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AZAWAKH AEGIS Azawakh Aegis Summer 2016 AKC PARENT CLUB FOR THE AZAWAKH HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE Azawakh Specialty - General Judges Comments by Eva Berg AMERICAN AZAWAKH The Standard is the blueprint ASSOCIATION The Breeder is the builder SUMMER NATIONAL SPECIALTY The Judge is the building inspector MADISON, OHIO JULY 16, 2016 My job as judge was to evaluate how closely each of you followed the blueprint of the breed would like to thank the membership of AAA as defined in your Standard. Breeders, of 2016 National Specialty Results I course, have preferences, and may prefer a for the privilege of judging this show. Judging a The 2016 AAA Azawakh Specialty was held Saturday, specific color, a specific type of head shape, a July 16 in Madison, OH following Best In Show at The National Specialty repres ents the highest more rangy dog, a smaller or taller dog (within Regatta Classic in Madison, Ohio. compliment that can be bestowed upon a the range), etc. That’s the breeder’s Page 3 judge; I am deeply honored and thankful! The prerogative, but not the judge’s. My job is to Azawakh is certainly not new to dog shows, but put aside my personal likes and dislikes and Azawakh Specialty, General it is new to the world of the American Kennel judge by the Standard. Of course, there is Club. As such, each AKC judging experience is individual interpretation of the written word, or Judges Comments very important and winners will help shape the the same dog would win all the time under any General Comments from the Judge from this year's future of your breed. judge. My comments should all be taken in this National Specialty! From general impression to vein. Page 1 Although I have been judging Sight Hounds for a good number of years, I don’t think of myself When each class came into my ring, I had you General Membership Meeting as an “expert” on your breed. However, I do line up as I checked you in. My first job as you Minutes offer some perspective, as I too am a breeder hand stacked or free stacked (preferred) your Old business, new business, Committees & more! and exhibitor of my breed and a judge of many Azawakh was to evaluate your dog’s general Page 6 breeds. It is a wonderful challenge to sort appearance – leggy and eleg ant, proper through standards of breeds as I learn them and proportion 9 to 10, length to height. As I took to determine which dogs best represent their each class around for the first time, I formed my standard as I judge them. first impression of dynamitic balance, and if the dog was agile and light as it moved around the WHAT WAS THAT WOMAN DOING ring. IN THE CENTER OF THE RING… continued on Page 5 AZAWAKH AEGIS | Summer 2016 2 Table of Contents Club Happenings : Welcome New Memb ers, p.2 General Memb ership Meeting Minutes, p. 6 Show/Performance News : Recent Litters, p. 3 New Titles, p. 3 Performance Results, p. 7 Features: PUBLICATION AND SUBM ISSION INFO The next issue of the Aegis will be Fall 2016. The Results: 2016 National Specialty and REPRODUCTION OF CONTENTS MAY BE REPRINTED WITH AAA welcomes articles from its members. The Sweeps Show, p.4 PERMISSION OF THE EDITOR. PLEASE CONTACT EDITOR TO Editor reserves the right to edit articles and SEND ALL ARTICLES AND ADVERTISING: letters submitted for publication. Opinions expressed in letters and articles are not necessarily those of the Editor or of the AAA. The Cori Kelly, Aegis Editor at [email protected], Editor will not publish personal invectives about please include 'Aegis' in subject line named persons or where implication makes a person's identity obvious. Membership Notes by Cori Kelly This summer the club welcomes two new members, and this quarter we are announcing the return of the complimentary memb ership. The new members this quarter are listed in the table below. Please join me to welcome our new memb ers warmly to our club! STATE OR FIRST NAME LAST NAME PROVINCE Ed Knight with Bagan , CC. Evans with Buxxu, Kate's mom, Christine Ratke Kate Antolick (behind) Deanna Vout with Siri, and Cindi CC Evans TX Holland Palmieri all socialize at the dog show in Monroe, General Membership Meeting Ohio. Photo Credit: V. Harrison Williams A general membership meeting was held after noon on July 16, 2016 while waiting for the Best in Show competition in the Ashtabula Kennel Club show which is one of the shows of the Regatta Classic, before we could begin our National Specialty. Please see the meeting minutes published in this newsletter for all the details of the old business, and new business. AZAWAKH AEGIS | Summer 2016 3 NEW TITLES The 2016 AAA Azawakh Specialty was held Saturday, July 16 in Madison, OH following Best