December 31 We have attended our last shows for the year, Oliver attained the last points necessary to clam his GRAND title, he now joins Freya and the late Kylie in having reached these accolades. We thank the many supporters that have helped along his journey and the many judges from around the world that have awarded our boy so very highly.
Sia also hit some high spots winning 2 Best of Breed and 2 Rup Best of Breed as well as 2 Junior in group awards, she is very, very naked at the moment.
At our very last show for the year Dion made an appearance 7 months after the arrival of her litter of babies and collected a lovely Best of Breed award and was also short listed for Best in group.
December 19 A fun weekend spent in Adelaide with the dogs saw a success for young Sia collecting 2 Best of Breeds and 3 Bitch Challenges. The rest of the dog family had fun running around the ring. We however managed to get some lovely photos of the young boy Bond - Carluke Top Secret. 7 months of age.
Sia also hit some high spots winning 2 Best of Breed and 2 Rup Best of Breed as well as 2 Junior in group awards, she is very, very naked at the moment.
At our very last show for the year Dion made an appearance 7 months after the arrival of her litter of babies and collected a lovely Best of Breed award and was also short listed for Best in group.
December 19 A fun weekend spent in Adelaide with the dogs saw a success for young Sia collecting 2 Best of Breeds and 3 Bitch Challenges. The rest of the dog family had fun running around the ring. We however managed to get some lovely photos of the young boy Bond - Carluke Top Secret. 7 months of age.
December 03, A successful weekend for the young tricolour girl that Angela Sime owns, Prim is now almost half way to her title at 6.5 months of age also picking up 3 BOB, 3 Minor puppy in groups and 1 Minor puppy in show (1 she did not contest as they left early due to the warm weather) Prim is still obviously very between coats changing from her baby fluff into her more mature puppy coat. Can't wait until this girl grows up :)
In SA Quentin picked up a nice Best of Breed as well, whilst here in Victoria Giselle has carried on her winning streak and our recently departed Pena has a new Champion congratulations to Ness and Sampo - CH Foxbell Finnish Warrior RN
In SA Quentin picked up a nice Best of Breed as well, whilst here in Victoria Giselle has carried on her winning streak and our recently departed Pena has a new Champion congratulations to Ness and Sampo - CH Foxbell Finnish Warrior RN
November 27 Another update from the extended family; locally both Giselle and Peggy were out n about showing and both picked up bitch challenges with Ru Best of Breeds, congratulations to Samantha and Peggy, both girls are in diminishing clothes so it must be a testament to there breed type. Further afield in Queensland Prim announced her arrival to big girl competition by winning for herself 2 bitch challenge, 1 reserve challenge and 2 Minor Puppy in group @ 6 months and 1 week of age.
November 20th Congratulations to Claire and her Peggy on the past weekend wins of 3 bitch challenges and 2 Puppy in group awards, this puts Peggy well and truly on her way to her title. Lovely way to celebrate your birthday Claire.
Not only do we breed and show Collies, Allison has an interest in Arabian horses and on the weekend attended Equitana with her 14 year old Arabian stallion Baylee they were awarded a 3rd placing and he had a great time entertaining the crowds.
November 20th Congratulations to Claire and her Peggy on the past weekend wins of 3 bitch challenges and 2 Puppy in group awards, this puts Peggy well and truly on her way to her title. Lovely way to celebrate your birthday Claire.
Not only do we breed and show Collies, Allison has an interest in Arabian horses and on the weekend attended Equitana with her 14 year old Arabian stallion Baylee they were awarded a 3rd placing and he had a great time entertaining the crowds.
November 11 What a busy, busy weekend it has been! 3 shows for the home dogs with Oliver collecting 3 dog challenges and converting 1 to a Best of Breed but that is OK as he was beaten by his daughter Giselle who took 3 challenges, 2 Best of Breeds and 1 Junior in group. Sia collected at the Best of Breeds and completed her title at 1 year and 3 days joining her sister in the titled department. Up in Queensland Prim collects another Baby puppy in show, a Baby puppy in group and a Baby of breed, these lovely Lyam/Dion babies are just about to go up a class. Congratulations Angela and Prim.
Apart from shows there has been a swag of birthdays on the farm so starting with the 2 legged one Happy birthday Allison :) the dogs that have celebrated this week, Paris and Sia and the horses Tia, Baylee and Aliya.
Apart from shows there has been a swag of birthdays on the farm so starting with the 2 legged one Happy birthday Allison :) the dogs that have celebrated this week, Paris and Sia and the horses Tia, Baylee and Aliya.
