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Cobwebs & creepy crawlies dealt with, the old
records have been dusted off.
BEST EXHIBIT IN GROUP WINNER
MULTI CLASS IN SHOW WINNER
MULTI CLASS IN GROUP
WINNER
(Championship &
Open Shows)
1981
Challenge Bitch Adelaide Royal
1981
Challenge Bitch Melbourne Royal
1982
Challenge Bitch Adelaide Royal
1984
Challenge Bitch Adelaide Royal
1984
Challenge Bitch Adelaide Royal
1984
Challenge Bitch Melbourne Royal
1985
Best of Breed Adelaide Royal
1985
Reserve Challenge
Bitch Melbourne Royal
1986
Challenge Bitch Sydney Royal
1986
Challenge Bitch Adelaide Royal
1986
Challenge Bitch Melbourne Royal
1987
Challenge Bitch Adelaide Royal
1987
Best of Breed Melbourne Royal
1988
Challenge Bitch Brisbane Royal
1988
Best of Breed Adelaide Royal
1988
Challenge Bitch Melbourne Royal
1989
Challenge Bitch Adelaide Royal
1989
Best of Breed Melbourne Royal
1990
Best of Breed Adelaide Royal
1990 Reserve Challenge
Bitch Melbourne Royal
1991
Best of Breed Adelaide Royal
1988
CD & CDX titles, SAODC Open B Trophy
What can one write as the memories come flooding
back of my beautiful girl who was so much more than
just a dog ...
One of the truly greats of the breed, a pioneer who
paved the way & whose accomplishments in Retrieving
& Field Trials have still not been matched.
She revelled in the atmosphere at Melbourne Royal as
is evidenced by her many wins there. The last of
her many awards was 1992 Consolation R/UBIS in
Sydney under breed specialist Mrs Thompson-Brown
(USA).
1992, as her illness advanced dramatically, she was
granted special permission to be ringside at the
Melbourne Royal show, where her O’Shawn grandchildren, Seanain, Maeve & Sinead took
Reserve Dog Challenge, Challenge Bitch & Reserve
Challenge Bitch respectively.
Her prowess in the field with an exceptional nose
cannot go unrecorded. We spent so many enjoyable
hours working quail & duck. She had wins in both
Novice & Restricted Retrieving Trials, but her forte
lay in Field Trials, working those birds that she
loved – her handicap - me!
To Peter and Yvonne Douglas – Thank you so much for
welcoming us into your home on so many occasions
over the years. Dougie, I will always remember the
great times shared with you and Callie. Without you
Bracken would never had the chance to do what she
loved so dearly. That you would share your quail,
rabbits, ducks with us … I am still in awe. Thank
you. So very many happy times to recall – the
memories are indelible.
To my mate Colin Jewson. Col, thank you from the
bottom of my heart for being there during that
period of immense grief. I will always be grateful
for your efforts to get just one last duck for my
girl for a final retrieve. Thank you.
My Bracken Bear rests with her progeny & beautiful
Teddy Bear roses in our front yard.
Bracken
XXX
30/05/1980 - 04/10/1992
I
hold it true, whate’er befall:
I
feel it, when I sorrow most:
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
In Memoriam, Alfred Lord Tennyson an elegy written
in honour of his closest friend and sister’s fiancé,
Arthur Hallam |
