red puppy with significant
bone and muscling. Deep chest, nice underline and well-bent stifle;
almost too much. Good neck to shoulder with nice rise over the loin.
Clean moving on the down and back, fair reach on the go-around.
Nice head and dark eye, ear set just a tad low.
12-15 month bitches
2. Sportingfield’s Secret Valentine: Beautiful Irish marked brindle with
deep chest, nice underline to the rear. Wonderful length of loin. Could
use a bit more bend of stifle. Moved well on the down and back,
but not quite as daisy-clipping reach as the class winner. Good head
width between the ears.
1. Tobell’s Moving Heaven and Earth: a beautiful example of a
Whippet bitch, classically proportioned, feminine, excellent angulation
front and rear, oval ribcage reaching just to elbow with sweeping
underline to a nice tuck-up. Smooth topline with a slight rise at the
loin. Correct head planes with dark round eyes, good ear set. Great
moving coming and going with daisy clipping reach. Sweepstakes
Best of Opposite Sex.
6-9 month puppy bitches
15-18 month bitches
1. Northwind’s River Myst De Sud: Serious contender for Best of
Opposite Sex in Sweepstakes. Lovely brindle with great head, eye
and expression. Smooth neck to shoulder, great length of loin, and
sweeping underline with nice tuck-up. Nice bend of stifle. Clean on
the down and back with good effortless sidegait.
1. Crestfield What A Surprise: elegant Whippet with good deep chest
rising to a nice tuck-up. Nice bend of stifle. Could use a bit more
length of loin. Shoulder not quite as smooth as some other entries,
however, she was a clean mover on the down and back plus fairly
reaching on the sidegait.
2. Winway Ramona: Lovely youngster just reaching 6 months of age
with pretty symmetry, curves and angles. Not as much rise over the
loin or tuck-up as class winner, but surely due to tender young age.
Moved well on down and back with nice sidegait. Pretty head, eye
and expression, but needing slightly more underjaw. Possibly will
develop nicely with age and should mature beautifully.
2. Elain-Ward’s Unchained Melody: pretty red and white girl with a
nice topline rising over the loin. Good bend of stifle. Front legs set
a bit ahead of the deepest part of the chest. Sound moving on the
down and back. Shoulder appeared smooth, but did not move quite
as effortlessly or daisy-clipping on the go around.
3. Silverhill Felina: proper head, eye and expression. Could use a
little more underjaw. Nice deep oval chest rising to a good tuck up
with gentle bend of stifle. Quality smooth topline with length of loin.
Correct mover on the down and back. Sidegait nice, not quite as
effortless, daisy clipping as the class winner today.
My heartfelt thank you goes out to all of those who brought their
Whippet puppies before me. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the
wonderful youngsters with characteristics running so true to our
standard. A number of talented breeders and owners are doing a
great service to the Whippet breed by producing and exhibiting such
excellent Whippets. Continue to love, cherish and have fun with your
youngsters. My best wishes to their continued success.
4. Pinewood Pandora: Deep oval chest rising to a nice tuck up
and bend of stifle. Not much rise to the loin. Pretty head, eye and
expression needing a tad more underjaw. Clean mover down and
back with fair sidegait.
Jeanne Lambertsen
9-12 month puppy bitches
1. Princeton’s Falling In Love At Starline: beautifully trained puppy
who showed off her classic head, eye, expression and ear set.
Possessed sound movement on the down and back. Nice bend of
stifle. Good sidegait. Topline did not have much rise to the loin leaving
a slightly steep croup with only a slight tuck-up to the rear. However,
a very promising puppy.
2. Elain-Ward N’ Festiva’s Hail Mary Pass: Frisky puppy who required
a bit of redirection to keep her feet on the ground during the go around.
I was happy to see her enjoying herself, but it hampered ideal judging.
Great topline rising to the loin, good length of loin. Nice deep chest with
curving underline. Good bend of stifle. Lovely head and expression.
3. Oxford Princeton I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing: Spirited puppy
who would rather play and bounce than move in a straight line. I
was pleased that her handler gave only gentle redirection despite
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BOS in Sweeps: Tobell’s Moving Heaven and Earth
Best in Sweeps: Bohem Last Call
Ch. Kamio Solar Flare
(Ch. Solaris Saxon Shore Quixotic x Ch. Oxford’s Kamio Brave Spirit)
 Select Bitch at the AWC Western under Hound expert Mrs. Patricia V Trotter 
 Group Placing and multiple Best of Breeds from the classes 
Flare finished her Championship with her 4th major at the prestigious
Western Hound Association shows under well-respected Sighthound
breeder Mrs. Bitte Ahrens Primavera.
Flare would like to congratulate her sister, SBIS GCh. Solaris Saxon
Shore Hypnotiq Kamio on her Top 10 status.
Flare will be shown selectively while we await her forthcoming
breeding. Serious inquiries welcome.
Owner
Kim Tucker-Tobell  Escondido, CA
[email protected]
B r e e d e r /C O - O w n e r
Sarah and Leigh Balkam
Judging In Sweden
...from Iva Kimmelman
I was pleased to be invited to judge in Sweden this June and it made
it all the better that my co-judge was to be Cindy Scott.
This was my second time judging (third time visiting) in this beautiful
country and I was not disappointed. First there are the dogs, of course.
Then there are the people, the landscape; even the weather was perfect.
The show committee was wonderful, with a warmth and kindness
that is always appreciated when one travels to another country.
I learned of interesting dog laws that shocked a few of my Swedish
friends here in the states when I repeated them and I was witness to
Cindy Scott possibly saving the life of a runaway Saluki. She talked
to the people involved and told them not to chase the dog that had
escaped from their grasp. They listened to her and the dog stood
its ground once the pressure was off until the owner could come
and convince the terrified dog to come to her. It is a curious human
behavior to chase a dog that is running away in fear. It is a human
flaw that some people do not get that doing this will make them want
to run away faster, not stop and run back to them. Thankfully these
Saluki people were eager to listen to good advice.
On to the Whippets and the judging...
