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Breed News 2023


** The Kennel Club Announcement **

Today, on our 150th anniversary, The Kennel Club is delighted to announce that it has been granted a Royal Prefix. Our organisation. Chairman of The Kennel Club, Tony Allcock OBE, said: “We are honoured that as of the 4 April 2023, the date the club celebrates its 150th anniversary, The Kennel Club will be known as The Royal Kennel Club. The Kennel Club was established in 1873 and since its inception has held royal patronage. The club began for the purpose of bringing order and regulations to dog shows and field trials which were taking place at the time. Since then, the club has evolved into a multi-faceted organisation encompassing the UK pedigree and working dog registry, The Kennel Club Charitable Trust, Crufts dog show, the Young Kennel Club, the Good Citizen Dog Training scheme and the members’ club itself, which has over 1500 members.



Beryl Lincoln (Zorosean)

(9th March 1934 - 23rd February 2023 - 88 Years Old


It is with immense sadness that we report the passing of Beryl. She passed away in her sleep at the Gables Care Home, in Kidderminster.  We send our deepest sympathy to husband Barry, daughter Diana, son in law Tony and family. Beryl will be dearly missed by her many Irish Setter friends.

The funeral service will be held at the Holy Trinity Church, Gisleham
(Nr Kessingland, Suffolk, on Thursday 9th March at 10.00am
(This day would have been Beryl's 89th Birthday).


Maureen Justice (Liric)

(1939-2022)

It is with much sadness that we report the passing of Maureen today,
9th December 2022. She will be greatly missed by everyone in the dog world.

A very successful Breeder, Exhibitor & Judge. Known for her love of Gordon Setters, Irish Setters,
Cocker Spaniels & Dachshunds.

Maureen still holds the Breed Record for Gordon Setters with her
Show Champion Liric High Society.

We send our deepest sympathy to her family & friends at this
immensely sad time.


** A Terrible Incident **
Lynn Muir & Her Show Champions

On  August 15th a terrible incident happened at the home of Lynn Muir. Lynn was at home and her dogs were in the house, with access to the secure garden, when a delivery driver
(not delivering to Lynn) entered her driveway through the closed gates, leaving them wide open and then went into the garden area where the dogs were, through another closed gate, leaving that open also. Having heard someone arrive, the dogs ran out of the house, and went through both open gates into the road, where sadly an HGV was travelling past at speed.

Tragically,  “Joe”....   SH CH Gwendariff  I’m Comin Out and  “Lola” ....SH CH Gwendariff’s Up To Somethin  were hit and died instantly. Miraculously, Fletcher and Kit survived unharmed.

 

The person responsible left the scene immediately and drove off without any thought for the actions he had caused, leaving Lynn to deal with the devastation that faced her. Her neighbour ( who heard the noise) and the lorry driver helped all they could. Myself and Jim arrived shortly afterwards.

 

Lynn adored her beautiful Irish and  is absolutely devastated and heartbroken, and is struggling to come to term with what has happened. She is in need of a lot of care and is being supported by Jim, myself, her family and Diane and Alec.

 

Whilst I’m sure many of you will want to contact her personally, would everyone kindly respect her feelings that she is not able to talk to anyone, at this moment in time.

Pennie Barrett


Junior Warrant

Press release from the Kennel Club

JUNIOR WARRANT POINTS CRITERIA EXPANDED

The Kennel Club Board has agreed to expand the points criteria under which Junior Warrant points can be claimed, with immediate effect.In the case of open shows, in addition to those wins which currently qualify for one point, the following also now meet the criteria: any group placing, any puppy group placing, Best in Show, Reserve Best in Show, Best Puppy in Show or Reserve Best Puppy in Show where at least one other dog was competing. This will only be valid if no other Junior Warrant points have been claimed for this dog at the show.

The criteria for championship shows has also been updated so as to make it possible to claim points for both Best of Sex and Best Puppy of Sex wins.
Only one point may be claimed from any open show and this clause remains unchanged. There is also no change to the championship show points criteria.

 

Kathryn Mansfield, Kennel Club Secretary, said: “We are very pleased to announce these amendments to the points system for the Junior Warrant title. Open shows are a very important ‘training ground’ in the UK for young dogs and so it is only right that the top awards at group and Best in Show level should count toward this award.



