This is just to say thanks for the fabulous entry at todays show at the Hound Club of East Anglia. Well organised show. Special thanks to my stewards who did an amazing job today. So thank you Elise and Kerry.

It was a pleasure. Really excellent show. I hadn't been there before but the venue is a farm centre with play areas and shops and the added attraction of sheep racing! The deerhound exhibitors brought a super picnic too. Thank you.

Congratulations to the Hawkins' Kwarricot deerhounds with BOB.

Elise

Hello,

Congratulations all winners and placed.

How does the sheep racing?



Best regards
Joerg and Yoki

Well done all winners . Don't know how we managed to miss this one. It was our first ever hound show and we planned to return but somehow missed the dates. Glad it all went well though Christine. Ailish

I don't know how but the weather was just about right, a breeze for the dogs and some sun for us. Thanks for the very good picnic afterwards it was appreciated.

pleased you all had a great day

Joerg and Yoki wrote:


Well sheep racing could just be a peculiar UK tradition. Basically, sheep wear a numbered jacket (as per racing greyhounds) and are gathered up in a pen at one end of an enclosed track. They are then released and another person shakes a bucket of food at the other end of the track. The sheep then run to the bucket of food and the winner is the one (not unsurprisingly) that gets there first. The track can just be a straight line or circular. It's just for fun and keeps the children (or deerhounds in the case of the Hound Assoc. show) entertained. Sorry if you are now even more confused than at the beginning with my description.

Elise

If you go to the Rare Breeds Centre nr Ashford in Kent have a go at pig racing it is so funny and exhausting. They asked us if we would like to help with the racing like mugs said yes. They get you to stand on the home ward track with a pig board to help get the pig home first, it is coloured(the board) the same as your pig which has a big round colour on its back. They explained the pigs will run up the first track and to a pig trough just where we were stood, and once the pigs had eaten some food they would kick the trough over and the race would start, all well and good the pigs started running and we all thought this is easy!!!! What they did not tell us the pigs had more food on the ground halfway down the track. Try moving the greedy pigs :lol you cannot shift their heads, or their bodies. In the end one of the staff gets the pig bucket and they return back to the pen. Soo funny. my pig came in second and I got a certificate.

sounds hilarious!

Thank you to all the beautiful Deerhounds and their people for a lovely day. It was my first 'go' at Stewarding and I have to say that I could not have managed without Elise's excellent skills and on the spot training, Thank You Elise I thoroughly enjoyed it and tried my best not to get under anyones feet or paws Only once did I have my bottom in the way in the line up...ooops
I must say that I missed my dogs, but at every opportunity I made the most of cuddling all the Deerhounds and the beautiful puppies
Thank you everyone for inviting us to the scrummy picnic What a feast!
Congratulations to Chris for the excellent Judging and Big Congratulations to all Winners!

Elise wrote:


Thanks for the informations Elise.
I think you had all many fun.

Regards
Joerg and Yoki