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"Hattie" took her title at Scottish Breeds, after
CCs at Welsh KC and WHWT Club in 2006. She
becomes the 6th Champion for her kennel and her sire, Ch
Hopecharm Willie Makeit for Karamynd. She also joins
two littermates as UK Champions, becoming only the third
post war litter to contain 3 UK title holders. All are owned,
bred and handled by Jennie Griffiths. Brother, High As A Kite
has 2 Club show BIS awards, while sister, Paws For Applause
has 2CCs from Crufts and a Club BIS. Hattie went one further
than her littermates, taking BOB and then BIS at Scottish
Breeds, following in the footsteps of sire, Rowan who took BIS
at National Terrier in 2003. Her first litter produced Crufts
Best Puppy, K Play The Game, by Ch Bournehaven Birthday
Guy who sired the last triple Champion litter for the Burneze
kennel. One of these, Chatter Box was also BIS at Scottish
Breeds in 2004.
Photo by D Griffiths
CHAMPION KARAMYND PLAY TO
THE CROWD
5.2.2003
ow/br: Mrs J A Griffiths
  A previous SB BIS winner was Ch Glenveagh
Gabriella who is the dam of 3 Glenveagh Champion littermates.
Hattie is linebred to a mating of Ch Ashgate Sinclair and
Hopecharm Full Of Promise, that produced two UK CC winners.
"Spike" took his 3rd CC & BOB at the National
Terrier after BOB at City of Birmingham and BIS at
the Southern Club in 2006. He becomes the 2nd UK
Champion for Alison Mellor and is a grandson of the
1st, Ch Jillso Just For Me, BIS at the Southern Club in
1998. For the Bellevue kennel of Tina Squire, he becomes
the 7th Champion and descends from three, Ch Ashgate
Bern Era (sire of Just For Me) and his son, Terrier group
winner, double Crufts BOB and Top Westie 1998, Ch
Bournehaven Birthday Guy along with his maternal
grandsire, Ch Mac Hars of Bellevue. Spike is linebred to
the mating of Ch Krisma Streetwise and a daughter of
Birthday Guy, with two bitches appearing in the pedigree,
dam, Bellevue Fire Dancer and granddam, former BP
winner Bellevue She's The One through her son, Bellevue
Just F'fun.
CHAMPION BELLEVUE CAUGHT IN
THE ACT AT JILLSO
27.12.2004
ow: Mrs A Mellor
br: Mrs T Squire
"Kerry" won her first CC at Windsor last year
and further CCs in 2007 at Manchester and the "of
England", becoming the 6th UK Champion for her
owner & breeder, Marie Purchon. She is by Kimgarwyn
Apollo (his 2nd UK Champion) ex CC winner, L Shannon,
a younger sister of the kennel's last Champion, Brannigan.
Kerrygan made her debut in 2004 winning 4 BP awards.
Her first litter to Brannigan produced Lindenka Delta,
winner of 2CCs before his first birthday. Kerry's bitch
line leads to the kennel's first Champions, mother and
daughter, Ch Lasara Lindi at L and Ch L Prim'n'Proper.
Prim'N'Proper produced two UK Champions, Quigley
(another puppy CC winner) and Little Poppet at Crestalen.
Kerry is linebred to two successful stud dogs, Ch Ashgate
Sinclair (the record holder for UK Champions) and RCC
winner, Lasara Look Sharpe, sire of 5 UK Champions.
CHAMPION LINDENKA
KERRYGAN
26.11.2003
ow/br: Mrs M Purchon
After two CCs at Club shows in 2006, Lymehills Drambuie took
his 3rd CC at Birmingham National. He is owned and bred by Jock
Wilson and his daughter, Anne Bailey. "Bruce" becomes the very first
homebred UK Champion for the kennel although Jock handled several
Westies to titles in the 60s and owned Lindenhalls Donna and Discord and
Ch Macnab of Balmaha. Bruce's sire, Ch Hopecharm Willie Makeit for
Karamynd has now sired 7 Champions in the UK. While dam, Gilbri
Maggie Ellen of L has produced several winners abroad including Am Ch
Lymehills Famous Grouse. The pair are distantly linked by UK/Spanish Ch
Ashgate Sheigra through her son, Ch Ashgate Leckie and daughter, Ashgate
Braw Bricht Lass and also through Leckie's sire, Ch UK/Swedish Ch
Ashgate Achnasheen. Bruce made his debut in late 2004, taking Best
Puppy at Crufts the next year. His first CC came at the Centenary show of
the England club and second, with
  BIS, from the WHWT Club last year.
A daughter, Lymehills Chardonnay took a Reserve CC from junior last year
while two offspring have won two titles, American Ch Lymehills Icon at
Birch Bark and American Ch Lymehills Gem of Birch Bank.
