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PUP AID 2010
This was
a charity and celebrity event held at Stanmer House in Brighton on September 19th. The Sporting Irish Water Spaniel club attended
with 8 Irish Water Spaniels and did two parades in the arena and spent rest of time promoting the breed to the attending public.
For further pictures of this event please click here
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| Championship Show 2010 |
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April to
July
Have been to a few shows with both Caz and Zac, Zac was placed 2nd at WELKS in April
and Caz was 3rd, Caz was then placed 1st at Windsor in July. Zac was placed 2nd at Championship Show in July and Caz won trophy
for Irish Water Spaniel with most natural coat. Brise was placed 1st and Judy also won Best Brace with both Zac and
Brise, we also won best team with Zac, Brise and Caz and then Oscar was 3rd in Junior Handler with Caz, so a very good day
all round for the Cuvana's.
Chillington was a successful weekend with Zac being placed 3rd in Open Water Test
on Saturday and 2nd in Open Working Test on Sunday. Brise was placed in Novice Water Test on Saturday and on Sunday
WON the Novice Working Test and got a COM in the Open Working Test.
We have done various demos with Sporting Irish
Water Spaniel Club which have been very successful and Zac has been entered in a few AV Open Working Tests and performed well
and our granddaughter Jessica ran him in a Junior Handler Working Test and scored an impressive 85 out of 100. WELL
DONE JESSICA
For more pictures click here
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| Caz at Championship Show |
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| Chillington 2010 |
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| Oscar and Caz |
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| Sue and Zac |
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| Crufts 2010 |
CRUFTS
2010
What a fantastic day for the
Cuvana Irish Water Spaniels
Judy and Sue were entitled
to enter the Gamekeeper classes as their dogs had worked on shoots in 2009 / 2010.
Zac was placed 1st and
Best Dog in AV Sporting Spaniel and was awarded the Sportsman Game Feeds Trophy
Brise was placed 1st and Best
Bitch in AV Sporting Spaniel and awarded the Marsh Trophy
For more pictures click here
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| Brise & Zac |
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September 2009 to January 2010
Sue retired at end of September and with the
help of Di and John Rolfe she has been out 2/3 times a week with Zac and Caz picking up on the Stone House Shoot in Sussex.
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This has been Caz's first season picking up and
she has grown in confidence as the season has progressed. It has been very satisfying and enjoyable working both Zac
and Caz together.
Little time for shows at moment but we did enter an Open show in Nov, and Caz was placed second in
AV Working Gundog Class also entered LKA in Dec and Caz was second in Postgraduate.
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SIWS Training Weekend
Heathfield 29 & 30 August
A very
good turnout for this weekend and as always great camaraderie and support from all club members.
Di and John, as always,
were wonderful hosts and Di treated all to a wonderful meal on the Saturday night.
It was agreed by everyone that the
weekend had been very worthwhile with everyone feeling they had made progress and really got something out of the weekend.
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| Caz being sent to retrieve |
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CLA Gamefair
24, 25 & 26 July
The Sporting Irish Water Spaniel Club were very proud and pleased to be asked back again to give
a demonstration of Irish Water Spaniels working. Both Caz and Zac appeared in the demonstrations on all 3 days.
They also did a stint in the Gundog tent - meeting and greeting prospective IWS owners.
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Pics show Caz being sent for a blind retrieve and
leaping excitedly into the air just as she spied it and then did a very nice retrieval and presentation.
Zac again was
sent for a blind but as he is more experienced he had to hunt the brush and could not resist posing for the camera after he
had found it.
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| Zac hunting the brush |
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| Is this what you want |
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| 3 generations of Cuvana's |
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| Mother, daughter, grandaughter |
Championship Show-18&19 July
This was a very special weekend as the show was held at Kitebrook House and we have a
picture of Judy showing there back in 1986.
On Saturday Zac was placed 2nd in Limit and 1st in Good Citizen dog. Caz was 1st
in Postgraduate, 1st in Good Citizen bitch and won the trophy for Best Postgraduate IWS. Judy was placed 1st in Brace
with Zac and Brise. Oscar then put in a very creditable performance in Junior Handler with Brise. On
Sunday Judy and Sue did a Gundog demo and afterwards invited people to have a go, unfortunately the weather was against them
but they still managed to put on a good show.
