april 08 - The Pekingese Club

it was heaving !!
The Charlton suite was the venue for the
clubs championship show (24th February)
which is situated on, what is internation-
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Update
is the news sheet of
Raymond O’Neill for his excellent article
that he researched and wrote for the
clubs year book “Goodwood The Gordon
Lennox Dynasty and their Pekingese Dogs”
The Pekingese Club
Dog CC and B.I.S was Andria and Stuart
Livesey’s Ch. Livanda Sanata, with Reserve Dog CC going to a Santana son in
Mollie Patuska’s Livanda Bon-Jovi, Bitch
CC went again to Andria and Stuart in
Livanda Paliacegarden Alissa Livanda,
Reserve Bitch CC went to Ruby Charlton with Brentoy Wild Child and Best
Puppy was Carol and Alex Davenports
Greyport Magee.
Pekingese Club hostess
Miss Joyce Shipley
introduced her Grace
The Duchess of Richmond
who opened the show
The Pekingese Club wishes to thank all
those who supported the show and the
Goodwood Experience weekend, and to
all the helpers who without their support
this event would not have taken place,
they include:Pat Drew, Vandy Williams, Derek Smith
INSIDE
THIS ISSUE:
Rita & George Morgan, Graham Oades,
Mike Mays, Terry Owen, Olwyn Coope,
Jane Kempster, Nicolas & Christian
Small.
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ally acclaimed as the most beautiful racecourse in the world, Glorious Goodwood
set on the top of the Sussex Downs.
There was an entry of 101 from 97 dogs
for Mrs. Ann Offiler to judge, and the
venue from doors opening at 8.00am was
heaving.
Highlights included a superb tom bola
staged by Pat Drew and an excellent
breed memorabilia stall staged by Vandy
Williams. There was also a breed memorabilia auction, carried out by Don Lee,
and a silent auction of sterling silver
spoons, all of which made the show interesting and different.
2007 has been yet another busy
year. It has had its ups and downs, the
loss of my father at the beginning of the
year spelt the end of an era for me. I
know a number of members have lost
close relatives in the past year, and I’m
sure we all sympathize with them.
The auction of Pekingese memorabilia
at the beginning of the year was a huge
success.
It was hoped that the organization of a
Health Committee would bring the
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In his report to the AGM meeting held on Tuesday 1st April at
The Kennel Club the Chair made
reference to following:- To move
the club forward, members of
the committee have to work as a
collective group. They also had
to contribute, put aside differences, support each other, volunteer, get involved, and give, because without these commitments, the objectives of the club
would not be met, and the club
would not as a result achieve its
financial goals. He went on to
further say
In all honesty I can say during
the past 2 years I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the
committee and secretary Brenda
Oades towards a better members
world
During the interval there was an excellent
display of Pekingese obedience by Selena
Lund, and the club medals were presented by Mr. Don Lee to all winners.
There was also a presentation to Mr.
Dear Member,
Overwhelmed
another year with good results
From my living room
Pekingese fancy more in tune with each
other, and start working together for the
good of the breed. At the moment this
does not appear to be happening.
On a more positive note the preparations
for Goodwood, whilst taking a lot of my
time during the second part of the year,
was a very stimulating experience. Organizing the press and TV coverage was
very different and to meet Martin Clunes
was a real bonus. He has a great sense
of humour. I just hope that my constant
chatter, {as people are aware I can go on
a bit} doesn’t all end up on the cutting
room floor when his documentary on the
history of dogs is released. The enthusiasm for the event was overwhelming. It
was lovely to receive so many ‘thank
you’ cards, letters, emails, phone calls
etc. from members who enjoyed the
event. It is thoughtful things like this that
make all the hard work worth while.
It was satisfying that we were able to
add an extra £170 from the profits of
Goodwood, making a total of £200, to
the donation to Cancer Research. I
would like to thank Marcus Clarke for
donating the flowers presented to the
Duchess, and to all the other helpers. I
cannot end without thanking each and
every member for their continued
support of the Club, because without
their contributions we just could
not continue.
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Goodwood House
club. I’ve had a real buzz and a
lot of satisfaction helping wherever possible in making things
happen, the high light for me
being the Goodwood Experience,
and working with others in making this event work has been a
real treat, so thank you for that.
