Sh
Ch Pitswarren Levi
14/11/88 - 4/9/02
I
am sorry to have to report the death of the Vizsla breed record
holder Sh Ch Pitswarren Levi just a few weeks short of his
14th birthday. Levi was bred by his owners Peter and Liz Harper,
by Pitswarren Zaccheus ex Sh Ch Gardenway Rica at Pitswarren,
and began his rise to fame as a youngster taking his first
Reserve CC in 1989 with BP at the HV Society Championship
show. His early wins included 10 Best Puppy awards at CH shows
where CCs were on offer, nine of these in competition with
his sister Leila who only beat him once - she also went on
to take her show title.
Levi also won the Gundog Puppy Group at Leicester CH Show
under the late Pat Chapman at 9 months of age. He went on
to great things as an adult, taking 37 CCs, 15 RCCs, 3 Groups
and 4 BIS awards at a time when Vizslas were not often in
the limelight and was the first Vizsla to win Reserve Best
in Show at an all-breeds Championship Show – East of
England 1993. Levi was Top Dog in 1990, 91, 93 and 94 siring
CC winners including Fran Harper’s SH CH Pitswarren Tanzie.
He was the first Vizsla to win a Pedigree Chum Champion Stakes.
Liz writes that he was a ‘perfect gentleman’ in
the ring, known for his showmanship and harmony with Peter
who always handled him and they are honoured to have shared
their lives with such a special friend. Fit and well to the
end of a truly wonderful life, he died peacefully and with
no pain only leaving them to suffer his loss. Liz says they
miss him dreadfully but are so happy to have had him for almost
14 years.
Jackie Perkins
Ch
Jazirat Bahiyya JW
Ken
and Diana Allan bade farewell to their Saluki Ch Jazirat Bahiyya
JW 14CCs 13RCCs (Bronte) just two weeks short of her sixteenth
birthday. She had an illustrious show career, notably winning
Best in Show at the Saluki or Gazelle Hound Club Championship
Show and the fourth Saluki to win the Hound Group at Crufts
(in its centenary year).
Her breeding was four generations away from Ch Almanza Kafiat,
the second Saluki to win the Group at Crufts and was descended
from Ch Burydown Freyha, the first Saluki to win a Cruft’s
Group. She raised one litter which produced two British Champions
and the top winning Saluki in Germany who won some fourteen
Best in Show awards.
Although Bronte was retired from the show ring at four years
of age, she made spasmodic appearances in veteran classes at
Club Shows, her last being at the Club Championship Show in
2000 where Nick Waters covering the event for an American magazine
penned the perfect epitaph: “For some, myself included,
the star of the show was the Allans’ Ch Jazirat Bahiyya,
who was best veteran bitch from a line-up that included a number
of other champions.
One cannot help but admire a bitch in her fifteenth year still
with all the pride and elegance one associates with Salukis
and obviously enjoying her day out.” Bronte will be sadly
missed.
‘Shah’- Charvan Toby Twirl
Goodbye
to a supreme racer
SAD
NEWS from Tony Walden of the death of Shah, great grandson
of Crufts Best in show Ch Viscount Grant and himself a Crufts
qualifier, who later went on to excel on the race track, taking
the Supreme Racer award at Intertrack 1996 at the age of three.
The photo above taken by David Paton not only made the national
newspapers but also the TV news.
A son of Karaburan Jelly Roll Morton, Shah - pedigree name
Charvan Toby Twirl - was one of a litter of nine bred by Angela
Corke-Legge out of her bitch Charvan Jazmin. A stud dog himself,
Shah is succeeded by two racing sons, Joshua who followed
in his dad’s footsteps becoming Supreme Racer at Intertrack
200 at the young age of 18 months, and Khan, who is currently
the fastest dog around the circuits this year and hopefully
a future national winner.
Shah died on 18th September at the age of nine years and five
months, following an operation for spleen cancer. A delightful
character, he will be much missed by Tony and his wife Sue.
He has been buried at home between his beloved oak trees.
