Re: Scully!

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

IIene,

This is great!  Fantastic!!  Happy Birthday Brianne!  Did you forget to 
mention IIene that it was Brianne's Birthday? :-))

Now a bit of a clarification... I did encourage IIene to go, I did tell her 
she would go to group, but I don't get credit for any more than offering an 
explanation really... As the story goes:  IIene mentioned to me in passing 
that she was not going to go on her Canadian trip since Skully was the only 
golden entered. If you are the only dog of your breed, you can not defeat 
any one, no points, so her thinking was no points, why waste the money on 
the trip.  What she forgot was that while the judge doesn't have to award 
Best of Breed it's rare that a judge would with hold the placement.  Also 
in CKC if you go breed you must go onto group or you are stripped of your 
points earned at breed level, therefore in the other breeds where there was 
competition the exhibitors were compelled to go to the group or be stripped 
of the points.  Well we all know Skully is not average bow wow. What judge 
would withhold ribbons on our Skully???  So she was a shoe in so to speak 
for the group.  However,,, this is where the competition really get's 
stiff, a at the group level. This is a whole different ball game... You are 
competing with the best of breed winners from all the sporting breeds 
entered in the show.  All the Pro handlers, and some of the dogs are 
finished champions working toward breed standings.  So just because there 
were no class dogs does not make these WINS any less worthy in my 
opinion...  That's right IIene, Skully is a Group Winning dog!  I had made 
a comment to some one last week that SeaJay was a group placing dog, I was 
corrected:  Group 1 goes to play in BIS, and only group WINNERS go to play 
in BIS.  Sometime's it fun to be corrected! <LOL>

I am sure that Brianne and Skully showed their little hearts out for the 
breed judge and the judge was proud to send team Asoro's to the 
group.  Again Brianne, Happy Birthday and Congratulations on your first 
Canadian Conformation Champion of Record!  What a way to spend your 18th BD!

Oh and IIene, if you insist on owing me that's great, I will just put it in 
the trade bank, so to speak!

Gina




At 09:11 PM 6/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Yes, it is true! We are thrilled. Brianne handled Scully to three group
>wins this weekend! Friday was a Group Three, and Sat and Sunday were
>Group Ones! Brianne did an excellent job, in the ring with the big
>handlers. In fact, Saturdays judge told her she was thrilling to watch,
>and she really enjoyed watching her handle her dog. So, I do not know if
>the judge liked Brianne or the dog, but we take the points either way!
>LOL!
>  On Sunday we left Scully in the classes just in case we made an error
>in point counting. Since she was the only golden in her breed, it hurt
>no one to do it. She again went to a group one, and we are VERY positive
>we are finished!
>  I want to personally thank Gina for all her encouragement for us on
>this trip. We were not going to go, because of the low entry in goldens.
>Gina told us we were going, and we were going to group. I had little
>hope, but it turns out Gina was RIGHT (again) and we did it up big! Poor
>Scully kinda had a time in the Best In Show Ring with all the clapping,
>as she has never been clapped for before. What an exciting weekend for
>us here at Asoro's! Thank you Gina, for all your advice and
>encouragement. Scully got finished because of you, and that is a fact.
>We were not going to go. We owe you one for this!
>
>
>                                  Ilene
>--
>Ilene Cook
>asorosgd@ameritech.net
>http://asoros.tripod.com/asoros.html