The Deerhound Club NEWSLETTER Spring 2015 CRUFTS 2015 feature Writing a Critique Deerhound Health Updates Sir Walter Scott’s Deerhounds In this issue Cover photo: “I know I’m special, I’m a deerhound!”- Bonita Gower C

2 President’s News

3 Committee Matters

4 Regional News - Irish Eyes

6 Trophy Points Table 2014

7 Newsletters & things. Making contact

Voted BEST BREED CLUB 12 Health Matters MAGAZINE by 14 Writing a Critique “Dog World” newspaper and Midland Counties 16 Regional News - Thames Valley Voice Canine Society 17 Berkeley Castle Lure Coursing from the editor 18 Reminiscing 19 Regional News - Midland Matters Crufts is featured in this edition - including Maslands who have done an many congratulations to all the excellent job printing every edition. 20 Crufts 2015 winners, photographs are on pages 22 Sir Walter Scott’s Deerhounds 20/21. I shall greatly miss the contact with members old and new, but it is time to 23 Regional News - Scottish Notes Our main Club event, the Breed Show, hand over to someone else. If any 25 Obituaries is almost here and this year it is in member is interested in helping with Scotland - home of the deerhound. I’m further editions of the magazine please 26 Hunting Scenes of the Picts sure it will be a most successful event contact me. I wish the future 27 and may I wish all exhibitors good Newsletter the very best of luck. Regional News - Events East luck!! Don’t forget to wear a white 28 Spanish News cockade on the Friday evening as 2015 is the 300th anniversary of the Jacobite 32 Caption Competition. uprising. 33 Judging Qualifying Criteria I’ve been involved with the Newsletter 34 Judges List 2015 since 1974 when Miss Noble edited the 37 original magazine and I used to do the Regional News - Southern Snippets covers for her. Later, I designed and artworked the covers for Glenis Peach 38 Show Results when she moved the magazine forward 39 as editor. Now, this is my final Regional News - Welsh News & Views Newsletter as editor/designer - over 40 years later. I would like to thank 40 Insight everyone who has supported the Club, and me as editor since 2006, and helped to make the magazine a popular and informative read. Thank you to all The Granary, Huntworth Park Farm who have written articles, provided Huntworth, Nr Bridgwater information and photographs, placed Somerset TA7 0AH advertising, proof read and all the other Tel: 01278 662815 things it takes to produce a magazine, email: [email protected]

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1 T h e president’s news D E E R H O U N D C LU B Deerhounds were at Crufts on the Saturday Prints, which revealed a wealth of images which meant roads were more user-friendly, including another deerhound print - amazing! PATRON and when leaving the NEC at Birmingham we Thank you all very much. Kenneth Cassels weren’t precipitated into the evening rush hour. But there were so many visitors, Modern technology is wonderful, although I PRESIDENT & Judges List Co-ordinator including winning exhibitors from overseas, don’t tweet or facebook as I find it hard Mary Girling the main halls were swarming with people & enough to keep up with emails. However, I there were so many stalls - goodness knows have perforce had to move with the times, and COMMITTEE how people cope who are required to attend visit a new vet to get a bitch scanned - no Julian Faircloth for all four days. I know deerhound people puppies but perhaps the start of a pyometra kindly represent the breed at Discover Dogs, (an infection in the uterus). Curiously, on Sarah Helps - Vice President & Deerhound and I admire their stamina and apparent delivery day the bitch gave every impression Health Group Co-ordinator enjoyment of the sort of day I dread. It is of trying to give birth but to no avail: off to the Vanessa Lucas - Hon Secretary important that our hounds are on view so that vet. Ah, says he, this is a pyometra. I did ‘the public’ realise what nice characters our point out it was ‘due day’ but no, the lady with Kim Owen - Rehoming & lovely dogs are. the scanner was always right and it was a Puppy Enquiry Co-ordinator pyometra. The vet did apologise when he Rachel Quinn Many lasting friendships are made through rang to tell me the bitch was safely delivered our shared enjoyment of the breed, so the of one (gold plated) bitch puppy! At the same Duncan Robertson - Members Secretary death of a member is always sad. Brenda and time my 8+ years old Rollo found himself in Robin Spencer Bill Jarrett (Torffric) got their first hound in trouble, he couldn’t pee: not good news with the early 1970s, & Bill always supported a bladder the size of a melon in his middle. Duane Spring-Arnold Brenda in his quiet and gently humorous way, We go to the new vet who was just a little less leaving Brenda to be Club Treasurer and confident about the scan, but was pretty Hazel Williams - Hon Treasurer sometime Trophy Steward. Brenda’s illness certain there were no stones. Rollo was put on Joan Wragg - Newsletter Editor/Designer meant she had to move into a care home this a short course of pills to shrink his prostate and Chairman of Committee autumn, but Bill seemed to be coping fine. gland & this seems to have resolved the Daughter Helen (Bush) walked the problem, although he is not quite the pushy Nell Mac Bean - Cup Steward deerhound, & Brenda & Bill had regular boy he was. outings, then seemingly, out of the blue, Bill was taken ill. A very brief sojourn in hospital Disappointing that due to all sorts of reasons and he died just after Christmas. What a Kim Owen is resigning from the committee as SUBSCRIPTIONS sadness for the family. Dear David Gilhooly he has done a nice job with the puppy & Subscriptions should be paid directly to has also died - he & Jean with their Nobys rehoming work (always a task which incurs the Hon Treasurer, Hazel Williams, hounds lived in Sussex and in Argyll, but were criticism from someone!). Robin Spencer Manor Farm Cottage, Astwith, Pilsley, firm supporters of the dog show scene in the never said too much, but when he did it was Chesterfield, Derbys, S45 8AN. south. An untimely death was that of Julia always spot on, and his wise contributions will email: [email protected] Warman who knew she had terminal cancer be missed. Joan Wragg joined the committee when she gave a charming appreciation at in 2006, initially as New Member Secretary. Subs are due on the 1 January and must be Anne Davey’s funeral last autumn. That took It came as a nasty shock when she warned us paid by the 14 February otherwise you will some courage: we can only send our she no longer wished to spend her every be liable to a £10.00 rejoining fee. sympathy to her husband Mark Kebell and waking moment as the Newsletter Editor; this their two teenage children. As we go to press then turned into resigning from the committee. Unfortunately, due to high bank charges comes the sad news that Eddie Hogan We will all hugely miss Joan’s contribution. we cannot accept euro cheques. We can, (Breesfalt) has died. What a loveable man he The Club has had a professionally designed however, accept travellers’ cheques. was, cheery and full of laughter, & invariably and produced Newsletter that is the envy of Overseas members can pay by PAYPAL we would have a chuckle at some antic he and every other club, and an incredibly high Please add £2.00 extra to your Miss Noble had got up to the long ago. We standard has been set. It will be a hard act to subscription to cover PAYPAL admin send sympathy to Lesley, who herself is follow Joan, but everyone will be grateful to charges. recovering from major surgery. you for all the hard work involved in http://www.paypal.co.uk/uk producing such a super Newsletter. Lets hope Account: [email protected] Sometimes it pays to get it wrong! I was most you do take those holidays and “Joan’s impressed at all the responses I got for mis- Jaunts” will be a regular feature item in the MEMBERSHIP FEES identifying the coloured print the Club is future. Good UK SINGLE - £15.00 offering as a raffle prize from Miss Fenn’s luck Joan, and legacy (p. 46 Winter ’14 Newsletter). It thank you for UK JOINT - £20.00 should have been titled "Gillie and Deer- making the Overseas - £20.00 + postage Hounds" from the painting by Fred Taylor. Newsletter so Postage charges per annum: - Iain Gow sent a lengthy history (see the Club special. European members - £12.00 website), and several sleuths kindly let me Rest of the world - £15.00 know it wasn’t ‘in the style of James Hardy MARY LIFE MEMBERS - Postage is Jnr’. Mrs Maas then rang to say she & her GIRLING payable for life members. husband published a book about Gambart in MARCH 2015 Joining fee £10.00 1975 (Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World), prompting me to google Gambart Re-joining fee £10.00

2 Committee Matters The present serving committee met for the unfortunately, the distances involved will or Julian Faircloth and we will try and last time on February 21st. I should like become too great to commit to meetings. source it. to say thank you to all of the committee We do, however, have eight new for their work throughout the year, but candidates to fill these posts so I look The theme for next year’s calendar is especially to the forward to welcoming some new faces. ‘Born to Run’; please send your three members photographs to Mary Girling, before the who are standing Sadly, Graeme Longmuir died end of May. down at the AGM. recently and we will very much miss Joan Wragg has his presence at Breed Show meal Don’t forget that the lure racing at been part of the times. His hounds have been happily Berkeley Castle is on 24th May, and committee since re-homed with Waltraud Hess. period costume is positively encouraged. 2006; her first role Graeme kindly left the Club a legacy The entry form is in this Newsletter. Why was as New in his will and this will be split not teach your dog to chase a lure Members Secretary between re-homing, health and beforehand? The BSFA starts its race and later she took education. meetings on March 15th, details are on on the role of editor their web site and in this Newsletter. The for the Newsletter, Emily Dutton has been conducting Sussex Longdogs run straight racing every winning an award heart testing in Deerhounds, with the other weekend, this also starts on March for the best club magazine. This last year support of the Club. She will be giving a 15th, I am happy to provide details. she became chairman of committee and talk at the Breed Show on Friday has done great service; she will certainly afternoon, and then testing member’s I hope to see many of you in be missed. Kim Owen took on the role of hounds on the Saturday at the show. If you Cumbernauld at our Breed Show, and I Puppy and Rehoming Co-ordinator and have a dog that is over 4 years old, and wish you all a happy Easter break. has compiled a comprehensive file of would like to have it tested, please contact those waiting for any dogs that have to be Sarah Helps. There is now a PAYPAL NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING re homed; he has set up a questionnaire button on the website if you would like to WILL BE HELD AFTER THE AGM. for these people, and has put in place make a donation to the health fund. home checks. Sadly, he has too much VANESSA LUCAS work to continue this role, but will remain There will be new merchandise available HON SECRETARY. MARCH 2015 as our co-ordinator for this year’s lure at the Breed Show, or from the committee racing event at Berkeley Castle, Gloucs. member holding the stock. We are always PLEASE NOTE MY NEW EMAIL Robin Spencer has been part of the Judges open to suggestions of items you would email: [email protected] Sub committee, he is moving house and, like to purshase, so please contact myself

A very warm welcome to new Club members

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MEMBERS SECRETARY HON TREASURER DUNCAN ROBERTSON HAZEL WILLIAMS Hazelrigg, Duns Road Manor Farm Cottage Greenlaw, Berwickshire TD10 6XJ Astwith, Pilsley Tel: 01361 810664 CHESTERFIELD Derbys S45 8AN Email: [email protected] Tel: 01246 850585 Email: Have you changed your address, phone number or email address or [email protected] not received your Newsletter? Please contact Duncan.

3 Regional News Purely by chance, I recently caught The present, for many, has become an the movie ‘The Go Between’ being Irish Eyes alien country where they do things shown again. It had been years since differently and its changing beyond I had last seen it or read the book, but the past constantly, consciously or recognition. curiously, the screening coincided otherwise. Our more recent concept with a short brochure about Fletton of hounds is hugely influenced by the Priorities have changed in a Tower I was reading at the time. By likes of Sir Edwin Landseer, materialistic “country” of instant association, I found it impossible to romanticising the chase, glorifying gratification where possession view without thoughts of the author, the kill. Landseer is the ‘go between’ eclipses appreciation. More and L.P. Hartley, his sister, Norah, and, of in his own way, the more, I listen to people talk of the course, the Rotherwood hounds. The conceptual medium of the “foreign country” they film is so beautifully made, echoing a Victorian era and ethos. knew, where we saw time past with incredible The blasé acceptance of some of the best hounds cinematography, portraying L.P. the Victorians en-masse to and respected kennels Hartley’s complex story of trust and the brutality depicted in that co-habited the innocence, of confusion and love, in much of his work is a deerhound nest, aware of the year 1900, during one of the reality many would find the importance of the hottest summers on record; it is abhorrent today, with need to work together for believed to be partly biographical. heads buried in a the common good and Thirteen year old Leo Colston is the sanitized hole in the aware of the dangers of central figure, he is the ‘go between’, ground, but Landseer commercialism, or a the love letter Mercury for a hides nothing and is an greedy cuckoo pushing scandalous affair between Ted unwittingly important everyone else out. Some Burgess and Marian Maudsley. conduit between hounds and their of what happens today is Inadvertently, he is drawn into a work. beyond our ambit and not to the world alien and adult to his trusting breed’s benefit. For instance, the ban mind. Rotherwood, Ardkinglas, on hunting with dogs I feel has done Portsonachan, Geltsdale, Enterkine, nothing but harm, both to wildlife and L.P. Hartley’s now classic prologue are for me, among the more that particular aspect of deerhound “the past is a foreign country : they contemporary links or ‘go betweens’ ownership, whilst the self inflicted do things differently there. Or do between the Kennel Club Standard damage a totally misguided witch they?” Resonates through the years to and the deerhound. Kennels with the hunt for Factor VIId, will ultimately this day. Some people, ostensibly, breed’s welfare at heart who visit upon us remains to be seen. certainly did things differently in the understood the candidness and past and L.P. Hartley conjures the diversity required in conserving all “The past is a foreign country”, but I concept of the past being with us in that was good and all that was fragile. find myself travelling there a lot in the present tense when he writes In turn today, we are the recipients of search of things I recognise. Today, “they do” as opposed to “they did”. the burning torch of their legacy, we the ‘go between’ for that journey are He then poses the question, if human as breeders are ‘go betweens’ one and the hounds and their provenance. The nature has really changed with “or do all. We must balance the standard deerhound, it’s history and raison they?” with hounds as the arbiters of d’etre are deeply rooted in that breeding decisions. The past may “country” where they “do things Because the deerhound journey well be a “foreign country” but that is differently”; in the paradox of begins in the mists of lore we look to not to say we cannot recognise it. breeding we only advance by looking to the past, by preserving type without alteration, by retaining that which exemplifies the deerhound in form and spirit, despite change and time. History is in our hands.

Our editor was the one who encouraged me to have a look through “Irish Eyes”, so now, as Joan steps down, it feels like the ideal time for me to call it a day for a spell, and allow someone else to cast an eye from afar. BRYAN DOAK TEL: 02871 841292

Ravens attacking a fox and a dead stag - Sir Edwin Landseer 4 THE DEERHOUND CLUB Breed Show 2015 17 - 19 APRIL Westerwood Hotel, 1 St Andrews Drive, Cumbernauld, JUDGES: nr Glasgow, Scotland G68 0EW Mr M Peach (Dogs) Nearest international airport - Glasgow Mrs N Bailey (Bitches) CENTRAL RESERVATIONS - Tel: 0845 0345777 Referee and Sunday Please quote ‘Deerhound Club Breed Show 17 - 19 April 2015’when booking Special Classes WEEKEND RATES Mr J Robertson INCLUDES : Friday - Dinner/Bed & Breakfast Saturday - Coffee throughout/ Lunch/Dinner/Bed & Breakfast Sunday - Mid morning coffee SHOW SECRETARY DOUBLE ROOM - £160.00 per person (double room occupancy) Rachel Quinn SINGLE ROOM - £180.00 per person (single occupancy) Mobile: 07808 169413 Additional nights - Thursday or Sunday with dinner, bed & breakfast - Single Email: [email protected] occupancy £100.00, Double room £80.00 pp per night GALA DINNER ONLY (non resident) £27.00 SHOW MANAGER Duncan Robertson G Your booked room available from 3.00pm. Tel: 01361 810664 G Dog owners are liable for damage incurred to rooms.

Email: [email protected] G Cancellation conditions are shown in full on the website.

Timetable of events Friday 17 April 2.30pm THE COMMITTEE MEET AND GREET new and overseas members for tea & biscuits

3.15pm - 3.45pm DEERHOUND HEART SURVEY UPDATE WITH QUESTIONS & ANSWERS - EMILY DUTTON BVM&S DVC MRCVS 4.00pm ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 7.00pm DINNER Dress casual . Please wear a white cockade and tartan Saturday 18 April 9.00am BREED SHOW judging commences 12.00 noon - 2.00pm LUNCH Soup and sandwiches 7.30pm for 8.00pm GALA DINNER followed by TROPHY PRESENTATIONS Dress - evening wear/black tie preferred

Sunday 19 April 9.45am PARADE OF CHAMPIONS Followed by BREED SHOW SPECIAL CLASSES judging commences

DONATIONS OF RAFFLE PRIZES WILL BE WARMLY RECEIVED

THE WHITE COCKADE

5 THE DEERHOUND CLUB TROPHY POINTS TABLE 2014

THE DEERHOUND CLUB TROPHIES 2014

6 MEMBERS Newsletters and things! About a year ago, the Kennel Club agreed to start producing ‘The Kennel Gazette’ as a hard-copy journal again. The KC had earlier decided to produce the Gazette as an on-line publication only, claiming amongst other things, that the publication was losing money. A year on, with some £11 million surplus funds, the KC have still been unable to honour their promise.