He also thanked Don Lee for
keeping a tight control on club
finances, and Daphne Lee for
her never ending dedication and
contribution to the clubs year
book, and all the rest who have
assisted and helped the club both
in and outside of committee in
making the clubs 2 open shows
and breed memorabilia auction
last year, and the Goodwood
event this year so successful.
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Club Treasurer Don Lee then
handed out copies of the clubs
Financial Statement, and explained that the overall profit for
2007 was £3820. He further
explained that:- show revenue
was down on last year due to the
fact that the club did not have a
championship show but only two
open shows, trade Debtors were
club members who had not, at
the end of the year paid for their
adverts, most of this has now
been collected. Income increased
by £3303, and expenditure by
£871, mainly due to an increase
in the yearbook costs of £585. By
April the yearbook account had
over £9000 when the bill had to
be paid. Mr. Lee also told the
meeting that :- he had taken
£2500 from the ordinary
account to pay for the book.
For the past 2 years only
375 yearbooks have been
ordered, instead of usual
450. The auction in March
last year generated income
and like all clubs we have to
work hard to maintain our
membership and generate
income. As of 31.3.08 the
Ordinary Account had a
total of £9337.76, the Yearbook Account £331.31 and
the deposit Account
£5227.00 making a total of
£14,896.07. With regard to
the Goodwood Experience
event and its financial performance, Mr. Lee presented figures to the meeting and said :- the evening
event in financial terms
produced a surplus and the
championship show the
following day along with the
surplus from the evening
prior, made a total net profit
for the whole weekend event
of £3532.70.
Cont’d on page 6
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“overwhelmed by the support”
The Pekingese Club Chair
writes:I was absolutely delighted,
thrilled, and overwhelmed
that the “Goodwood Experience” was so well supported ,
to me this demonstrates that
the hard core membership
and fancy not only in this
country but world wide do
wish to socialize and have an
enjoyable time with other
club members with like
minded interests, that is
Pekingese.
Getting the Goodwood Experience off the ground has
not been an easy task, and
whilst my initial thoughts on
it was that this event would
be too big for one club to
manage, and in the best interests of the breed it would
be far beneficial if all clubs
were to take part in its hosting, I was soon convinced by
the club committee that the
Pekingese Club should manage it alone, which was
done.
For a variety of reasons it is
true to say that not all Club
committee members were
enthusiastic about holding
the event, never the less the
majority believed it was right
for the club, its members, and
breed, and were convinced
that it would be received by
the membership with enthusiasm, which proved to be the
case.
All thanks must go to all of
the Club officials and committee who worked tirelessly
for this event to take place
and be the success it was, to
His Grace The Duke of Rich-
mond for his kindness and
generosity, to all sponsors of
“The Goodwood Experience,” who’s names were
listed in all printed materials,
to all guest speakers for their
contributions, to Joyce Shipley who in the role of hostess
for both events represented
the club admirably, to all
hands-on helpers who did a
tremendous job and particularly Vandy Williams, and Pat
Drew for their magnificent
stalls which contributed tremendously to the overall financial success of the week
end, and to last but not
least, the membership because ultimately without
their approval and support
this truly historic and once in
a lifetime event would never
have taken place”.
- - - OOO - - The story of “The Goodwood
Experience” appeared in Dog
World 11th April.
Ronnie says.. “ the majority share to be taken by breed clubs “
Prompted by a KC letter dated 28th
August concerning Championship
status 2010 - which basically stated
that there should be a further reduction in the number of CC’s available
for Pekingese commencing in year
2010, Pekingese breed liaison officer
Mrs. J Mitchell called a meeting to be
held at Midland Counties Championship Show venue (Toy day) for all
breed club representatives to discuss
the matter and establish if there was
a way forward for the clubs to decide
which clubs from the rotation system
were to lose championship status for
years 2010 and 2011, and which clubs
were not. Whilst it was agreed that
the breed did now have too many
breed clubs for the number of active exhibitors, none of the club representatives in
attendance at the meeting were in favor of
amalgamation of clubs.
