th 45 ACF National Cat Show Hosted by: The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy Aust & Vic Inc 10TH & 11TH JUNE 2017 COMMUNITY BANK STADIUM 129 – 163 Main Hurstbridge Road Diamond Creek, Vic Sponsored By: The Weekend Timetable Friday 9th June Saturday 10th and SATURDAY 10th June Monday 12th Tuesday 13th Sunday 11th June June June WELCOME FUNCTION NATIONAL NATIONAL JUDGES ACF Inc. AGM 7pm – 8pm SHOW SHOW DINNER GUILD AGM & GM Vetting 7.00am to 7.30pm 8.30am – 12.30pm 8.30am start 8.00am For a 8pm start Show Opening 8.30am JUDGES Observers Welcome GUILD SEMINAR 1.30pm – 5.30pm Welcome Function, National Show Dinner, Judges Guild and the AGM/GM will all be held at: QUALITY HOTEL, 265 Mickleham Road, Tullamarine CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: WEDNESDAY 26TH APRIL 2017 UPDATE OF TITLES BY FRIDAY 26TH MAY 2017 1 | Page 2017 ACF NATIONAL SHOW - MELBOURNE Judging Assignments Ring 1 Ring 2 Ring 3 Daryl Newkirk Quai Du Plessis Jan Rogers ENTIRES (CFA USA) (NLKV) (CFA USA) Daryl Newkirk Jan Rogers GROUP 1 KITTENS Sue Barr (CAT) (CFA USA) (CFA USA) Daryl Newkirk Jan Rogers DESEXED Sue Barr (CAT) (CFA USA) (CFA USA) Tony Hurry Scoot Andresen ENTIRES Pam Barratt (TICA) (Cats NSW) (CANT) Tony Hurry Scoot Andresen GROUP 2 KITTENS Pam Barratt (TICA) (Cats NSW) (CANT) Tony Hurry Scoot Andresen DESEXED Pam Barratt (TICA) (Cats NSW) (CANT) Kerry Fowler Cindy Grimes ENTIRES Pam Barratt (TICA) (GCCFV) (GCCFV) Quai Du Plessis David Scadden GROUP 3 KITTENS Pam Barratt (TICA) (NLKV) (NZCF) Quai Du Plessis David Scadden Cindy Grimes DESEXED (NLKV) (NZCF) (GCCFV) Janet Overton Carol Hoskins David Scadden COMPANIONS ALL (GCCFV) (GCCFV) (NZCF) Ring 4 Ring 5 Ring 6 Tony Hurry David Scadden Joan Henderson ENTIRES (Cats NSW) (NZCF) (GCCFV) Tony Hurry Janis Christison Carol Hoskins GROUP 1 KITTENS (Cats NSW) (QFA) (GCCFV) Janis Christison Fiona Cooper DESEXED Pam Barratt (TICA) (QFA) (Cats NSW) Janis Christison Janet Overton Jan Rogers ENTIRES (QFA) (GCCFV) (CFA USA) Janis Christison Janet Overton Jan Rogers GROUP 2 KITTENS (QFA) (GCCFV) (CFA USA) Janis Christison Janet Overton Jan Rogers DESEXED (QFA) (GCCFV) (CFA USA) Daryl Newkirk Kingsley Schmidte Scoot Andresen ENTIRES (CFA USA) (GCCFSA) (CANT) Fiona Cooper Kingsley Schmidte Scoot Andresen GROUP 3 KITTENS (Cats NSW) (GCCFSA) (CANT) Daryl Newkirk Kingsley Schmidte Kerry Fowler DESEXED (CFA USA) (GCCFSA) (GCCFV) Quai Du Plessis Jan Rogers COMPANIONS ALL Sue Barr (CAT) (NLKV) (CFA USA) NOTE - The Show Committee reserves the right to alter assignments, without notice, should the need arise, while endeavoring to provide one overseas judge for each section in each group. ACF By-Laws limits the number of exhibits to be handled by any judge to approximately 90. 2 | Page 2017 ACF NATIONAL SHOW - MELBOURNE Judging Profiles Darrell Newkirk, CFA Allbreed Judge, Purssynian Abyssinians In 1984 my wife Beth and I decided to explore the world of purebred cats. We had no idea of cost or standards, but we looked in the paper and bought a "show quality” seal tortie point Himalayan. We named her Peaches Premonition and prepared to set the world on fire with our new love. However, fate would intervene, for our perfect “Nisha” was not quite perfect. She had the dreaded tail fault and a nose like a fox terrier! Happily, we figured this out before ever entering her in a show and next set our sights on obtaining a silver Persian. As we visited a local cat show in late 1984, we saw our very first Abyssinian and the rest has become “our history.” We fell in love with a blue male Abyssinian, Dearabi Hillstreet, who was bred and owned by Halsey and Cornelia Tichenor of Dearabi Cattery. But our first purchased Abyssinian was Van Dyke’s Abi Alexis of Purssynian, a ruddy female, bred by Lila Rippy. Our second acquisition was a one year old blue female bred by Cher Gagnon, Cher-Non’s Ruffian. She was very handsome, but did not have a warm undercoat color. She did eventually attain her Grand Champion title, but it took several shows and a couple of litters before she completed her Grand. Ruffian was one of the early Blue Abyssinians to grand. Our first stud was a ruddy named GC Dearabi Tai-Grr-Man. Cornie Tichenor of Dearabi Cattery was a great mentor to us in those early years. She had concentrated her efforts with dilutes, especially fawns, and she was very generous and shared much of her dilute Abyssinian breeding knowledge. When Dearabi Hillstreet became a stud, we used him with Ruffian for several breedings. GC Purssynian Reggae Strutt was the most prominent of that breeding. Reggie had a very light undercoat color, but he was able to pass on to his offspring a warmer undercoat color than his own. We have continued to breed Abyssinians since those early years of our venture