Perhaps in a modern high-tech city office, reading stuff off a computer screen is OK - possibly good broadband speeds and a big screen. I now cannot flip through the pages, cannot jump (or skip?) to the feature I wish to read, each ‘page’ has to be turned laboriously, and referring back is hopeless. Your Club needs I’d be quite happy to buy the Gazette as in the past, and use some tree that had been YOU especially grown to make the paper! I do hope the Deerhound Club manages to keep our Newsletter as a printed, hard-copy version and I think (and hope!) most of our WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP members would agree with me. AT THE BREED SHOW 2015 IN SCOTLAND MARY GIRLING Your help would be most welcome. Setting up/dismantling the ring, Making contact ...... helping with the Club stand, assisting with selling raffle tickets Shortly after writing a Newsletter tribute to Crufts, to set up the ‘Discover Dogs’ and more. to my deerhound bitch, Saintvalery stand, he would call in at the ‘Our Dogs’ Anticipation, I set out to ask Carol Ann stand and ask if Carol Ann was still on Contact a Committee member or Johnson, the well known dog their list of current dog photographers. Show Manager - Duncan Robertson photographer, for permission to re-print He telephoned to say that she was no photographs she had taken at the longer on their list - but offered me the Midland Counties Ch Show, in 2007. e-mail address of Juliette Cunliffe who This proved a far greater task than I had had been her business partner. RAFFLE WINNER anticipated! The winner of the raffle for a free I subsequently e-mailed Juliette, who I Breed Show weekend for two, kindly About six weeks before the Newsletter did not realise currently lives in Nepal donated by Q HOTELS, was was going to press, I began trying to and within just a few hours, I had a HAZEL WILLIAMS. This is the second contact Carol Ann to seek her charming reply telling me she had time Hazel has won this particular permission, writing to the address she phoned Carol Ann who now lives in raffle. She was not present at Crufts had at the time. Hearing nothing from Spain! No wonder I could not contact where the draw took place. her, websites were trawled trying to find her!! She was happy to give me a more recent contact point. I did try a permission to use her photographs. I She has decided to donate the cost more recent address but to no avail. was over the moon, thrilled to bits and I of the weekend to the could hardly believe it. Deerhound Club Health Fund. The weeks went by, and I was beginning to get very frustrated, my graphic Dogged determination had eventually designer, Nick Allen, wanted the got me there!! CLuB iTEMS for SaLE information. I contacted John Francis - a aT THE BrEEd SHoW very good friend to me over many years SALLY GUISE - he suggested that as he was about to go There will be new items to ! purchase including: NE W Bone china Hand crafted silver rings Notelets Mug Stags head coat hooks Keyrings dESigN for 2015 Zip pulls £6.00 each Hounds head paper clips T Shirts On sale at the Breed Show or can be collected from NELL MACBEAN or Mugs VANESSA LUCAS at some Ch shows. Contact them advising the number you require. and much more!! email: [email protected] Tel: 01389 841337 email: [email protected] Tel: 01273 517314

77 deerhound Club We, in the Deerhound Club have CaLENdar 2016 been lucky enough to have Theme- ‘ BORN TO RUN ’ a very talented Editor producing our Newsletter in Please send in your photographs to be such a professional manner considered for the next that it has won awards!

Club Calendar by the end of 31 May 2015 It is unusual to have such talent Email photos, as large as possible in jpeg format, in a club and we have loved or post to: every edition!

THANK YOU JOAN! MARY GIRLING Lodge Farm, Brightlingsea LIza & Julian Faircloth nr Colchester, Essex CO7 0QJ email: [email protected]

EARL HAROLD ENTERING BOSHAM CHURCH BRI TISH SIGHTHOUND FIELD ASSOCIATION 2015 Lure Coursing dates for your diary

The meeting dates for 2015 are to be held on the following Sundays at Park House Stables, Kingsclere, near Newbury, Berks, RG20 5PY:

15th March 12th April 10th May Earl Harold, the future English king and last Anglo Saxon monarch, enters 14th June Bosham Church, West Sussex. Detail from the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry. 19th July Sent in by JEAN GILHOOLY 23rd August 20th September DEERHOUND CLUB IMPORTANT REMINDER 11th October Subscriptions & Overseas Postage Payment 2015 Were due on the 1 January 2015

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HON TREASURER - HAZEL WILLIAMS Manor Farm Cottage, Astwith, Pilsley, CHESTERFIELD, Derbys, S45 8AN “Run around the house with a sock in Tel: 01246 850585 Email: [email protected] your mouth for 10 minutes a day. Trust me, it will put you in a better mood.”

8 DEMERLAY DORIAN GREY AT CELTICMOON 12.07.04 – 25.11.14

agan

PagPan, and his sister, Shadow, (D Dove Grey at C), joined us in the summer of 2004 and were a great addition to our canine family from day one. They were admired by everyone who met them, but could be quite a handful as youngsters. I remember one particular walk when they both hurtled round and round our local lake, only slowing down to grab at fishermen’s bait and packed lunches. There was a fair bit of shouting that day - me at the hounds & the fishermen at me!

Pagan was a real gentleman with the most wonderful, deep brown, intelligent eyes. We had a real understanding, he was one of those ‘special’ Pagan was our dog in a lifetime when it came to showing, and loved being the dogs that share our lives from time to time. He centre of attention. He won a CC under Ferelith Somerfield, two RCCs under Bryan was the leader of our pack - our hounds knew that Doak and a Reserve Best Dog at a Deerhound Club show. He was rarely unplaced if they ever caught a rabbit, they would have to throughout his show career. When he finally retired, he would look at me first offer it to Pagan to see if he wanted it. If he hopefully each time I got ready to go to a show with one of the youngsters, so at didn’t, they could have it back, but if he did, we the age of eight and a half he was entered into the Veteran class at South Wales. would all have to wait for him as he would settle He didn’t win, but he stood like a statue as the judge went over him, and strutted down to eat it. He never once caught a rabbit of round the ring like a real showman, to a round of applause. He had a wonderful his own, it wasn’t his job - but he was very good at day out & we are so pleased that we gave him one last chance in delegating! the ring.

He was a gentle soul who adored baby animals. He was convinced he was the father of every litter we have ever had, including miniature poodles and a litter of kittens. He would spend ages just gazing at them with adoring eyes until they were up and about and then he wasn’t so keen! He was the type of hound that could be taken anywhere and was a real ambassador for the breed. However, he had a wicked sense of humour and was fascinated by ladies’ bosoms, and would say hello to my friends by giving them a quick nuzzle.

Pagan came out walking through the woods with the rest of the pack right up until his last day. The walks got slower but he never faltered. He would come home for his breakfast and then stand at the living room door, waiting to be let upstairs so he could snooze on our bed for the rest of the day. He would invariably take his favourite cat with him, and would demand a tummy tickle when we went to check on him. A couple of days before we lost him he became a little confused, and we knew we had made the right decision when he was struggling on his final walk.

We will miss Pagan forever - but we hope he has joined his sister Shadow and is happy, wherever he is. ELAINE DAY Leighton Welshpool Powys 9 P 10 11 Health Matters HEALTH GROUP PROJECT over 4 years old. We would particularly (approx. the size of a 50 pence coin) will UPDATE WINTER/SPRING 2015 like male dogs to be scanned as so far need to be shaved from the inside area we only have data from 7 males of your dog’s left elbow, but this cannot compared with 25 bitches. These be seen and your dog will still be able to The Health Group are looking forward screenings will be used to help compete at the show. All results will to working with you all in 2015 and determine breed specific heart then be passed directly to you and held making progress with current projects. measurements and data from this study in absolute confidence. Thank you for your support so far, and will enable vets in the future to make especially to Bev Doyle who has made a earlier and more accurate diagnosis of If you are able to donate money further donation of £2,000 towards the Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) heart (however small) to help with this Deerhound Heart Study matching an conditions. screening please send a cheque to: additional £2,000 from the Deerhound Club. Here is the Health Group’s most Scanning will start at 9.00 am with dogs Club Treasurer, Hazel Williams recent update. being seen at 40 min intervals. If you Manor Farm Cottage, Astwith, Pilsley, would like to have your dog scanned Chesterfield, Derbys, S45 8AN. HEART STUDY please contact: or We are delighted that Emily Dutton use the PAYPAL button on the front (BVM&S DVC MRCVS), who is a Sarah Helps page of the Club web site. specialist veterinary cardiologist Tel: 01494 727 584 or working with the Club on our Heart [email protected]) We have set up a separate health fund Study, is able to give a talk at the Breed account and all donations will go Show at 3.15pm on Friday 17 April indicating your preferred time. Eight directly towards the Heart Study. before the AGM. The talk is titled dogs can be scanned and appointments “Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Dogs" and will be given on a first come, first NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY will include general insights into this served, basis. Please note, that you don’t GDV (BLOAT) STUDY condition with time for questions from need to compete at the Breed Show to A first draft of the bloat member survey members. Please make all efforts to have your dog(s) scanned. has been received and the Health Group attend what we are sure will be a very are working now with the Nottingham informative and engaging talk. When it is time for your appointment, team to revise the survey before Emily requires a photocopy of your publication to members later this year. HEART SCANNING ON THE SATURDAY dog’s pedigree. She also needs to know 18TH APRIL an accurate weight of your dog (in kg). Emily is planning to screen dogs on the Please be assured that your dog will not Saturday. We are looking for dogs that be placed in any discomfort by these have not been screened yet, who are tests. Possibly a very small area

Study investigating the factors risk factors to be accepted. Only then can suffered from GDV as well. influencing the development and the information be analysed and results be accepted as valid. The importance of The success of this study depends on outcome of GDV in Deerhounds this is that once we have identified risk sufficient numbers of Deerhound owners in the UK factors we can make significant attempts and breeders being involved. All of the to reduce the chances of a GDV results from the questionnaires are Deerhounds are recognised to suffer developing which may save the lives of anonymous and so the results will not from a condition known as gastric many dogs. influence any aspect of your dog’s future dilatation volvulus (GDV). This is health in any way. where the stomach rotates out of position Here at Nottingham Veterinary School and can lead to devastating we will be working with Deerhounds to Please therefore get involved as the consequences. Without surgery GDV is see if we can identify particular factors results may have important implications almost always fatal. Despite numerous that influence the development of GDV for the future health of the breed. The studies over many years, clear risk in the breed. We will be conducting a details of the study and how to be factors that increase or reduce the study using a questionnaire that looks involved will follow soon; in the chances of suffering from GDV remain into the lifestyle and general health of meantime please direct any questions unclear; in some cases these are Deerhounds and determine whether any and advance interest to the Deerhound contradictory. There is even less of these influence the development of a Club Health Co-ordinator - Dr S Helps, information as to whether any risk GDV. Tel: 01494 727584 factors are specific to particular breeds. email: A number of difficulties exist in In order to be successful we will require [email protected] identifying risk factors. Clear evidence as many dogs as possible to be enrolled. must be obtained to demonstrate that We will need dogs that have suffered DR MARK DUNNING certain factors either reduce or increase from GDV and survived, sadly we will CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN the risk of getting a GDV. Sufficient also need to know about dogs that have SMALL ANIMAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, numbers of dogs must be recruited and suffered from a GDV and not survived. SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE the information from those dogs must be In addition we will need information AND SCIENCE, as thorough and detailed as possible for about Deerhounds that have never UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

12 Deerhound Mortality Survey Figure 1 Shows the number of bitches or dogs at the age of their death 2004 - 2014 expressed as a percentage (from a total of 156 bitches or 130 dogs) Preliminary analysis

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bereaved owners. P Age at time of death (up to but not exceeding) - years What follows is a brief summary of Table 1 the results of the survey from 2004 CAUSE OF DEATH NO % NOTES leading up to the end of 2014. In this period, the deaths of 286 hounds were DCM 36 13 recorded: 156 bitches and 130 dogs. This would indicate a relatively low Cardiac (other) 39 14 participation rate in the survey, since Six cases reported as lymphatic; individual cases as Osteosarcoma 23 8 over the same period, the Kennel prostate, testicular, intestinal and liver, aortic body Club averaged 270 registrations per tumour, oral melanoma, lymph glands, Bone cancer (unspecified) 11 4 liver/mammary, chest tumour, splenic tumour and year, ranging from 234 to 324 colon. Two dogs were recorded with both cancer registrations per year. Other Malignant Cancers 23 8 and heart disease 2 intestinal , I gastric with rupture of mesenteric From such small samples it is difficult Torsion (Gastric and Splenic) 23 8 artery, 1 splenic, I suspected. I also showed signs of to determine the validity of any cardiac disease 2 pancreatitis, 1 chronic colitis & arthritis, conclusion, but it would appear in Gastrointestinal (other) 62 younger hounds, up to the age of six, 2 intestinal blockages dogs have a higher mortality rate than Urological 311 chronic prostatitis, 1 cysteine stones, 1 post op renal failure bitches (Figure 1). The majority of Hepatic 1 chronic cirrhosis of liver, 1inflammatory liver hounds live beyond the age of seven: 41disease, 1 liver failure 60% of dogs and 72 % of bitches. PSS 1 < 1 What is striking is the greater number of dogs who die between the ages of 1 neck pain and arthritis, 2 lost control of their back Musculoskeletal 72legs, 1 arthritis of the spine, 1 spondylosis, 1 eight and nine compared to bitches cervical disc disorder, 1 “deerhound neck” and the number of bitches who survive from the age of eleven Old Age 25 9 2 Arthritis compared to dogs. The average Trauma 52 (mean) age of death was 7.9 years (8.4 for bitches and 7.3 for dogs). Cerebrovascular 521 brain haemorrhage, 3 unconfirmed

The causes of death are listed in Table Neurological 1 < 1 1 seizure 1. The biggest categories are heart disease (27%), cancer (20%) and Internal Haemorrhage 311 spleen or liver torsion (8%). Infection 1 respiratory, 1 pneumonia, 1 viral, 1 Lyme’s, 521 Meningitis - possibly bacterial DUNCAN ROBERTSON Immune Mediated 1 suspected SLE (Lupus), 1 Severe immune 2 < 1 mediated neutropaenia 1 three weeks post surgery, 3 pyometra (one with Reproductive 93mammary tumour), 1 whelping post op shock, 1 post op pyometra, 1 heart failure post op pyometra, 1 post op Perioperative 52pyometra, 1 cardiac arrest under general anaesthetic, 1- post op aspiration pneumonia 1 adverse reaction to antibiotic injection for Miscellaneous vomiting, 1 shock/dehydration, 1 unable to walk 41due to spreading lesion on hind leg, 1 blue green algae poisoning Unknown 46 16 1 died in sleep, 1 sudden collapse, 1 had a post mortem

13 Writing a critique - Kay Barret There is a saying that it is better to keep METHOD move onto the neck - the length, the your mouth shut and be thought a fool than To start with, I think it may be better to strength, the shape. Then the shoulders, to open your mouth and prove it. And write notes in the ring, rather than use a upper arm and forechest. Then describe the maybe that is why many people dread recorder. At most open shows these days, front legs, pasterns and feet. Then the writing critiques, because even worse than there are low entries so it won’t take too topline, ribcage and depth of brisket; then saying what you think is to actually put it in long. I write the notes in my judging book the hindquarters - croup, width across thigh, writing! However, you could well be in so that everything is in one place. For bend of stifle, length from hip to hock and trouble with the Club or the KC if you don’t championship shows, I use a recorder now low hocks if, in fact, the dog possesses do it. It is also a moral obligation – you are because I always want to say a lot and, these qualities. Then the tail, if there is gaining experience at the expense of the though I can write quickly, it would take too anything worth noting, and the coat. This is exhibitor, and these days showing is not an long. But I always have a horror of it not a rough guide and there may be other things inconsiderable expense. working when I come to listen to it. you wish to add.