It was reported by the North of Scotland
Pekingese Club representative that the
Forth and Tay club was no longer active and
removing their name from the list of club
names that were listed in the 2010 rotation
for CC’s would give the correct number of
CC’s for the number of clubs left. With
regard to year 2011 in principle it was
agreed by the meeting that all club names
should go into a hat and the name drawn
out would lose CC’s for that year, but each
club would donate a sum of money to that
club as compensation for losing a championship show.
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On behalf of The KC. Mr. Ronnie Irving’s
letter to Mrs. J Mitchell stated that “ the
clubs must take the majority share in rejuvenating this breed if they want more CC’s”
but no initiative was taken by the meeting
with regard to this.
A further meeting was called again by Mrs. J
Mitchell to finalize the allocation of CCs
which this time was held at Manchester
Championship show 18th January. Agreement was reached by all breed club delegates that names should be drawn out of a
hat, and those names drawn out would lose
CCs for years 2010, 2011 and 2012 which
was done. Unfortunately at a later date this
agreement was reversed by one club, so it
will now be up to the KC to advise which
clubs will lose CC’s for these years
DOGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
Ken Anderson writes
arriving there for an 8.30 am start.
This is the story of a day in our lives .in
the filming of a Documentary for a Television Company called Tigress Productions. It was for a History Program
about Dogs.
We arrived at the gardens and were met
by Rebecca one of the production
team ,she explained how the filming for
the day would go.
A Nature Program that shows how the
domestic dog evolved from the Wolf
over fifteen thousand years ago. The
program is in two parts {Dogs that work
and hunt } and dogs by design i.e.[ companion breeds ]. It is a very informative
documentary and we where asked if we
could help in its making by supplying the
Pekingese for the part which depicted
the Pekingese history of the past to the
Pekingese of today.
The day started a 3.30am at our home
in Swansea we loaded 9 dogs in the car
plus the usual show things and then
drive to Buddliey Gardens in Stafford
It was very hard and long but a enjoyable
day we started filming first with the
scenes of Pekingese and a Buddhist Monk
carrying the puppies and playing with them
by the river side. It was interesting to see
how the puppies reacted to the people on
the set for the morning. Being puppies
there were lots of takes to get it right.
Following this the set went on to the
summer palace scenes with the empress
and the Pekingese and her walking through
the palace with the Pekingese running in
front and with her showing affection and
talking to them, Believe me it was hard to
get them to all go at the same time with
her on each take of the various scenes but
when they did it was good to see. The
storming of the palace by the British soldiers in 1860 .and the finding of the five
Pekingese that survived the rampage and
slaughter that took place came next which
was fabulous. As we all know one of the
Pekingese that survived was given to
Queen Victoria and another two found
their way to Goodwood the home of the
Duke and Duchess of Richmond. Over the
years Pekingese grew in popularity, and
with the Gentry having plenty of time on
there hands and money this little dog soon
adapted to the lap dogs as they where called
then.
Until today they have been loved by many
people as pets and in the show ring all over
the world
Well as I said we took nine Pekingese in the
production they are our little stars as well
those who took part were Nosredna Ruby
Sunshine, .N. Alessandro, .N..Phar from
Frosty. N Fabulous Touch , N.Do it in Style.
plus four of our puppies which are all now in
there new home at home and over seas. As I
said it was a very hard and tiring but enjoyable day,
We eventually arrived back home at 4 30am
the following morning with nine very tired
dogs and two very tired humans. The program was first aired in the USA on the 29th
of April 07. A copy can be obtained on the
internet from Amazon .com @ $21.95 plus
postage or alternatively contact us
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legal complication restricts administration
Prompted by a number of
news cutting sent in by a
club member investigation
into a supposed trust fund
for needy Pekingese enthusiasts begun. After a few
weeks of research eventually a copy of Cynthia
Clarice Ashton Cross’s last
will and testament was obtained, which in the main
reads as follows:I appoint John Moran &
Francis Pilgrim as Executors and Trustees of my will.
I direct all the dog’s silver
trophies including the silver
ship in the dinning room to
be sold (Suggest by auction
at Sotheby's) and the money
to be invested in a Catholic
Charity building society to
be chosen by named Catholic Reverends to form a trust
fund for needy Pekingese
breeders who are members
or ex members of The
Pekingese Club or The Pekin Palace Dog Association.
