The puppies are coming!

I am super excited to announce the upcoming litter of Grand Champion Giant's Dance O Praise Him (Gloria) by Grand Champion Kingsbury Red Dragon of Claymore (Oscar).  Both Gloria and Oscar are beautiful representatives of the breed having much success in the show ring.  Gloria has been shown very sparingly but has garnered a group win and group placements as well as Specialty wins.   This is her first litter.  Oscar is not only a stellar show dog -- having multiple high level wins -- but, also a phenomenal producer being a Registered of Merit Bronze sire.  Litter due early November.  Brindles and reds expected.




Here is a link to the pedigree of Gloria X Oscar litter.




http://www.cardiped.net/testmating.php?dam=87881&sire=90551






If you are interested in one of these pups feel free to email me at cardiclarke@gmail.com



Oscar

Gloria



It looks promising ...

Gloria is showing the beginning signs of pregnancy.  Although it is too early to tell for sure -- I am optimistic.  I will take her in for an ultrasound in a week or two.  In the mean time here are a few pictures from her show career.  She has won a Herding Group 1 and a Group 3 with very limited showing.  This was all before she turned two years old.  Lately we have been focusing on getting her Rally Novice title.  Unfortunately motherhood got in the way before we completed the title.  I hope to have her out next Spring to finish it off.

Gloria winning the Herding Group at Benton Ark.  Linda Williams was handling.

Gloria winning a Group 3 with me showing.



Exciting news .....

We are excited to announce that we have bred Gloria (GCH Giant's Dance O Praise Him) to Thief (CH Pecan Valley Grand Larceny).  Puppies will be due early January 2016.   Below is a link to the litter's pedigree:

http://www.cardiped.net/testmating.php?dam=87881&sire=67355&gens=5

Brindle and black & white puppies expected.

If you are interested in a puppy from this litter contact mark.clarke@cox.net

Champion Pecan Valley's Grand Larceny
 "Thief"

Grand Champion Giant's Dance O Praise Him
"Gloria"

Bad news / Good news

First the bad news Willow didn't have any puppies.  We were so looking forward to this litter -- but, it wasn't meant to be.  I thought when we bred her it may have been a little bit early.  However we had limited options as the optimal breeding date was on a Sunday.  We will try again next time she comes into season later in the Spring.

The good news is that Gloria won Best of Breed in Des Moines Iowa at the January shows.  This gave her more than enough points to earn the title of Grand Champion.  This girl continues to amaze me.  She has such a wonderful personality and she is wicked smart to boot.  We have big plans for her in 2015.  Motherhood is on the agenda as well as a try at the Agility ring.

 



Group 1 Picture

I just received this picture of Gloria from the Benton AR show back in October.  This is her winning the Herding Group 1.  I am proud of this girl.



Gloria's win picture

Here is a win picture of Gloria taken last month.  She won a 4 point major at Columbia, MO.  Linda Williams is handling her to this nice win.



Gloria is now a CHAMPION !!

The big news from weekend before last was that Gloria finished her championship.  She needed only three single points to finish -- and earned them the hard way -- by winning 1 point on each day -- Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I don't have Gloria's show picture yet --- but, here is a casual picture I took a few weeks ago.  I think she turned out really nice.



3 Trails CWC Speciality Pictures

I received win pictures in the mail this week from the Cardigan Speciality in Springfield, Missouri.  Below are the official pictures of Gloria's big wins.

Not to be out done, Brady (Notz Giants Dance Brady) won Winner's Dog one day.  Below is a picture of Brady and Gloria celebrating their big wins.



Holy cow ...what a weekend!

Where to start?  This weekend was the annual Three Trails Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club Speciality.   This year the shows were held in Springfield, Missouri and had a nice entry of about 40 Cardi's.  On Friday there was a puppy sweepstakes and then the show.  We decided to take 7 month old puppy girl Gloria for her show debut.  She started out with a bang by winning Best in Sweepstakes, under breeder judge Dr. Barbara Merickel and then Winner's Bitch under breeder judge Vivian Moran.  Then on Saturday she won Winner's bitch and then Best of Winners under breeder judge Marilyn Van Vliet.  Saturday she earned a 3 point major and then Sunday a 5 point major.  We are so proud of this girl.   Here is a couple of pictures of Gloria and the loot that she won.

 

 

Then the icing on the cake was Brady a boy that I bred was Winners Dog on Saturday.  Brady is full litter brother to our Willow.  Here is a picture of Brady boy in the ring with his owner Nancy O.

 



 

We have ears

The Cybil x Miro pups got their ears this week.  We are keeping two of the pups a boy we are calling Hank and his sister Gloria.  These pups have nice big ears.  So we ended up taping them.  Although the ears aren't "perky" just yet they will be have a few more days of taping.

 

Gloria

 

 

 

Hank



 

Pupdate

The puppies are getting big --thirteen weeks.  Here are a few pix of the pups.   They are all getting ears.  So far, we are really pleased with this litter.  Hank and Gloria are still living here as we grow them on to see how they turn out for show dogs.  The bottom picture is of their sister Mandy.  She is loved and spoiled by her mom who sent me this great picture.  All of these puppies have fantastic temperaments!



Gloria from the front.  How about the ears?





Gloria trying to get the cheese

Hank learning to smile for the camera 

 

Hank stacking like a show dog

 

 



 

                                           Mandy