These notes are mainly aimed at B or C list One of the best pieces of advice I can give Some of these points are not in the standard, judges, though A-listers may wish to is to write as much as you can in the ring. but we can comment on them anyway comment on their own ways of doing Don’t feel rushed and skimp on it, thinking because they are discussed within the breed things. you’ll remember. Also write clearly – don’t and which, being a breed judge, you will assume you will know what a squiggle or know. If you really enjoy the experience of an abbreviation will mean a few days later. judging, writing the critique is a way of Write fully on at least a few points of the The above is good practice and it is better to prolonging that enjoyment as you read your dog because when you come to write your have notes on each point but, when writing notes and relive the day, recording it for critique, you will be glad you did. I’m sure the critique, there is no need to mention yourself and sharing it with others. If you we’ve all looked at our notes and wondered every point on every dog - just the ones that don’t enjoy judging, there is really no need how on earth we were going to produce a leave an impression on you, for good or to, because it is something that should be critique from the few words we wrote on a bad. undertaken with enthusiasm. It is a particular dog. And it is almost always one wonderful experience and it is the best way that wasn’t very good, which makes it even When you’ve gone over the dog, you move to learn about the breed, if you undertake it more difficult. It is always easier to write a him, so then describe the movement - in a focused and thoughtful way. full critique when we can enthuse about a coming and going and in profile. Then you dog. So try to get into the habit of saying as may wish to make another overall comment The critique is the place where you can much as possible in your notes at the time, to round it off. explain yourself. It is rare, if ever, that all so at least you will have some material to the exhibitors agree with a judge’s decisions work with. Also be factual – write ‘small, As we can assume that not all the above and in the critique you get the chance to well-set ears’ (if they are!) rather than just points are going to be complimentary, it is justify them. If people can understand your ‘nice ears’. important to write in a flowing way as placings, they will be far more forgiving of much as possible and not make it disjointed your decisions. Judging is subjective and It will read better if you write a critique in by jumping from a positive point to a exhibitors will accept the results if you have the way you judge the dog. First you stand negative one and back again. And try to judged honestly and can give your reasons. back and look at the dog as a whole – so finish on a positive note. They want to know what you were looking describe the overall appearance. Is it for and if you found it. typical? Is it particularly masculine or If you look at a whole class and can’t see feminine? Is it balanced? anything you like, it doesn’t make judging Personally, I try to write the critique as soon easy, but it can’t be very nice for the as possible – if you have a driver then in the Balance can apply to the proportions of the exhibitors to read, “This was a car on the way home is not too soon, dog, which we can all see differently and disappointing class”. It is unnecessary. because you may still be feeling that focus can also change with how the dog is that you felt in the ring and it will come standing and how much coat it has. But However, when it comes to comparing two through in the writing. It also means that basically, do the proportions please you? exhibits, it would be acceptable to say - the dogs are fresh in your mind in case you “This was a difficult decision”, if you found lose your original notes or if your tape Does it have good front angulation and rear two dogs of equal merit or with an equal recorder doesn’t work. angulation or does it have very little front number of faults that you had to balance. angulation but a good bend of stifle, in But then do go on to say why it was BREED STANDARD which case this is another way in which it difficult and why you resolved it as you did. There is one thing that you can’t do without isn’t balanced. and that is knowledge of the breed standard. There is no need to be too harsh. There is You need it in your head in order to judge Then describe the points as if you are going sometimes a tendency, when starting, to and should read it again before every over the dog again. This will be easier if point out at least some of the faults just to judging appointment. With your first few you get into the habit of doing your notes, show you’ve noticed them, but there is a appointments, you should read it a number in the ring, in this order. Describe the head way of wording them. Instead of saying of times. And it may be as well to have it in and expression, the shape, including the ‘eyes like headlights’ you could say ‘eyes front of you when you are writing your final finer things that are your preference in could be darker’ or ‘would prefer darker draft, in case you need to check anything heads - eg. if it has an aquiline nose. eyes’. If in doubt, think how you would like you’ve written. However, don’t quote the Mention the eye shape and colour, the to read a critique about your own dog. Try breed standard word for word. pigmentation, the ear size and set. Then to make the overall tone of the critique positive.

14 own dogs, but do ‘Unlucky to meet the first’ – this could be you read all the said about all second places. other dogs’ too? It is good It does nothing for my confidence in a practice to read particular judge if they use inaccurate the words or phrases when really the correct championship one should be second nature after reading a show critiques number of critiques. Sometimes these can by experienced be put down to typos by the newspaper, breed judges, to though not if they occur more than once in see how things a critique or if they are the same on the are worded and website too. eg. the word ‘angulation’ does to see what not need to be pluralised. works and what Another thing I like to see in a critique is doesn’t. Hopefully you will have done this Another pet hate is a judge who says why the first dog beat the second one, or all the time you’ve been showing, so some exactly the same thing about each dog. I why the winning dog got the CC or RCC, phrases will come naturally. have seen championship show critiques because sometimes the critique leaves you where almost every hound had very little wondering. I’ve seen critiques where the NOT RECOMMENDED description but then ‘well-handled’ or second in PG got a better critique than the When you are judging, you are judging the ‘well-presented’ or well-handled and CC winner. It should always be obvious dog on the day. Therefore it isn’t good presented’ as if that was all that mattered. why you liked your winners, or your form to say ‘Didn’t move as well as I know As it wasn’t a series of handling classes, it readers are left wondering why you placed he can’ or ‘Not at his best today’. You are shouldn’t have mattered that much, them first or just how bad the second and not there to remember what he has done at whereas it appeared to be the main third were, so save the stronger adjectives previous shows. You must consider him on criterion. for the winners, which enhances their the day as if it is the first time you’ve seen critiques and helps convey your him. This is how you should be judging, so I’ll finish with the most mystifying thing I enthusiasm. don’t make the mistake of putting any have ever seen written in a critique. It was a preconceptions into print. championship show critique for another For this reason, it is important to read sighthound breed at a recent show, in which through and edit your critiques a few times A similar giveaway that you are not judging the judge gave a brief description of the before sending them off. I edit mine a just that dog on the day is to say something second in P Grad and then said, ‘Just number of times and then leave them at along the lines of, ‘Well presented, as are preferred 1 with the musical name’. I least a day and read them again, to make all the dogs from this kennel’. Again you would love to know the relevance or sure they say what I want them to say and should be judging the dog in front of you, wisdom of this! are not ambiguous. and not any other dog to whom you think he may be related. SUMMARY TERMINOLOGY I 1. Write the critique as you would Another difficulty in critiques is that some PET HATES judge the dog. judges disagree on the use of the same These are my own pet hates, and others will word. For instance, some use the word disagree, but I think these phrases can I 2. Write your notes in the ring as ‘front’ to mean the whole front assembly sound like meaningless padding. fully and as accurately as possible. and some use it just to describe the front legs when seen from the front. When Personally I hate the phrase ‘Fit for I 3. Convey a picture of the dog and talking, I would say ‘a straight front’ if the Function’ because we have (or should have) how you feel about him. legs were straight, but when I‘m writing it always been judging Deerhounds keeping I’m conscious that people might read it and in mind their original work, so this is I 4. Make it clear which are virtues think that the dog had no angulation, so I nothing new, and sometimes it appears that and which are faults. tend to qualify it and say ‘nice straight judges stick it in a critique when they can’t front’ so that it is obviously a compliment think of anything else to say. But along the I 5. Indicate why the first beat the and doesn’t refer to the angulation. same lines is the judge who says ‘Could do second, and why the CC winners or the job it was meant to do’. How could a BOB were the best there. Sometimes it is hard to tell in a critique judge ever know this unless we have red whether a judge means something as a deer at shows in future. The most you can I 6. Leave a positive overall compliment or not, & then I wonder say is ‘Looks as if he could do the job for impression. whether the judge actually knows whether which he was intended’. it is a virtue or a fault, so try to make this KAY BARRET 2015 © clear. This is a time when simply being Don’t use phrases that are meaningless factual doesn’t give a clear idea of what the when there will be many better ones you judge is looking for. For instance, sticking could use. eg. ‘Goes like a train’ - does that ‘flat topline’ in the middle of a list of mean the dog is puffing round the ring or virtues makes it look as if it is a that his little legs are going round in compliment. circles? It is a good idea to read as many critiques as ‘Fills the eye’ - with what? Tears? Of joy you can. We all read the critiques on our or anguish? 15 Regional News Posy, I think, is having an identity and blew it. Nothing. I couldn’t crisis. It started last year when I was Thames Valley understand how on earth he could have walking along a narrow path and we completely disappeared, I could see bumped into an elderly lady walking Voice around me for miles. Posy and I two golden retrievers on extending headed to the cabins, calling and leads. Ripley said hello and they got a male Chinese Crested, Hugo, staying calling, and then, to my total and utter bit jolly and before I could act, they had with us whilst Hugo’s owners babysit relief, he appeared in the doorway of run around me and had me all trussed Posy and Sid (new foster dog) when we one of the cabins, complete with the up like a Christmas turkey. The lady are at Crufts. The challenge is to lady of the house in her nightie. A little put her arms around me to untangle her prevent them playing on ashen coloured she said “I was dogs and, in a flash, Posy rushed over the day before, so he isn’t watching the telly and then all bristling, ready to come to my aid. too worn out the next day, he was just there, watching Posy never gets involved with anything no mean feat I can tell it with me. I didn’t dare much, particularly where other dogs are you! I am quite proud of move, I didn’t know what in close proximity, so it was quite a him really, they do all get he would do.” So there he surprise her even coming over, let alone on genuinely well, Ripley had been, watching daytime coming to defend me! definitely knows what a TV, in her lounge whilst I Deerhound should was imagining the worst! I About two months later, I was out with behave like and hasn’t apologised profusely and them both in an area I hadn’t been to got any confusions, took him by the collar and led for ages. In fact, the last time I went unlike Posy! him out of her house. Two there they had put pigs next to the seconds later, her cat came footpath and they were only contained Last week, Ripley did mooching out of the front door by a fairly low fence, certainly low manage to embarrass behind Ripley and stepped out enough for a Deerhound to hop over, so me though, I guess that onto the drive. At which point, I had decided to avoid it for a while. was always going to be on the cards Posy took off like a rocket and I nearly One part of the path, by the gateway of after I said I was proud of him. got my arms pulled out of their sockets. where I was headed, appeared to have a Luckily, for all concerned, it hopped the new fence seemingly not passable for We were walking beside the River fence and disaster was averted. Thank large dogs. As Ripley is still ‘a work in Thames and, for once, I had goodness they didn’t meet in the progress’, I decided it was sensible to remembered my camera. It was a sunny lounge! I decided that it was probably tie him to the fence, hop over it and see day and there were a lot of birds around a good time to go home. whether I was going to be able to get and something unusual flew into a tree them through. I left Posy loose, hopped right next to me. I was trying to focus We have a new foster dog, Sid. He is a the stile and walked round the corner the camera on where the bird had greyhound cross. He has been starved, for a look. Seeing it was as I thought, landed and was aware of Posy, by my beaten a fair amount, I would say, has there was no way under or over, I side, nudging my pocket to try and steal no house training and at the moment, popped back to find Posy chewing the a treat whilst she, quite rightly, didn’t also has separation anxiety. The jury is tie knot off Ripley’s lead and think I was concentrating. A minute or out as to whether he will be coming to effectively going about setting him free. so passed and having not been able to Scotland with us. We are only in week I think she maybe Lassie reincarnated. get a good picture I turned off the one as I write this, with about five Or maybe she is looking for some more camera and did a dog check. Hum, weeks to go to the Breed Show. How film work! only one dog. I scanned the massive well it’s going with him will be easy to field, no Ripley. There are a few remote tell when you see us! To be fair to Ripley, he is much better houses, well more like cabin houses on than ‘a work in progress’ now. His this side of the river, but their gardens Send me any news! recall is reasonable, he ignores the are fenced and there is an electric gate horses, even when they are running from them to the long drive back to the LIzA FAIRCLOTH about and, out walking, he is Mr road. It was shut and I could see there [email protected] Sociable. He will mill about happily were no moving cars on the drive and I with the dog walker packs we meet and certainly hadn’t heard any. Where we particularly loves the small dogs. His were is quite remote and very quiet. best friend is a tiny Staffordshire terrier That truly horrid feeling of panic called Abbie. He will lie on the floor to started, as it does, in the pit of your play with her once they are done with stomach and works its way up the their looning around. One of the dogs chest, tightening the grip on your throat on the yard is a spaniel, Revel, he’s as it goes. I scanned again. No Ripley. entire and is the same age as Ripley. Feeling panicky and slight nauseous I They are besotted with each other and called and called. Nothing. While trot about like little and large for hours calling in a slight hysterical screamy on end, which is very sweet. He even voice I walked to the river’s edge. plays with a very large, entire Cane Could he have fallen in? I tried to Corso called Castrol. rationalise. He couldn’t have, I would have heard it. I scanned and called, This weekend we will have an entire, fumbled for my whistle on the car keys

16 Berkeley Castle Built in 1153, home to the Berkeley family for 800 years. King Edward II was reputedly murdered here in 1327 Deerhound Club Lure Coursing Event Sunday 24 May 2015 In conjunction with a Festival of History FREE ENTRY for people wearing 17th Century costume LOCATION BERKELEY CASTLE J Parade of deerhounds at the Castle Berkeley Castle is situated close to the M5 in Gloucestershire GL13 9PJ. FROM BRISTOL/LONDON Take the M4 and exit at Junction 20. Take the M5 J Bring a picnic north to Junction 14. Head north on the A38 following signs to Berkeley and then brown signs to Berkeley Castle. J Please support this unique day - enter your FROM THE NORTH From M5 North: exit at Junction 13. Follow signs to deerhound or come as a spectator Berkeley, then brown signs to Berkeley Castle (about 1/2 mile beyond Prince of Wales pub).

¡ BERKELEY LURE COURSING ENTRY FORM NAME OF HOUND DATE OF BIRTH 1 2

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ENTRIES £10 00 PER DOG Cheques made payable ‘The Deerhound Club’. Send entry by 18 May 2015 to: MR KIM OWEN Bryn Ffynnon, Wolfscastle, Haverfordwest, Pembs. SA62 5LR. Tel: 01437 892237 Email: [email protected] Don’t forget to include any extra details of your hound for the ‘race card’ - has it lure coursed before/is a novice. Dogs must be over 15 months of age to run. PLEASE NOTE: - RUNNING HOUNDS MUST WEAR MUzzLES

17 KENNEL CLUB QUARTERLY DEERHOUND REGISTRATIONS 2013 and 2014 2013 2014

1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr Year 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr Year

60 67 48 61 236 68 81 46 39 234

KENNEL CLUB QUARTERLY REGISTRATIONS HOUND GROUP 2013 and 2014 2013 2014

1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr Year 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr Year

2,951 3,724 3,835 3,493 14,003 3,115 3,552 3,997 3,690 14,354

Reminiscing Years ago, I received a phone call from The first day was rehearsing during customs and excise man came to arrest London asking for a deerhound to take which time there were quite a few cuts the illicit distiller, take away the still part in a film about the illicit distilling and retakes. Midday the director called and burn down the hut. I had to go into of whisky. A large deerhound was for a break for refreshments. the hut with Max on a long thin line so requested, so Max was selected. that he would stay with the distiller At the end of the day, we all went to the when he was arrested. The customs The location of the filming was actual lodge for dinner, Max was fed man started pouring fuel over the hut Coriebella Lodge in a remote part of first, getting a steak to himself. We had and set it on fire, whilst Max and I had Scotland and I was to be there at a great dinner, after which we retired to to make our way out of the back of the 7.00am in the morning. The directions the lounge for a get together. During hut. I had been in a crouching position were given and when I reached a certain the conversation the director asked me - for so long I had cramp in my leg and point in the journey, about 8 miles up a ”You don’t have television in Scotland had a job to get out - the fuel was still track road, I reached a locked gate do you?” I replied - “We invented it!” be thrown on the hut - it was certainly a which had a weathered, rather unusual As we were in remote part of the good fire!! When I eventually got out, a message attached giving details of Highlands there were no phones. The fire extinguisher was put in my hand where to find the key. Five gates on director asked “and no phones either?” I and I was told to train it on the and each gate had the same message - replied “We invented that too!” These distiller’s huge beard in case it went up very amusing I thought! Travelling on, remarks seemed to break the ice and in flames. So much for health and I was looking for the hunting lodge, everyone had a good laugh. Before safety!! End of the day, filming when driving round a corner, I saw peat retiring for the night, I found Max lying finished, homeward bound, and again, smoke coming from a heather covered on a four poster bed, he obviously all those gates to negotiate!! hut. I stopped to ask where the lodge thought he was the star!! was. A man appeared with an enormous CHARLIE SPENCE beard and said he was one of the cast - I Next day filming resumed. The had arrived! DISCOVER DOGS AT G What do you get if you cross a dog G Why did the dog say he was an with a blind mole? actor? CRUFTS A dog that keeps barking up the wrong His leg was in a cast. tree ! John Francis and Dee Blatchford did G Why did the dog run in circles? their usual sterling work organising G How do you stop a dog He was a watchdog and needed and erecting the breed stand at Crufts. smelling? winding. Put a peg on it's nose ! Always a popular event, with the Why is it called a ‘litter’ of public wanting to find out more about G What happens when it puppies? various breeds. rains cats and dogs? ie Because they mess up the You can step in a poodle. Dogg whole house! Sue Reynolds and Joss Duddell rs manned the stand on the Thursday and G What is a dog’s Howle When is a black dog not a two Welsh ladies (sorry your names favourite food? black dog? escape me!) did their stint. Saturday Anything that is on YOUR When it’s a greyhound ! saw Robin and Leo Paisey doing PR plate!! for the breed and on Sunday, Lynette Why did the poor dog chase his Seymour-Jackson joined John and G What do you get if you cross a own tail? Dee in meeting the public. giraffe with a dog? He was trying to make both ends meet! An animal that barks at low flying Thanks to all for giving your time. aircraft !

