A few show photos of our Sydney

We have been very fortunate  in the show rings lately with our home bred girl Sydney. She has always been breeder/owner handled all the way. She  has had a good show career to date. I don't have photos of all of her wins. I have stopped overlooking photo opportunities of group placements now. First day out as a puppy, she took BPIG, and then group 4th place as a puppy ( no photos taken). She finished her championship with a group 1 and group 4 in the same weekend at a large show to end her 2012 year. In 2013 she started with a group 2 at a large show ( no photo!!) and has had another group second, a group 3rd and a couple of group 4th place with very limited showing.  This past weekend she garnered a group 4th and made the cut each of the other days in large, highly competitive groups. She has earned 15 points towards her Grandchampionship status,  including the two-two point wins needed. She was lucky to take the breed on the two days we have had enough breed dogs to make for those two point grand championship wins. She is  undefeated in the breed judging since she was 7 months old when she was defeated one day by a male dog with a professional handler.

Sometimes you show and show and show and no one seems to notice. This past weekend people I really don't  know came to tell me  how lovely she is, how nicely I presented her and one person stopped me to tell me we looked so elegant and so much like a team in the ring..so nice to get some feedback that is not  putting down the placement of Vs in the group ring!

I know we have been lucky and in general I try to not get too involved in the points and show game stuff but I just wanted to take one day on our blog to take a look at some of  this over $450.00 worth of photos - one reason I have not taken photos of each group placement at first..and, most importantly, to  thank my lucky stars and my wonderful Sydney girl..a star in our hearts, the field and the ring.