The greatest and biggest dog event in Finland is the Winner Shows in Helsinki. Now there are dubbel shows that offer Winner-titles: Helsinki Winner 2011 on Saturday and Voittaja 2011 on Sunday. The facilities and programme is excellent there is just everything you can hope as a dog fan. Our 16 months old golden juniors were also so wonderful you can just dream of in both days. We really had a great weekend to remember!

On Saturday there were 57 hovawarts and the judge was German Petra Krivy who is also a dog trainer and writes books about dogs. There were 25 males and 32 bitches. The biggest class of the day was typically junior bitches where many breeders represented their future breeding potential. Krivy was typically exact German judge and she had the whole day to concetrate to hovis and so she did! There were 6 junior males and 13 bitches. Freiberufler called Repe and Forscherin called Ofelia behaved very well. They are both very open and sure in their behavior and therefore also very easy to handle in show ring. Krivy liked them both to be very friendly and she wrote that Ofelia was so doog as "suveren in behavior" !!!! So they both charmed Petra Krivy and won junior classes and Tallivahdin kennel got it´s first winner titles! In the future you can put the nice titles HeJW11 in front of our lovely juniors. Repe was in the best male final the first one that did not get placement and he won also Reserve Certificate. His fine result line was JUN EXC1 CQ HeJW11 RES CAC. Ofelia made it even better and won her first Certifikate in the biggest dog show in Finland: JUN EXC1 CQ HeJW11 CAC!!! This is soooo wonderful and now it is very easy to continue towards year 2012! iThank you very much Saana for your great input and our lovely juniors had really earned their hamburgers!

On Sunday the hovi judge was Latvian Inese Pablaka. There were 58 hovis, 4 puppies, 26 males and 28 bitches. Junior males were 8 and bithces again 13. Repe and Ofelia behavied very well again and got excellent judgements. But they did not charm Inese as well as Petra the day before. Repe was JUN EXC2 and Ofelia JUN EXC3. Saana and I had already had the biggest show fever on Saturday so we decided to go shopping and took some (hopefully) nice photos of Ofelia and Repe sitting together with huge Junior Winner rosettes. THANK YOU SAANA AND OFELIA ONCE MORE AND NOW WE CAN HAPPILY CONCENTRATE ON NEXT YEAR AND WORKING DOG TESTS... ;-D