November 7 Congratulations to Angela and Prim on there Baby puppy in show yesterday in Queensland. Prim is Carluke Diamentes At Dusk sired by Lyam from Dion.
November 6 It is Melbourne Cup day, best of luck to all the horses running today and there connections, also those showing dogs as part of the Melbourne Cup carnival weekend here in Victoria. We only attended one show of the cluster that being the Working dog club of Victoria a fabulous for our dogs with Oliver taking out Best on Breed in a wonderful entry of 20 Collies :) one of his daughters Peggy - Elfrya Allina Spin was reserve bitch challenge and Puppy of breed his older daughter Giselle was Junior of breed. Lyam won his class he doesn't get out much but that might be about to change, his son Bond won Baby dog and Sia the Smooth was reserve challenge and Puppy of breed.
October 15 Trip to sunny Ballarat on Saturday saw Oliver pick up BOB and Open in group and Sia also Best of Breed and Puppy in group. Good to have Mum along for the drive.
October 09, Due to Harriet blowing coat we decided that there was no time like the present to have her Hips and Elbows done we are happy to say that she has come back with excellent results with hips 1/1 and elbows 0/0. We also had Saga done with a score of hips 2/4 a very low score when it is marked out of a total of 106 and elbows 1/0.
The last of our babies are making there ways to new homes, will be pretty quite around here for a while!
November 6 It is Melbourne Cup day, best of luck to all the horses running today and there connections, also those showing dogs as part of the Melbourne Cup carnival weekend here in Victoria. We only attended one show of the cluster that being the Working dog club of Victoria a fabulous for our dogs with Oliver taking out Best on Breed in a wonderful entry of 20 Collies :) one of his daughters Peggy - Elfrya Allina Spin was reserve bitch challenge and Puppy of breed his older daughter Giselle was Junior of breed. Lyam won his class he doesn't get out much but that might be about to change, his son Bond won Baby dog and Sia the Smooth was reserve challenge and Puppy of breed.
October 15 Trip to sunny Ballarat on Saturday saw Oliver pick up BOB and Open in group and Sia also Best of Breed and Puppy in group. Good to have Mum along for the drive.
October 09, Due to Harriet blowing coat we decided that there was no time like the present to have her Hips and Elbows done we are happy to say that she has come back with excellent results with hips 1/1 and elbows 0/0. We also had Saga done with a score of hips 2/4 a very low score when it is marked out of a total of 106 and elbows 1/0.
The last of our babies are making there ways to new homes, will be pretty quite around here for a while!
Carluke Top Secret - Bond 4 months, Baby puppy in group - Kyneton Kennel Club Mrs S Bateup - Lochyle Collies judge
CH Jencol Danzlikenooneswatchn - Reserve Challenge bitch Melbourne Royal Show - Mr J Horswell (UK) sire CH Carluke Au Contraire dam Carluke Noroom Onmydanzcard.
October 3 - A lot of kilometres have been travelled this month, starting with Adelaide Royal and finishing at Kyneton Kennel club of the 30th. Some nice wins and lovely people met along the way.
The very grown up CH Carluke Contraindicated winning Best of Breed at the 2018 Adelaide Royal
September 11 Oh boy, where does the time go! Adelaide Royal has been run and won, our team tasted success in the form of Oliver winning Reserve dog challenge, his son Quentin winning Collie Smooth Best of Breed and youngster Sia winning reserve bitch challenge and Puppy of breed. Forward onto Victorian shows and Harriet has completed her title from a limited number of shows, we thank Dora Richter in Belgium for trusting us and doing such a fab job of socialising Harriet before she left to join us. Babies also have made their debut however maybe the less said about that the better! needless to say they had a good time and will be better next time around :)
Oliver * Iris babies continue to grow well and hopefully I may even be able to share some photos shortly.
August 17 A busy month Dions babies are heading to there new homes and we welcomed the arrival of our Iris * Oliver rainbow litter. Oliver & Saga have a newly titled daughter, congratulations to Samantha Buckley and CH Jencol Danzlikenooneswatchn - Giselle may your luck continue for the rest of your puppy career :) . Paris - CH Carluke Sunrise Over Paris has made a naked appearance at the EKKA and won Best of Breed, Harriet - Scottlyme Prelude To A Kiss has made her first indoors appearance and took it in her stride winning a nice Best of Breed under Ms K Furk of South Africa. The young Smooth Ross daughter has won her 2nd Breed Speciality Best of Breed and Minor puppy in Show at the Collie Cub of NSW under Mrs Monica Mattfolk of Sweden.
congratulations to Janice and Xee - Foxbell Fashion Xtra, she has also added an 'Äll Breeds'Puppy in Show award and is close, close, close to her title.