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| Junior Handler class |
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| Arnie & Judy |
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Chillington Hall - 11 & 12 July
Another wonderful social weekend at Chillington Hall. Weather a bit miserable Saturday night
but did not spoil hog roast and birthday celebrations.
After all the hard work of running in tests for two days, Zac, Caz and Brise enjoyed some chill time
swimming and playing in the lake.
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Reading Game Fair July 2009
The Sporting Irish Water Spaniel Club ran the Discover Dogs event at this Gamefair, with Louise
Bailey doing an absolutely superb job of organising the whole event.
There was a Gundog Parade each day and the IWS were also involved in 2 demos each day.
It was an extremely hot weekend so everyone was extremely grateful that we were camped next
to the River Thames and could swim the dogs to cool them down.
Despite the heat Judy still managed to give trimming classes and made a superb job on both
Danny and Cass.
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| Judy trimming Danny |
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| Whats out there Dad |
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| Ireland June 2009 |
Ireland June 2009
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| Ireland June 2009 |
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| Ireland 2009 |
What a fantastic time we had in Ireland - 4 IWS owners, Sue, Judy, Debbie and Jenny with
5 IWS, Zac, Brise, Caz, Erin and Rosie. Sunday 31st May and Monday 1st June we were at Championship shows in Dublin
where all the Cuvana IWS did extremely well and then the rest of the week we stayed in a fantastic cottage in Kilteally, County
Wexford, just relaxing and the dogs had a fabulous time playing and swimming in the sea and rivers every day plus climbing
the odd mountain!
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| struggling up Blackstairs mountain |
| 5 IWS |
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| sitting on a wall |
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| Judy and Brise |
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| Brise, Zac and Caz |
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| Dublin June 2009 |
Brise, Zac and Caz at Dublin show on 1st June
Results over the 2 days as follows
Caz 2nd in Postgraduate and Working Bitch
Brise 1st in Limit and 3rd in Working Bitch
Zac 2nd in Limit, 1st in Working Dog and
also awarded Reserve CACIB
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| Swimming race |
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| Zac, Caz and Cass |
Family get together 2nd May 2009
Zac and Caz had a wonderful day on 2nd May when we had a meet up at John and
Di's in Heathfield with Maeve, Dervla, Keeva, Cass and Tara. Unfortunately Tara could not come out for the big play
as she had just come into season but the rest of them had a wonderful time ending up with swimming races which Cass normally
won.
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| Family get-together |
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| 2 May 2009 |
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| Zac 2nd in Limit class |
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| WELKS 2009 |
WELKS Championship Show
Gundog classes were on Sunday 26th April and the weather smiled on us and
stayed sunny and dry. Jennifer Carey was judging and there was a good entry with at least 6 in most classes. Very
pleased with Zac's second in Limit and extremely pleased with Brise first and Caz second in Postgraduate.
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| Judy, Brise, Sue and Caz |
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| WELKS 2009 |
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| IWS Team |
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| April 2009 |
Minor Breeds Team Event - April 2009
The team event took place near Telford in a nice wooded area. Unfortunately
Zac had girls and sex on his mind and although he ran 4 of the tests beautifully he thoroughly messed up on two tests
because he was thinking of other things! Right picture shows team waiting to be called up for final test, left picture
shows team doing final test which was a drive, Zac is on his way back with retrieve.
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| Minor Breeds Team Event |
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| Zac |
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| Crufts 2009 |
Crufts 2009
Fantastic day at Crufts for Cuvana IWS, with Zac winning 2 out of
3 classes he entered but star of the day was Caz who won all 3 classes she entered with Brise coming second in her class.
Interesting enough the only IWS dogs entered in working class were Zac, Caz and Brise.
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Quiet start to year as weather very cold. Caz had her first taste of retrieving game on 1st
February, she was not too sure at start of day but by the end of the day she was retrieving game with no problem.
Due to bad weather gundog training has slipped a bit and also been very busy getting both dogs ready for Crufts.
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