“In the case of championship shows, under the previous points system, dogs which had won a breed class and were unable to claim points (i.e. only one in the class) and were subsequently awarded Best of Sex (beating the correct number of dogs) or Best Puppy of Sex were still unable to claim any points unless they went on to win Best of Breed. This latest update remedies that situation.”


The updated Junior Warrant points criteria can be found at thekennelclub.org.uk/forms/junior-warrant.

YOU CAN COUNT POINTS FROM 1st JULY


Limitation on 'hereditary clear' status postponed to 2023

Published on 4 July 2021


Following the announcement that The Kennel Club will limit the
assignment of ‘hereditary clear’ status of registered dogs to two generations, the organisation has announced that
this change is now set to be implemented as of January 2023.

The decision to restrict hereditary status was made by The Kennel Club Board in 2018 on the recommendation
of the Dog Health Group, and followed a Kennel Club study, published in the journal of Canine Genetics and Epidemiology.
This change was put forward to safeguard against the impact that dogs with an incorrect ‘hereditary clear’ status could
have on health issues within a breed. Hereditary clear status is given to dogs that are determined to be free of specific
genetic material linked to a particular inherited disease. The Kennel Club’s registration system assigns a dog this status if their parents are known to be clear, either because they have both been DNA tested as clear, or because they are hereditary clear themselves. Dogs could be mistakenly given a false hereditary clear status for a number of reasons; for example if there
has been a failure of laboratory protocols, pedigree errors or incorrectly recorded parentage. In these instances it is
unlikely that the inaccuracies would be noticed immediately, but rather that several generations later many dogs
throughout the breed descended from the individual with the original incorrect status will also have erroneous
hereditary status, and the well-intended mating of two such apparently hereditary clear dogs risks producing affected puppies.
The Kennel Club research analysed the risks faced by a population following the incorrect assignment of hereditary status and determined that the rate of dogs with false hereditary clear status could rise considerably over a fairly small number of generations,
particularly for genetic conditions that are more common. To reduce the knock-on effect of these errors, and the risk of
unintentionally breeding affected puppies, The Kennel Club will be ensuring that from January 2023, the ‘hereditary clear status’
will be limited to two generations, unless lineage is verified by DNA parentage profiling recorded by The Kennel Club.
DNA parentage profiling is a separate procedure to screening DNA for disease causing mutations, but can often
be carried out at the same time by the same laboratory.

Originally scheduled to come into effect in January 2022, this has now been
postponed to 2023 to allow for necessary development work to be completed and in order for ‘hereditary clear’
status to be as effective and reliable as possible.


** Congratulations **
Veteran Warrants for Claire & Sarah & Nikola




Sarah & Claire

The first two Irish Setters in the UK to gain their Veteran Warrants

Sarah Tupper & Nikola Rosie'sStaratlanta Elliott Sh CM (Finnegan) Sarah’s was the first Male (L)

Claire Prangle's Heathclare Que Sera Sera Sh CM (Music) was the first female (R)

Sarah (L) & Claire (R) celebrated with fizz and cake at the recent Driffield Show


Kennel Club Puppy Registrations 2021 vs 2020
Gundog Group

Breed

2020

2021

Irish Setter

645

935

Labrador Retriever

39,905

61,559

Cocker Spaniel

25,565

38,910

English Springer Spaniel

9,123

14,579

Golden Retriever

8,653

11,808

Pointer

507

754

Gordon Setter

268

244

English Setter

140

293

Irish Red & White Setter

83

46




World Dog Show Madrid
26th June 2022

Congratulations To Diane, Alex & Lindsey
On their trip to Madrid


CAC, CACIB, BOB & Spanish Beauty Chanpion Tittle

Sh Ch Gwendariff Come Fly With Me Owned by Alec Stewart

(Handled by Diane Stewart-Ritchie)


CAC, CACIB & Spanish Beauty Champion Title

Sh Ch, Sp Ch Gwendariff Willy Wont He CW’22, WW20 Owned by Lindsey Dewar
Handled by: Diane Stewart-Ritchie

 

Breed Judge: Emma Archibald & Group Judge: Luis Pinto Teixeira


The OUR DOGS Crufts Classic is available to view online
Click here - Download HERE  https://bit.ly/3HqUMGf 


PHOTOGRAPHS

If you have any photos of Irish Setter Winners taken at

General / Breed Club Championship Shows or Open Breed Club Shows

We would be delighted to publish them on the website on our results pages.

