Our youngsters, Beattie and Madge, enjoyed their trip down to Leominster to this wonderfully relaxed club Championship show.  Although no doubt for them the high spots of the trip were showing off to their new friends at the hotel, and galloping full pelt around the playing fields with sister Roxy and brothers Blake and Robbie, we were delighted that they concentrated on their task in the ring as well!

 Madge behaving beautifully in the ring, standing......

 .....and moving, good as gold!

 Beattie, freestanding........

......and free moving too, on the field after her class......

 .... romping on the field with Madge and the rest of the family

 The girls did very well indeed under judge Dr Margaret Buckley, with Beattie and Roxy gaining first and second respectively in the Junior class, and Madge winnining the Debutant class and even making the first cut in the challenge.

We were so pleased and it made the long journey well worthwhile - and to think we very nearly left Beattie at home, considering her recent and alarming lack of coat, as she discards her puppy fluff in favour of a new but as-yet skimpy adult coat!

Special thanks go to Linda Jonsson from Sweden for her excellent handling of Beattie in the challenge, and to Christine Hannan for the lovely set of photographs

 Something of a family reunion - left to right, Roxy, Madge, Beattie (lying down), Robbie, and Blake - after their gallop round the field