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LITHUANIA
IT WAS a great pleasure to judge the
CACIB shows and a Sighthound Club
Show in Druskininkai, a short distance
from Vilnius.
It was my first visit to Lithuania and the weather was
sunny from my arrival on Thursday until I left late on
Monday. When visiting Vilnius it is very easy to under-
stand why Vilnius is the European Capital of Culture 2009.
Apanel of international judges from all over the world
was invited and the shows were excellently organised by
an efficient team of workers and ring stewards all under
the watchful eyes of Ramune Kazlauskaite, President of
the Lithuanian Kennel Club, and the Vice President
Natalia Nekrosiene.
Throughout the weekend, I was very impressed with
the high quality of the dogs I saw. I was particularly
impressed with the Pharaoh Hounds. There were a nice
number of Pharaohs entered by local breeder Auks
Mackeviciene from the kennel Gintariniai Namai. The
kennel showed excellent true Pharaohs with excellent
temperaments, and sound all over.
From Russia I was shown Pharaohs from the Reddly
Road kennel - all were beautifully well built and excel-
lent movers. The champion male to whom I awarded BIG
1 on Friday also ended up Best in Show at the club show,
closely followed by an outstanding Saluki who moved
like the wind.
On the Friday I judged Group 5 where a lot of beauti-
ful dogs were shown to me. I awarded the top place to the
Pharaoh Hound, Reddly Road Deep Blue, bred and han-
dled by Maria Evteeva from Russia. Second place went
to the luscious Keeshond, Eswood Nereida, and finally
the American Akita, Melodor Burn the Witch. The
Pharaoh Hound later took third place in the BIS competi-
tion judged by Karri Jrvinen from Finland.
On the Saturday I had my debut as Poodle judge where
I was presented with a line-up of beautiful Poodles. The
black medium sized Poodle, Sajuri Lietaus Simfonija,
became group winner and finally won the BIS.
I spent some lovely days in Lithuania and I thank the
Lithuanian Kennel Club and the Lithuanian Sighthound
Club for inviting me.
Annette Bystrup (Denmark) I
G Saturdays Best in Show at Lithuania was the Group 9 winning Miniature Poodle, Sajuri Lietaus Simfonija,
owned by I. Sokolovait & I. Voloskeviit from Lithuania, whilst the RBIS award went to Polcevera's Gioia, the
Bracco Italiano owned by E. Jankauskien from Lithuania. Polcevera had also taken the Group 7 spot earlier
in the day. Best in Show judge was Mr Paul Stanton (see previous page for his report)
G The German Shepherd, Ruanda Meisenhof, owned
by T. Sinitsina from Belarus won Group 1 on Saturday
pictured with Pedro Delerue (Portugal)
G Olga Seliverstovas Giant Schnauzer, Gloris Javlin,
from Russia took the Group 2 spot under judge
Stelios Makaritis (Greece)
G Hairy Braveheart Secret Touch, the West Highland
White Terrier, owned by E. Hyczewska from Poland
scooped Group 3 at Lithuania on Day 2 and judged
by Ross Delmar from Ireland
G The winner of Group 4 and third place in the BIS
line-up was the Miniature Shorthaired Dachshund,
Magic Rainbow Ordinar, owned by V. & V. Ivanovai
from Russia with Claudio de Giuliani (Italy)
G The Pharaoh Hound, Reddly Road Evergreen,
owned by A. Schukina from Russia was Saturdays
Group 5 winner pictured with Kari Jarvinen
G Group 6s winner was the Bavarian Hound, Coca
Cola Cross Hazba, owned by J. Zaremba & M. Krzesin-
ski from Poland pictured with judge Per Iversen
(Norway)
G The winner of Group 7 was the RBIS winning
Bracco Italiano, Polcevera's Gioia, owned by E.
Jankauskien from Lithuania pictured with Paul
Scanlon
G Sajuri Lietaus Simfonija, the Miniature Poodle
owned by I. Sokolovait& I. Voloskevi from Lithuania
was the Group 9 winner as well as overall BIS on Sat-
urday with judge Torbjorn Skaar (Sweden)
G The Afghan Hound, Al Khabara Fiery Mouztafa,
owned by M. & A. Kullarand from Estonia took Group
10 on Day 2 of Lithuania.
Druskininkai
SECOND DAY:
Saturday, 8th August
G Ramune (President) pictured with Janette Seltz
from France
G Relaxing at the end of the day were from l to r:
Natalie, Sean Carroll, ring steward Aurelia, Ross Del-
mar and Paul Scanlon
G Ramune and Natalie pictured with their Our Dogs
souvenir t-shirts signed by all the judges. Thanks
ladies for an excellent event, enjoyed by all
G Sean Carroll from Ireland pictured with one of his
Pomeranian class winners
G The support team enjoy a well earned late lunch
G Who said covering shows was hard work? Paul
Scanlon from Show Dogs Ireland shares a press beer
with Vince Hogan of Our Dogs
G Coming soon ... the World Dog Show in Denmark
2010. Schedules available at all shows from the Our
Dogs stand ... Thanks to Annette Bystrup (Denmark)!
G Paul Stanton and Sean Carroll relax at the evening
dinner