All the good things about their dogs are still in abundance. Shape,
soundness and correct powerful gait. I did see some American
influence, some of it quite beneficial. I love the large eyes and soft
expressions of the best Swedish Whippets. They have lots to be
envious of. There is a smoothness and strong breed character that
fills the eye and I was glad to enjoy it again. Of course there are
problems as in any breed. The best breeders value type more than
extreme movement and their dogs certainly move correctly.
by Iva Kimmelman and Cindy Scott
as well. The dog CC went to my Open winner, mentioned previously,
Sobers Lucifer with the RCC going to: the winner of the Champion Class.
I awarded Best Of Breed to my Open winner.
Best Veteran Dog was Ch.Lingon Black-Moon who looked fabulous
and did not show his age.
I was very impressed with the quality of the progeny class. Worth
mentioning: Play A While Late Red Autumnhop Ale and Ch. Twyborn
Chinese Dragon. Their get were equally of the highest quality and
absolutely consistent and it was a tough choice between the two.
On Sunday I really enjoyed myself with a crop of fabulous bitches.
Some class bitches I want to mention who were equally worthy of
top honors: Charlamar Redcliffe Waltz Time, (she did win Best Baby
Puppy on Sunday), Play A While Junikvall, Khalivadh Vinterstorm, My
Best Bitch was: Skraddaregardens Kryddan Qantarell and she had
been moved into Champion class. This is the same lovely bitch that
Cindy awarded on Saturday. She is everything I love about Swedish
Whippets and looked even better on Sunday than she did on Saturday
when she came in for Best Of Breed. My second place bitch was a
spectacular fawn, Zelig Summer In Siam. She received the CC with
the RCC going to Play A While Valkulla.
I hope to return to Sweden sooner rather than later and often talk
about moving there!
Iva Kimmelman
It seems in Sweden that all people who get a Whippet want to
show it. Some breeders have had to add a clause in their contracts
forbidding showing pet quality Whippets. This explained a minority
of the entry that should have been enjoyed as companions only, not
potential breeding stock.
On Saturday, I did Dogs and Best of Breed, while Cindy did all the
Bitches. Then we reversed it on Sunday with me doing the Bitches
and Cindy doing Dogs and Breed.
Some class dogs I would like to mention who I really liked were:
Play A While Sommarnoje, Inner Circles Don’t Say A Word, Twyborn
Evelyn Tibbits, Twyborn Chinese Dragon being among the best.
Sobers Lucifer – BOB on Saturday
I gave the CC to a dog that could compete successfully anywhere in
the world. Sober’s Lucifer it turns out was half American. I admit to
being surprised but not disappointed. Apparently I still like the same
kind of dog, no matter where I am. A well-made, sound dog who
seemed out of sorts but still completely deserving of the win. I found
out he was looking for his mistress who was showing Borzoi and he
was handled by a friend. He really wanted none of this and did the
typical “anxiety in motion” as his very talented handler did the best he
could, which was really quite good. His owner informed me she missed
making her entry under Cindy.
I gave the Champion class to a very American looking dog, Ch. Song
Sung Blue Gold-Dust who was a bit out of condition, but was absolutely
foot sound coming and going and had the nicest shape and side gait
Zelig Summer In Siam – CC bitch on Sunday
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Judging In Sweden
...from Cindy Scott
I was fortunate to judge at the Swedish Sighthound Club and the
Swedish Whippet Club in early June.
But I will get back to that in a minute.
What a beautiful country!!!
We were in the Western city of Goteborg where all of the landscape
is lush and the sun doesn’t go down till 11:30 pm in the evening then
back up at 3:30 am. It’s very strange to be walking around at that time
of night in daylight.
The people were very nice and everyone that I met with the
exception of one spoke very good English. A word about the food:
lots of fish dishes which I somewhat enjoyed, great breakfasts with
cheese I’d never had before that was wonderful, but I had to draw
the line at beans in red sauce (our pork and beans) first thing in the
morning. Nope!
GEEZ, her father is Ch. Bohem Justin Time and her mother is the
incomparable Ch. Oxford Tobell Fire and Ice that I gave the breed
to at the 2008 National.
The bitches in general were better than the dogs which seems to
be the norm no matter where you go. There was quite a variety in
type but most moved well and I couldn’t take my eyes off of a black
masked solid red bitch. Skraddaregardens Kryddan Qantarell, a Ch.
Adagio Love Supreme daughter. Very sound coming and going with
very balanced, smooth side gait. She was my eventual CC winner
which finished her championship. She has almost completed her
coursing title and is in training for tracking.
I joined Jeff and Iva Kimmelman and we all stayed in the same hotel
which was very old but kept in wonderful condition. Here’s an odd
thing: why don’t hotels in Europe have washcloths? All they give you
is towels. Next time I travel overseas, I’ll take my own.
The first day there Jeff served as the tour guide and had an uncanny
way of figuring out which direction to take. We took the tram, which
is like an above ground subway, to a botanical garden and wandered
around looking at the lush foliage and walking for hours. We took the
tram back to town and walked to the older part of the city called Haga
where there were outdoor cafés and a laid back atmosphere and we
had cappuccinos and pastries.
One thing that I noticed was that everywhere we went was pristine.
I never saw trash on the ground, in the parks or overflowing bins, very
different from America, unfortunately.
Two very nice ladies picked us up at our hotel and drove us 4050 miles out in the country to the show site and our hotel. Again,
beautiful countryside and green everywhere.
Saturday morning I was judging bitches at the Sighthound show and
Iva did dogs.
The ring was a bit of a surprise. No gates or ropes, just tape on the
ground and people really don’t pay much attention to that and walk
in and around the edges. They are very casual in their dress and I
actually had some that showed in flip-flops!
You must give a rating and critique to every dog. I was intimidated by
that until I actually got going then it wasn’t bad. Once you dictate the
critique to the steward, she gives a copy to the exhibitor and the other
steward announces what rating you gave the dog. Once you place a
glass 1, 2, 3 and 4 the steward announces it and there are no ribbons
given out. Even the Champion class is placed 1-4.
They have a lot more classes than we do and they start with the baby
puppies 4-6 months.
A beautiful brindle and white puppy, well-trained and full of herself
was my Best Baby Puppy Bitch. She then went to Iva’s ring and was
Best Baby Puppy again and she went on to Best Baby Puppy in Show.
