16.9.2014 Mei at the Kauppi track running practices

A few great photos of enthusiastic lure-chaser Mei (Manoush Padmé Amidala) from our first litter at the Kauppi track running practices.

5.8.2014 A lot of things has happened...

It has been a while since I up-dated our blog. Mainly this is because I tend to put our latest news straight to our Manoush Whippets & Border Collies facebook-page https://www.facebook.com/manoushwhippets  (or occasionally to my own personal one). But I thought I´d give a brief up-date on things.

Our Brutus became a father in Sweden at the Magic Colour Whippets kennel. More information regarding this litter (already in their respective homes) at Magic Colour web-page http://www.magiccolour.se/

I visited the pups when they were around 6-weeks-old and they were simply adorable.. It would have been super difficult to pick my favourite from all of them. I am hoping that summer 2015, I am able to see some of the youngsters, if I get to visit Sweden for shows.

Here is a picture of all of them at age of 8 wks.

Other news:

I´ve been going to shows actively with Hayley and so far she has done really well. I am also happy that I´ve met new friends in the breed :D .

• 17.5.2014 in a working breeds speciality show Hayley was Best Bitch-1 & Best of Breed and got her first CC

• 14.6.2014 we attended a group 1 show where Hayley was Best Bitch-2 & got a res-CC.

So that is a very nice start for us :) Here are a few recent pictures of Hayley.

With Brutus I´ve attended a few shows this summer with nice results. We are missing that one qualifying CC for Finnish Ch title (that we already got from Vantaa dog show last autumn, when Brutus was Best Male-2) but our results was disqualified, because I didn´t know that I cannot change entered class from Open to Champion (Brutus is Estonian Champion and not Finnish Champion - the only title that allows the change but I wasn´t aware of that - should´ve checked the rules). So now we continue to "hunt down" that one missing CC and so far we´ve got 3 x res-CCs... So it requires a bit of extra work :D :D Here are a fairly new stacked pic of Brutus.

Iris has been shown sparingly. She just finished her season and from next one in spring 2015, she will be mated.

Other hobbies: My husband Jani and Hayley actively attend agility classes and they are doing great! Here a a few pics from the agility session.

Also, besides being a member of the Finnish Whippet Club, I´ve now also joined Svenska Whippet Klubben  http://www.whippetklubben.se/

6.10.2013 Tuulos Group 10 Show, Brutus Best Male-3

6.10.2013 Tuulos group show for FCI 7 /8 and 10.

Whippets were judged by Helin Kasuk-Tenson. 

"Brutus" Est Ch, Est JCh, TLN JW´12 & TLN W´12 Manoush Darth Tyranus EXC-2 in Champion Class with CQ and BM-3 and res-CC!!!

5.10.2013 Tuulos, Group 1 Speciality Show, Hayley´s first show

"Hayley" Sporting Fields Affairs Of The Heart At Manoush today at Tuulos, Group 1 Speciality Show, Best Puppy Bitch-1 (7-9 month old), Honorary Prize and finally Best Opposite Sex. Judge was Astrid Lundava, Estonia.

15.9.2013 Nilsiä, lure-coursing competition news!! Manu 3rd!!!

Jenni, owner of Manu just sent us a text with some fantastic news. Manu (Manoush Dexter Jettster) came in 3rd place in a very very tough competition. This was his first lure-coursing competition and what a great start it was. Super congratulation to Manu and family!!!! We are soooo proud!!!

30.8.2013 Manoush Whippets & Bordercollies on Facebook!!!

Facebook is in many ways easy way to manage our own www-page. Sure, we still use our blog and www.manoushwhippets.fi, but the latest news can be found on:

https://www.facebook.com/manoushwhippets

30.8.2013 New Finnish Champion (to be confirmed) Manoush Deliah Blue

Iris BOS at the Kouvola National Show 17.8.2013
Our first homebred Finnish Champion WUHUUUU!!!!!! Well done Iris!!!!

23.8.2013 Sporting Fields Affairs Of The Heart At Manoush arrives to Finland!!!

25.7.2013 "Mano" officially measured

Mano was officially measured today for his future lure-coursing and racing licence and he was (as expected) within standard being so far the smallest of the boys in this litter. Mano is 49.4cm tall!!!

24.7.2013 New Estonian Champions

It is official now!!!
We got our first official home-bred Champions.
We could not be happier and prouder!!!

Est Ch, Est JCh, TNLW-12, TLN JW-12 Manoush Darth Tyranus

Est Ch, Est JCh, TLN JW-12 Manoush Deliah Blue

6.-7.7.2013 Pärnu, International Dog Show, Estonia - NEW CHAMPIONS!!!

SUPER RESULTS FROM ESTONIA!!! 

Day 1. (judge: Pjotr Krol, Poland)

BRUTUS Best Male-2, CC, res-CACIB & NEW ESTONIAN CHAMPION!!! (pending confirmation*)
TARA Best Bitch-1, CACIB & Best of Breed!!!
IRIS Best Bitch-3!!!

Thank you Emili Jürgen for all the pictures from the show!!