18 Regional News GENTOM GOSSIP Belper Happy 70th Glenis! In our last column Midland K.A. Show we reported on Jean’s ‘Special’ 2015 birthday, this time it is Glenis Peach’s Matters however, is turn to be in the spotlight! Glenis’ wasn’t feeling too well and didn’t bucking this daughter, Jenny Ellse, through the want to go out, Mick persuaded her trend! medium of ‘Face Book’ and the help by saying that “it was only to be a Judge Ms of fellow Deerhound Club members quiet family drink” - nice one Mick! Dee arranged a surprise party at an hotel in Blatchford Derbyshire, in November. Jenny LKA (14TH DEC 2014) (Peopleton), saying: “....I think there were, aptly, Judge: Miss Sue Finnett from an entry about 70 guests altogether....for the (Hyndsight) had an entry of 75 of 23 first time in my life my mother was hounds from which she awarded Deerhounds, actually speechless! I was just so the DCC & BOB to Ch Cotherstone choose Mick grateful to people for making the Shot and Steel and BCC to Ch & Glenis Peach’s, Kilbourne Liberty, effort to come all that way. A special Cotherstone Duchenne both owned by as her BOB Could Mick & Glenis’ thank you to Nicola and Glen Bailey Ali Morton & Johnny Morgan. This long-standing apres show brunches (Greyflax) for all their organising. result finished off nicely a very have something to do with this? Also a special mention to Jurgen successful 2014 for “Cotherstone” Whatever the reason, Belper and the Rosner (Oelmuhle) from Germany and since Ali was “Our Dogs” Top other points shows, with a strong Carole Harrison-Havercroft from Breeder, her bitch, Cotherstone Devil exhibitor support base in and out of Bermuda, for travelling so many miles In Drag won “Dog World’s” Top the ring, continue to flourish, unlike Brood Bitch and Shot others that do not have such support and Steel, who is co- and have unfortunately lost their owned with Johnny, status. took “Dog World’s” Top Dog award. Have a great time in and out of the BPIB was won by the show rings! Best Puppy Bitch, Regalflight Falcon, JEAN & TOM.RHODES bred by Joyce Bond TEL: 01782 392374 and owned by Miss EMAIL: [email protected] M Stratford.

OPEN SHOWS LOSE ‘POINTS’ STATUS to make it extra special. My mum puts Open shows lose “points” status: We so much time, effort and passion into have become aware of at least one the Deerhounds I wanted to give her a Open show here in the Midlands little something back. She is adored by which, due to falling entries, is no her family and close friends and longer a “points show” ie - shows Photos: Below far left : Johnny Morton with admired everyday by me. A great night scheduling five or more classes for Cotherstone Shot And Steel, judge, Miss Sue of dancing and frivolity was had by Deerhounds at which Challenge Finnett & Cotherstone Duchenne with Kay all. A night to remember for her.” Certificates are not on offer. One point Constantine (standing in for Ali Morton). Jurgen, Glenis & Carole are seen in per win, champions are not eligible. Below: Sue Finett with BPIB - Regalflight the photograph (Deerholt Trophy). Falcon with Miss M Stratford above, Glenis’ smile says all.

Unfortunately, Tom and I were not able to attend, but we heard that a great time was had by all and Glenis was genuinely “gob- smacked” Apparently she

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21 CCrruuffttss 22001155 solemnity, now and then seeing to rebuke the wantonness of his companions. At length, he would make a sudden turn, seize one of them and tumble him into the dust, then give a glance at us, as much to say, “You see gentlemen, I can’t help giving away to this nonsense,” would resume his gravity and jog on as before.

Scott amused himself with these peculiarities. “I make no doubt,” he said, “when Maida is alone with these young dogs, he throws gravity aside and plays the boy as much as any of them; but he is ashamed to do so in our company and seems to say - “Ha, done with your nonsense, youngsters, what will the laird and that other gentleman think of me if I give way to such foolery?” RESERVE CC WINNERS 2. Open Dog Morell’s - CIB/NordCH Cream Islands Sir Gibson ( ATC AM01644SWE) While we were discussing the humours and 2. Open Bitch Bailey’s - GREYFLAX JUST PEACHY peculiarities of our canine companions, some object provoked their spleen, and Sir Walter Scott’s Deerhounds produced sharp and petulant barking from the smaller fry, but it was before Maida was Washington Irving’s visit to Abbotsford sufficiently roused to ramp forward two or three bounds and join the chorus with a deep mouthed bow-wough!

It was a transient outbreak and he returned instantly, wagging his tail and looking up dubiously in his master’s face; uncertain whether he would receive censure or applaud.

In the late summer of 1917, the newly Scott proposed a ramble to show me “Aye, aye, old boy!” cried Scott. “you have published American writer, Washington something of the surrounding country. As we done wonders. You have shaken the Eildon Irving, paid a visit to one of his favourite sallied forth, every dog in the establishment Hills with your roaring, you may now lay by authors, Sir Walter Scott. Calling turned out to attend us. There was the old your artillery for the rest of the day. Maida unannounced and preparing to visit for a very staghound, Maida, that I have already is like the great gun at Constantinople” he short introduction, Irving was pleasantly mentioned, a noble animal, and Hamlet, the continued, “it takes so long to get ready, that surprised when Scott insisted he stay for black greyhound, a wild thoughtless the smaller guns can fire off a dozen times several days to truly enjoy the local sights and youngster, not yet arrived at the years of first, but when it goes off, it plays the very beauty of the area. Several years later, Irving discretion; and Finette, a beautiful setter, with devil!” wrote about his many travels, including his soft, silken hair, long pendant ears and a mild fond memories of Abbotsford, his host and eye, the parlour favourite. When in front of There was no guest at dinner except myself. the many dogs inhabiting the house. the house, we were joined by a superannuated Around the table were two or three dogs in greyhound, who came from the kitchen attendance. Maida took his seat at Scott’s Arriving on the morning of August 30th, wagging his tail, and was cheered by Scott as elbow, looking up wistfully in his master’s Irving recalled his arrival at Abbotsford an old friend and comrade. eye, while Finette, the pet spaniel, placed writing, “the noise of my chaise had disturbed herself near Mrs Scott, by whom I perceived the quiet of the establishment. Out sallied the In our walks, he would frequently pause in she was completely spoiled. warder of the castle, a black greyhound and conversation, to notice his dogs and speak to leaping on one of the blocks of stone, began a them as if rational companions; and indeed These simple anecdotes may serve to show furious barking. His alarum brought out the there appears to be a vast deal of rationality in the delightful play of Scott’s humours and whole garrison of dogs, all opened mouthed these faithful attendants of man, derived from feelings in private life. His domestic and vociferous. In a little while, ‘the lord of their close intimacy with him. Maida animals were his friends ...... ” the castle’ himself made his appearance. I deported himself with a gravity becoming his knew him at once by the descriptions I had age and size, and seemed to consider himself SANDY MACALLISTER read and heard, and the likeness that had been called upon to preserve a great degree of published of him. He came limping up the dignity and decorum in our society. As he Source for the above article: gravel walk, aiding himself with a stout jogged along a little distance ahead of us, the The Crayon Miscellany No 2, containing Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey , Washington Irving. John Murray, walking staff, but moving rapidly and with young dogs would gamble about him, leap on London May 1st 1835 and Carey, Lea and Blanchard, vigour. By his side jogged a huge large iron his neck, worry his ears and endeavour to Philadelphia, May 30th, 1835. grey staghound, of the most grave demeanor, tease him into a gambol. The old dog would who took no part in the clamour of the canine keep on for a long time with imperturbable rabble, but seemed to consider himself bound,

22 Regional News “For lo the winter is past and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land” Well not Scottish DOG SHOWS quite yet. It’s the end of February and there Notes As I write, I am looking forward to having is snow outside! Mind you, we had Spring another Breed Show in Scotland. We do yesterday. However, I am relieved to have than those in the south of England. not have many large hotels up here with got through the festive season without any However, I have a friend who has concerns suitable facilities for an event like this, but it crises. Too many human and animal with her vets. When she takes a dog with a is sad that most of the Club activities have emergencies have cropped up in years past. problem she is presented with a list of moved so far South. It may surprise some For example, I have had two bitches with investigations that they think of you to learn that from a northern point of pyometra and a dog with heart failure, would be helpful in making a view, anything south of fortunately several years apart. One bitch diagnosis. She feels that all Birmingham is in the south had her op just before Christmas. Turkey they want to do is make of England! Having the was a very temporary answer to her money. From her description Northern Limit Show up convalescent anorexia. The fridge and store they have been trained to use here has been much cupboard were plundered for potential all the modern diagnostic appreciated and the hope is gastronomic temptations. Each was tools to get as certain a that this will become a regular sampled, but declined if offered again, and diagnosis as possible, event. Unfortunately, there the tins of food provided by the vet, on decreasing their own seems to be a gradual loss of leaving the surgery, were a total no-no. That uncertainty and nothing members from the Club. Most the shops were closed for the holiday was wrong with that. At the end seem to feel that the club now just about the last straw! After New Year, of the day getting it right is offers little apart from the very madam graciously consented to consider likely to lead to better occasional show. that dog food was a possible option. treatment. However, it Nowadays, we have West Vet, set up as a seems that they need to explain this more We have five Scottish shows co-operative organisation by a group of carefully! I know that in medical general with CCs for deerhounds, all fall between local veterinary practices, to cover practice we had to live with a degree of the end of March and August. This year we weekends and holidays. It seems to work uncertainty as we did not have x-ray have Scottish Breeds, Hound Association of well and, ironically, the local GPs had a machines and scanners down the corridor. Scotland and the Breed Show all within similar set up until the service was messed The modern veterinary surgery is four weekends, with Easter thrown in for up by changes in the contract! NHS something that I greatly admire. good measure. Hard luck if you have a patients are shielded from the costs of puppy that is too young to enter any of the emergency care, but I can’t help feeling that THE COMPLEXITY OF PET FOODS local shows. they should be presented with the bills that Pet foods nowadays are becoming more they would have paid - even with insurance complicated. It seems that I should be The deerhound entries at Open shows has pet owners are aware of the costs. buying my three hounds three different bags dropped considerably here. It will be of dog food to match their respective ages! interesting to see whether the Endangered I had a wry smile at Steve Dean’s account At least they are all the same sort of size. Breeds Competition will improve entries, of his experience of taking his border terrier Not only are there size recommendations but in its present form I can’t see this bitch for an emergency Caesarian section. but even breed specific foods, as well as happening. Both a vet and Chairman of the Kennel low allergy etc. The same applies to cats. Club, he described the fee of £1,300 as eye- The ‘sterilised cat food’ had me puzzled IDEA FOR A FUTURE EVENT? watering and that was after declining a until I realised that the adjective applied to I hear that the dandie dinmont terriers had a variety of tests he felt were unnecessary. the cat and not the food! Even wild bird pilgrimage to Abbotsford in February to My impression is that, on the whole, seed has recommendations for different commemorate the two-hundredth Scottish veterinary practices charge less species. Incidentally, I tried adding spinach anniversary of the publication of ‘Guy (defrosted) to my gangs food Mannering’, in which book Dandie to see if it would help one with Dinmont and his pepper and salt terriers an itch problem. Now they appear. I don’t know whether the won’t eat food without it! Deerhound Club has similar plans to celebrate the publication of ‘The Talisman’, ROMANCE? though that would have to wait till 2025. Valentine’s Day was This was the book which introduced me to somewhat lacking in romance deerhounds. I read it at the age of nine after - thank goodness! ‘Romeo it was serialised on BBC Children’s Hour. and Juliet’ were howling to It was only many years later that I each other from the opposite discovered that deerhounds still existed. ends of the house. All very well, but he was the age MARJORY MCKINNON equivalent of seventeen, whilst TEL: 01506 852656 she was all of seventy-five. [email protected] Very wearing. Nobody ever seems to point out that the bitches can be even more trouble than the dogs!

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24 deerhounds ensued and David and Jean made friends in the deerhound world. There would be shows, and racing with the college with various vacation jobs - helping Sussex Longdogs, travelling around in the to build a bridge on the (then new) M1, two Obituaries famous campervan. David was in his trips on a North Sea cod trawler, a stint as a element. When he retired the couple were gravedigger and, maybe most significant for able to buy a second home in Scotland with the future, helping a builder who specialised 200 acres and plenty of woodland. David in church restoration. had been reunited with his boyhood ambition. Jean first met David when he was working as a dental surgeon based at St Mary’s Early in 2013, David had a seizure and a Hospital in Paddington. He had lodgings brain tumour was diagnosed. The near Baker Street, opposite where Jean and prognosis was poor and no one anticipated some friends were sharing a flat. Jean’s that he would survive for nearly two years. usual view of him was limited to a pair of Jean was magnificent, while the staff at the feet protruding from beneath his Austin 7 Petworth Cottage and the Macmillan Special. Jean also had Jezebel, another DAVID GILHOOLY support could not do enough. David loved Austin 7 which David would be asked, to have the dogs visit him as he lay in bed David Gilhooly was a quiet unassuming, from time to time, to lend a hand. Becoming and he slept beneath a gallery of deerhound even understated, man. You might almost great friends, they married in 1963. pictures on the wall, the quiet humour never say reticent but that would give entirely the deserted him as it might a lesser man. wrong impression: he was always the most David recalled that part of his work at this genial of men. Perhaps you could say he time involved visiting London Prisons, PETER JERROME MBE was happier doing than talking. Above all, Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs, he had a gentle humour. In perhaps forty Pentonville and Holloway. At Holloway he EDDIE HOGAN years I never found him ill at ease either treated several infamous inmates, while with himself, or what is perhaps more elsewhere he met a number of robust figures The death of Mr Eddie Hogan robs the surprising, with the world at large. from the London underworld. All NHS of Deerhound Club of a valued member for course! some 30 years. Originally he and Lesley David spent his early childhood in Coventry lived at Newport in Essex with their where his father was manager at a sawmill Soon David and Jean had a surgery in Breesfalt deerhounds. They moved to making the wooden frames for RAF Upper Wimpole Street with a strong leaven Argyll about 17 years ago. We will all of clients from the Royal Academy of mosquitos. David could probably have miss Eddie - always cheery and full of Music and neighbouring colleges. continued living at Coventry but for a laughter, a very loveable man. We send German bomb damaging the family home. our sincere sympathy to his widow, He moved to live with family in Essex. The purchase of Nobys in West Sussex, originally a tiny cottage, was to be pivotal. Lesley. When David left school he worked in David and Jean spent twenty years, forestry, but in the 1950’s offered few weekend and holiday, working on it. The funeral is at 11 am on Thursday 2nd openings and these mainly abroad. David April 2015, at St Mary's Church, decided on dentistry, gaining admission to David loved dogs as did Jean and daughter, Newport, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex the Royal Dental Hospital in London where Charlotte. The first one Lady, was followed followed by burial in the church he was top student in his year. He gained a by her son Max, Lady being a rescue cemetery and afterwards at Newport purple (the London equivalent of an Labrador. Max’s daughter, Spot, followed Men's Club. The undertaker is Peasgood Oxbridge Blue) in fencing - epee, foil and and there would be Freya, a deerhound & Skeates in Saffron Walden. sabre, while working his way through lurcher. A succession of pedigree MARY GIRLING BILL JARRETT loved all wild life and had great I first met Bill when I bought a knowledge of birds. He built an elaborate Deerhound (Ch Torrfric Quilla) from bird feeding station that attracted most of Brenda in 1978. They had both joined the breeds in the county. the Deerhound Club in the early 1970’s. He was a quiet man, an architect by Latterly, as Brenda’s mobility declined, profession, it was some years before we he became a full time carer and had realised that he worked with my father- complete charge of Juno, their old in-law! Deerhound, walking her most days and attending her every need. Following Bill was always there, but in the Brenda’s admission to a care home, they background, he attended most of the dog became quite a team and I know shows and events where Deerhounds companions and comfort to each other. were welcome, he assisted in preparing the dogs for shows and was particularly Bill died just after Christmas following a skilled at sorting out ears! short illnes and will be missed by all that sense of humour, I always felt better knew him, though quiet he was very having had a conversation with him. A patient man who loved his garden, approachable and would help anyone if always busy in it throughout his life, he he could. Easy to talk to, with a good GILL SMITH 25 Hunting Scenes of the Picts A centuries old tradition of hunting large northern parts of Scotland and were a game on foot or on horseback with hounds typical north west European ‘barbarian’ has existed in Great Britain since long society. Yet, among the similar Celtic before the Romans arrived. The native tribes of Europe and Britain they remain an peoples of Scotland and Ireland so enjoyed enigma because of their unique symbols, hunting with their greyhound type dogs language, the practice of matrilineal they began coursing their hounds after succession and a total lack of documentary game for the sheer joy of the chase, a sources - they left nothing in writing other practice unknown to the Romans, until they than a few ogham inscriptions. What encountered the Picts and the elaborately theories have developed about who the sculpted stones they left behind. Picts were come to us from other cultures descriptions and the unique symbols and The Picts were one of five different images they left on sculpted stones and cultures found in northern Britain from the boulders (roughly 7th and 8th centuries 5th to the 10th centuries. The term Picts or CE), Class II stones dressed, shaped and ‘Picti’ was first recorded by the Romans sculpted in relief containing Pictish who wrote that Pict was the term the symbols and secular and religious images natives called themselves, but possibly (roughly 9th and 10th centuries CE). comes from a Latin nickname meaning ‘the Exactly what their unique designs and painted ones’. Picts has become the secular images meant in Pictish society we generic term for the native tribes of will never know, but it is assumed that Scotland living north of the Forth-Clyde these symbol and images were understood Hilton of Cadboll Stone, Easter Ross, showing line (some say north of the river Tay) who by the Picts as other re-occur across the hunting scene. warred against the Roman advance in region for over 400 years. It is the secular Scotland. images of the Class II and III stones that ‘the good life’. Success in hunting could give us clues as to what was important to have symbolically transferred to success in The Picts most likely descended from very the Pictish nobility who would have the warfare. In ancient times, mythical hunters early Celtic peoples who settled in the means to commission and erect the typified the virtues of responsibility and elaborately decorated stones scattered leadership and perhaps the picts had the throughout Scotland. same view. The hunt scenes could also represent the’ritual of the court’, showing Many theories abound on why these stones the social stability of a local ruler’s lands were made, why they were placed where and his largesse to his people in the form of they are sited and what the images may the spoils of the chase. As Christian have meant. With detailed ornament, these iconography started to appear on the Pictish stones took a great deal of time and stones it is theorised that the hunter’s craftsmanship to execute and, most likely, portrait of success in the chase translated to were commissioned by people of position, his success in heaven as a model member wealth or power.. Did they commemorate of society. Possibly the traditional hunting an individual noble or chief, a battle, a scene transferred itself into representing the death or serve as territorial boundary ultimate victory to be found in the Christian markers? No one knows for sure. But with faith. Several scholars believe that the deer so many ‘hound chasing hart’ scenes, it represented the human soul waiting to be appears the hunt was an important aspect of captured for christianity symbolised by the Pictish life. Stalking game on foot or hound - the pursuit of the sinner for Christ. horseback with the swiftest hounds was And many early cultures associated the most likely reserved for nobles and royalty. deer with immortality as it sheds its antlers Images of chasing game with hounds is not each winter and grew new ones each a common scene in early medieval art, yet spring, an allegory of death and rebirth. from about 700 CE it is a commonly repeated theme on Pictish stones. Even as The hounds in most of the pictish scenes Christianity spread throughout their world, are greyhound type dogs, high groined with the ‘hound and hart’ remained a part of sleek muscular bodies and obviously swift imagery on these stones, usually with runners expected to chase and bring down elaborate cross, knotwork and religious deer. As a sport of hunting large game with panels on the ‘front’, with the ‘reverse’ side hounds was a long established practice in displaying scenes of battle, nobility and Scotland, one can only wonder if the hunters on foot or horseback chasing or images on these ancient stones give us a attacking deer. glimpse of a hound that may have been an evolutionary step towards todays There are many speculations on the Deerhound. importance of hunting in the Pictish world. SANDY MACALLISTER Pictish roadside stone at Aberlemno, near The hunt may not have been an elite Forfar. Four mounted men, three stags and 3 activity but, possibly, a symbolic show of dogs. 26 Regional News I travelled up to Yorkshire last week and to see if I had heard any vehicles, to see Kay Constantine’s puppies. Events East in the night, going down the track They were just ten weeks old and onto the racecourse opposite. I told looked great. A good healthy litter. them I hadn’t because I was tired our beloved breed won’t go the same Bred out of Gentiehun Tulip of from being at Crufts the previous day. way. Kaleginy, sired by Johnny Morgan They met Rueben and thought he was and Ali Morton’s top winning great. I told them my name and It was nice to see a lot deerhound - Shot and Steel. They are added (as I get asked all of friends from home all sold and some of the new owners the time) that no, James and abroad at this years were there waiting to take their Bond was not my son, he Crufts dog show. It was puppies home. I must say it is great was my father! Apparently, a novelty experience to see new breeders producing such in the night, someone had walking over the quality puppies because this is the been on the racecourse and pontoon across the lake future of the deerhound as a breed. set fire to some of the on the way in. We were jumps. The point to point second in the ring, so For young people to take the breed racing was on that morning, had plenty of time to forward and keep up standards, I so it made sense to think it chat to everyone. The think they all have to remember what was the work of the anti’s. Regalflights didn’t do the deerhound’s original work was It did make me worry about so well this year, but and realise that is the essence of the our dogs. But they are all you win some and you lose deerhound today. The whole - secure, day and night, and some - there’s always another day and incorporating all the details of body Lazarus looks and sounds like a very another show. shape, depth, height, strength and unwelcoming person. He is really movement, even down the shape, set sweet natured, but anyone he doesn’t My Rueben was third in the Junior on and strength of the neck. know would never believe it. class and was handled expertly by Tightness of feet and low hocks, were Johnny Morgan. Poor Rueben, he essential for the job of taking a red I am sorry to hear that Joan is giving couldn’t get on his bench as it was deer and, although there is no legal up her excellent work on our only six slots wide, but lay down on work for the deerhound today, we Newsletter magazine. She has done his blanket and slept all day, apart should strive to keep in mind the an excellent job and will be missed. from when people wanted to make a work which was required of the fuss of him. hounds, before we breed a litter. A JOYCE BOND good way is to study pedigrees and I was tired out the next day and sat in [email protected] ask questions and know what a really the kitchen listening to the radio, still good deerhound should look like. It wearing my dressing gown and is so sad how some breeds have slippers, when the two terriers started changed and could never do the job barking. I answered the door and two for which they were originally bred, policemen were retreating down the the list is numerous. I sincerely hope path. They had come to ask questions o r i e t n o M s e v l A i u R

