Booty, Rah Rah, and Ria, swimming in Puget Sound in January. Brrrrrrrr!
Tag x Blackwater Remarkable (an Archie daughter).
OptiGen A1, OFA Good Hips, normal elbows. Copies of her clearances are here.
2003 Show record
Best Opposite in Sweeps-- judge Susan Huntsinger
Best Puppy under Barbra Gilchrist at the Canadian Specialties (Sporting Dog Spectacular)
WB, BOS, SJVLRC, Sacramento, CA, --English judge Carol Reynolds
WB, BOW, Potomac! Frederick, MD-- English judge Roy Ellison total entry 1,385.
WB, BOB, Group III, WKC--Tom Bradley
2004 Show Record
JAM, PSLRA, Langley, WA-- English judge Janice Pritchard
Multiple BOBs at all breed shows.
2005 Show Record
JAM, RCLRC, Claire Senfeld
JAM, PSLRA, Jill Ickowski
2006 Show Record
BISS from the Open Black class, IPLRC, Heather Wiles-Fone
2007 Show Record
Only JAM, PSLRA, Heather Wiles-Fone
JAM, LRC, Inc. National Specialty
Rah Rah's greatest accomplishments, however, are undoubtedly the beautiful puppies she has given us. Three are now specialty BOB winners! I am pleased to be able to share this marvelous bitch with others through her kids.
Apple winning her first Major from the 9-12 month class
(Twinkle x Brookland's Charlie Brown).
OptiGen A1
Apple attended seven specialties while eligible for sweepstakes classes:
Best in Sweeps, IPLRC, Barb Ironside
Best In Sweeps, SJVLRC, Judy Davis
Best In Sweeps, PSLRA Match, Linda Maffett
Best In Sweeps, BCLRC, Dianne Sullivan
Best In Sweeps, PSLRA, Annette Watkins
At the other two specialties, Potomac and RCLRC, Apple was one of two bitches considered for Best In Sweeps. As Annette Watkins says in her critique:
"She is a lovely, unbelievably gorgeous chocolate bitch who is in wonderful coat and has everything I look for and like. She is typey, she has substance without being overdone, she has a sweet, soft expression, is balanced and stays together when she moves. She is yummy from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail. I could look at her all day long. . . everything about her is wonderful."
In 2005, her first specialties as an adult:
WB, Best of Winners, RCLRC, Clare Senfeld
WB, Best of Winners, PSLRA, Jill Ickowski
2006
Best Of Winners, BCLRC, Judy Chambers
2007
First, Open Chocolate Bitches (24), Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac, one of six to make the cut for Winners Bitch. Potomac had an entry of over 1,600 Labradors this year. Thanks, Linda, for showing her so well. :)
Thank you, judges, for recognizing her so consistently! Apple congratulates her puppies from her first litters for their multiple Best Puppies, Best in Sweeps, and specialty Winners and BOB (also Fonzie, for earning his Finnish Championship on 3/24/07, and his Estonian Championship 1/12/08). Most recent congrats go to Rick Mullen and Cindy King's Nipntuck American Sweetheart Sweetie for her BOS Sweeps at the LRCC National Specialty, RWB and BOS Sweeps at PSLRA, and Winners Bitch at BCLRC. And to Snap, for all her winnings as a puppy.
(Scout x CH Valleywood Blackthorn Brier, OptiGen A1)
OptiGen A1
Charm has three Best Puppies and eight class wins at specialties her puppy summer. Charm was also WB and BOW at the All Retriever Club of BC's specialty in July '03 from the Bred By Exhibitor Class, and was Best Bred By Exhibitor PSLRA 2004. Charm has OFA Good hips and OFA normal elbows. Her puppies are even more beautiful than she is, from her last litter three bitches already have major wins or RWBs.
Gabbie made quite the day for us at PSLRA 2006, going Best in Sweeps under Lisa Zitting and WB, BOW and Best of Breed under Carol Reynolds.
Rah Rah x CH Sureshot Hypire Impressive, Optigen clear by parentage. Booty was Best in Sweeps and RWB to her mother under Heather Wiles-Fone and Dottie Black at IPLRC, and now has four RWB to majors at AKC shows. Booty also thrilled us to no end by winning the spectacular BBE Black class at the Potomac, filled with 40 other gorgeous bitches, then went on to defeat the beautiful Winners Dog for Best BBE overall. She received her final OFAs and has normal hips and elbows, and had her eyes CERF'd on 1/18/08.
*** Booty was Winners Bitch at PSLRA 2008, under Diane Pilbin! She also won the Open Black class at the San Joaquin Valley Labrador Retriever Club show in March, 2008, and was RWB at the IPLRC 2008 specialty under English judge Brian Parrott.
photo at 9 months
Charm x CH Windfall's Pipe Major. Ria was RWB at her very first dog show under breeder-judge Pauline Mortier, with an entry of 77. She also won the 9-12 month bitch class at SJVLRC. Ria is now co-owned and residing with my dear friends from Klamath Falls, Shelly Kujawski and Amanda Dearing.
Trip x Charm, pictured winning both the 12-18 month yellow bitch class at Potomac, winth an entry of 37, and Potomac's 12-15 month sweepstakes class.
Genie is now owned by Linda Maffett and Buffy Gonzales, who also own Snap. Congratulations, ladies! Come see pictures of Genie now, she's all grown up and gorgeous! Genie won her regular 12-18 month class and her Sweepstakes class at SJLRC, and thrilled Linda to no end by being one of two bitches considered for Best in Sweeps. She is also now a specialty winner, going WB and BOB at IPLRC 2008 under English breeder-judge Brian Parrott.
Blaze x Charm, pictured at five months at her new home with the Skibas. Charm has always given us really lovely litters, and this one was no exception. Two of Sissy's littermates are with breeders in Europe, and her fox red brother also stayed with us. She has great structure, tons of coat, and a lovely head, so I'm hoping she will continue this line I have valued so much because of their breathtaking faces. Congrats to the Skibas on their new family member.
Sissy was 2nd in both her regular and sweeps classes at PSLRA 2008, her first dog show.
Nipntuck Yell King x Nipntuck Miss American Pie, pictured at eight months.