The woman showing her looked familiar but I didn’t know why so I
went and asked her the breeding on her bitch.
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Skraddaregardens Kryddan Quantarell – Best Bitch from the CH class on Sunday
Later that day I was very surprised to be asked to judge Best In Show
which also includes making 4 placements. I had a wonderful lineup
and even had some Portuguese Podengo Pequenos. What adorable
little dogs! I had one of the wirehaired version and one smooth.
I gave the top spot to an amazing 15 month old Irish Wolfhound with
one of the best rears I have ever seen. This was really a highlight of
the weekend for me.
Sunday came with a few clouds and slightly chilly temperatures and
I had about 50 males and Best of Breed to do.
Their height standard is shorter than ours and I saw several males
that were probably over the standard but they don’t have a DQ for it
so I didn’t place them. Quite a few wide fronts which throws off the
gait but I had some very nice Whippet males to go over.
My eventual CC winner was an Irish marked red brindle from the
junior class. Flawless mover and very good coming and going, Once
he matures he should be a real beauty.
Iva did bitches and sent me her best bitch which happened to be the
same one I put up the day before and I awarded her Best of Breed.
Overall, I was very pleased with my entry and thoroughly enjoyed the
trip and the experience.
If you ever have the chance to visit this country, I highly recommend it.
Cindy Scott
Ch. Obailee’s Pegaso
(Ch. Tivio’s Solitary Man, JC x Ch. Obailee’s Isabella)
It’s been a splenda’d journey!
Ch. Obailee’s Pegaso—better known as “Splenda”—
finished with a Best of Breed over specials and 4 majors.
And on her first day out as a special, Splenda took a
4-point major toward her grand championship.
Thanks to Stacey, Tracy, Chris and John, for letting this
funny blue-brindle girl come to Tucson to entertain us!
Ow n e r s
Gary and Lynn Quick and Splenda’s best pal, Flirt
[email protected]
C O - Ow n e r s
Stacey Davis and Tracy Hite
B r e e de r s
Stacey Davis, Chris Abraham, and John and Tracy Hite
photo courtesy Teddy Lei
The Swedish Whippet Club’s National Specialty
Sweden is about the size of California and very similar in
shape (long and narrow), but the population is just about
9.4 million, and with only ca. 400 Whippets registered
each year, an entry of 255 dogs at their national specialty
at Tammsvik on July 27-28 was really impressive. It
probably helped that more than 50 entries came from other
countries: Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Italy and
Russia, and at least a couple had American co-owners.
There were several British spectators at ringside but very
few British dogs in the ring.
Tammsvik is a
beautiful old manor
house with endless
lawns an hour’s drive
outside Stockholm.
This was one of the
hottest weekends
of the summer over
there, and as I had
to write critiques
for all puppies and
the top five in all
other classes, and
also determine
if the best ones
should be awarded
an “Excellent”
grade, judging was
hard work but also
ultimately a very
satisfying experience. Exactly what “Excellent” means isn’t
so easy to determine, of course; I awarded it to those dogs
I felt would be worthy champions, although not necessarily
top specials. There was not a bad dog in the whole entry;
the best ones were at least as good as ours, and type
was not that different, unsurprisingly since there’s a lot of
American breeding over there now. The atmosphere was
very sportsmanlike, with lots of applause as the finalists
in each class went around the ring, but very little ringside
clapping for individual dogs. Handling in general was quite
good, if not as slick as we’re used to, and dress in general
was very casual (lots of barefoot handlers!).
by Bo Bengtson
class of 15 was won by the very mature, impressive red
brindle & white Rhetsgis Fats Domino, one of the best dogs
I judged all day and sired by the famous Swedish stud dog
Ch. Adago Love Supreme. He’s definitely one for the future
and was beautifully handled by Stefan Råghammar (Adagio).
Second to him was a lovely fawn, Softouch Diamond Dust,
son of US export Ch. Aberdeen Remarkable in Paris.
In the Young Adult class of 8 first place went to a smooth
fawn, Tappinskis Love Is In The Air, bred from Swedish
parents, with 2nd place to the tall, striking Sobers Morrison
(out of a Sporting Fields dam), who has already won a SBIS,
I believe. The Working class was won by a red brindle, Ch.
Siprex Tobias from Norway.
In the Open class of 23, the winner, Tajmahal Hot-RodderBrother, is a tall, glamorous particolor who I’m sure could do
well in the States; his sire is Ch. Tylko Ty Viking’s Pride, who
has a lot of winning offspring in Canada as well as the US.
Second to him was Sobers Lucifer, half brother to the 2nd
in Young Adult, with the same Sporting Fields dam.
The highlight of the day was definitely the Champion class:
22 handsome males with titles from all across Scandinavia,
Europe and the US lined the ring. I suspect the good dogs
over there finish quickly, which explains why the champion
classes were so big and impressive. No question about
the winner, though: a gorgeous light brindle gave me
goosebumps on his individual turn and proved impossible
to beat. His name is Ch. Twyborn Big Ben; later I learned
he’s won both all-breed and specialty BIS, and was Best
Dog under Lori Wilson when she judged in Sweden a few
weeks earlier. Big Ben is of mainly Swedish breeding,
although both Reign and Flight Time appear a couple of
generations back in his pedigree. His outline would be
difficult to improve, and he was a beautiful side mover until
The first day was devoted to dog judging. The Baby class
of 11 was won by a charming split-faced brindle from Italy,
Sobresalto Quanno Staje C’mere, sired by U.S. export
Ch. Festiva’s Been There Done That. Second was a fawn,
Brookway Academy Choice, sired by another U.S. export,
Ch. Leyenda’s Spongebobsquarepants.
The Puppy Dog class of 8 was headed by a cream import
from Estonia, Bona Diva Oriental Pearl, once again U.S. sired
by Ch. Spellbound Forgetmenot Santana, while the Junior
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BOS Ch. Twyborn Big Ben, photo courtesy ©Elisabeth Flygar, www.allettes.se
at the end he was so happy he started losing his outline and
I had to ask his handler to turn things down a notch. A close
second was the black & white dog I had put up in Canada
a few weeks earlier, Ch. Snow Hill Dakota Bad Sneakers,
still the most stylish and controlled of movers but a little
less generous in outline than the winner, and third was
another American dog, Ch. Aberdeen Remarkable In Paris
(Westminster BOS in both 2011 and ’12), a lovely mover
from the side with lots of star quality, but not as good in
topline as those above. There were at least a dozen other
dogs I’m sure could finish easily in the US as well.