27 Spanish News Hola - I’ve taken over this column barking as they chase their quarry. kms from the city of Jaen, which is from George MacDonald-Hedger who Angus gets nervous at the sound of the known as the world capital of olive oil. contributed his Spanish news for many gunshots, hiding in the house until the It is the biggest producer of the oil, years and who no longer owns coast is clear, the others are not known by locals as liquid gold, as far deerhounds but I’m sure he will enjoy overly keen but put up with it, as they eye can see, keeping up with deerhound news from even so, they all get very it is a sea of olives. home and abroad. excited and run along the chain Our village is link fence, when they hear the buzzing and first Some readers may know of me and my dogs. One Sunday lunchtime, thing in the morning, hounds, but in case you don’t, I will we popped into one of the bars the ‘hills are alive, introduce us. I’m Susan Ward and, in our village and there was a with the sound of together with my husband, John, and at lot of activity going on by the trailers’, as they the time two Deerhounds, Kilbourne open fireplace. We could trundle across dirt Thuja (Cedrus) and Hydfron Sapphire hear banging and chopping, tracks. The hounds love (Sapphie) moved from Wales to Spain so I walked over to see a walking up the track in 2004. We have since lost Cedrus chap who is a hunter, towards the village right and Sapphie, but still have Deerhounds chopping a couple of rabbits now, because of all the - Aileen, Angus and Buck and a Black up into small pieces, he proudly said fallen olives that lay on Russian Terrier called Anastasia (Ana). that they had caught them that the ground, they have a knack of being We used to show the hounds and they morning. He then put them into a able to pick them up in their mouths as were all made up to Spanish champions paella pan that contained simmering we are walking along, they then but they are now retired. We live on a stock, it was being heated on top of a separate the flesh from the stone, small olive farm in the middle of the gas burner they had brought in with chewing to release the oil then spitting Andalucian countryside. them. I looked closer as he added both out. This year is a particularly onions, garlic, carrots, saffron, then a bad harvest and it is thought that this Where we live in rural Spain, hunting bottle of wine and finally rice. The could result in an increase in the cost of with dogs, in fact hunting in general, is hunters then placed crockery, cutlery olive oil, both here and overseas. immensely popular. Sunday mornings and even paper napkins, on a long table during the hunting season, you wake up and all sat down with a basket full of Adios for now, bye the time you read to the sound of gunshots and it is bread and a glass of beer each and this it will be Spring and we will all be nothing to see men coming out of the chatted, whilst waiting for their feast to looking forward to the coming months. olive groves looking like something out cook. Next time I’m cooking for Today it hasn’t got above 6 degrees of the film ‘Predator’. Dog breeds friends, I might take it down to the bar Celsius and there is snow on the distant such as the Podenco, which is an to cook and save on the mess in my hills, Aileen, Angus and Buck are ancient breed of hunting dog native to kitchen! hogging the log fire, brrrr. Spain, are used to hunt for rabbits and Galgo Español (small greyhounds) Whilst writing, we are in the middle of SUSAN WARD hunt for hares. The dogs hunt in packs the olive harvest. We live about 60 [email protected]

1. Dogs nose prints are as unique as a eyes after getting caught doing 9. A dog’s mouth exerts 150-200 human fingerprints. something they shouldn’t, is not guilt, pounds of pressure per square inch, researchers say - he’s just reacting to with some dogs exerting up to 450 2. One dog really got the royal your reprimand. pounds per square inch. treatment: Gunther III, the pet dog of German 6. Dogs can predict an epileptic seizure 10. Dogs judge objects first by their Countess Carlotta up to 45 minutes before it happens. No movement, then by their brightness, Liebenstein, inherited one really knows what dogs are and lastly by their shape. roughly 140 million picking up on, but there are German marks upon theories that it might be 11. This won’t come as a huge surprise something to do with an the Countess’ death to anyone who has watched their own og unknown smell or tiny dog twitching or whimpering in their in 1991. D behavioral changes. Dogs can sleep. Dogs have the same brain wave ivia also sniff out cancers. patterns while they are asleep as 3. Eighteen muscles Tr Researchers believe that pups humans, so they dream just like we do. move a dogs ears pick up on “extraordinarily faint But what is more surprising is the fact around independently of scents given off by the abnormal that not all dogs dream the same each other. cells.” amount. Small dogs actually have more dreams than big dogs. For example, a 4. Buying and selling dogs is illegal in 7. Dog urine can corrode metals. small dog such as a toy poodle may Iran. Iran’s parliament also passed a bill dream once every 10 minutes, whereas to criminalise dog ownership. 8. Dogs are right or left handed. Just a great dane may have around an hour like us. between each dream. 5. Dogs don’t feel guilt. Those shamed

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NORTHERN SILVER & GILDED BRONZE TROPHY LIMIT SHOW 2015

Sunday 20 September Grangemouth Stags Rugby Club Glensburgh Road Grangemouth, Stirlingshire FK3 8XL

Judge: Mrs Liza Faircloth

Show Secretary: Ms Ali Morton Show Manager: Mr Gordon Crossan This trophy was won in 1872, in England, by a racehorse called Favonius, which belonged to the Rothschildt family. When they won the trophy they were obliged to present a prize of the same value for the next important race. The Deerhound Club SOUTHERN This silver statue, showing deerhounds attacking a stag, was made by the Hunt brothers, and weighs over LIMIT SHOW 2015 6.5kg. It is attached with hallmarked silver screws to a gilded bronze base and the whole is on an ebonised wooden case. It is owned by someone on the continent Saturday 25 September who purchased it from Sotheby’s in the early 1970’s.

Kirtlington Village Hall Bjorn Fritz 1 South Green, Kirtlington Kidlington, Oxfordshire OX5 3HJ 6 Miles north of Oxford and 6 miles west of Bicester BIRTHS Judge: Mrs Sue Phillips Kay Barret’s - STRANWITH DIMITY x PHARCOURSE NOAH AT STRANWITH 21/1/2015 7 Bitches Show Secretary: Mrs Lynette Seymour-Jackson Show Manager: Mrs Chris Wilson Joan Wragg’s - NEROCHE INNOCENT x LUCKHURST NAIRN 20/1/2015 4 Bitches, 1 Dog DeaTHS Dog Quotes ...... Elaine Day’s - DEMERLAY DORIAN GREY AT CELTIC MOON “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” ANN LANDERS 12/7/2014 - 25/11/2014 Claire & Elise Cartmell’s - CH DRAWING DOWN “If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.” ANDREW ROONEY THE MOON TO CUSIDH (BANRIGH) 7/12/04 - 2/2/15 “Our dogs, like our shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well” . Nell MacBean’s - KILLOETER LEYLA BONNIE WILCOx 14/10/05 - 20/2/15 Liver failure “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.” MARK TWAIN Sandra Cunnigham’s - CANISHURN ZENA 2/9/06 - 14/3/15 Roil guys are gentle and all the shades of grey that any lady, Cardiomyopathy hound or hue, would ever need. GRANCY GREYBEARD 29 Deerhound photo gallery

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HOUND ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND SCOTTISH KENNEL CLUB 16/05/2015 THREE COUNTIES AGRI SOCIETY 11/04/2015 JUDGE: MRS. W. M. CROSS (SALLIDENE) 06/06/2015 JUDGE: MRS. J. PEAK Royal Highland Showground, Ingliston, JUDGE: MRS. J. BOND Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre Edinburgh EH28 8NF Three Counties Agricultural Showground Ingliston, Edinburgh EH28 8NF Malvern, WR13 6NW. BATH CANINE SOCIETY 25/05/2015 BIRMINGHAM DOG SHOW SOCIETY JUDGE: MRS. G. ADAMS BORDER UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 09/05/2015 JUDGE: JEAN LANNING Three Shires Field, Bannerdown, Bath 20/06/2015 JUDGE: MR. K. AIRD Staffordshire County Showground, BA1 8EG Springwood Park, Kelso, Roxburghshire Weston Road, Stafford, ST18 0BD TD5 8LS SOUTHERN COUNTIES CANINE ASSOC 29-31 MAY BLACKPOOL AND DISTRICT CANINE SOC Newbury 27/06/2015 JUDGE: MR. G. HILL Crown Fields, Westby Road, Westby, Blackpool, PR4 3PJ

WINDSOR DOG SHOW SOCIETY 5/7/2015 JUDGE: MRS M PURGLOVE Home Park, Windsor

EAST OF ENGLAND AGRI SOC. JULY JUDGE: MISS B ADAMS Peterborough

LEEDS CITY AND DISTRICT CANINE SOC 25/7/15 Harewood House, nr Leeds

HOUND ASSOCIATION 11/8/15 JUDGE: MISS M GIRLING Staffordshire County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18 0BD

BOURNEMOUTH CANINE ASSOC. 9/8/15 JUDGE: MRS K CODD Pikes Farm, Organford, Poole, Dorset

WELSH KENNEL CLUB 21/8/15 JUDGE: MRS V PHILLIPS Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells

SCOTTISH KENNEL CLUB August Photo: Sue Spring-Arnold JUDGE: MR R GILLIE 31 results Caption Competition 38

No seriously! I have lock jaw! Help!! Don’t come any closer, I’ve had a really hot chilli and I could take your eyebrows off!!

Take these falsies out & let me get back to my chewing - please! Has anyone seen my cricket bat? Tooth paste please ?! Guess you’ve twigged what I’m up to! Oh heavens, twigs get everywhere when one gets to take a human for a walk. I’m not chewing this twig, I’m merely branching out into "Deerhound artistry" The furniture tasted better!

We felt the best caption was - “The vet said my teeth needed cleaning - honestly!”. sent in by Jenny Grimshaw. A great response to this one, many really great entries including: Well done, let us know which dog’s illustrated pedigree you would like - JEAN & TOM . Caught the antlers he he! Toothpicks anyone? You too can have a smile like mine. Caption Competition 39 Always wanted to be a tree surgeon. Ha-ha-ha chew! Have I got any stuck in my teeth? Call that a tree? Making toothpicks is my night job! Day job - deerstalker. The dental floss is working wonders on my knashers. Until I’ve made this into a million pieces - go away. Until someone gets this bloody set of dentures out of my mouth, I won’t be able to smile!! Help, I’ve got lock jaw!!

