May 16, Janice Cook and I had a fantastic trip to Sydney on the weekend just gone for there Championship show under Mrs D Korna, we had 3 Smooth Collies and 1 Rough and they all won their respective classes but the Smooth Collies kicked it up a notch with the evergreen veteran Grand Ch Foxbell Fashion Plate finally cracking a breed show BEST IN SHOW award. The gives her departed sire CH Bell Pepper's Gate Keeper 4 Smooth Collie BEST IN SHOW winners, he also won TOP SMOOTH SIRE for the show.
On the home front the babies have started to leave for there new homes and we wish everyone the best of luck with them.
April 24, Hoping everyone had a safe and happy Easter break, 3 of the dogs and I took of for the Easter shows hosted by the Mount Gambier kennel club, our first shows since January. Faith had her first appearance in the big dog ring winning 3 reserve challenges and a Minor Puppy in group award, Dion collected a Challenge and 2 reserves, whilst Sia won 5 Best of Breeds and 3 Junior in group awards as well as being shortlisted a couple of times for Best in group. I have added some updated pictures to both Faith and Sia pages as well as put up the babies 5 weeks photos, they are now 6.5 weeks and had their vaccination all passing with flying colours.
April 9, returning to the home kennel for a while is Prim - CH Carluke Diamentes At Dusk 11 months old and fast loosing her puppy coat she is the first Champion for both her sire and dam Lyam and Dion. Dion is about to head back to the showring so we hope it is not too long before she also sports Champion before her name.
On the home front the babies have started to leave for there new homes and we wish everyone the best of luck with them.
April 24, Hoping everyone had a safe and happy Easter break, 3 of the dogs and I took of for the Easter shows hosted by the Mount Gambier kennel club, our first shows since January. Faith had her first appearance in the big dog ring winning 3 reserve challenges and a Minor Puppy in group award, Dion collected a Challenge and 2 reserves, whilst Sia won 5 Best of Breeds and 3 Junior in group awards as well as being shortlisted a couple of times for Best in group. I have added some updated pictures to both Faith and Sia pages as well as put up the babies 5 weeks photos, they are now 6.5 weeks and had their vaccination all passing with flying colours.
April 9, returning to the home kennel for a while is Prim - CH Carluke Diamentes At Dusk 11 months old and fast loosing her puppy coat she is the first Champion for both her sire and dam Lyam and Dion. Dion is about to head back to the showring so we hope it is not too long before she also sports Champion before her name.
April 7 Have update the website with our current litter, they are now 4 weeks old and just a sweet as can be. I have also removed a lot of dead links from the links page if anyone wants to be added just drop me a line. Congratulations to Peggy and her owner Claire Cashion on there Best of Breed yesterday at Bulla Extravaganza.
April 1, Welcome to April everyone. Mum and I have been overseas for the past month so a lot of goings on have been missed we are slowly catching up with life and work . Thank you and Congratulations to Angela Sime in Queensland for titling Prim she is now known as CH Carluke Diamentes At Dusk @ 10 months of age. Prim has returned home for a while and once she recoats after an early drop we hope to continue her show career. We also congratulate Claire Cashion and family on titling there Oliver daughter CH Elfreya All In A Spin we are looking forward to seeing this girl later in the year. We have our first 2019 puppies on the ground and they are growing like weeds I will introduce them to you all shortly.
Every bright side has a gloomy lining we have had a couple of losses in the last 8 weeks. Firstly Fancy - CH Carluke Fancy That was given rest at the lovely age of 13 years and 8 months, she is the grandmother of our Autumn babies her sister Bette continues to lead a happy life although is missing her sister. Our lovely vibrant Chestnut Arabian filly - Scarlet suffered a compound fracture of her foreleg and at only 13 months of age has left everyone broken hearted. This was then followed with the news that Quentin- CH Carluke Contraindicated in the same week was taken by an acute incident our hearts go out to Tania, Kimberely and Denise Adams.
February 9, 2019 Thank you to Angela Sime in Queensland for her continuing success with Prim - Carluke Diamentes At Dusk at nearly 9 months she is closing in on her title and a Multi Class in group and class in show winner, so very proud of these 2 girls.
Feb 2 saw the Victorian Night of Nights spectacular we were very proud to be represented by Ross's 2 Blue Merle Smooth Collie daughters Sia and Xee, Xee bowed out in the first round round and our lovely Sia made it through to the final 16
April 1, Welcome to April everyone. Mum and I have been overseas for the past month so a lot of goings on have been missed we are slowly catching up with life and work . Thank you and Congratulations to Angela Sime in Queensland for titling Prim she is now known as CH Carluke Diamentes At Dusk @ 10 months of age. Prim has returned home for a while and once she recoats after an early drop we hope to continue her show career. We also congratulate Claire Cashion and family on titling there Oliver daughter CH Elfreya All In A Spin we are looking forward to seeing this girl later in the year. We have our first 2019 puppies on the ground and they are growing like weeds I will introduce them to you all shortly.
