26th Annual Metropolitan Baltimore Doberman Pinscher Club Independent Specialty!

[Athy]

The Metropolitan Baltimore Doberman Pinscher Club's 26th annual Independent Specialty, Puppy and Veterans Sweepstakes, Obedience Trial which includes all Regular classes plus Veterans, all new titling classes including Graduate Novice, Graduate Open, Versatility and Pre Novice, plus all the Rally classes will be held on Friday, April 23rd at the Maryland State Fairgrounds off York Rd. in Timonium MD, less then 10 miles north of Baltimore, off I-83 and the Baltimore Beltway.

Official Ring times will be posted shortly after the closing date Wednesday April 7th.

All judging all shows INDOORS!

Our judges are:
Skip Thielen - Breed Classes
Sharon Marinelli - All Sweeps classes
Janet Lewis Obedience and Rally classes

All the above classes will be held in one building, the Cow Palace. Obedience and Rally will be held in the morning and Conformation early afternoon. Everything in one ring to make it convenient to exhibitors.

We will kick-off the 4 show Cherry Blossom Cluster. We will have a refreshment table, hot dogs and BBQ etc. and baked goodies. Also a raffle and Doberman items for sale by our vendors and a rescue booth with sale items.

Old Dominion Kennel Club, which is one of the largest shows in the east, will be holding their show the next day, Saturday at the same location, with the Potomac Valley Doberman Club also having their specialty Saturday. Baltimore County KC show is Sunday with the Metropolitan Baltimore Doberman Pinscher Club holding a supported specialty at that show.. - Monday is the Catoctin Kennel Club.

ALL shows have Obedience and Rally.

Mariann Hein, Sec., MBDPC, Inc. FMI - UdxDobeRom@verizon.net
or Chris Pfaff show chair gloryswishes@myinfodog.com

I'd love to meet some of my DSNN pals there!

Athy Conigliaro

[Elaine]

Athy, we’d love to be there. We lived in Maryland while Arthur was in medical school and know the area around this show grounds very well (we kept our mare up in Monkton, and drove by this venue at least twice a week). It’s great venue, a great show put on by some really wonderful fun dog people. I can’t think of a nicer way to spend a weekend. :) One or two of the dogs we’ve bred may like the panel or the venue, but they do not live with us. We don’t have anything to show. Here’s hoping for 2011. :)

[pghsatkin]

Athy - Don and I are going to try to be there. Not sure if we will enter our puppy, but hope to meet you at the show. It sounds like fun. Paula

[Athy]

Hope to see you too! I am usually stewarding most of the day so I can't always chat long but I can certainly say hello :)

Athy

[katdobemom]

Athy
I am hoping the little red head and I will be there.

[Athy]

Oh wouldn't it be grand to get your first leg on your CD in Baltimore?!?! How exciting!!!

Athy

[katdobemom]

Oh wouldn't it be grand to get your first leg on your CD in Baltimore?!?! How exciting!!!

Athy


You are just bound and determined to get us to go for it:)
I dont think the little red head is quite ready just yet.

[Athy]

Just a reminder that the closing date for the MBDPC specialty is this Wednesday, April 7, 2010!

The Metropolitan Baltimore Doberman Pinscher Club's 26th annual Independent Specialty, Puppy and Veterans Sweepstakes, Obedience Trial which includes all Regular classes plus Veterans, all new titling classes including Graduate Novice, Graduate Open, Versatility and Pre Novice, plus all the Rally classes will be held on Friday, April 23rd at the Maryland State Fairgrounds off York Rd. in Timonium MD, less then 10 miles north of Baltimore, off I-83 and the Baltimore Beltway.

Official Ring times will be posted shortly after the closing date Wednesday April 7th.

All judging all shows INDOORS!

Our judges are:
Skip Thielen - Breed Classes
Sharon Marinelli - All Sweeps classes
Janet Lewis Obedience and Rally classes

All the above classes will be held in one building, the Cow Palace. Obedience and Rally will be held in the morning and Conformation early afternoon. Everything in one ring to make it convenient to exhibitors.

We will kick-off the 4 show Cherry Blossom Cluster. We will have a refreshment table, hot dogs and BBQ etc. and baked goodies. Also a raffle and Doberman items for sale by our vendors and a rescue booth with sale items.

Old Dominion Kennel Club, which is one of the largest shows in the east, will be holding their show the next day, Saturday at the same location, with the Potomac Valley Doberman Club also having their specialty Saturday. Baltimore County KC show is Sunday with the Metropolitan Baltimore Doberman Pinscher Club holding a supported specialty at that show.. - Monday is the Catoctin Kennel Club.

ALL shows have Obedience and Rally.