Amongst all this joy we have lost a Golden girl and Kylie was given rest after her 13th birthday.
July 17 For the last weekend of the school holidays Rebecca and I took of to lovely Mildura to attend 3 dogs shows, we had some lovely wins and managed to get some lovely photos as well. Harriet made a return to the ring to collect 3 bitch challenges 2 with Best of Breed, Oliver won 1 Challenge 2 Reserves and 2 Ru Best of Breeds, Saga took 3 reserve CC's, Sia was the only Smooth but collected not only 3 Best of Breeds but 2 Minor puppy in group awards.
July 08 Last Sunday we attended the Collie Club of Victoria Championship show judged by Mrs A Anagonostis. We are thrilled that many of the top winners on the day were sired by our small team of stud dogs.
June 29 Congratulations to Angela and Paris on your Runner up to BEST IN GROUP (Group 2nd) under past Collie breeder Mr Chris Woodrow
June 15 Another weekend of shows has been and gone. Oliver winning 1 Best of Breed & short listed in the Best in Group line and 1 Rup to Best of Breed under International judges. Young Sia also added to her points total & fringie total with another Minor puppy in group. Collies in friends hands also did great things at the Working Dog club of Victoria Championship show. Giselle - Jencol Danzlikenonoeiswatchn was Best of Breed over her father, short listed for Best in Show and took out her second Puppy in Show award, congratulations to Samantha Buckley, this pair is certainly growing in show ring confidence! Sias sister Xee then stood up to the challenge and won reserve CC, RU Best of Breed and Minor Puppy in Show. At both shows the sisters Saga and Butterfly won reserve bitch challenges, I also had the pleasure on Saturday of catching up with Cher - Carluke Forever in Blue Genes - Trish and Kevin McGill who on the Thursday won her first Challenge and Best of Breed and I was able to show her on the Friday through to Minor puppy of Breed, Cher is a lovely daughter of Lyam and Naya.
Now more time off for us whilst our current babies grow, we have 2 Tricolour dog puppies looking for loving homes.
June 06 Half the year is over with already, who could believe it, Mum is currently in hospital following her hip replacement so hopefully it will be smooth sailing here on for her as we start to look towards the Spring/Summer seasons :) We managed to get to 2 shows over the weekend just gone and very proud to say that Oliver won Best of Breed on Saturday over his blossoming daughter Giselle, Sia also picked up Best of Breed at nearly 7 months of age over titled competition. Sunday Lyam took Olivers place and didn't disappoint also winning Dog challenge then letting his super niece Giselle continue onto Best of Breed and another Puppy in group award.
The puppies are growing so fast now wont be long before they are outside racing around.
May 22 What a fabulous weekend at Dog shows, and I only had to travel as far as work and back! Samantha and her 9 month old Oliver/Saga daughter ventured off to Euroa where they picked up 2 Best of Breeds converted one into a Runner up to BEST IN GROUP (Best in Group 2nd) 2 Puppy in Group and converted one of those into BEST PUPPY IN SHOW. Xee - Janice's Smooth sister to Sia (Ross/Pip) picked up her first points towards her title as well as 1 Best Minor puppy in Group. At Geelong Kennel Club Claire and her Peggy (Oliver/Gypsy) picked up a lovely Best Baby Puppy in Group Congratulations everyone. Our babies are growing well, hopefully new pictures by the weekend and then letting prospective parents know what is available!.
May 15 A fun Sunday spent in Shepparton, Oliver Dog Challenge, then upstaged by his daughter Giselle winning Best of Breed and going onto Best Puppy in group, congratulations Samantha and Jenny on this lovely young Collie bitch. Sia has now turned 6 months and claimed her first points and also added a fringie winning Best Minor puppy in group. In Brisbane Paris also added to the points haul, thanks to Angela fro braving the "cold" :)
May 09 A lovely past weekend spent in Brisbane with Oliver and in the company of Angela, Sheree , Jackie and Corina :) resulting in Oliver coming home with 2 Dog CC's and Paris winning a nice Best of Breed and Australian Bred in Show at the Working Dog Club show.
Oliver * Iris babies continue to grow well and hopefully I may even be able to share some photos shortly.
