Show News – September & October 2014
27th September 2014 Today I had the honour of Judging Smooth Collies at Barking Open Show and what a wonderful show held at a fantastic venue all put together by an extremely friendly Committee. Critique is on the Critique page. I must say I had a thoroughly enjoyable day and although Smooth Collies there is not […]
Show News – August 2014
3rd August 2014 We have been busy raising Freyde’s wonderful litter of puppies so have had our hands full for a while. Today though we took time out to show our homebred Shandlmain Cloudshill (Lawrence) under John Blake at EACA Championship Show. Lawrence was handled by Anne Smith for us today, Tien should have been shown […]
Show News – May 2014
3rd and 4th May 2014 produced fantastic news from Sweden. Shanldmain Blu Genes (Krista), bred here at Shandlmain and exported to Sweden into the more than capable hands of Micael Johansson of Seabound Rough Collies, won her first CC with Best Of Breed, then went on to win BEST IN SHOW, this being a Working Group […]
Show news – April 2014
4th April 2014 Our lovely homebred blue merle bitch Shandlmain Pesquero Blue (Freyde) gave birth to a litter of 8 puppies out of our homebred tri colour dog Shandlmain You Doo Voodoo (Voodoo). Freyde gave birth to 4 tri colour bitches, 2 blue merle bitches, 1 tri colour dog and 1 blue merle dog. Unfortunately, […]
Show News – March 2014
1st March 2014 At last! After a long time waiting Tien our Smooth Collie Jack Mack’s Heffin Huw (Imp Deu) has come home! Nick and Anne (co-owners) travelled by road with Tien and we had entered her for British Collie Club Championship Show where Anne handled her under Judge Ruth Gibson who awarded her 1st […]
Show News – February 2014
2nd February 2014 After much discussion between Mark and myself, we have decided to mate Freyde on her 3rd season. I was personally debating this being as though we have puppies here at the moment anyway but with looking ahead, Freyde will be due in season next when we are away in Finland during the […]
Show News – January 2014
9th January 2014 Today we attended Boston Championship Show held at East of England Showground at Peterborough. Judge Sue Bird awarded ‘Posa’ 2nd in Puppy, ‘Posa’ decided today was a good day to play in the ring but enjoyed the experience of her day out. 11th January 2014 Today, back to Boston Championship Show, this […]
Show News – December 2013
8th December 2013 Our first show for our homebred Sable Bitch Shandlmain Mariposa (Posa) was at Lincoln Open Show held at Newark. At the tender age of 6 months ‘Posa’ won the Puppy Class and was also awarded Best Puppy in Breed by Breed Specialist Heidi Gallagher (Gemheid). We did not stay for the Group […]