"Tara" Butterfly for Manoush iz Volzhskoy Serenady Best of Breed!!!

Rest of the full results from Saturday´s show:

Males: 

JUNIORS: 

Ludwig Victories Dominija (LT) EXC1 CQ JCAC BOS-jr BM3 

OPEN: 
Manoush Darth Tyranus (FI) EXC1 CQ CAC BM2 - NEW ESTONIAN CHAMPION!!!!
CHAMPIONS: 
Encautom's Feeling Good (FI) EXC1 CQ CACIB BM1 BOS

Sobers Mandrake at Masaru (DE) - (couldn´t be judged)

Bitches:

JUNIORS: 

Specially Precious Forbidden Fruit (FI) ECX1 CQ JCAC BOB-jr

Zelig Flaming Glory (EE) EXC2 CQ

INTERMEDIED: 
Goodmorningsunshine (FI) EXC1 CQ BB4

Kashmere Glossy Dominija (LT) EXC2 

OPEN: 
Kulikovo Pole Pallada Star (RU) EXC2 

Manoush Deliah Blue (FI) EXC1 CQ BB3 

CHAMPIONS: 
Butterfly For Manoush Iz Volzhskoy Serenady (FI) EXC1 CQ CACIB BOB

Satangin Absolute Carrot (EE) EXC3 CQ
Sportingfields Made In The Usa For Masaru EXC2 CQ CAC res-CACIB BB2

 

Day 2. (judge: Vija Klucniece, LV)

IRIS Best Bitch-1, CC, CACIB, Best in Group-3 & NEW ESTONIAN CHAMPION!!! 

(pending confirmation*)

TARA Best Bitch-3 & res-CACIB!!!

BRUTUS Best Male-1, CACIB & BOS

"Iris" Manoush Deliah Blue Best of Breed and posing with her Champion qualifying CC!!!

"Iris" Manoush Deliah Blue Best of Breed and 

brother "Brutus" Manoush Darth Tyranus Best Opposite Sex!!!

"Iris" Manoush Deliah Blue finally Best in Group-3!!!!!

18.6.2013 Happy Happy Birthday Iris, Brutus, Mano, Manu, Pilkku & Mei!!!

Happy Birthday to all the wonderful pups from our 1st ever Manoush Whippets litter. We continue to appreciate all the owners for taking such a good care of the "little one" :D.

17.7.2013 New stacked pictures of Iris & Brutus

Est JCh, TLN JW´12 & TLN W´12

Manoush Darth Tyranus

Est JCh & TLN JW´12

Manoush Deliah Blue

(copyright of all pictures: Susanne Siponmaa / Manoush Whippets)

12.5.2013 Lure-coursing up-date

I am now up-dating everything as I go. Lure-coursing news 1013 from "Pilkku" Manoush Sy Snootles. He has been very active in coursing and so far competed in 3 competitions with very good results.

9.3.2013 Tammela, Pilkku was 5th
28.4.2013 Tammela, Pilkku was 8th with a CQ

Congratulations to Pilkku´s family!!!
Here is a bit older pic of him.

12.5.2013 News from Germany

"Mei" Manoush Padmé Amidala is living comfortably in Germany with her beloved family Mira and Janne. She was taken part in some shows. Latest news from from Dresden. She competed in intermediate class and was Excellent-1, CQ (SA) and got a res-CC and BB-3!!!! Super news!!! Judge was Caroline v. Zanten from Netherlands. Here is the critique in Finnish:

"1v. ja 10kk vanha erittäin hyvänlaatuinen nuori narttu, erittäin kaunis pää, oikeat silmät, korvat ja hampaat, erittäin kaunis pitkä kaula, valitettavasti vähän liian laskeutuva selkälinja. mutta erittäin oikeanlaiset kylkiluunmuodot (?), rintakehän syvyys ja eturinta. vahvat luut ja oikeanlaiset tassut. seisoo myös erittäin hyvin kinnernivelillä. erittäin kaunis turkki. erittäin kauniit sivuliikkeet, mennessä oikeanlaiset, tullessa hieman leveät liikkeet. ystävällinen käytös."

" 1-year and 10-month old high quality bitch pup, very beautiful head, correct eyes, ears and teeth, very beautiful long neck, unfortunately her topline lowers a bit approaching rear, but very correct ribcage (?), depth of chest and front. Strong bones, correct paws, stands excellently on her hocks (?), very beautiful top coat,. Very beautiful side movements, correct also in going, a bit wide coming. Friendly behaviour."

Here is a picture from the show. Mei and Mira on the left. Congratulations to Team Mei!!!!

12.5.2013 Other news and pictures

Here are some lovely pictures and news sent by the owners of our Tara´s pups.. We are always very excited to see them and also it is super nice to hear how everyone is doing in their "chosen path" :D.

"Manu" Manoush Dexter Jettster took part in his second show in Tuusniemi on 24.2. and judge was again a whippet specialist and breed judge Åke Cronander from Sweden (kennel Albicans). We were thrilled that Manu got an Excellent from him and was placed 2nd in competition class. Well done Team Manu!!!!