into the Cat Fancy. We exhibited our cats in ACFA and CFA in the beginning. Since 1994 we have exhibited and registered our cats only in CFA. We have achieved 5 DMs (distinguished merit awards), including 2 fawn males: GC Purssynian Sunhawke, DM and GC Purssynian Jambe Finete, DM, “Jammer.” We have shown over 35 Abyssinians and other breeds to Grand Champion status and produced a number of National color winners and Regional winners. When I decided to become a judge, we knew we had to bring several more breeds into our home. We worked with Cornish Rex approximately four years. Other breeds who have shared our home briefly include Scottish Folds, Maine Coons, Birmans, Somalis and of course, Persians. Our first Persian was a Bluecream, GC Windsur’s Athena. She created quite a stir at the first show where I exhibited her. We also exhibited a Copper-Eyed White Persian kitten, RW Windsur’s Dulcinea of Purssynian, to a CFA regional kitten win. We also had one Bicolor litter of kittens from Biloe’s Nellie. Two of her offspring granded: GC Purssynian Domino Lisa and GC Purssynian Judy in Disguise. Beth and I are the owners of GC Purssynian Jambe Finete, DM. “Jammer” as he is known by his many friends is the CFA registered cat that has produced the greatest number of Grands of any breed in CFA history. Jammer has produced 62 Grand Champions and Grand Premiers. Unfortunately Jammer passed away in July 2011 from liver failure. I entered the ACFA judging program in 1990, advancing to All breed Training Judge and remained there until April 1995. I was accepted into the CFA judging program at the June 1995 CFA annual meeting. I was licensed as a Shorthair apprentice judge in February 1996. I entered the Longhair training program in October 1996. I was advanced to approved All breed judge in June 1999. Professionally, I am a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. In 1974 after completing a four year term in the U.S. Air Force, I was accepted into Three Rivers Nursing Program and competed my RN training in May 1977. I entered and completed a course of study in Nurse Anesthesia in 1981. I completed my undergraduate education in 1986 at Webster University with a major in Nursing and a minor in Business Management. I have enjoyed employment in a group of 18 Nurse Anesthetists and 37 Anesthesiologists for the past 15 years. Becoming a CFA judge has allowed me to view much of the world I would otherwise not have known. I have had the pleasure to be invited and have judged in Australia, Japan, Russia, the Ukraine and Europe on several occasions over the past 16 years. It is a wonderful experience to travel to other parts of the world to share with other breeders and exhibitors our common goal - the advancement, improvement and preservation of our beautiful purebred cats. On April 25, 2011 I said goodbye to my best friend and wife of almost 32 years. Beth became sick in February and in March was diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain tumor. She passed on her 58th birthday. Currently I sit on the CFA Board as a Director at Large. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pamela Barrett, TICA Allbreed Pamela Barrett is a Distinguished Allbreed Judge of Merit with TICA, The International Cat Association. With over 25 years of judging experience, Pamela has officiated at shows around the world so has knowledge and experience of regional breed differences, various show formats and rules. In 2016 Pamela was awarded TICA Judge of the Year. Pamela is known as a talking judge so the audience is ntertained and educated while she gracefully presents and handles the cats while accessing their qualities. Pamela has been a top International breeder of British Shorthairs, under the cattery name of Excalibur for 40 years. Pamela is also the chairperson of the British Shorthair Breed Group for TICA and has co-produced and presented the British Breed Seminar to breeders all over the world. For the last 14 years, Pamela has been the Show Manager for the International Cat Show in Portland, one of TICA's biggest shows in both entry numbers and spectators. Pamela has served two terms as a TICA Board of Director, been the Master of Ceremonies at TICA's Meet the Breeds in New York City, and has numerous TV appearances, newspaper and magazine articles about cats, as her love of cats is expressive and knowledgeable. In her personal life, Pamela was born in Alaska, and attended her first cat show in Anchorage in 1976. After being accepted into the TICA judging program, she moved to Oregon to complete her judging training and start a new career an Insurance Risk Manager, having been a Fraud Investigator for the State of Alaska during the wild-west years of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.