Dog veterans were not numerous; Ch. Bokellas Ron
Weasley (by Ch. Sporting Fields Irish Mist) won the
younger of the two classes at 8 & 1/2, while the 11-year
old part German-bred Ch. Lingon Black-Moon was the only
contestant in the older class.
All the dogs which had received an “Excellent” grade were
eligible for the Best Dog competition. Five placements are
available; the first three went to the top three Champion
dogs, with the winning Junior in 4th place and the Open
dog in 5th.
The bitches, as usual, were even more numerous than
the dogs, but quality was fairly even. If anything I felt this
time that dogs perhaps had the edge — not a common
occurrence in our breed. First in a Baby class of eight
was the black brindle Torshammarens Saga, while the
mostly lighter brindle Catskills Fröken Fryd (by an Irish
Barnesmore dog) won the Puppy class of nine. The Junior
bitch class was one of the best of the show, with 24 lovely
youngsters to choose from. The two best were both light
fawn and whites: Play A While Junikväll could come home
with me any time, and so could the second, C’mere La
Bohéme, who was a little stronger throughout but equally
gorgeous. Their pedigrees have a lot in common, showing
what cooperation across the borders can do, with Leyenda
imports from the US behind both, plus a bit of Ronndal
breeding from New Zealand.
Best Young Adult in a class of 17 was Allettes Royal
Lambada, a glamorous brindle & white who I am sure could
win a lot in the U.S., while the Working bitch class of seven
was won by a strong, well-balanced solid red brindle, Inner
Circles Design For Run. The Open bitch class was, as so
often, the biggest of the show, with 35 entries. The best two
were outstanding — a dark brindle named Valanti Alberta
and a light fawn brindle from Finland, Softouch Hazelnut.
The former won; we’ll return to her later. Hazelnut is out of
the US import Ch. Leyenda’s Happy Days with a mixture
of Scandinavian and New Zealand blood on the sire’s side.
These two bitches were among the day’s highlights; my only
question was why they were not already champions.
The beautiful Champion class had 21 entered and was won
by a stunning red brindle & white bitch from Norway, Ch.
Siprex Siri. She’s exactly the type I tried to breed in the
past, but she’s not even related, being by the Italian sire
Ch. Rivarco Aragorn out of a bitch of Adagio and Twyborn
breeding. I loved her and could have taken her home! Close
runner-up was Ch. Adagio Move Your Mind, an excellent
mover, sound and superbly presented although not quite as
elegant or clean in neck as the winner. A World Winner and
top bitch last year, with a recent SBIS under Lori Wilson,
she’s out of a Love Supreme daughter but introduces
different blood through her Play A While sire, who goes
back to Canadian Forgetmenot and New Zealand Ronndal
imports (and, yes, a little Bohem blood further back). Third
was another bitch from Norway, the racy brindle Ch. Xploring
going Bananas, who’s sired by Am. Ch. Plumcreek Hollowell
Go Forth, and showed it in her excellent movement.
Best Young Bitch, Allettes Royal Lambada
The dam of the Champion class winner placed 1st in the
Senior class: Ch. Siprex Siri is very similar to her daughter
in type, color and quality. I believe she won BOB at this
show a few years ago. First in the older Veteran class was
the stunning brindle Ch. Softouch Pinquana, who in spite
of her 10 & 1/2 years could still compete with the best. I
understand she also won BIS here back in 2005.
For Best Bitch I really liked both the Open and Champion
class winners; in the end the Open bitch had to win
because she maintained her outline and moved better and
better, while the champion, although a big mover, kept
dropping her head and didn’t present the same all-over
picture. So Valanti Alberta was Best Bitch, followed by the
top two Champion bitches, while the 2nd in Open was 4th
Best Bitch, and the 3rd in the Champion class was 5th.
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The Swedish Whippet Club’s National Specialty
Then followed selection of the bests in the different
classes, with the dog and bitch winners competing; there
was also a generations class, a brace class, and most
importantly a Progeny Class, open for a dog or bitch with
four immediate offspring, and a Breeders Class, which
consisted of teams of four dogs all bred by the same
breeder. These classes are taken much more seriously in
Sweden than over here (when we have them at all); there
were 17 groups entered in the Progeny class and 19 in the
Breeders class, although not all ended up competing. The
Progeny class was won by the bitch Ch. Play A While Late
Red Autumnhop Ale, dam of the lovely Junior bitch class
winner, and herself sired by Ch. Ronndal Zinedine Zidane
from New Zealand out of US import Leyenda Miyabi Oh
So Sexy. The breeders group was — apparently not for the
first time — won by Michael Wikström’s Twyborn kennel,
which presented a jaw-dropping team of four mature, world
class males, all related but from four different breedings.
Not many breeders anywhere in the world could produce
something similar. I was deeply impressed.
“Bertie,” is a late bloomer, has not been shown much and
mostly stayed at home to have a litter of puppies to allow
her more mature litter sister to win her championship. Most
spectators at ringside seemed to love her as much as I did,
although I’m sure some of the enthusiasm was due to the
fact that her breeder has apparently been very ill and was
there to witness the bitch’s win. The breeder’s daughter
handled the bitch very cleverly, mostly just by leaving her
alone and letting her qualities shine on their own.
Her breeding? Big surprise: the sire is Ch. Wolf Tone Viking,
a dog I admired years ago and whose offspring I keep
putting up in various parts of the world. He in turn is nearly
all-American, going back to Bohem, Signum, Chelsea,
Delacreme, Airescot and especially Merci Isle breeding
— the latter a couple of times over. The dam, Allettes
Vanessa, has two Airescot parents, two Sporting Fields
grandsires (Irish Mist and Jazz Fest) and two Statuesque
great-grandsires (Extortion and Personalised). You could say
the BOB winner has a large chunk of the American Whippet
world wrapped up in her beautiful frame…
On Sunday, Whippet males at the Sighthound show were
judged by Sweden’s Åke Cronander (Albicans) and bitches
by Ann Snelgrove (Huntinghill) from the UK. A total of 62
dogs and 96 bitches were entered. BOB and later BIS went
to the elegant, nearly all-white bitch from Italy, Ch. Rivarco
Tinuviel, who was not shown under me, and BOS was my
Best Junior, Rhetsgis Fats Domino.