Claim a SiLVEr SPooN

CRITERIA FOR WINNING A SOLID SILVER SPOON Six first prizes with the same dog at different Championship shows Limited to six spoons The 2015 Club Show is almost upon us, we therefore thought The winning owner paying half this photo from the 2005 Breed Show would be appropriate! Think of a humorous caption for it and win an illustrated the cost of the spoon. pedigree of your choice. Good luck to all at this year’s show

Send your entries to: TOM & JEAN RHODES Somerville, Lightwood Road, Rough Close, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 7PW or [email protected]

Let V ANESSA LUCAS have details of your wins plus a cheque for £29.00 Cheque made payable to ‘The Deerhound Club’

32 The Deerhound Club JUDGES LIST 2015 - QUALIFYING CRITERIA

Other than in exceptional circumstances the I To have passed the Kennel Club's hands-on Competence. following are the minimum criteria which should assessment test. I To have attended a seminar given by a Kennel be fulfilled by applicants seeking inclusion on the I To have bred and/or owned a minimum of 3 Club Accredited Trainer on Conformation and Deerhound Club Judging List. In all cases dogs of this breed when they obtained their first Movement. inclusion on the list is subject to suitable reports entry in The Kennel Club Stud Book (save in I To have passed the Kennel Club's hands-on being received from experienced judges within exceptional circumstances). assessment test. the breed on the past judging performances of I To have stewarded at Limited, Open or I To have stewarded at a minimum of three applicants. A pre-requisite for inclusion on the Championships shows on a minimum of 12 days. shows. lists is proof of passing the Kennel Club's Conformation & Movement Hands On A3 LIST (NON SPECIALISTS) B LIST (NON SPECIALISTS) Assessment test. I To have a minimum of 7 years judging I To have a minimum of 7 years judging experience in any one breed and have the support experience in any one breed and have the support ROLL OF HONOUR LIST of the Deerhound Club. of the Deerhound Club. Inclusion, only by the invitation of the Club I To have a minimum of 5 years judging I To have judged a minimum of 6 classes of Committee, will be granted to persons, retired experience in this breed. Deerhounds with an adequate geographical from active judging on the A1 list, who have made I To have judged a minimum of 20 classes of spread. an exceptional contribution to the judging of the Deerhounds with an adequate geographical I To have attended at least one breed specific breed. spread. seminar approved by The Deerhound Club and run I To have judged a minimum of 70 dogs in in accordance with the relevant Kennel Club Code PLEASE NOTE: THE SUPPORT OF THE Deerhound breed classes. of Best Practice and to have been awarded a DEERHOUND CLUB IS ONLY GIVEN TO JUDGES I To have awarded CCs in at least one other Deerhound Club Certificate in Judging WHO SUBMIT WRITTEN CRITIQUES OF ALL breed. Competence. DEERHOUND JUDGING APPOINTMENTS TO THE I To have attended at least one breed specific I To have judged a minimum of 20 dogs in WEEKLY CANINE PRESS, AND TO THE JUDGES LIST seminar run in accordance with the relevant Deerhound breed classes. CO-ORDINATOR FOR THE CLUB WEBSITE. Kennel Club Code of Best Practice and passed an I To have passed the Kennel Club's hands-on examination and/or assessment where applicable. assessment test. A1 LIST I From 2014 - To have attended at least one breed I To have stewarded at a minimum of three For persons who have previously been approved specific seminar approved by The Deerhound Club shows. by the Kennel Club to award CCs in the breed and and run in accordance with the relevant Kennel have completed their first appointment. To have Club Code of Best Practice and to have been C LIST (BREED SPECIALISTS) the support of the Deerhound Club. awarded a Deerhound Club Certificate in Judging For aspirant judges who have shown an interest in Competence. the breed and have the support of the Deerhound A2 LIST I To have bred and/or owned a minimum of 3 Club. For persons who fulfill all the requirements for the dogs of any breed when they obtained their first Listings would normally include persons who have A3 list and who have been assessed in accordance entry in The Kennel Club Stud Book (save in judged the breed at Limited and Open Shows but with Kennel Club requirements and accepted by exceptional circumstances). do not yet qualify for the A and B lists. The Kennel Club for inclusion on an A2 list for this I To have a minimum of 3 years owning and breed and have the support of the Deerhound PLEASE NOTE: THE SUPPORT OF THE exhibiting this breed. Club. DEERHOUND CLUB IS ONLY GIVEN TO JUDGES I To have passed the Kennel Club's hands-on WHO SUBMIT WRITTEN CRITIQUES OF ALL assessment test. A3 LIST (BREED SPECIALISTS) DEERHOUND JUDGING APPOINTMENTS TO THE I To have attended at least one breed specific I To have a minimum of 7 years judging WEEKLY CANINE PRESS, AND TO THE JUDGES LIST seminar approved by The Deerhound Club. experience in the breed and have the support of CO-ORDINATOR FOR THE CLUB WEBSITE. I To have stewarded at a minimum of two shows. the Deerhound Club. I To have judged a minimum of 20 classes of A pre-requisite for inclusion on the lists is proof of C LIST (NON SPECIALISTS) Deerhounds with an adequate geographical passing the Kennel Club's Conformation and For aspirant judges who have shown an interest in spread. Movement Hands On Assessment test. the breed and have the support of the Deerhound I To have judged a minimum of 70 dogs in Club. Deerhound breed classes. B LIST (BREED SPECIALISTS) Listings would normally include persons who have I To have attended a seminar given by a Kennel I To have a minimum of 5 years owning and judged the breed at Limited and Open Shows but Club Accredited Trainer and passed the relevant exhibiting this breed and have the support of The do not yet qualify for the A and B lists. examination on Kennel Club Regulations and Deerhound Club. I To have a minimum of 5 years owning and Judging Procedures. I To have judged a minimum of 6 classes of exhibiting dogs. I To have attended a seminar given by a Kennel Deerhounds with an adequate geographical I To have passed the Kennel Club's hands-on Club Accredited Trainer on Conformation and spread. assessment test. Movement. I To have judged a minimum of 20 dogs in I To have attended at least one breed specific I To have attended at least one breed specific Deerhound breed classes. seminar approved by The Deerhound Club. seminar run in accordance with the relevant I To have attended a seminar given by a Kennel I To have stewarded at a minimum of two shows. Kennel Club Code of Best Practice and passed an Club Accredited Trainer and passed the relevant examination and/or assessment where applicable. examination on Kennel Club Regulations and from 2014 - To have attended at least one breed Judging Procedures. All enquires regarding application for inclusion on specific seminar approved by The Deerhound Club I To have attended at least one breed specific the above lists should be addressed to: and run in accordance with the relevant Kennel seminar approved by The Deerhound Club and run Miss M J Girling, Lodge Farm, Brightlingsea, Essex Club Code of Best Practice and to have been in accordance with the relevant Kennel Club Code CO7 0QJ awarded a Deerhound Club Certificate in Judging of Best Practice and to have been awarded a Tel: 01206 302072 [email protected] Competence. Deerhound Club Certificate in Judging 33 The Deerhound Club JUDGES LIST 2015

JUDGES ROLL OF HONOUR MR H.R.I. HEATHCOTE DR G. BODEGARD MR K A H CASSELS 136 Smallfield Road, Horley, Surrey, RH6 9LS. Varvsgatan 33, 117 29, Stockholm, SWEDEN. MISS M GOMM Tel: 01293 771819 Tel: 0046 8668 8592 MRS B M JARRETT DR S.A.F. HELPS MRS E BOTHWELL Porch House, Coleshill, Amersham, Norcis, Old Station Cottage, Annan Road, A LIST: PART 1 – JUDGES WHO HAVE Buckinghamshire, HP7 0LG. Eastriggs, Annan, DG12 6PA. AWARDED CCS IN DEERHOUNDS AND HAVE Tel: 01494 727584 Tel: 01461 40499 THE SUPPORT OF THE DEERHOUND CLUB. MRS N. MACBEAN MR A BRACE Killoeter Cottage, The Red Road, Cardross, Bryn Derwen, 30 Cefn Road, Blackwood, BREED SPECIALISTS Argyll & Bute, G82 5HH. Tel: 01389 841337 Gwent, NP2 1QA. Tel: 01495 224887 MISS B. ADAMS DR M.G.M. MCKINNON MRS M. BRYCE-SMITH Molly’s Cottage, Hill Furze, Bishampton, Craigview, 10 Forkneuk Road, Uphall, Mill House, Mill Lane, Felbridge, East Worcestershire, WR10 2NB Tel: 01386 860994 Broxburn, W. Lothian, EH52 6BL. Grinstead, W.Sussex, RH19 2PQ. MR K. AIRD Tel: 01506 852656 Tel: 01342 327573 4, Crossridge Cottages, Carmichael, Biggar, MR D.E. MURRAY MR N. BRYCE-SMITH South Lanark, ML12 6NG Tel: 01555 880648 10 Pleasant Hill, Tadley, Basingstoke, Mill House, Mill Lane, Felbridge, East MRS P.M. AIRD Hampshire, RG26 4LS. Tel: 0118 9814264 Grinstead, W.Sussex, RH19 2PQ. 4, Crossridge Cottages, Carmichael, Biggar, MRS G. PEACH Tel: 01342 327573 South Lanark, ML12 6NG Tel: 01555 880648 Colliers Rest, 16 Belper Road, Kilburn, Belper, MRS C. E. CARTLEDGE MRS P. ALLWRIGHT Derbys, DE5 0LP. Tel: 01773 820279 Ryslip Kennels, Church Lane, Binfield, 98 Greenfield Avenue, Berrylands, Surbiton, MR M. PEACH Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 5NL. Surrey, KT5 9HS. Tel: 0208 399 0420 Colliers Rest, 16 Belper Road, Kilburn, Belper, Tel: 01344 424144 MR C ARTHUR Derbys, DE5 0LP. Tel: 01773 820279 MRS W. CROSS 64 Gloucester Road, Kingston upon Thames, MR J. PHINIZY Cherchefelle, Back Road, Murrow, Wisbech, Surrey, KT1 3RB Tel: 020 8546 8200 Box 175, Black North Road, Acworth, New Cambs, PE13 4JW. Tel: 01945 700095 MRS N. BAILEY Hampshire, 3601, USA. Tel: 001 6038 352852 MR P. DONDINA 10 Forresters Road, Burbage, Hinkley, MRS S. M. PIGGOTT Via Savare n1, 20122, Milano, ITALY. Leicestershire, LE10 2RX. Tel: 01455 633931 Woodleigh, Ghyll Road, Crowborough, East Tel: 0039 02659 0158 MISS K. BARRET Sussex, TN6 1SU. Tel: 01892 662842 MR E. ENGH Greystones, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, MRS S. L. REYNOLDS Vestsideveen 321, 3400 Lier, NORWAY. HX7 8RG. Tel: 01422 844567 Wickwar Cottage, 5 Elmdon Park Road, Tel: 00 47 32 855253 MRS J. BLANDFORD Solihull, W. Mid, B92 9HE. Tel: 0121 742 1697 MR T. FINNEY 18 Kilmartin, by Lochgilphead, Argyll, PA31 MR J. ROSNER Gulliagh House, Baldurgan Hill, Ballyboughal, 8RN Tel: 01546 510327 Oelmule, D-42699 Solingen, GERMANY. Co. Dublin, Eire. Tel: 003531 807 8993 MRS J. BOND Tel: 0049 212810899 MR G HILL The Plains, Ampton, Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk MRS G. SMITH Rose Cottage, West St Llantwit, Vale of IP31 1HX. Tel: 01284 729142 Green Pastures, Sheepcroft Lane, Whitemoor, Glamorgan, CF61 1SP. Tel: 01446 792457 MRS J CHESHIRE Holt, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 7DA. MR J HORSWELL The Retreat, Little Porth, St Mary’s, Isles of Tel: 01202 885444 45 Whatton Road, Kegworth, Derbyshire, Scilly, Cornwall, TR21 OLG. Tel: 01720 423893 MRS L. A. SPENCE DE74 2EZ. Tel: 01509 674059 MISS C. CHURCHILL 93 First Avenue, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 2LF MR P. IVERSEN Gooseacre, Warrant Road, Stoke on Tern, Tel: 01634 574811 Mylskerudveien 22, 1160 Oslo 11, NORWAY. Shropshire, TF9 2DZ Tel: 01630 685765 MR R SPENCER Tel: 0047 22 280274 MRS K.M. CODD Rhoden House, Rhoden Road, Leyland, MR F KANE Tumblewood, Port Lion, Haverfordwest, Lancashire, PR5 3SX. Tel: 01772 435560 71 Coast Road, Redcar, Cleveland, TS10 3RD. Pembrokeshire, SA62 4JT. Tel: 01646 601655 MRS C VAN ZANTEN-BOOMGAARD Tel: 01642 485895 MR B. DOAK Oeskelsbos 18, 4891, R L Rijsbergen, MRS D.A. KENIS-PORDHAM 3 Drumcraig Road, Drumagore, New Buildings, Netherlands. Tel: 0031 765 323952 Peters Farm, Rusper, Horsham, West Sussex, Co.Londonderry, N Ireland, BT47 2SE MRS J. WRAGG RH12 4RN. Tel: 01293 871282 Tel: 01504 841292 The Granary, Huntworth Park Farm, Huntworth, MRS E.A. MACDONALD MRS J. DUDDELL Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 0AH. Tel: 01278 30 Woodvale Avenue, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 Aldercroft, Rose Hill Rd, Stoke Heath, Market 662815 2NS. Tel: 0141 942 1719 Drayton, Shrops, TF9 2JU. Tel: 01630 638397 MR A MACKENZIE MISS S. L. FINNETT NON SPECIALIST 14 Pixton Close, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0BX. 136, Smallfield Road, Horley, Surrey, RH6 9LS. MR D. ADAMS Tel: 01235 814814 Tel: 01293 771819 8 Cross Farm Close, Aylburton, Glos. GL15 6EB MR D. MCMILLAN MR B FRITZ Tel: 01594 843525 Benwick Kennels, Maple Rd, Peacehaven, Waldmannsweg 22 51674, Wiehl-Neuklef, MRS G. ADAMS E. Sussex, BN10 8UT. Tel: 01273 589219 Germany Tel:0049 2262 690361 8 Cross Farm Close, Aylburton, Glos. GL15 6EB. MRS P MOTTERSHAW MISS M.J. GIRLING Tel: 01594 843525 La Vieille Guilleaumerie, St Saviour, Jersey, Lodge Farm, Brightlingsea, nr Colchester, MRS S. BLACKMORE JE2 7HQ. Tel: 01534 862187 Essex, CO7 0QJ. Tel: 01206 302072 Cidermill Cottage, Pinkham Lane, Cleobury MRS M. R. NIXON MRS E.M. HAMILTON Mortimer, Shropshire DY14 8QE. Brackenacre, 83 Fletemoor Road, St Budeaux, 2 Crosswoodhill, by West Calder, West Lothian, Tel: 01299 271401 Plymouth, PL5 1UL. Tel: 01752 361201 EH55 8LP. Tel: 01501 785257

34 MISS E.V. NORTH-ROW MRS P. BUSWELL MRS J GRIMSHAW Grange, Fourmile House, Co Roscommon, Eire 33 Carlton Green, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 2DB. Brookfield, 9 Lower Shepley Lane, Lickey End, Tel: 00353 8716 35734 Tel: 01737 762282 Bromsgrove, B60 1HX Tel: 0121 445 3409 MRS J.M. NORTH-ROW MR M CANNON MISS N S A HEATHCOTE 21 Henry Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0DS White Cottage, 19 Humber Lane, Telford, 136 Smallfield Road, Horley, Surrey RH6 9LS. Tel: 0789 0038011 Shrops,TF2 8LR. Tel: 01952 676843 Tel: 01293 771819 MR P PASK PROF E CARTMELL MISS E. MEDLICOTT Pentre Farm, Rhiwceiliog, Bridgend, 7 Abraham Close, Willen Park, Milton Keynes, St Anne’s Cottage, Chaddesley Corbett, Mid Glamorgan CF35 6NH. Tel: 01656 863162 Bucks, MK15 9JA. Tel: 07712 654903 Kidderminster, Worcs. Tel: 01562 777670 MRS S PLATT MRS L FAIRCLOTH MR A. PAISEY Charbonnel, The Village, Thornton-le-Moors, 34 Buckingham Way, Flackwell Heath, Bucks, c/o 252 Peniel Green Road, Swansea, West Nr Chester, Cheshire. Tel: 01244 301833 HP10 9EE. Tel: 01628 520123 Glamorgan, SA7 9BW. Tel: 01792 310622 MR K. PURSGLOVE MR R GILLIE MRS S PHILLIPS Neiley Villa, 30 New Mill Road, Honley, 14 Mungal Head Road, Bainsford, Falkirk, Glenwood, North Reston, Louth, Lincolnshire, Holmfirth, HD9 6QT. Tel: 01484 661419 FK2 7JF. Tel: 01324 638582 LN11 8JD. Tel: 01507 451248 MRS M. PURSGLOVE MISS R V LUCAS MRS G PINK Neiley Villa, 30 New Mill Road, Honley, Orchard Meadow,10 Heighton Rd, Denton, 51 Troston Road, Great Livermere, Bury St Holmfirth, HD9 6QT. Tel: 01484 661419 Newhaven, E Sussex, BN9 0RB. Edmunds, Suffolk IP31 3JL. Tel: 07514 588260 MRS A RANDALL Tel: 01273 517314 MRS B. ROBERTSON Craigisla Lodge, Kilry, Alyth, Perthshire, MRS V MEER Hazelrigg, Duns Road, Greenlaw, Berwickshire PH11 8HW. Tel: 01575 560424 St Aubyns, Little London Road, Cross In Hand, TD10 6XJ. Tel: 01361 810664 MRS S. RAWLINGS East Sussex TN21 0LT Tel: 01435 868408 MRS R. SHARP 31 Davenport Park, Gibraltar Rise, Heathfield, MR K OWEN Brook Cottage 77 Hartwell Rd Ashton East Sussex, TN21 8LE. Tel: 07803 350457 Bryn Ffynon, Wolfscastle, Haverfordwest, Northampton NN7 2JR. Tel: 01604 862360 MRS Z. RAWSON Pembrokeshire SA62 5LR. Tel: 01437 741780 MR C. SPENCE The Cedars, Wykes Lane, Donington, Lincs, MRS J. RHODES Little Forgie Farm, By Keith, Banffshire, PE11 4SD. Tel: 01775 821988 Somerville, Lightwood Rd, Rough Close, AB55 6QS. Tel: 01542 886590 MR B REYNOLDS-FROST Stoke on Trent, Staffs, ST3 7PW MS M A STUART Bygrave Lodge Farm, Wallington, Baldock, Tel: 01782 392374 Ollands Farm, Short Lane, Happisburgh, Herts SG7 6QX. Tel: 01462 892498 MR C WILKINSON Norfolk NR12 0RR. Tel: 01692 652280 MRS N RUNSTEN 46 Riverholme Drive, West Ewell, Surrey, MR J WIGGAN Brogarden, 76031 Edsbro, Sweden. KT19 9TQ Tel: 0208 393 0321 6 Rose Hill Court, Bolsover, Chesterfield S44 Tel: 046 17591192 6TT. Tel: 01246 826005 MR R. SEARLE NON SPECIALIST MRS C WILSON Stannington Kennels, Morpeth, MR C.D. ASHMORE 16 Dane Hill, Margate, Kent CT9 1QL. Northumberland, NE61 6EJ. Tel: 01670 789 640 Ashbrook House, 38 Canberra Cres., Hemswell Tel: 07971 538780 MRS Z. THORN-ANDREWS Cliff, Lincs, DN21 5TZ. Tel: 01427 667490 Drakesleat, Bestmans Lane, Kempsey, Worcs, MRS A. BIRRELL B LIST NON SPECIALIST WR5 3PZ. Tel: 01906 820720 Homelands, 63 Shrub Lane, Burwash, MR K. THORNTON E Sussex TN19 7EB. Tel: 01435 882502 MS L ALDOUS 24 Dumbarton Road, Reddish, Stockport, MRS B S BRODWALL Wisteria House, 18 Hazel Grove, Bexhill on Cheshire, SK5 7EH. Tel: 0161 480 9886 Sole, Borreveien 137, 3186 Horten, Norway. Sea, East Sussex TN39 5JW. Tel: 01424 217796 MRS R. VAN MECHELEN-REYNIERS Tel: 004733 039548 MRS C CHRYSSOLOR Oranjemolenstraat 32,2300, Turnhout, MR M. CAPLE Chiffchaffs, Marlow Common, BELGIUM. Tel: 00 32 1441 6716 Morsefield Cott, Callow Hill Lane, Callow Hill, Buckinghamshire, SL7 2QR. Tel: 01628 484892 Redditch, Worcs, B97 5PU. Tel: 01527 544121 MR J. KIRK A LIST: PART 2 – JUDGES WHO FULFILL THE MRS M HOLDER 112 Creevy Rd, Boardmills, Lisburn, Co Antrim, REQUIREMENTS FOR THE A3 LIST BUT HAVE Caring Stud, Caring Road, Leeds, Maidstone, N. Ireland, BT27 6UW. Tel: 01846638391/942 NOT YET AWARDED CCS IN DEERHOUNDS, Kent ME17 1TH. Tel: 01622 863370 MR I KIRSOPP AND HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE MR J ROBERTSON 24 Hepple Road, Newbiggin by the Sea, DEERHOUND CLUB. Broomknowe Cottage, Greenrig Road, Northumberland NE64 6ST. Tel: 01670 520571 BREED SPECIALISTS Hawksland, Lanark ML11 9QB. MRS P. LIPTON Tel: 01555 895299 Dove House, Dove House Meadow, Great NON SPECIALIST MS W SCHWERM-HAHNE Cornard, Suffolk CO10 0GF. Tel: 01787 882288 MISS J CUNLIFFE Kugelfangtrift 77, D 30657, Hanover, Germany MR D MARTYN Nepal. email: [email protected] Tel: 0511/602878 Birkhall Cottage, Turfholm, Lesmahagow, S Lanarkshire, ML11 0ED. Tel: 01555 893676 Tel: 00977 61621182 B LIST: MRS S MCDONALD JUDGES WHO HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE A LIST: PART 3 – JUDGES WHO ARE Birkhall Cottage, Turfholm, Lesmahagow, DEERHOUND CLUB TO JUDGE FOUR OR MORE RECOMMENDED BY THE DEERHOUND CLUB S Lanarkshire, ML11 0ED. Tel: 01555 893676 CLASSES OF DEERHOUNDS, AT AS BEING SUITABLE TO AWARD CCS IN MR R. MCMILLEN CHAMPIONSHIP SHOWS WITHOUT CCS OR DEERHOUNDS 92 Gransha Road, Dundonald, Belfast, OPEN SHOWS. Northern Ireland, BT16 1XQ. Tel:01232 487895 BREED SPECIALISTS BREED SPECIALISTS MR R MORLAND MISS W BLATCHFORD MR P GRANT Triken Watergate, Quadring-Gaudyke, 9 Bow Brook Cottages, Peopleton, Pershore, 31b Florence Place, Perth, PH1 5B Spalding, Lincs. Tel: 01775 840295 Worcs, WR10 2EF. Tel: 01905 841347 Tel: 01738 440995