August 17 A busy month Dions babies are heading to there new homes and we welcomed the arrival of our Iris * Oliver rainbow litter. Oliver & Saga have a newly titled daughter, congratulations to Samantha Buckley and CH Jencol Danzlikenooneswatchn - Giselle may your luck continue for the rest of your puppy career :) . Paris - CH Carluke Sunrise Over Paris has made a naked appearance at the EKKA and won Best of Breed, Harriet - Scottlyme Prelude To A Kiss has made her first indoors appearance and took it in her stride winning a nice Best of Breed under Ms K Furk of South Africa. The young Smooth Ross daughter has won her 2nd Breed Speciality Best of Breed and Minor puppy in Show at the Collie Cub of NSW under Mrs Monica Mattfolk of Sweden.
congratulations to Janice and Xee - Foxbell Fashion Xtra, she has also added an 'Äll Breeds'Puppy in Show award and is close, close, close to her title.
Amongst all this joy we have lost a Golden girl and Kylie was given rest after her 13th birthday.
July 17 For the last weekend of the school holidays Rebecca and I took of to lovely Mildura to attend 3 dogs shows, we had some lovely wins and managed to get some lovely photos as well. Harriet made a return to the ring to collect 3 bitch challenges 2 with Best of Breed, Oliver won 1 Challenge 2 Reserves and 2 Ru Best of Breeds, Saga took 3 reserve CC's, Sia was the only Smooth but collected not only 3 Best of Breeds but 2 Minor puppy in group awards.
July 08 Last Sunday we attended the Collie Club of Victoria Championship show judged by Mrs A Anagonostis. We are thrilled that many of the top winners on the day were sired by our small team of stud dogs.
June 29 Congratulations to Angela and Paris on your Runner up to BEST IN GROUP (Group 2nd) under past Collie breeder Mr Chris Woodrow
June 15 Another weekend of shows has been and gone. Oliver winning 1 Best of Breed & short listed in the Best in Group line and 1 Rup to Best of Breed under International judges. Young Sia also added to her points total & fringie total with another Minor puppy in group. Collies in friends hands also did great things at the Working Dog club of Victoria Championship show. Giselle - Jencol Danzlikenonoeiswatchn was Best of Breed over her father, short listed for Best in Show and took out her second Puppy in Show award, congratulations to Samantha Buckley, this pair is certainly growing in show ring confidence! Sias sister Xee then stood up to the challenge and won reserve CC, RU Best of Breed and Minor Puppy in Show. At both shows the sisters Saga and Butterfly won reserve bitch challenges, I also had the pleasure on Saturday of catching up with Cher - Carluke Forever in Blue Genes - Trish and Kevin McGill who on the Thursday won her first Challenge and Best of Breed and I was able to show her on the Friday through to Minor puppy of Breed, Cher is a lovely daughter of Lyam and Naya.
Now more time off for us whilst our current babies grow, we have 2 Tricolour dog puppies looking for loving homes.
June 06 Half the year is over with already, who could believe it, Mum is currently in hospital following her hip replacement so hopefully it will be smooth sailing here on for her as we start to look towards the Spring/Summer seasons :) We managed to get to 2 shows over the weekend just gone and very proud to say that Oliver won Best of Breed on Saturday over his blossoming daughter Giselle, Sia also picked up Best of Breed at nearly 7 months of age over titled competition. Sunday Lyam took Olivers place and didn't disappoint also winning Dog challenge then letting his super niece Giselle continue onto Best of Breed and another Puppy in group award.
The puppies are growing so fast now wont be long before they are outside racing around.
May 22 What a fabulous weekend at Dog shows, and I only had to travel as far as work and back! Samantha and her 9 month old Oliver/Saga daughter ventured off to Euroa where they picked up 2 Best of Breeds converted one into a Runner up to BEST IN GROUP (Best in Group 2nd) 2 Puppy in Group and converted one of those into BEST PUPPY IN SHOW. Xee - Janice's Smooth sister to Sia (Ross/Pip) picked up her first points towards her title as well as 1 Best Minor puppy in Group. At Geelong Kennel Club Claire and her Peggy (Oliver/Gypsy) picked up a lovely Best Baby Puppy in Group Congratulations everyone. Our babies are growing well, hopefully new pictures by the weekend and then letting prospective parents know what is available!.