Bo Bengtson
BOB Valanti Alberta, photo courtesy Jackie Bourdin
Finally Best in Show… There was a lot of ringside applause
for both the gorgeous dog champion and the lovely,
feminine bitch, and both were as full of beans as if they
were going lure coursing next. This helped the bitch, as the
dog kept getting over-excited and tried to run away with his
handler, while she just got more beautiful the longer she
moved, and I couldn’t resist awarding her Best in Show.
I had no idea who she was or where she had been, but
all that mattered to me was that on this day she was just
about as good a Whippet bitch as anyone can hope to see.
She’s not perfect, of course (she could have a little more
width behind), but who wants to quibble about details when
there’s so much quality to admire? I’m told she’s called
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Best Junior, Rhetsgis Fats Domino (BOS on Sunday)
photo courtesy ©Elisabeth Flygar, www.allettes.se
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I’m a truckin’ rock star!
We have a camper. A 30-foot pull behind travel trailer with a
slide out. A 30-foot pull behind with a slide out that weighs
10,000 pounds. When we drive down the road, that 30-foot
camper is attached to a full size extended van with a V-10.
Collectively, with the length of the van and the camper and
the hitch system in between, it is about the same length as
the trailer part of a semi.
I am scared to pull the camper. We have driven hundreds
and hundreds of miles with that van and camper and we’ve
never had an accident. We’ve never gone in the ditch,
we’ve never hit a deer or been hit by another car. I have
been the passenger during 95% of the miles driven. My
rule is that I shouldn’t own something that I cannot drive
but if Mark wants to drive, that’s just fine with me.
I am scared to drive the camper. My fear is irrational.
But, I am a big girl and I want to camp on the dog show
site. I WILL drive the van and camper to Cambridge. I
am pretty sure I will survive it. It’s only two and a quarter
hours, about 120 miles from home.
It’s Wednesday and Duluth made the national news
because of 9 inches of rain, washouts of many streets, the
mall being underwater, a seal escaping from the zoo by
swimming downstream to be captured on a main street,
popped manhole covers and sinkholes big enough to
swallow cars. It has been declared a disaster area.
NO TRAVEL IS RECOMMENDED. STAY HOME.
Businesses and colleges are closed (in the summer? when
has that ever happened?)
I am leaving today for the dog show. What’s that phrase?
Come hell or high water? That’s me – when a dog show is
at stake, what’s a little water when I’m already scared to
drive. Can’t make it much worse, can it? A person can only
manufacture so much adrenaline in their system.
Mark drove around the area scoping out roads to get me
from our house to I-35 – about 30 miles. After I hit I-35,
I should be home free – after all, the interstate is never
closed. I left the house and within 15 miles, I hit a main
road closed that Mark had been on just 45 minutes before.
The route away from the closed road was also closed in a
mile due to a washed out culvert, which meant I had to pull
into the biggest driveway I could find and turn around.
Hummm. Turn around – those are two words I really
don’t like when driving the scary camper. Oh, well, with
something this big, people are sure to see me and stop
before they hit me when it takes 10 minutes of going back
and forth, blocking the entire road.
by Kay Nierengarten
Onwards to another road. Great! This will connect below
the highway that’s closed that I normally take and I’ll get
to I-35. Those people up ahead are driving through flowing
water with a visible current to it, connecting to water on
both sides of the road.
Hummm. Well, it only looks about 5 inches and they are
going through it, so it can’t be that bad. Keep repeating
dogshow, dogshow, dogshow. I go for it, water splashing
five feet in the air onto the windshield of van.
Seven additional water over the road crossings later, I get
to a reaaally deep one. Hummm. Pickup trucks are going
through it slowly, but just fine – I have a lot of clearance
on the van and the camper, I’ll just do the same. I proceed
through the water and two thirds of the way across, I feel
the van begin to lose traction. Heart in throat, I can only be
thankful for the power of momentum. We made it to the
other side. Inertia is a wonderful thing.
All right! On to I-35. I get onto the highway and within two
miles they are pulling everyone off because it’s closed
up ahead. Seriously? A major interstate being closed
due to a little rain? Never heard of it. For gosh sakes, it’s
MINNESOTA – you close roads because of SNOW – never
for RAIN!
Getting to I-35 was going to solve all my problems.
Hummm. OK, what goes north/south in this area – there
are no detour signs, so it’s anyone’s best guess. Hwy 210
goes west to Hwy 65 (a mere 40 miles). So, off I go west,
still pulling the 10,000-pound scary camper. Six more water
crossings with current later, I get to McGregor. Hwy 65
goes south to Cambridge. NOT TODAY – road closed with
no detour signs there, either.
Hummmm. Well, there’s Hwy 169, another 23 miles west
to Aitkin where the Mississippi may have already flooded
everything. It’s open. Yippee! South to Princeton, back east
to Cambridge and 200 miles and 4 3/4 hours (remember,
it’s a 2 ¼ hour drive) I arrive at the show site.
I pull into my allotted spot, stop the van and without any
maneuvering at all, the camper is level!
I’M AT THE DOG SHOW!!!
There began four days of showing and socializing. Watching
new owners expertly show their puppies, managing their
misbehavior and applauding the occasional flashes of
brilliance. Celebrating some wonderful wins on puppies.
Cooking breakfast for 17 on Saturday. See, you have to
camp on-site to cook breakfast and have a party. It made all
the effort to get there worthwhile and during the four days
there I don’t even think of pulling the scary camper home.