"Mano"´s family sent use some new candid pictures of the little firecracker.. he is maturing nicely and we expect great things from him, once he starts his coursing career. Mano is very keen and enthusiastic after the lure and last week he was at the Hyvinkää race track at the practices and ran really really well. Look forward to seeing him race officially! Good job keeping him in super condition Anne and family!

Here are a few pics of Mano at the track and with his lovely family!

Our Brutus at the same practices as well (ran with his mum Tara for the first time :D). Field was too wet for coursing training so we were happy to try out track racing instead.. it was the beginning of our club´s training sessions this summer. Luhtilaukkaajat rules! Thank you Anna for the pictures!

12.5.2013 Some fresh up-dates!!!

I can´t believe I´ve managed to stay away from our blog for this long ;D. I think up-dating facebook comes so naturally so this has just been left behind a "bit". So now we start with some news. Most of the winter, we´ve pretty much kept ourselves quiet, but today, we attended our first show in months.

Both Iris (Manoush Deliah Blue) and his brother Brutus (Manoush Darth Tyranus) were in intermediate  class and our judge was a breed specialist Unto Timonen from Woodbrook´s world famous whippet kennel. I had been looking forward to showing my dogs to him and this was our first opportunity to do so. After a long winter break we were perhaps a bit "rusty" in the ring performance, but I am very pleased to tell that Brutus was EXC-2 & CQ (SA) in his class and he was eventually placed as Best Male-4!!!! Iris, of course wasn't left behind. She won her class with an EXC-1 & CQ (SA) and was placed as well 4th in Best Bitch ring!!! What a super way to start our new show year!! Next show will be our Speciality show in June.. Mother Tara will be going there as well.. so I have a bit of dogs to shows :D.

A few pictures from the show

Brutus

Iris

9.12.2012 Iris at the Winner 2012

It was again the time of the year when you cannot miss out on the biggest and baddest dog show on the planet - Winner 2012 show - in Helsinki!!!

I had entered both Iris and Brutus to the show, but due to a minor accident Brutus wasn't able to attend. When you cannot move to your full potential, it is better to stay at home and rest :).

So on Saturday I visited the Helsinki Winner 2012 to meet up with new friends and see wonderful iggies!!!! It was great to meet Lucien from Fiefoerniek´s Italian greyhounds and Whippets. Lucien´s and Sandra´s italian greyhounds were just a dream to watch!

Also I had a pleasure to surprise Anna and her son Niko and Mano at the ringside. Mano was entered in Junior Class and he got an Excellent and was placed 4th in the competition class. Well done!!!

But back to Winner 2012 on Sunday. It was almost surreal to be at a show with just one dog. Iris performed in general really well and I was pleased with her drive in the ring. The only thing that she wasn't really pleased about was showing her teeth to the judge. She was (as the judge said) on a very stubborn mood that day :D. But she did get an Excellent which we are very happy about.

"17-months old bitch of excellent type and with beautiful lines. Good body and upper line. 
Balanced presence. Moves well. In a bit stubborn mood today"


Here are a few pics from the shows.

Me and Iris (Photo by: Sara Siponmaa)

Iris on the table (Photo by: Antti Ruotsalo)

Mano posing (Manoush Nomi Sunrider, Photo by: Manoush Whippets)

21.10.2012 "Mei" Manoush Padmé Amidala 3rd in LC-competition

Had some wonderful news about Mei and her family in Berlin. She participated in her first lure-coursing competition in Germany and was placed 3rd with top points (being the youngest dog of all breeds). Super congratulations to Mei, Mira and Janne for their success!!!! Super proud!!!!

Here is Mei with her first rosette!!!

21.10.2012 Manoush Darth Tyranus new Estonian Junior Champion!!!

Had a super interesting weekend in Rakvere, Estonia with our little boys Brutus. Since last summer he had been missing just one Junior CC in order to qualify for an Estonian Junior Champion title. I was half thinking that maybe I would just leave it to 2 Jun CCs and forget about traveling to Estonia one more time this year, but in the end I decided that I should make an effort and go there. I mean no harm in trying right! And I am super happy that we did. Our judge was Cristian Stefanescu from Romania and he gave Brutus and EXC-1 on Junior Class and placed him as Best Male -2 as well. Brutus got a wonderful critique as well "Elegant general appearance, excellent excellent head, beautiful neck, normal topline, well developed chest, good muscles, strong croup, good tail, very good presented, very good condition". So we are super pleased with that.

We were supposed to take part in BIS junior competitions but it has been hard and tiresome past two weeks at work, so I decided to skip it this time (and the show next day) and head home. We already got what we came there for and I thought it would be nice to sleep in my own bed this time :D

Here is a few pictures of Brutus in his "thoughts" in our hotel bed (just about to leave for the show). He is such a lovely young male. Just had his 16-month birthday with his sister and I seriously could not be more pleased with them both (and generally our first litter). Brutus is now officially (waiting for confirmation) Est JCh, TLN W´12, & TLN JW´12 Manoush Darth Tyranus. I cannot wait for our adventures next year!!!