My first Champion of France at the first Longchamp show in 1989 ::

         LEGATO  OF  MILLMOOR

 

                      My 2nd Champion of France at Longchamp in 1992               

        EMPEREUR de la PAM'POMMERAIE  , my first Champion 's son.

 

    My 3rd Champion de France at Longchamp in 1993

          GET UP de la PAM'POMMERAIE  fils du 2ème ............

 

   3 generations of studs Champion of France   a dream for any breeder

 

At the time PAL filmed the winning moments and the joy on the faces of various breeders of various breeds § I was filmed with Get Up...and we watched many times this advert on the tv...happy memories......

Ch GIGI de la PAM'POMMERAIE    BEST IN SHOW at the" Nationale d'Élevage"  1992, out of the JUNIOR Class!!

 What a casting mistake on my part as the judge for the Open & Junior Classes was the same ......

Champion of France & BEST IN SHOW at the "Nationale d'Élevage" 1993,

a pretty girl, very feminine with a lot of prescence admired by many Yorkie lovers...and the dam of my other Champion of France MOZART.

Champion of France at the "Nationale d'Élevage" 1999

 

She had started her career well, the judges seemed to like her - but whether due to a mental block I don't know, but soon not one judge was able to touch her without her animal instinctive reflex to defend herself - which did not go down well as I appreciated.

So disappointed I withdrew her from showing for a year....but continued to work with her and I let her have a litter with Mozart (which was not a waste of time, as Pricilla was born!)

A year later I decided to try her again, this time in Belgium where she won CACIB, BOB and was perfectly behaved! Six weeks later in Holland - same behaviour, same wins...then 3 weeks later the CAC at the NE 99!!!!!

So in the space of just three months she became International Championa and Champion of France and I thought her career was over.........gentle perserverance won the day.

    But for me the best title is always that of Champion of France, so contested and so difficult to win. Pricilla walking in the footsteps of her mother & her father won this marvellous title at the Nationale d'Elevage 2002. It is difficult to describe what goes through the head of a breeder when a dog she has bred, from a breeding wiselt thought out, becomes Champion of France like her parents - and for Pricilla, like her Grandparents and her Great Grandfather too...... 

Tina is a real star in the Group ring and just never stops and I thank Clement who is a very professional non-professional for taking this beautiful girl right to the top. I trembled at each one of her victories - and there were many right from the minute she bagan her career as a puppy.   

3 months after the victory of her father  Ch Durrer's Strut Your Stuff, at the Championship of France, Tina Turner won the CACS at the Nationale d'Elevage in February 2004, like her daddy Stuffy and her mother Merry Poppins and then a few weeks later won BEST in SHOW at Montluçon.