Please email or message us with your photos.

We have a number of photographers who provide us with photos on a

regular basis but we are not always able to cover every show.

 


Peter James MBE (Wendover) 1931 - 2022

It is with immense sadness we report the passing of Peter James MBE, on 26th January 2022. Peter was born
on 23rd November 1931, East Hadden, Northampton (John, Peter, Compton James) Son of the late Leslie Compton (Jimmy)
and the late Dorothy Joyce (Castell) James of the famous Wendover Kennels.

 

Peter was awarded the MBE in 2003 for services to the world of dogs. Having served as Chairman of the Kennel Club
for nearly six years 1996-2002, and as vice-Chairman for some eight years before
. He was also a General Committee
Member from 1982.
In addition Peter was a past President & Honorary Member of The Irish Setter Association, England.

 

We also report that Peter's wife Julie sadly passed away on 30th December 2021.

Peter & Julie (Julie Suzanne Garner), were married October 14, 1957.

Peter & his wife Julie married for 64 years

 


Ronnie Irving, Julie James, Kate Irving & Peter James

Attending the ISAE Centenary Dinner in 2008

Ronnie Peter's Vice Chairman succeeded Peter as Chairman at the KC  in 2002

 

 

Peter James & Geoff Coupe at Crufts

Peter James & Rita Bryden opening the Irish Setter Exhiibition at the Kennel Club

 


Peter James & Rita Bryden - ISAE Championship Show 2003

 

We send our deepest sympathy to their daughter Sarah, and sons
Mark, John,
Thomas &, Peter.

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The Wendover Story

(This book can still be found on-line)

The book chronicles the life of Peter James’ mother and father L C and J James who became breeders and exhibitors
of Irish Setters under the prefix Wendover. Their kennels became one of the most important in the history of the breed.
The book includes a chapter on  W J Rasbridge and PRA using Rasbridge’s own papers, never before used and
kindly lent by Mrs Rita Bryden. The chapter also highlights modern research into PRA and CLAD by Dr Jeff Sampson.
The publication was limited to a print run of 1,000. All sales of the book went to the KC Charitable Trust Health
Foundation and The John MacDougall Educational Resource Centre at The Animal Health Trust.

 

Funeral arrangements:

We are having a small family funeral. The funeral will take place on Thursday 17th February. If friends would like to make a donation in memory of Peter and Julie, we have a page for donations to Marie Curie The MC support was wonderful as was our local surgery. The link to the page with details for online or cheque donations can be found here: https://hollowells.co.uk/funeral-donations/ We would like to let you all know too that the kind wishes we have received from friends in the dog world has been overwhelming. We appreciate those so much

Sarah (Peter's daughter)


UK Top Irish Setter 2021 - 3rd Place Top Gundog
Sh Ch Riverbrue Alchemist Amidst Kespas JW


Congratulations to Ken & Pat Stockton
On a wonderful year with Ronnie

10 CCs, 8 BOBs, 5 Gundog Group 2s, 3 x Breed BIS, 2 x RCCs in 2021

 

 


Top Irish Setter Sire 2021
Congratulations to Christine McLarnon & Jamie

Sh Ch Northamber Just Cause for Glenavna JW (owned by Christine McLarnon)


 


The late Michelle Webster's  Irish Setter Pedigree Database has now been donated to the
Irish Red Setter Rescue Charitable Trust (IRSRCT).
Access can be obtained by clicking on this link below


Kennel Club announces Stud Book Bands for 2022


 

        ** UK Top Breeders All Breeds 2021**

A superb achievement by Diane & Alec, on winning Top Breeders All Breeds In the UK.

In 2021: 5 new Sh Ch's, 12 individual CC Winners, 24 CC’s & 18 RCC’s

Many congratulations to you all.

 


Top CC Winner 2021

Sh Ch Riverbrue Alchemist Amidst Kespas - Owned by: Ken & Pat Stockton
10 CC's in 2021, Southern Counties, Leeds, National Gundog, Blackpool, Driffield,
SOEISC, Birmingham, ISBC,ISAE, NEEISC,


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