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It’s Sunday, the shows are over, everything is packed up
and I’m going to successfully drive the scary camper home
again. I am a big girl, I can do this – if I can make it through
all the closed roads and detours on the way to the shows,
going home should be a piece of cake.
out another jack and four boards to make it taller and place
that jack a bit forward on the frame. Jack it up, steady the
other jacks and repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
I am driving carefully, eyes ahead, and both hands on the
wheel when a red pickup truck pulls alongside at 60 miles an
hour and the man on the passenger side is waving his arms
and telling me I have a flat tire. I pull over and get out and look.
Ok, the second wheel of the pair is able to spin in the air
so I know I have it high enough and I get the flat tire off the
camper. Now, it’s time to put the spare on. The damn thing
weighs 50-60 pounds and I am not strong enough to lift
and manipulate it to get it on the bolts. I can get it onto the
frame, but can’t wiggle it to get the bolts to line up.
Hummm. It’s one of the pair on the passenger side of the
10,000-pound scary camper. The tire had so much fun
disintegrating that there are black marks on the side of the
camper where it thrashed and flailed as it came apart. One
would think such a thing would be noticeable in the rear view
mirror. I guess that maybe you’d have to be looking to see the
flailing bits of tire and smoke. There were just shreds clinging
to the rim. Wonder how many miles I drove with it flat?
I call my wonderful husband and with the help of Bluetooth
technology and his calm voice in my ear, I am going to change
that damn tire. He’s willing to come rescue me, but I am still
90 miles from home and it would take an hour and half for him
to reach me and I have dogs in the van in the heat. No, I am a
big girl and I need to just suck it up and do it.
Thankfully, he knows my physical limitations and put power
tools in the camper to take care of unscrewing the nuts
that hold the tire. First crank up the scissors jacks built
onto the camper to steady it, and then put a real jack under
the wheels. Never having used a regular jack myself, I am
listening to the ABC’s of jack placement in my ear. OK, pump
up the real jack under the frame, then go to each scissors
jack and move them up to steady the camper as it get higher.
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. I am beginning to dislike the word
jack. Is the second tire of the pair off the ground yet? No.
Drat. Not high enough and the first jack is maxed out. Get
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Now I am truly convinced I dislike the word jack. Mostly,
because I don’t know jack about this process.
Hummm. Well, monkeys can be trained to use tools and
with my opposable thumbs, I’m pretty sure I should be able
to figure something out. I just can’t quit now. The handle
thingie from the jack can be pushed through the holes in
the wheel frame and maybe, just maybe, I can use leverage
to finagle that dratted heavy tire onto the bolts. Success!
I pack up my stuff, throw the dead tire into the camper and
drive on. I’m not more than two miles down the road and
someone else is flagging me down, waving at the back of
the camper. I pull over again and walk around for a check.
I’ve left the back hatch propped open where I accessed
tools, most likely dripping bolts and whatnot down the
highway. OK, close that and proceed.
I finally pull into my driveway and after my vast experience
driving this weekend; I am going to nonchalantly back the
camper into its usual spot. After several attempts and
deciding the massive rain must have moved the 80-yearold maple and birch trees closer to the driveway during the
weekend, I finally give up.
Shubie, will you back this thing up? I already earned
my truckin’ license and I know when to quit.
Kay Nierengarten
our multi-talented girl is trying for a new title
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Timbreblue Windrydr Biker Girl, CD, MC, FCH, RE, NA, NAJ, NAP, NJP, CGC, TT, CAV
Ashley has been bred to Myles (who’s not sure what he’s gotten himself into).
Puppies expected the end of August. Please call or email to reserve your future
sports companion.
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Performance Report
AWC Performance Directors Report
ASFA International Invitational Results
July 2012
On May 26th and 27th the American Sighthound Field Association (ASFA) held the 35th Anniversary of the
International Invitational in Falcon, Colorado, hosted by the Colorado Lure Coursing Association. A wild
mix of weather combined with the big blue skies of the high country made for an exciting weekend of challenging courses. Although the whippet entry was small this year, the competition was as hot as the weather
and the rough terrain made the winners work for every point they earned. Thanks to Daphane Lowe, the II
FTS, here are your whippet results:
International Invitational Saturday, May 26th, 2012
Judges: Claudia Miller and Gary Roush
Open (8)
1. 272 Rondo
2. 267 Allie
3. 267 Hazel
4. 267 Poppy
N. 266 Char
Bandire’s Some Beach
Free Flite Ableaim American Dream
Chapelton Prime Time Purple Haze
Belaya Royal Fortune
WindnSatin Endless Endeavor to Remix O’TnT
Romig/McCarver
McGee
Wilson
Boonin
Richards/Childs
Field Champion (12)
1. 269 Conall Finghin’s Celtic Legacy
2. 268 Bailey Angel Speed Bailey
3. 267 Tug
Vitesse Full Pull
4. 266 Lucy Isen Dancing Dot
N. 265 K-2
Labyrinth K Two
Standerford
Borland/Neilsen
Costello/Szymaniak
Borland/O’Neill
Pirrung/McCann
Veteran(2)
1. 267 Swaps Wistwind Swaps
2. 266 Ryan Wirtu’s Marathon Man at R’L
Pirrung
McDougold/Pyle
Best of Breed: Rondo
Kennel and Breeder Stake: Ryan and Percy
Gillette Whippet Winner: Ryan
Gillette Stake Whippet
“Ryan”
DC Wirtu’s Marathon Man at R’L, MC, FCh
Breeder: Kathleen Kelley
Owners: Irma McDougold and Mary Pyle
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Saturday Best of Breed
“Rondo”
Breeders: Jarrett and Paige McCarver
Owners: Matthew & Heather Romig
And Paige McCarver
International Invitational Sunday, May 27, 2012
Judges: Frances Abrams, Dawn Ferris
Open (8)
1. 312 Allie
2. 311 Lark
3. 310 Poppy
4. 309 Char
N. 302 Rondo
Free Flite Ableaim American Dream
Chapleton’s Little Wing
Belaya Royal Fortune
WindnSatin Endless Endeavor to Remix O’TnT
McGee
Pocurull/Langford
Boonin
Richards
Romig/McCarver
Field Champion (12)
1. 307 Mango Wildhare Good Ride Cowboy
2. 307 Percy Wirtu’s Pursuit Is Happiness at R’L
3. 306 Bailey Angel Speed Bailey
4. 306 Tug
Vitesse Full Pull
N. 306 Caleb Willabe Cowpoke Caleb
Costello
McDougold/Kelley
Borland/Neilsen
Costello/Szymaniak
Costello
Veteran (2)
1. 309 Ryan Wirtu’s Marathon Man at R’L
2. 306 Swaps Wistwind Swaps
McDougold/Pyle
Pirrung
Best of Breed: Mango
Kennel and Breeder Stake: Percy and Ryan
Bench Stake: Mango
Best in II: The Saluki, “Solomon”, DC Tamrick’s Who’s The Boss, SC
KC Snaps
Sunday Best of Breed and Bench Stake Winner
“Mango”
GCh Wildhare Good Ride Cowboy, FCh, PR, CGC
Breeders: Dwight and Paula Caffee
Owner: Dr. Lisa Costello
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Obedience Report
July 2012 AKC Obedience, Rally Ranking Report
By Irene Mullauer, National Obedience Chairperson
I have received the Quarter 2 Obedience and Rally reports from AKC.