35 MISS A MORTON DR D ROBERTSON MRS E NEWSHAM 23 Hill Place Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Hazelrigg, Duns Road, Greenlaw, Berwickshire Windspiel House, Keswick Street, Castleton, KA22 8HY. Tel: 07966 031079 TD10 6XJ. Tel: 01361 810664 Rochdale, Lancs, 0LH 3AG. Tel: 01706 524993 MR A T NITSCH MRS L. SEYMOUR-JACKSON MR R NEWSHAM 22 Jesmond Close, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 1EQ. ‘Ghiltan’, 21 Preston Road, Abingdon, Oxon Windspiel House, Keswick Street, Castleton, Tel: 0208 640 2184 OX14 5LX. Tel: 01235 526991 Rochdale, Lancs, 0LH 3AG. Tel: 07802 383853 MRS V PHILLIPS MR D SPRING-ARNOLD MR M ORD Clipperdown Cottage, Beacon Road, Ringshall, 30 Glebeland, Old Hatfield, Herts, AL10 8AA. 127 The Avenue, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, Berkhamstead, Herts, HP4 1NF Tel: 01707 272879 NE28 6SD. Tel: 0191 2631704 Tel: 01442 851225 MRS S SPRING-ARNOLD MR S. PARSONS MR P.S. SINGLETON 30 Glebeland, Old Hatfield, Herts AL10 8AA 1 Worten Cottages, Worten, Great Chart, 42 Barnardiston Road, Colchester, Essex, 01707 272879 Ashford, Kent, TN23 3BS. Tel: 01233 628077 CO4 4DR. Tel: 01206 514952 MRS S TAYLOR MISS K RIMMER MISS D SPAVIN Ormandy, Broad Lane, Markfield, 14 Kingsdown Road, Abram. Wigan, Lancashire Parkway Kennels, Old Damson Lane, Solihull, Leicestershire, LE67 9TB. Tel: 01530 243138 WN2 5RN. Tel: 01942 708292 West Midlands, B92 9ED. Tel: 0121 782 2639 MS K TRESH MRS J ROBIN-SMITH MRS J. SPENCER 21 Nash Court Gardens, Margate, Kent CT9 Ben Knowle Farmhouse, Wookey, Wells, Rhoden House, Rhoden Road, Leyland, 4DG. Tel: 01843 291986 Somerset, BA5 1NL. Tel: 01749 673976 Lancashire, PR5 3SX. Tel: 01772 435560 MS C SAMWAYS MISS J STARTUP NON SPECIALIST Dogrose Top, West Row, Keysoe, Beds, Bygrave Lodge Farm, Wallington, Baldock, MR K ANDREW MK44 2JF. Tel: 01234 378975 Herts SG7 6QX. Tel: 01462 893714 4 Iestyn Drive, Pencoed, Bridgend, CF35 6SQ. MRS C SHEPPERD MRS P WELLS Tel: 01656 862291 Sustead House, Stow Road, Magdalen, Kortebin, Main Street, Catwick, Beverley, East MRS J BECKETT-HUGHES Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE24 3BD. Yorkshire HU17 6PH. Tel: 01964 542744 Gibb Hill Barn, Ponsonby, Cumbria CA20 1BX. Tel: 01553 810995 Tel: 01496 841409 MS L STEPHEN C LIST – JUDGES WHO HAVE BEEN APPROVED MR I. BOND 16 Moverley Way, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5LQ. BY THE DEERHOUND CLUB WHO DO NOT FALL Heath House, Thriplow Heath, Royston, Tel: 01728 484859 INTO ANY OF THE ABOVE CATEGORIES. Hertfordshire, SG8 7RS. Tel: 01494 532697 MR N STRAW MR F BOTHWELL Shaolin Cottage, 4 Beechdown Park, PLEASE NOTE: UNDER CURRENT KENNEL Norcis, Old Station Cottage, Annan Road, Totnes Road, Paignton, Devon, TQ4 7PR. CLUB RULES, C LIST JUDGES AND ANY OTHER Eastriggs, Annan, DG12 6PA. Tel: 01461 40499 Tel: 01803 540232 PERSONS NOT ON THE A OR B LISTS MR D CAVILL MRS E THIRD MAY NOT ACCEPT JUDGING APPOINTMENTS Kingston House, Hilperton Road, Trowbridge, 5 Hedderwickhill, Dunbar, East Lothian, FOR MORE THAN THREE DEERHOUND Wilts BA14 7JB. Tel: 01225 752551 EH42 1XF. Tel: 01368 864407 CLASSES. MRS S CLARK MS P TIMMINS Canisbourne Farm, Cookbury, Holsworthy, Mill Cottage, Stourport Road, Great Witley, BREED SPECIALISTS Devon EX22 7YG. Tel: 01409 281769 Worcestershire, WR6 6HZ. Tel: 01299 896159 MR P. BAIN MS A DEFAYE MR J. WALTON HADDON 5 The Locks, Lower Hillmorton, Rugby, 30 School Lane, Bempton, Bridlington, Caudle Meadows, Wigthorpe Lane, Wigthorpe, Warwickshire, CV21 4PP. Tel: 01788 576518 E Yorkshire, YO15 1JA. Tel: 01262 851423 Worksop, Notts. S81 8BU. Tel: 01909 731565 MRS E BARTER MRS D GARRATT MR C WELLS 6 The Birches, Mannings Heath, Horsham, 23 Nethergreen, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, Kortebin, Main Street, Catwick, Beverley, W Sussex RH13 6JT. 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36 Regional News I must start with have visits or news from old friends. a correction to Southern the last edition Snippets News from Sandra and Miles Clement of Southern down in East Sussex, near Glyndebourne. Snippets. coming year. Sussex Longdogs start lure They now have Dawn Hawker’s, Orchy, as Waltraud Hess coursing in Sussex again in March - a permanent resident and she has settled in wishes me to information available on very well indeed with their own Rora. give you the www.sussexlongdogs.org.uk There is also Orchy found that she didn’t quite "speak the information lure coursing going on every two/three same language" as Dawn’s leonburgers and that her weeks in the Pony Club Field, Walton on the seems delighted to find herself able to have Hobby- Hill, Surrey - for more information please deep and meaningful conversations in Poppy’s contact me on 01737 762282 or “deerhound-ese” with Rora! We had salukis tumour was not [email protected]. living with our deerhounds for many years osteosarcoma but haemangiopericytoma, a and found that even between two topical blood tumour. I am, of course, sorry And surely we should all strive to be at the sighthound breeds there are differing for having disseminated this mis- lovely “New for 2015” venue for deerhound behaviour traits. The most obvious one information, but the good news is, I now lure coursing at Berkeley Castle, in being the salukis iron will, as opposed to the know I have at least one reader. Thank you Gloucestershire, on 24th May - needlework more laid back deerhounds, and we also Waltraud! boxes should be dug out from the backs of noticed that the deerhounds go in for far cupboards and wonderful costumes more “play-boxing” than the salukis who Winter is almost gone, Crufts is almost upon prepared for the day, which will be just like just want to run. After exercise, plus food, us and before you can say “Bonnie Prince being back at Lodge Park, which we all both breeds just want to chill out, whereas Charlie”, southern folks will be starting to enjoyed so much. See full details on page leonburgers seem to be on the move more of anticipate the long trek north to the Breed 17 in this Newsletter. the time. Show in Cumbernauld. Writing as the direct descendant of a notorious Jacobite, I think South Eastern Hound Show at Hickstead in Kerry Tresh and her two youngsters, Ethel it’s a splendid idea to have the white Sussex - aka ‘The picnic with a dog show Grey and Elsie Grey, recently had a lovely cockade as the symbol for the 2015 show, as tacked on’ - has a new position in the invitation to the Dog Collar Museum at it is the 300th anniversary of the Jacobite calendar this year. It is to be held on Leeds Castle in Kent, where they were to be uprising, Sunday 23rd August 2015. Please do make photographed wearing some of the no doubt a note in your diaries! Always a great day priceless collection of collars. Kerry said In November, a most enjoyable out and always attended by many deerhound that at one point the hounds both put their deerhounders’ lunch was held at the very owners who don’t go to all the shows, but heads down, with the alarming result that aptly named Roebuck Inn at Wych Cross, very much don’t like to miss this one which the collars slipped over their ears and deep inside the borders of the lovely is at such a great venue and always has a clattered to the ground. Kerry promptly Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. The forest great picnic to round off the day’s judging. scooped up the collars and replaced them on was originally a deer forest in Norman the “models”, only to suddenly become times, and it is perhaps surprising that its In December, many of us attended David aware, to her absolute horror, that the people 6,500 acres lie a mere 30 miles south of Gilhooly’s funeral at Findon in Sussex. The from the museum had been handling these London and, perhaps less surprising, there gathering of David’s family and friends was priceless artefacts whilst wearing white are members of the Deerhound Club who an opportunity to say our goodbyes to a gloves! Ooooopps!! find it a most wonderful place to exercise wonderfully understated, talented and kind their deerhounds. 36 Enthusiasts of the man who is much missed. He and Jean PIP BUSWELL breed, including new members and some hosted many terrific lunch parties at their TEL: 01737 762282 members who no longer have a hound, but home in Sussex, where great numbers of us [email protected] have certainly not lost their love of the would roll up, in the dead of winter, breed, enjoyed a hearty meal, as well as following judging of deerhounds at each others company and a dram or two as Chichester Open Show. We would be well! inclined to arrive damp and cold, but would soon be warmed by a bowl of cullen skink Whilst thinking of new members, I would or venison casserole - the main ingredients like to extend a very warm welcome to Mr of these dishes always having been sourced and Mrs Walton and to Emily Ticehurst and in Argyllshire where Jean and David have a hope very much to see you and your hounds much cherished house. out and about somewhere in the future. Louise Walton tells me that she and her Vanessa Lucas paid a visit to our Club husband farm, mostly cereals, and have patron, Kenneth Cassels, recently and quite some numbers of DIY liveries on the reports that he is well and being very farm near Alfriston, along with various expertly looked after by Elizabeth. Sadly, makes and shapes of poultry and dogs. Kenneth has lost Sultan and Lucy and Now, joining the dogs in front of the Aga is misses having a hound in the house, but he their first Deerhound - Boris. has a fine collection of birds which visit his garden, including a splendid pair of There are in fact many tempting events for pheasants. His daughters visit at weekends Ethel Grey wearing a silver collar at Leeds us all to enjoy with our hounds during the and Ness thinks Kenneth would love to Castle. 37 w CRUFTS 2015 (07.03.15) GUILDFORD & DIST. C.S. (23.11.14) ISLE OF ELY C.S. (07.02.15) Sho Judge: Mr P. Iversen (Norway) Breed Judge: Miss Helga Jansons Breed Judge: Miss Vanessa Lucas s VETERAN DOG (Nixophel) Group Judge: N/K t 1. Menteith Declan of Altimarlach (Swanson) sul Group Judge: Pauline Sidgewick (Paulian) RBOB Greyhawks Romanie Drom (Pink) e PUPPY DOG R BPIB & PG3 Chuillin Bellina (Spring-Arnold) BOB & G4 Pyefleet Spirit of Sarah (Buckley) 1. Kilbourne Tyne (Peach) BPIB RBOB Packway Comanche Moon (Lucas & JUNIOR DOG Dargonne) SWANSEA & DIST. C.C. (14.02.15) 1. Wolfscastle Caradog (Hall) BOB Shagiead Aunty Hetty for Lordswell (Meer) Judge: Liz Millward (Alouann) 2. Greyflax The Jazz Singer to Jamalison BPIB & BOB Greyflax The Jazz Singer to (Grimshaw) CHAMPIONSHIP SHOWS BRIDGWATER & DIST. C.S. (23.11.14) Jamalison (Grimshaw) 3. Regalflight Rueben (Bond) L.K.A. (14.12.14) RBOB Greyflax Domino to Jamalison (Grimshaw) YEARLING DOG Judge: Mr Neil Straw (Shaolin) Judge: Miss Sue Finnett (Hyndsight) 1. Greyhawks Romanie Drom (Pink) BOB Jamalison Anthem ShCM (Bye) MINOR PUPPY DOG 2. Finlas At Claonaiglen (Parsons & McKinnon) DARLINGTON & DIST. C.S. (14.02.15) 1. Kilbourne Tyne (Peach) POST GRADUATE DOG CARMARTHEN C.S. (29.11.14) Breed Judge: Mrs Susanne Metcalfe- PUPPY DOG 1. Luckhurst Nairn (Lewis) Breed Judge: Mr Jeff Luscott (Jalus) Bilgin 1. Greyflax The Jazz Singer to Jamalison 2. Hyndsight Run To You (Finnett & Heathcote) Group Judge: N/K Group Judge: N/K (Grimshaw) 3. Kilbourne Poacher (Jenkins) BOB & G4 Wolfscastle Greyce (Brodie & Owen) BOB & RBIG Gentiehun Adelaide of Kaleginy 2. Beardswood Spey (Helps) LIMIT DOG BPIB & PG3 Wolfscastle Cracker (Brodie & (Constantine) 3. Wolfscastle Caradog (Hall) 1. Kilbourne Usher to Ormanstar (Taylor) Owen) JUNIOR DOG 2. Killoeter Ruaig (Macbean) POTTERIES & DIST. C.S. (14.02.15) 1. Finlas At Claonaiglen (Parsons & McKinnon) 3. Erewhon Celestial Fire (Shannon) HOUND CLUB OF EAST ANGLIA POINTS NB – No longer a Points Show POST GRADUATE DOG OPEN DOG SHOW (30.11.14) 1. Pharcourse Noah at Stranwith (Barret) RCC 1. Ch. Cotherstone Shot And Steel (Morton & Breed & Group Judge: Mr Ray Morland 2. Beardswood Ripley for Calbraidh (Faircloth) Morgan) CC Judge: Mr Chris Wilkinson (Sireadh) BOB & RBIG Regalflight Poacher at Leksmoor 3. Regalflight Poacher at Leksmoor (Greenhalgh) 2. CIB/NIRDCH Cream Island's Sir Gibson BOB Pyefleet Sabine (Girling) (Greenhalgh) LIMIT DOG (Morell) RCC RBOB Regalflight Civet (Stuart & Holt) 1. Beardswood Quinlan (Helps) 3. Beardswood Quinlan (Helps) BPIB Regalflight Falon (De Bolla) LLYNFI VALLEY C.S. (22.02.15) 2. Kilbourne Usher to Ormanstar (Taylor) GOOD CITIZEN DOG SCHEME – DOG – NO Judge: Mrs Stella Blackmore (Melanter) 3. Erewhon Celestial Fire (Shannon) ENTRIES HORSHAM & DIST C.S. (04.12.14) Best AVNSC Hound & G4 Greyflax My Girl (Paisey) OPEN DOG VETERAN BITCH Breed Judge: Ms Dee Blatchford 1. Ch. Cotherstone Shot and Steel (Morton & 1. Kilbourne Levanto with Hyndsight (Harrington (Peopleton) SUFFOLK AGRI. ASSOC. (22.02.15) Morgan) CC & BOB & Finnett) Group Judge: Ms Dawn Russell Breed Judge: Mr Laurie Hunt 2. Sireadh Chase (Wilkinson) PUPPY BITCH BOB Hyndsight Ripley into Shagiead (Redmond) (Setthornes) 3. Hamiltonhill Fred D Mercury (Wilson) 1. Kilbourne Morda (Peach) RBOB, BPIB & PG3 Chuilinn Bellina (Spring- VETERAN DOG 2. Kilbourne Tess to Talorpeche (Taylor & Peach) Group Judge: Mr Mark Cocozza Arnold) 1. Menteith Declan of Altimarlach (Swanson) JUNIOR BITCH BOB & G3 Greyhawks Romanie Drom (Pink) 2. Brackenland Ran (Edwards) 1. Foxcliffe Classic Liberty Freedom at RBOB Greyhawks Romanie Shero (Pink) GOOD CITIZEN DOG - NO ENTRIES Beardswood [Imp USA] (Helps & Dove) LUTON CANINE SOC. (29.12.14) MINOR PUPPY BITCH 2. Wolfscastle Cracker (Owen & Brodie) Judge: Mrs Jenny Grimshaw (Jamalison) LIMITED SHOWS 1. Kilbourne Morda (Peach) 3. Greyflax Teen Spirit (Bailey) BOB Erewhon Celestial Fire (Shannon) PEMBROKESHIRE C.A. (08.11.14) 2. Kilbourne Tess to Talorpeche (Taylor & Peach) YEARLING BITCH RBOB Greyhawks Romanie Drom (Pink) Judge: Miss Jayne Cooksey (Charuzian) PUPPY BITCH 1. Greyflax Summer Breeze (Bailey) BPIB Regalflight Fable (Bond) BOB Greyflax My Girl (Paisey) 1. Regalflight Falcon (Stratford) BPIB 2. Charbonnel Gobi to Ladygrove (Phillips) 2. Chuilinn Bellina (Spring-Arnold) 3. Ehlaradawn Tilia (Peach) BOSTON [NO DH CC'S] (10.01.15) TOTNES & DIST. (21.12.14) 3. Marivon Florence (Davis) POST GRADUATE BITCH Judge:Mr Mark Cannon JUNIOR BITCH Breed & Group Judge: Miss M Clark 1. Araceta Daydream Believer (O'Brien & Quinn) BD &BOB Regalflight Reuben (Bond) 1. Kilbourne Zoe (Peach) 2. Wolfscastle Greyce (Owen, Brodie & Cody) BB & RBOB Pyefleet Spirit Of Sarah (Buckley) (Canequis) 2. Shagiead Aunty Hetty for Lordswell (Meer) 3. Hyndsight A Book Of Dreams (Finnett & BPIB Chuilinn Bellina (Spring-Arnold) BOB, G3 & BVIG Jamalison Anthem ShCM (Bye) 3. Regalflight Raffia of Lairigefyne (Rhodes) Heathcote) POST GRADUATE BITCH LIMIT BITCH WORCESTER & MALVERN (03.01.15) 1. Ehlaradawn Tilia at Kilbourne (Peach) 1. Kilbourne Pandora to Talorpeche (Taylor) Judge: Mr Robert Greaves 2. Erewhon Wanton Flame (Shannon) 2. Killoeter Ralia (Macbean) BPIB Greyflax Domino to Jamalison (Grimshaw) 3. Cotherstone Islay Mist of Kaleginy 3. Cassacre Aelgyth (Samways) Our thanks to all who have taken the trouble to (Constantine) OPEN BITCH send show results to us– keep them coming. LIMIT BITCH 1. IRCH/INT Ch Rosslyn Quartet Jun Ch. (Mooney) BRIDGEND & D.K.A. (04.01.15) 1. Gentiehun Adelaide of Kaleginy (Constantine) CC & BOB Breed & Group Judge: Ms Alison Morton TOM AND JEAN RHODES RCC 2. Greyflax Just Peachy (Bailey) RCC (Cotherstone) TEL: 01782 492374 2. Beardswood Quintessence (Helps) 3. CIB/NORDCH/FI Ch Cream Island's Lady BPIB & Res BPIG Greyflax Domino to Jamalison [email protected] 3. Regalflight Civet ( Stuart & Holt) Colina (Nilsson) (Grimshaw) OPEN BITCH GOOD CITIZEN DOG SCHEME – BITCH BOB & G4 Luckhurst Nebo to Wolfscastle (Owen 1. Ch. Cotherstone Duchenne (Morton & 1. Cassacre Aelfrida of Ghiltan (Seymour- & Brodie) Morgan) CC Jackson) 2. Greyflax Just Peachy (Bailey) 2. Ardlancien Elona (Wilbraham) WELSH KENNEL CLUB (11.01.15) 3. Beardswood Poesy at Calbraidh (Faircloth) Judge: Claire Boggia (Boughton) VETERAN BITCH OPEN SHOWS 1. Canishurn Zena (Cunningham) BVIB BOB Greyflax My Girl (Paisey) 2. Trentdale Glamis of Lyndorthwin (Tresh) CRYSTAL PALACE C.A. (08.11.14) GOOD CITIZEN BITCH - NO ENTRIES Judge: Ms Kerry Tresh (Lyndorthwin) LICHFIELD C.S. (24.01.15) BOB Shagiead Aunty Hetty for Lordswell (Meer) Judge: Mrs Rachel Wray (Perrault) TROPHIES AWARDED AT LKA RBOB Freyja at Nobys (Gilhooly) BPIB Greyflax Domino to Jamalison (Grimshaw) Ross - For type: Ch. Cotherstone Shot And Steel. RBOB Lodhainn Bennbeheula to Jamalison Blythblue - Bred by: Ch. Cotherstone Shot And PORT TALBOT & NEATH C.S. (09.11.14) (Grimshaw) Steel. Judge: Ms Carolyn Fry (Bedeslea) BOB Gentiehun Adelaide of Kaleginy Flute - Not bred by: Gentiehun Adelaide of BOB Greyflax My Girl (Paisey) (Constantine) Kaleginy. Geltsdale – Best R.C.C.: Gentiehun Adelaide of AMMAN VALLEY C.S. (15.11.14) CHICHESTER & DIST. C.S. (25.01.15) Kaleginy. Judge: Mrs Sandra Allen (Fivevalleys) Judge: Prof Elise Cartmell Barmaud – Puppy: Regalflight Falcon. BOB Freyja at Nobys (Gilhooly) Beardswood - Under 18 months: Regalflight BOB Greyflax My Girl (Paisey) RBOB Packway Comanche Moon (Lucas & Falcon. Dargonne) Mhor - Under 2 years: Ehlaradawn Tilia at BLACKWOOD & DCS (16.11.14) Kilbourne. Judge: Ms Nikki Denny (Janimist) BELPER K.A. (01.02.15) Fawcett - Under 3 years: Pharcourse Noah at BOB Greyflax My Girl (Paisey) Stranwith. Judge: Ms Dee Blatchford (Peopleton) Evita - Over 5 years: Canishurn Zena. PLYMOUTH & DIST. C.S. (15.11.14) BOB Kilbourne Liberty (Peach) RBOB & BPIB Kilbourne Tyne (Peach) Rob Roy - Owner never won a C.C.: Regalflight Judge: Mrs Sue Simon Falcon. BOB & G4 Jamalison Anthem ShCM (Bye) Melchior - Head & expression: Ch. Greyflax Just CHELTENHAM & DIST. C.S. (06.02.15) Peachy BARRY, PENARTH & S. GLAMORGAN C.S. Judge: Mr Anthony Bongiovanni (Ankors) Balgrogan – Brace: Not judged. RBOB Greyflax The Jazz Singer to Jamalison (23.11.14) Judge: Mrs Yvonne Pearson (Grimshaw) BOB Greyflax My Girl (Paisey) BOB, BPIB & BPIG Greyflax Domino to Jamalison(Grimshaw)