The fund is to be administered by the Chairman for
the time being of the two
clubs and one member of
each committee and Francis
Pilgrim.
Following receipt of this last
will and testament and after
further investigations contact was eventually made
with one of the trustees
where it was clearly established that due to legal complications with the will it
was at this stage and for the
foreseeable future impossible to administer.
The trustee did agreed however to seek further legal
advise as to whether this
could be administered any
other way.
update underway
Year book Secretary Daphne Lee wishes it to be
known that there will be available later this year or
early next year an update of Champions pages.
Daphne also asks if any one has a Champions book
which they find surplus to requirements, then please
let her know as she can always find a good home for
one, or two, or three
For further details please contact Daphne direct.
another year with good results In her year book update report
secretary Mrs. D Lee referred to
an email that she had received
which questioned the necessity
of such a lengthy article for the
Gordon Lennox Dynasty and
their Pekingese Dogs, and its
cost to the club. Mrs. Lee then
confirmed that:- The cost was
£4.802 per book, with 375 books
ordered this made a total of
£1800.75. In addition to this
there was a cost of £12.57 per
book for 128 pages paid for by
the club for pages other than the
Gordon Lennox article which
totalled £4723.44 for 375 books.
She went on to say: That with the
committees approval the Open
show result pages were removed
from the book which had also
received negative comments she
then confirmed that the total cost
of printing the year book
amounted to £11,489. She then
stated: This year there were 61
home advertisers, the overseas
adverts were down in numbers
on the previous year but said
that these do fluctuate year-onyear. In 2006 there were a number of one off adverts, for which
the club was truly grateful.
- - - 000 - - Mrs. M Robershaw, was again
elected for another year as the
it’s their GOLDEN
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Don and Daphne Lee
Celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at The
Two daughters, 4
grandsons, and
50 years on from the
12th October 1957
in a church in
London,
Grange Hotel Bristol, with a
gathering of family and
close friends.
And a good time was
had by all
Belated congratulations
Don & Daphne from us all
…...the star of the show!
Cont’d from page 1
Clubs Patron, Mrs. P Edmond
was elected as President and the
following were elected to the
committee;
Mr. D Lee, Mrs. S Penman,
Dr. S Small and Dr. N Small.
Edwardian Hero: Civic
Theatre founder
Special guest
Rino Pepi alias
theatre’s
Peter Tate
100th
prepares to celebrate
its centenary with
anniversary
for the
was
Judith Risbeys
PERCY
Pekingese
Percy.
Theatergoers' would have been
forgiven for taking a second glance
when they attended the special
100th anniversary bash.
Duty manager Peter Tate greeted
guests at the theater's birthday in
the guise of Rino Pepi, who
founded Darlington Civic Theatre
on September2nd 1907.
He and other staff dressed in
Edwardian costume for the thea-
tre’s special anniversary night
which included performances
from British Philharmonic Concert
Orchestra of 100 years of music
and Variety in Darlington.
Mr. Tate said: “I already walk in his
footsteps. He was a great man. We
wouldn’t be here but of him and for
the first 20 years he ran the place.”
Mr. Pepi’s ghost is said to haunt
the theatre. Mr. Tate added:”There
are a number of spirits here or what
we believe are here”
Mr. Pepi died on the day of his
biggest theatre coup - securing a
performance by prima ballerina
Anna pavlove.
Percy the Peke. arrived at the
theatre by open car; was escorted
along a red carpet to the Royal
Box; and watched the performance from start to finish
Well done
Judith
and
PERCY
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The
Captain’s
Letter
Club secretary
Brenda Oades
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f the
writes:-
many letters Her
Majesty Queen Victoria must
have received on a daily basis,
one she received was undated, short, succinct, but
very significant.
It was from a certain John
Hart Dunne a Captain in the
99th (Lancashire) Regiment
and read as follows :This little dog was found by
me in the Palace of YuanMing-Yuan near Peking on
the 6th October 1860. It is
supposed to have belonged
to either the Empress, or
one of the ladies of the
Imperial Family. It is a most
affectionate and intelligent
little creature - it has always been accustomed to
be treated as a pet and it
was with the hope that it
might be looked upon as
such by Her Majesty and
the Royal Family that I
have brought it from China.