Obedience rankings 1/1/12 thru 6/30/12
Rank
Dog Name
Primary Owner
Average
Qualifying
Score
Beg Nov A
Kemar's Best Picture JC
Charlotte
Sokol
194.5
1
Special Acres Desert Jasmine
Patti
Clinton
189.5
1
Wildwood's It's All About Heart
Victoria
Roll
187
1
Shannon Down I Like To Move It
Janet
Phillips
185
1
Devereux Sportingfield Truly Pristine
ANGELA
BASS
181.5
1
Mirage's Accidents Happen
Catherine
Odom
Chapleton's Little Wing
Linda
Pocurull
Debmar's Sparks Will Fly At Liberty
Catherine
Affinity Full Circle To Karamac
Beg Nov B
198
1
194.75
2
Odom
194.5
1
Carol
Mc Dermott
194.5
3
Mariki's La Dolce Vita Cu Liath
Martha
Cardassi
194.5
1
Endeavor's Under The Radar
Dale
Noble
194.5
1
Shojin's I Wanna Be Your Dog
Charlotte
Pond
194.5
1
Devereux's Evening Star
Robin
Brown
193.5
1
Cooper's Shining Comet
Catherine
Odom
193
1
Aslan Artemis Harvest Moon
Marina
Caro
193
1
Charlotte
Pond
191
2
Abbey Chiaroscuro
JILL
HOPFENBECK
191
1
Karasar's Jackpot
Gail
Ball
190
1
Debmar You All Spoken Here
Deborah
Bahm
190
1
Wildwood's Torrey Pines
Faith
Guest
189
1
Shamasan Who's That Lady
PHOEBE
DEGOL
189
1
Emerald's A Thief In The Night
Alice
Sowders
Hunterhill Snowdrift
Gail
Ball
Amberwind Hamrya Tears Of Fire
Sandra
Devonair's Quinn
186.5
1
186.166667
3
Holley
185.5
3
Heather
Dansereau
185.5
1
Mystic Run's Hey Jude
Annie
Andrews
183
3
Mirage's Here By Accident
Catherine
Odom
192
1
Dehk's Nelwyn Mystic
Tabitha
Doyle
187.5
1
Wildwood's Glad I Waited Just For You Riley Roll
Victoria
Roll
182
1
Chapleton's Little Wing
Linda
Pocurull
181.5
2
Janet
Phillips
177.5
3
Vitesse Deep Powder
Lisa
Costello
197
2
Northwind's Echo Of Poetry
Kay
Nierengarten
196.5
1
Catherine
Odom
193.5
1
Nonstopp Nadal Of Wyndsor
Lisa
Ochoa
191.5
1
Warburton Ww Southern Skies
Laurie
Erickson
191.5
1
Grad Nov
Novice A
Novice B
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Rank
Dog Name
Primary Owner
Mirage's Here By Accident
Catherine
Odom
Abbey Boston Belle CD
Jill
Hopfenbeck
Anlan's Sierra Mist
Tia
Shamasan's Lily Potter
Average
Qualifying
Score
191.5
1
191
1
Lubbers
190.25
2
Lisa
Ochoa
188.17
3
Maribeth
Shanley
186.5
1
Cabria's Song Of The Sea
Hillary
Frank
185.5
1
Mystic Run's Here Comes The Sun
Annie
Andrews
184.75
2
Mystic Run Strawberry Fields Forever
Annie
Andrews
184
3
Bitterblue's Treacle Tart
Linda
Garwacki
181.5
1
Bitterblue's Living Colour
Linda
Garwacki
180
1
Karasar's Jackpot
Gail
Ball
179.25
2
Shamasan's Lily Potter
Maribeth
Shanley
179
1
Endeavor's Challenge The Wind
Dale
Noble
177.5
1
Windryder's Americade Cruiser
Roberta
Lutz
177.5
1
Mystic Run's Here Comes The Sun
Annie
Andrews
174
1
Cabria's Song Of The Sea
Hillary
Frank
171.75
2
Shojins How Hard Can This Be
Charlotte
Pond
171
1
Renegade's Red Alert At Sea
Kathleen
Cole
187.75
2
Notorious Poeta Omg Fudge
Vicki
Jackson
185
2
Wheatland Talltree
Lee
Hayes
181
1
Notorious Poeta Omg Fudge
Vicki
Jackson
179
1
Maverick Cowgirl Chic
Rachel
Amado
185.5
1
Open A
Util A
Top Obedience Whippet of the Year Rules:
st
st
1. There must be a minimum of three qualifying scores in the calendar year (Jan 1 – Dec 31 ).
2. All qualifying scores will be averaged together. Example: if there is 1 Novice score and 2 Open scores, all 3 will
be averaged together.