May 15 A fun Sunday spent in Shepparton, Oliver Dog Challenge, then upstaged by his daughter Giselle winning Best of Breed and going onto Best Puppy in group, congratulations Samantha and Jenny on this lovely young Collie bitch. Sia has now turned 6 months and claimed her first points and also added a fringie winning Best Minor puppy in group. In Brisbane Paris also added to the points haul, thanks to Angela fro braving the "cold" :)
May 09 A lovely past weekend spent in Brisbane with Oliver and in the company of Angela, Sheree , Jackie and Corina :) resulting in Oliver coming home with 2 Dog CC's and Paris winning a nice Best of Breed and Australian Bred in Show at the Working Dog Club show.
April 27, Paris picks up another Australian Bred in Group along with Bitch Challenge under breeder/judge Mrs B Hales.
April 24 Thank you Angela for piloting Paris through to another Australian Bred in Group award last weekend in Queensland
April 16 A big thank you is in order to Angela Findlay for finishing Paris to her title in Queensland over the weekend. It took a lot of persuading on Angela's part for us to let her go for a showing holiday but we are grateful that she persisted :) Paris finished with a Best in Group (Group 1st) which means ALL 3 litter mates in the showring are Best in Group winners
April 09 He has done it! after what seems like forever (but really wasn't when you know how many show he has been to!) Lyam titled yesterday under Mrs Jean McErlane of NZ, he started accumulating points at this show weekend 2 years ago as a raw 7 months old minor puppy. Then today we have a confirmed pregnancy for Lyam and Dion.
April 03 We would like to thank everyone for their interest in Marvin, it would appear that he has a home.
March 18 Time has certainly passed since I have updated the website. Not a whole lot to report really, a couple of shows have been attended Oliver, Lyam and Paris have all added to their tallies. Oliver has picked up a Runner up to BEST IN GROUP (GROUP 2ND) Whilst his daughter at her first show collected Baby puppy in Group, congratulations Peggy and Claire. Finger crossed we have babies on the way more as their pregnancy is confirmed. On the puppy note Samantha Buckley of Kirrieloch Kennels has available a Tri boy and girl - see the Available page for more details.
January 26 below are photo's of 3 lovely litters sired by each of our current stud dogs over the last 3 months, looking forward to watching them grow over the year. We also have hopes, plans and dreams of puppies for the year 2018
January 02, 2018, Happy New Year to everyone. If you are a follower of our website I hardly need update you on our dogs success's over the past year! So for those that may never have been here before or may only occasionally visit here is a brief run down on our past year.
According to the number of catalogues collected we attended 36 shows, many of these were cluster weekend, 3 were Breed specialities and 1 Royal. Our dogs accumulated results include
1 New Champion
5 well on their way
1 closing in on his Grand title
1 Breed Speciality Runner up to BEST IN SHOW
1 Breed NATIONAL DOG CC & BEST OPPOSITE SEX N SHOW
2 Breed Speciality RESERVE BITCH CC'S
1 Breed Speciality RESERVE DOG CC
11 FIRST PLACES OVER THE 3 SPECIALITIES ATTENDED
1 runner up to BEST IN SHOW all breeds
3 different Collies to win all breeds BEST IN GROUP awards
Numerous class in group and class in show awards at both BREED AND ALL BREED SHOWS
1 Royal show Dog CC & Runner up to BEST OF BREED
There have also been the lows that show ring success's can not help to soothe including the loss of the lovely blue girls Nova and Zara both girls played a huge roll in our successful 2017
We wish everyone a successful 2018 we hope to be out and about with the youngsters including new baby Marvin.
According to the number of catalogues collected we attended 36 shows, many of these were cluster weekend, 3 were Breed specialities and 1 Royal. Our dogs accumulated results include
1 New Champion
5 well on their way
1 closing in on his Grand title
1 Breed Speciality Runner up to BEST IN SHOW
1 Breed NATIONAL DOG CC & BEST OPPOSITE SEX N SHOW
2 Breed Speciality RESERVE BITCH CC'S
1 Breed Speciality RESERVE DOG CC
11 FIRST PLACES OVER THE 3 SPECIALITIES ATTENDED
1 runner up to BEST IN SHOW all breeds
3 different Collies to win all breeds BEST IN GROUP awards
Numerous class in group and class in show awards at both BREED AND ALL BREED SHOWS
1 Royal show Dog CC & Runner up to BEST OF BREED
There have also been the lows that show ring success's can not help to soothe including the loss of the lovely blue girls Nova and Zara both girls played a huge roll in our successful 2017
We wish everyone a successful 2018 we hope to be out and about with the youngsters including new baby Marvin.