38 Regional News Ebony’s first show dog, but not the case as Welsh News she decided I was to be her servant & always stressed if not in my company or sight & remained MY girl. I am aware there was & Views method in her thinking & I was the route to After reporting in my last piece for the food & she was a canny lass always in the newsletter that my family was going through bins, or on the lookout for scraps, she never a tough time I am saddened to say my step wanted to be in the pack environment. She mother lost her fight against cancer on the was TOP DOG until the very end. I miss her 9th December. So not the best start to 2015 tap dancing next to me for food as I cook. for us. My father had been staying with us Two bitches I am grateful to have loved, over Christmas & arranging her funeral. He owned & shared my home with, they live on managed to endure a month with us & in their progeny. NEW EMAIL ADDRESS returned to his home in Spain at the We missed LKA due to family commitments DEERHOUND CLUB SECRETARY beginning of January. so it was nice to see so many Deerhound VANESSA LUCAS exhibitors at the Bridgend Show & supporting judge, Ali Morton, with a good [email protected] After a few weeks of life returning to some sort of normality, we had another blow. Our entry. Good atmosphere & banter. beloved Erin - Ch. Marandike Ebony’s Then, unfortunately, we were showing our Choice to Wolfscastle (9yrs) suddenly whippets at the WCOW Champ. Show on DEERHOUND became ill after her morning walk & we the same day as Swansea Show, organised by MORTALITY rushed her to the vets. She hadn’t, until then, the Paisey’s & committee they always showed any signs of illness or symptoms. 48 organise a good show & there was another SURVEY hrs later she died in my arms at home. good deerhound entry. Since we began this survey in January Deerhounds don’t seem to cope 2004, I have received information with illness like others breeds. Kim & the committee are busy finalising about 347 deceased Deerhounds. Kim had asked me to have her checked again by the vet the details for the Berkeley Initial analysis of the survey is following day as he noticed she Castle coursing event. published in this editon. wasn’t improving with the Unfortunately, the dates medication, & she was are the same weekend Please continue to send in details of struggling & had that look in as Bath Champ Show, deceased deerhounds so that the her eye as if to say - I’ve had but I think the dog statistics can be added to. enough Dad, help me out here. running & showing will The vet said he thought we have 24hrs to recover. Information needed: were very lucky to get so many We hope to see many of G KC registered name of Deerhound hounds into double figures & you there, our friends from Norway - Irene & G Sex of hound she was generally in good health. She was the last Steiner will be meeting us G Date of birth surviving hound from her litter. Erin there. I may get the chance G Date & cause of death:- was such an easy going, calm hound to live to chat to them this time, unlike Crufts which Illness/disease/ trauma/ with; she has always been a joy to own & was hectic to say the least, but good fun. injury/accident. Evidence eg. post never gave us any trouble apart from trying mortem/autopsy to get her into pup. She was happy to be Kim would like to thank Rachel Quinn & Roy Cosier for home checks & assistance would assist, if available. mated, but only produced one litter of 4 puppies & they were all males. Draig (Bear), with rehoming. Also, our sincere thanks to All information held in her son, has her temperament. He has Paul Braybrooke for his recent help in an strict confidence produced our lovely Greyce who is typical of unfortunate situation & going the extra mile what we look for in our hounds. However, to help us. Sadly, we have found most Send details to:- she has a much more outgoing nature & a rehoming cases are due to marriage DR SARAH HELPS typical Wolfscastle hound. Keen, intelligent breakdowns or illness of owners. Kim has PORCH HOUSE, COLESHILL & workmanlike but respectful & obedient. found the job rewarding & interesting & AMERSHAM, BUCKS HP7 0LG Although we owned some wonderful hounds would like to thank the committee for their Tel: 01494 727584 over the years she was a dog in a million to support & help over the past couple of years. Email: us. We had years of pleasure & memories of Congratulations to Alan MacKinnon & [email protected] our special lass. Parsons on winning Best Puppy in Breed 2014 with their handsome Finlas at In contrast, our 16yrs old Whippet was given Claonaiglen. sleep at home 10 days later. She hung on in there for months, but old age catches us all in Hope to make it to Scotland for the Breed the end. I miss them terribly. Erin because Show but as usual plans are ever changing she was the sweetest natured & never that here. enthusiastic, but excelled in the ring - my type of hound. She was obedient & wanting zOE BRODIE to please, but not in your face like most of the Tel: 01437 741780 others here. Blue was always meant to be email: www.wolfscastlehounds.com ERIN 4/10/06 - 17/2/15 39 INSIGHT

Q Is there one Deerhound highlight Q What advice would you give to you will always remember? someone starting in the breed?

A Hmm, hard to answer! I have been A HRH - Homework, Research, very lucky. Ch Hyndsight Riddick going Homework - don't rush in. Look at Best in Show at the DHC Southern pedigrees and photos, old and new. Take Limited in 2011. Winning at the Hound time to talk and visit breeders and sit ring Show twice, with Rosslyn Dirk and Dawn side and take things in. in 1993 and 1995. I can still hear Mary Girling telling me to smile, as we were Q What other breed would you own if standing in the Best in Show ring in 1993. you did not have Deerhounds? I did, and Dawn was pulled out as Finding out more about Reserve Best in Show! And to this day, I A Border Terriers, I just like their faces. LESLEY SPENCE am still reminded to s mile! Q What other pastimes or hobbies do Q Is there a Deerhound you would you have? Q Why choose a deerhound? liked to have owned? A I like to spend time cooking and in A I thought I wanted an Irish A Its hard to say. With my heart - Ch the garden, growing vegetables, and long Wolfhound, but the more I looked, the Rotherwood Brandon and on a visit to walks with my husband, Jim, and our more I realised I wanted a dog that was Fletton Tower, he put his head in my lap, dogs. not so heavy. By chance, we saw a litter he had a true Deerhound temperament. of Deerhounds advertised near us. Need My head would say, Ch Staghall Bailie, a I say more? strong and powerful hound and Ch Hyndsight Manderlay and Heaven always Q How did you get started in the filled my eye. breed? What are you aiming for when I acquired my first deerhound, but Q A breeding? sadly she died of distemper - she was just under a year old and had all her A To keep to the Standard and breed injections. She left a big hole in our lives. type. Staying functional, healthy and, It took us nearly a year and many phone importantly, we must keep that special calls to find another. gentle, easy going temperament. Take a good look at your breeding stock and Q How did you choose your affix? hopefully improve on it. A We had spent a lot of time trying to find something that fitted us. Bill, my Miss A N Hartley’s - Ch Rotherwood Brandon. Photo: Fall first husband, came home from work one evening, the hounds got up to greet him and he just said - "Where are my SHAGGY HEADS?”

Q How did you get involved with showing?

A I had shown my aunt’s Labrador as a child, and a neighbour owned Rhodesian Ridgebacks. I thought it would be nice to show a dog of my own. Hyndsight Blackthorn, arrived. He was my first show dog - he did me proud - 2 CCs and 3 Reserves. He trained and taught me a lot. 40 f t s CRUFTS 2015 r u Left: JudCge, Mr P Iverson (Norway) with BEST OF BREED - Ms E Mooney’s - IRCH/INT Ch Rosslyn Quartet Jun Ch Below: BEST OPPOSITE SEX: Ms A Morton & Mr J Morgan’s - Ch Cotherstone Shot and Steel Below left : BEST PUPPY IN BREED : Mr M & Mrs G Peach’s - Kilbourne Tyne

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