In Show at The Regatta Classic in Madison, Ohio. The entries were as follows: Sweeps Puppy 6-under 9 months --- 2-0-(0-0) Regular classes Puppy 6-under 9 months ----1-2-(0-0) Bred by exhibitor ------------1-0-(0-0) Open----------------------------3-5-(0-0) Int. CH Noblewind's A Star Is Born BOB ----------------------------0-0-(0-1) Non-Regular classes RN, SPOT, CRO1, IRD Veteran 7-9 years-------------1-1-(0-0) DOB: JUL-19-2014; USA Ribbon phot os from "Premier Rosettes" BREEDER: Teri Porthan and Sue Hamm Performance ------------------1-0-(0-0) for the National Specialty, July 16, SIRE: Hennun ag Echchitan Stud/Brood --------------------3-1-(0-0) (not 2016. DAM: Noblewinds Once In A Blue Moon BOB eligible) & recently a Berger Picard. She volunteers for OWNER: Sue Hamm Altered -----------------------1-0-(0-0) (not Greyhound Adoption of Ohio, and is on the board BOB eligible) Noblewind's A Star Is Born (Tatrit) received 2 Group 1 Key: of Lorain Area Racing Klub, of which she became placements and a Group 2 placement at the 2016 North Class --------- dog-bitch-(Ch.dog - Ch. bitch) a member in 2008. Star Spring Sieger on April 16 and 17, 2016 in Hutchinson, MN and achieved her International Title. On May 14, 2016 at Indianhead Kennel Club in Eau Claire, WI she was awared her AkC Novice Rally Title. On June 4, 2016 Tatrit received the UKC SPOT 2016 Sweeps & Specialty Results Designation. It is UKC's version of AKC's CGC award. On June 16,2016 Tatrit competed in Cyber Rally and by Cori Kelly was awarded the CRO1 title with three perfect runs. She also earned her novice and intermediate trick dog titles. According to their list she should be the first Show Site Our Specialty judge was Mrs. Eva Berg . Mrs. Berg Azawakh to earn any Trick Dog Title. The Regatta Classic is three all-breed dog shows has exhibited Dalmatians in conformation and held Friday-Sunday, in July 15-17, 2016. It is obedience since 1967. Under the Proctor prefix, sponsored by Ashtabula Kennel Club, Inc. & she has bred more than 100 champions, many Grand River Kennel Club. Bill Stanton Community nationally ranked, and numerous obedience title Park was established in 1999. The 32.8-acre holders. Eva is a former high school teacher and Park includes a 0.2-mile shore on Lake Erie. The has instructed in a noted Obedience School. Eva western half of the park’s shore is a nearly started judging in 1990 as a breeder-judge of vertical, heavily vegetated bluff. Along the park’s Dalmatians and then worked her way through the east, a packed-dirt path zigzags down a graded, Sporting Group before coming back to Non- vegetated bluff to a wooden staircase which Sporting, and then Working. Eva is licensed for drops down to a 475-foot long beach. This natural the following Group I - Sporting, Group III - sand beach is mixed with pebbles, small stones Working, and Group VI - Non-Sporting. In addition, Eva is licensed for the following breeds: and shell fragments in larger quantities closer to the water’s edge. The main show site was set up Afghan Hounds(p), Basenji, Borzoi(p), Knightwinds Nuriyah, CGC with one main tent, and 3 rings along either side. Greyhounds(p), Irish Wolfhounds(p), Pharoah DOB: SEPT-13-2013; USA By the main show tent there were vendor tents, Hounds(p), Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Salukis(p), BREEDER: Ed Knight and concessions that served food. On the other Scottish Deerhounds(p), Whippets, Toy Poodles, Italian Greyhounds(p). Eva also judges Best in SIRE: CH. Ettebel Ajouren CA.J.C. side of the site was the Whippet ring and tent, DAM: Ghzala Tashi el Oudalan Denico where the Azawakh Sweeps and Specialty were Show, Junior Showmanship, and Miscellaneous. OWNER: Deb Kidwell & Norma Spivey held. Eva judges the Non-Sporting, Sporting, Hound Knightwinds Nuriyah received her Canine Good Citizen and Working groups. Eva was selected as the title. primary judge at the 2002 and 2010 Dalmatian RECENT LITTERS Judges Club of America National Specialty shows. She Our puppy sweeps judge was Ms. Dawn has also judged National Specialty shows in Summer 2016 Borkowski. Dawn Borkowski has owned dogs Belgium, Brazil, Canada and Thailand. While judging on several continents, Eva applied local DOB: JUN-19-2016; since 2006, and although that may be a relatively BREEDER: Simoon & Sambala, Deb Kidwell & Norma short time in the world of dog sports, she has a and FCI Standards. In addition, she have judged entire Rare Breed dog shows. She has presented Spivey wide array of sighthound breed exposure having SIRE: Sambala Nuru n' Simoon started with whippets & greyhounds, then a breed seminars for judges on numerous occasions DAM: Arabella n'Simoon Pharoah hound, Ibezan hounds (1 wire, 1 smooth) in many countries.