Every bright side has a gloomy lining we have had a couple of losses in the last 8 weeks. Firstly Fancy - CH Carluke Fancy That was given rest at the lovely age of 13 years and 8 months, she is the grandmother of our Autumn babies her sister Bette continues to lead a happy life although is missing her sister. Our lovely vibrant Chestnut Arabian filly - Scarlet suffered a compound fracture of her foreleg and at only 13 months of age has left everyone broken hearted. This was then followed with the news that Quentin- CH Carluke Contraindicated in the same week was taken by an acute incident our hearts go out to Tania, Kimberely and Denise Adams.
February 9, 2019 Thank you to Angela Sime in Queensland for her continuing success with Prim - Carluke Diamentes At Dusk at nearly 9 months she is closing in on her title and a Multi Class in group and class in show winner, so very proud of these 2 girls.
Feb 2 saw the Victorian Night of Nights spectacular we were very proud to be represented by Ross's 2 Blue Merle Smooth Collie daughters Sia and Xee, Xee bowed out in the first round round and our lovely Sia made it through to the final 16
January 10, 2019 What a busy, busy year 2018 was both with the dogs and at home. Hopefully Christine (Mum) has seen the back of her surgeries and retirement activities can move up a notch for her. Allison has 3 Arabian fillies to further her small Carluke Arabian stud with, whilst on the Collie front we have some very exciting litters planned for the coming 12 months that may curtail our show-ring activities, however with youngsters in the hands of some very wonderful friends and fellow exhibitors we look forward to a promising 2019.
So onto a recap of 2018 :- It seemed to be the year of the SMOOTH with sisters CH's Foxbell X Factor and Fashion Xtra extraordinary 1st year in the showring, daughters of Ross ( Carluke Love Struck AI) and Pip (Grand CH Foxbell Fashion Plate) between them they have accumulated fringies for "Class in Show & group" awards at ALL BREEDS shows and Xee stepping it up to claim BEST IN SHOW at the 2018 Collie Club of Victoria Championship show. The sisters regularly compete against each other and are well and truly worth watching in the years to come.
The ROUGHS have certainly not been slouches with 4 claiming titles during the year, and maybe more satisfying is seeing the success of children of our stud dogs in the ring with other exhibitors. So as a re-cap on 2018
So onto a recap of 2018 :- It seemed to be the year of the SMOOTH with sisters CH's Foxbell X Factor and Fashion Xtra extraordinary 1st year in the showring, daughters of Ross ( Carluke Love Struck AI) and Pip (Grand CH Foxbell Fashion Plate) between them they have accumulated fringies for "Class in Show & group" awards at ALL BREEDS shows and Xee stepping it up to claim BEST IN SHOW at the 2018 Collie Club of Victoria Championship show. The sisters regularly compete against each other and are well and truly worth watching in the years to come.
The ROUGHS have certainly not been slouches with 4 claiming titles during the year, and maybe more satisfying is seeing the success of children of our stud dogs in the ring with other exhibitors. So as a re-cap on 2018
1 GRAND CHAMPION
(Carluke Au Contraire)
4 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONS
(Carluke Song Sung Blue, Carluke Sunrise Over Paris, Scottlyme Prelude To A Kiss, Foxbell X Factor)
9 Collies Rough/Smooths in the showring collecting Challenges/Best of Breed awards
including young Prim Carluke Diamentes At Dusk over halfway to her title at 7.5 months
#1 RISING STAR COLLIE SMOOTH NATIONALLY (DOL) CH Foxbell X Factor her total included 9 class in group and 2 class in show awards. she was also #2 BREED CHALLENGE for VICTORIA and was not eligible for points until MAY 2018.
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We can not ignore the success of Elfreya All In A Spin within a hairs breadth of her title and claiming Res Bitch CC at the 2018 Collie Championship show and Puppy of Breed at Melbourne Royal.
or her half sister
#1 RISING STAR COLLIE ROUGH NATIONALLY (DOL) CH Jencol Danzliknooneswatchin
or indeed their SMOOTH half brother
CH Carluke Contra Indicated CACIB winner and BEST OF BREED 2018 Adelaide Royal and Dog Challenge at the 2018 Collie Club of Victoria Championship show.
all children of GRAND CH Carluke Au Contraire
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Lyam - CH Carluke Song Sung Blue also has youngsters in the ring, leading her owners astray is the Blue Merle bitch Carluke Forever In Bluegenes pointed to her title and currently in junior coat drop. Then there is the already mentioned Prim - Carluke Diamentes At Dusk and her brother Carluke Top Secret and Secret Weapon