Mariann Hein, Sec., MBDPC, Inc. FMI - UdxDobeRom@verizon.net
or Chris Pfaff show chair gloryswishes@myinfodog.com

[Elaine]

Geez this sounds like fun. We have nothing to show this year (though Tracy and B & C might), but we’ll be there next year for sure. :)

[Athy]

I hope to see some of my DSNN pals there - please come up and introduce yourselves to me if you're there!

I won't have Capricia with me - she's too young to show and I'm so busy with the show, I know I wouldn't be able to spend enough time with her. She needs a great deal of personal attention as you all can imagine :p

Anyway, if you're interested in attending, please get busy, closing date is this coming Wednesday. This is usually a very nice cluster of shows with LOTS of good shopping. Hope to see you there!

Athy

[Athy]

Okay, we got our entries last week and wow, it's shaping up to be one heckuva turnout:

Rally - 12
Obedience - 17
Puppy Sweeps - 13
Vet Sweeps - 1
Dogs - 16 4 POINT MAJOR!!!!
Bitches - 23 4 POINT MAJOR!!!!
Specials - 7

Boy, if you were looking for majors, I hope you entered the Cherry Blossom Circuit. The Baltimore club show is on Friday so our entries are often a couple dogs LESS than the other two shows on Saturday and Sunday. What a weekend of dog showing we're gonna have!!! Let's all hope that everyone stays healthy and will be there so these four pointers hold - how exciting!

As for timing, it looks like we'll start obedience at 9:00, rally somewhere around 11:30, then conformation at 2:00 PM (we'll start with sweeps with regular classes to follow).

Please be sure to stop by to say hello if you're there on Friday whether you're showing or not - we'd love to see you!

Athy :)

[Athy]

The MBDPC's 26th Independent Specialty & Obedience Trial and 6th Rally trial
was held on Friday the 23rd.

It was another great show with majors in Conformation, 17 in Obedience and
12 in our Rally Trial.

Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks to all the exhibitors.

Judge: Skip Thielen

BOB - Ch Mi-Ti's Three Cheers J.Goldblatt, S.Baker, C.Silverman & D.Roof

BOS - Ch Kelview's Gemini V Nova C.Nicholson & C.Kelso

BOW - Ravenswood Winston's Special Edition of Tangiss - B.Lind & E.Bold

WD - Ravenswood Winston's Special Edition of Tangiss (3 POINT MAJOR)

WB - Bravehart's Colors Of The Wind V Caleb - B. Libengood ( 3 POINT MAJOR)

RWD - Caleb's Invincible L Jones, B. Thompson

RWB - Alisaton Wishful Thinking V Gallant Ciden - M. Fitzgerald & G&C
Demilta

Sweeps Judge - Sharon Marinelli

Best in Sweeps - Kelview's Stellar Halftime V Triadel - S. Wolfe & C.
Nicholson

Best Opposite Sweeps - BellnHans Wannabe Irish - Madge Harrison

Best Veteran in Sweeps - Ch Kachina-Sanstone Time Chaser (9 yrs. of age) -
S. Stone & C. Alexander


Obedience Judge - Janet Lewis 17 Dobermans Entered


High in Trial - Kerwynd's Black Swan UD - Don Levinson

High Combined - Targwood's Therwen UD - L. Southam & E. Hammel


Rally Judge - Janet Lewis - 12 Dobermans Entered

REB - Calumet's Vincent Van Gough - Kristin Woodward

RAB - Calumet's Vincent Van Gough - Kristin Woodward

RAA - Adalina Von Amberhaus - Kristin Woodward

RNB - Griffin - Elaine McAvoy

[Athy]

The RWD to the 3 point major was: BellnHans Wannabe Irish owned by Madge
Harrison out of the 6-9 puppy class
....sorry for the error.......

[Elaine]

Thanks Athy, we hear it was a great show. Here is a link to the entry from MBF http://www.infodog.com/RESULTS/2010198401/201019840134200.HTM

[Athy]

Thank you, Elaine, I hope our exhibitors did enjoy themselves. We try very hard to create an environment in which the exhibitors are comfortable and can show their dogs to the best advantage. We don't always succeed 100% but we do try.

We had some timing issues last year and the year before and we tried very hard to resolve them this year and I think we were successful. While we did run a bit late on our obedience classes (moving from regular to rally, we were about 15 minutes behind schedule), we did start conformation classes on time at 2:00. I did receive one compliment from an exhibitor who appreciated that we were moving things along at a brisk pace and kept on time.

I would love to hear feedback from anyone who did attend the show. At our next meeting, we'll have a "post mortem" to identify ways to improve next year's show and I would love to hear your feedback and put it in the mix.

Thanks all!

Athy

[katdobemom]

Athy
Altho Carly and I werent entered in obedience (soon :) ) we both enjoyed ourselves very much.
DAR&E had out table set up as well along with Metropolitan Club and we had a ton of folks stop by.
I am totally bummed I only made it Friday because there is alot going on and not enough time in the day.
You all worked long hard hours out there keeping things moving.