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called (Anya) Sh Ch Ryanstock Angnetha JW
had not only won her junior warrant but had also
won a CC that year and was crowned our first
Show Champion in 1986. Feebie had re-joined
the team again by then and she too was winning
reserve CC’s, she would not achieve any higher
than her several reserve CC’s but in her second
litter produced another Show Champion when
we mated her with Solo. That Show Champion
was Sh Ch Ryanstock Bramble JW who went
to friends of ours Alison Akers (nee Gates).
Bramble also produced a Show Champion
but during her show career won twenty CC’s
with Gundog Group placings. Our own Sh
Ch Ryanstock Angnetha was also sharing
in the CC’s and took a group two of her own.
Ryanstock Anastasia (Tasha) had joined the
show team and bonded with Elaine making them Ryanstock Evening Secret (Eve)
a formidable duo.
hen dropped in and stayed for four years.
It was during this period that we were given
the opportunity to buy a field which adjoined By the 1990’s we were attending around 25
our property, this was around 5 acres which Championship shows a year, as registrations
included a ½ acre pond. Of course we seized went up then the allocation rose to just over 30
that opportunity and as ‘Teamwork’ is not sets of challenge certificates each year. We had
exclusive to dogs, Elaine and I by hand planted found that Angnetha had a swelling in her vulva
initially 3500 Norway Spruce followed by 4000 and we decided not to breed from her, luckily
mixed evergreen and deciduous trees, with no we had her sister that we had taken back, we
commercial inclination, purely for our pleasure. had called her (Tasha) Ryanstock Anastasia,
This was great for the dogs and for us, we we mated her to Solo and kept a bitch we called
fenced paddocks and at one point drained the Ryanstock Czarina JW (Zena) born 1987. Zena
pond so that we could build a walkway which won a few reserve CC’s but had little interest
went out 33 feet over the water when the pond in showing, luckily she was a keen worker and
was refilled. We kept animals like chickens, April who had been a saviour in the field after
sheep, horses, guinea fowl and someone’s pea losing Ryan was slowing down now. We mated
Zena to a Sh Ch dog that we liked and this time
through choice kept two bitch puppies which we
called Ryanstock Dixie (Dixie), and Ryanstock
Dawn JW (Gypsy). These two came out and
shared many puppy classes, Elaine showing
Gypsy took a CC at eighteen months whilst I
showed Dixie, she took two reserve CC’S before
having to retire after cruciate ligament damage.
Gypsy was mated to Solo and produced a bitch
we called Ryanstock Evening Secret (Eve),
more about this later. Gypsy never gained her
title but had several reserve CC’s she was an
Litter sisters, Ryanstock Dixie (Dixie) outstanding and confident worker and one that
and Ryanstock Dawn JW (Gypsy) I learned to trust implicitly. Eve was a medium

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