3. Only regular classes will be counted; Novice A/B, Open A/B, Utility A/B.
4. Non-qualifying scores will not be included in average.
5. Titles do not have to be earned in the award year.
Rally rankings 1/1/2012 thru 6/30/2012
Rank
Dog Name
Owner
Average
Qualifying
Score
Adv A
1
Mirage's Accidents Happen
Catherine Odom
98
1
2
Bijoux Crystal Summer Day
Darlene A Buck
92
1
3
Krislyn Cat Man Do
Joanne Cook
90
1
4
Kismet's Purple Haze
M Joanne Ronning
89.5
2
5
Bijoux Saesi Bacardi Silver
Darlene Ann Buck
88
1
6
Kemar's Love Torn
Kaye Martell
85.5
2
7
Hwyrun Heart Of The Storm
Roberta S Lutz
84
3
8
Charlotte Pond
83.5
2
9
Catherine Odom
83
1
Redglen I Love Rock N Roll
Harriet Richman
82
2
10
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Rank
Dog Name
Owner
Average
Qualifying
Score
11
Charlotte Pond
81
2
12
Swiftsure Cameroon RN NJP
Laura Baratta
13
Redglen I Love Rock N Roll
Harriet Richman
77
1
76.67
3
14
Devereux Sportingfield Truly Pristine
ANGELA BASS
74
1
1
Vitesse Deep Powder
Dr. Lisa M Costello
98
1
2
Ima Leda's Loving Swan
Barbara Stockard
97
2
Shamasan Who's That Lady
PHOEBE DEGOL
97
1
Longlesson Turtle Dove
LONGLESSON KENNEL
96
1
Adv B
4
Linda Garwacki
96
1
6
Timbreblue's Mysterious Dream Warrior
Diana Cognigni
95
1
7
Tnt's La Femme Nikita
Roberta S Lutz
93
1
8
Tcs Zoomerang
Adele McNiven
92
1
9
Devereux's Evening Star
Robin Brown
90
1
Wegner's On The Sly
Connie Austin
90
1
Saesi Inked Is This Love
Susan Mullins
90
2
12
Summit Ironwood Signorina Zetta
Denise Sisneroz
89
1
13
Longlesson Turtle Dove
LONGLESSON KENNEL
88
2
14
Ima Leda's Loving Swan
Barbara Stockard
87
1
15
Linda Garwacki
83
1
16
Shojins How Hard Can This Be
Charlotte Pond
82.33
3
17
Quixand Desert Willow
Elizabeth Campbell
80.5
4
18
Arlen's Red Letter Day
Faye Elizabeth Head
79
1
19
Linda Garwacki
77
1
20
Wegner's On The Sly
Connie Austin
76
1
21
Linda Garwacki
73
1
1
Alouette Rdrunner Mucho Dinero
Ellen Adler
91.75
4
2
Anlan's Sierra Mist
Tia W Lubbers
90.9
10
3
Hasue Here Comes Trouble
Susan Mullins
90.125
8
4
Timbreblue Windrydr Biker Girl
Roberta S Lutz
89.5
6
5
Martha Cardassi
76
2
6
Wyatt Of Dodge City
dawn heffernan
87
2
7
Tnt's La Femme Nikita
Roberta S Lutz
80.5
4
1
Krislyn Cat Man Do
Joanne Cook
97
1
2
Martha Cardassi
79
1
3
Janet A Phillips
79
1
1
Midori Days De Sud
Irene C Mullauer
99
1
2
Apollo's Arrow Lancar Keyzer
Maria Fuchs
97.5
2
3
Timbreblue's Mysterious Dream Warrior
Diana Cognigni
94.67
3
4
Apollo's Arrow Lancar Keyzer
Maria Fuchs
83
1
RAE
Exc A
Exc B
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Rank
Dog Name
Owner
Average
Qualifying
Score
Cogshall Forget Me Not
Connie Austin
83
1
6
Martha Cardassi
82
1
1
Cogshalls Noble Mandrake
Mary C Huff
100
1
2
Cogshalls Painted Daisy
Mary C Huff
97.5
2
3
Kemar's Tomorrow's Another Day
Patrick McNeill
93
1
4
Callie
Stephanie L. Russell
86.5
2
5
Shojin's Turn Me Loose
Lisa Fontaine
81
3
6
Bitterblue's Hot Toddy
Victoria Damant
80.5
2
7
Mariner Colonel Mustard At Surrey Hill
Diana Itter
77
1
8
Timbreblue Chipping Camden
Jean Bartlett
70
1
1
Debmar's Sparks Will Fly At Liberty
Catherine Odom
99
1
2
Warburton Ww Southern Skies
Laurie Erickson
98
1
3
Emerald's A Thief In The Night
Dr. Alice Sowders
97.5
2
4
Cogshalls Painted Daisy
Mary C Huff
97
1
Kemar's Love Torn
Kaye Martell
97
1
Susan Mullins
97
1
Bijoux Saesi Wild Turkey
Darlene Ann Buck
96
1
Jaytea Chesara From Day One
M.Joanne Ronning
96
3
Ragapple A Stitch In Time
M.Joanne Ronning
92.5
2
10
Devonair's Quinn
Heather Dansereau
92
1
11
Shojin's If Not For U
Ron Vayda
89.5
2
12
Lisa Ochoa
88.67
3
13
Woods Runner Summer Illusion
Bohem Jubilee What Dreams May Come
Barbara Timm
87.67
3
Brenda Wendt
87.5
2
15
Belaya Sea Chanty
Pamela J Rhyner
87
1
16
Cove Creek Testarossa "Tessa"
Carol Fisher
85.67
3
17
Bohem Jubilee What Dreams May Come
Brenda Wendt
84
1
18
Belaya Sea Chanty RN
Pamela J Rhyner
81
2
19
Snowcap N Advocate Airs Above
Jean H Meader
80.5
2
20
Susan Mullins
80
1
21
Snowcap N Advocate Airs Above
Jean H Meader
75
1
22
Ziggy Stardust Of Wyndsor
Ulysses James
71
1
Nov A
Nov B
7
9
14
Top Rally Whippet of the Year Rules:
st
st
1. There must be a minimum of three qualifying scores in the calendar year (Jan 1 – Dec 31 ) regardless of class.
2. All qualifying scores will be averaged together. Example: if there is 1 Novice score and 2 Advanced scores, all 3
will be averaged together.
3. Non-qualifying scores will not be included in average.
4. Titles do not have to be earned in the award year.
The above Rankings are compiled from the AKC Reports Department. Please forward any questions to me at
[email protected].
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Christine Hopperstad, Editor
130 34th Ave E.
Seattle WA 98112

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