J Hart Dunne
Captain 99th Regt.
The significance of Captain
Dunne’s letter written nearly
150 years ago is that it is the
first extant evidence of the
introduction of a previously
unknown, new, and exotic
breed of dog being brought
into this country, The Pekingese
what has become to be
known as the second Opium
war (1860) , the first being in
1839.
Queen Victoria accepted the
bitch into her kennels and
decided to call her “Looty”.
During the 1860 war the
Summer Palace was, vandalized, looted and burned;
Priceless manuscripts were
torn apart and set a blaze,
furniture was smashed along
with ancient pottery, silks and
brocades were slashed with
swords and knives all done in
the frustration of not having
found the gold and jewels
which they were told would
make the treasures of Aladdin's Cave pale in comparison.
Looty was one the five
Pekingese taken from the
Summer Palace by the victori-
Queen Victoria
ous armies of the British and
French who were engaged in
Shameful as it is may now
seem , both these wars were
fought for the sole purpose of
the right to export opium
into China.
But it was “Looty” that
prompted Lin Herz from
Palm Springs Florida USA to
write to The Pekingese. Club.
Her Email to the Club Secretary read as follows:I hope you will not think
The Pek
kingese
on Chiina’s
seass,
Embark
ked to
win the West;
A piecce of
Ming’s a
lovely tthing,
But oh!! The
dogs aree best
E.V. Lucas
me crazy after reading my post.
I am an American Pekingese
lover (I have had a Peke in my
life since I as a child in 1963). I
am also a lover of Pekingese
history and own books dated all
the way back to 1936. I am
coming to England this June and
so looked forward to seeing the
portrait of Looty, the Pekingese
given to Queen Victoria. Everything I ever read on the subject
until recently said the portrait
was in Windsor Castle. I just
read in a book that her painting
was no longer in Windsor Castle, but instead in the Lord
Chamberlain's office. I went to
several websites, and wrote
asking if it were indeed in the
Lord Chamberlain's office, or
where it was, so that I could
view this important piece of
Pekingese history.
This is sort of a Pilgrimage for
me, Looty being such a figure in
Pekingese history. I received
an email from the Senior Database Cataloguer for the Royal
Collection of Paintings who
told me that the portrait of
Looty is in some place in Scotland(!) called Birkhail, and in a
private area. I have no idea
what this place is, but it does
belong to the some royal group,
as it is still in the royal collection. I realize it will be too late
for me to see it on this visit to
England, however I think it is
important for the portrait of
Looty to be in England. That is
where Looty lived. , Do you
think your Pekingese Club could
mount some sort of polite campaign to get Looty's portrait
moved back to England, and if
possible to Windsor Castle where she lived? If the Royal
Family does not value the portrait (it sounds almost that it's
in exile) perhaps it could be
donated to a museum, or
placed in a collection where
Pekingese lovers could
see it. ??? Perhaps you could
bring this up at a meeting. I
don't know, since the Royal
family are not elected if there is
any way to influence them or
their people who have influence
over such things. It just seems
like such a sad thing that the
portrait is not in England, and
in a place where Pekingese
lovers can view it.. And certainly
Looty lived at Windsor Palace.
Lin Herz.
A few days latter the following
email was also received from Lin :After I wrote you, I have subsequently gotten an email from a
Miss Melanie Edwards who is an
inventory clerk at Buckingham
Palace (I did not write to Buckingham Palace, but did write to
several other places) anyway,
she told me that since Looty's
portrait is so popular, it may be
moved. So... this is something
doable, I do believe. I really
believe that Looty belongs at
Windsor Palace, and in a place
we Peke lovers can view her. If
Prince Charles had Pekingese,
then maybe this Birkhail would
be a good place for her painting.
If there is any one
out there who
would like to take
on the task of
finding the
portrait of Looty
and convincing
the owners that
this should be
made available
for Pekingese
fanciers to view
then please
contact me and I
will give them a
good starting
point