Pepabby Priceless becomes the 8th UK Champion for
Pat and Joe Edmondson and Julie Farmer. "Roxie" is a 5th
generation of Champion bitches, leading from dam, Ch Precious,
to Ch Personality, to Ch Pavlova then to the first bitch Champion
Petite. Also appearing in the pedigree are the kennel's first title
holder, Poacher and another Petite daughter, Ch Poppet. Priceless
becomes the first Champion for both parents. Her sire is Ch Krisma
Jammydodger, a Group and RBIS winner who took 3CCs from
junior. Priceless made her debut in 2005 winning several BP
awards. She then won her first CC and BIS from junior at the
WHWT Club of England Centenary show in 2006 and her second
this year at National Terrier. Jammydodger and Precious are
distantly linked by Olac Moonmaverick, sire of Crufts BIS Ch Olac
Moon Pilot and Poppet and Personality's sire, Pepabby Posh, a son
of Poacher's CC winning sister, Promise. The Pepabby line lies in
CHAMPION LYMEHILLS
DRAMBUIE
19.4.2004
ow/br: Mr J Wilson
& Mrs A Bailey
CHAMPION PEPABBY
PRICELESS
25.10.2004
ow/br: Mr & Mrs J M
Edmondson
the Highstile breeding of the Bertrams but combining influential
sires like Ch Haweswalton Houdini and Ch Kristajen Charterman
and their own dogs, Poacher, Posh and Paramount.
Maybole won her first CC as a junior at the first show
of 2006. She took her 2nd at Paignton with her grandsire
and the first double CC for her owner. The 3rd came at the
May SKC and so she becomes the 29th homebred Champion
for the Ashgate kennel, now #3 in the UK after Wolvey and
Famecheck. 5 more have been bred by others. Maybole is
owned and bred by Sue Thomson from two homebreds, the multi-
titled Ch A Scot's Progress and the JW winning, A Mary. She
is Scot's 2nd UK Champion and is linebred to littermates,
Sinclair and Skerry. Mary was one of Sinclair's last daughters
and from a Skerry daughter, Ch A Spey. Scot is by the similarly
multi-titled Ariostea Pilgrim to Ashgate (a grandson of Skerry
through his dam Ch A Sonsie but also a great great grandson of
Sinclair) ex a bitch by Ch A Ivanhoe (a Sinclair grandson) from
UK/Irish Ch Kyntilly Highland Wisdom at A, the sole Sinclair
Champion daughter at Ashgate.
CHAMPION ASHGATE
MAYBOLE
2.10.2004
ow/br: Mrs S Thomson
"Delta" won his 3rd CC at Bath with BOB, after the
rare feat of winning 2CCs as a puppy in 2006, ending
the year as one of the Top Puppies all breeds. Not yet
18 months, Delta becomes the 7th Champion for his breeder
Marie Purchon and the 2nd in 2007 after his dam, Kerrygan
was made up at the of England show. Delta comes from
Kerry's first litter and is also the first UK Champion for his
sire, Ch L Brannigan. Brannigan is Kerry's uncle as she is
from his CC winning younger sister, Shannon so Delta is
linebred to the mating of Ch Krisma Streetwise and Lindenka
Zippitydoodah. For a short time the Lindenka kennel housed
6 UK Champions (the 7th, Little Poppet was owned by Audrey
Allen) until the sad passing of the bitch behind them all, Ch
Lasara Lindi at Lindenka. She was dam of the first Lindenka
Champion, L Prim'n Proper, then was made up herself. The
rest of the Lindenkas descend from her.
CHAMPION LINDENKA
DELTA
..
ow/br: Mrs M Purchon
CHAMPION LINDENKA
DELTA
6.12.2005
ow/br: Mrs M Purchon
"Rocco" made his UK debut at Crufts this year and took the
CC, BOB and was pulled out in the group final. He had travelled
from Sweden with his owner, Suzanne Birberg of the Match kennel
but was bred in France by Ruth O'Connor. He became the first overseas
Westie to win BOB at Crufts. Later in the year he returned to the UK
and took 2CCs in 2 shows, both BOB and with group places, handled by
Geoff Corish (he has handled over 30 UK Westie Champions). Rocco is
only the 4th overseas dog to gain a title in the UK. Geoff handled the 2nd,
Tweed Tartan Caledonier in the 70s and Rocco is a descendant. The
Moulin de Macgregor kennel of Ruth O'Connor is successful across Europe
in Westies and Scotties (Rocco is not the 1st Crufts CC winner bred there)
She incorporated UK lines from the Wesscots kennel of Maureen Emmins.
Rocco is linebred to two, French Ch W Gladiator and W Over The Moon.
The Wesscots proved influential for the short time it operated with 4 UK
Champions bred there and Wesscots dogs behind Krisma and Bellevue
Champions. Rocco himself went to Sweden at 12 months old. He is an
INT/NORDIC/UK CH SPOILT BRAT DU MOULIN DE MACGREGOR
13.9.01
ow: Mrs S Birberg (Sweden)
br: Mrs R O'Connor (France)
International and Nordic Champion, winning 21CCs in Sweden before his
2nd birthday. He was Top Swedish Westie in 2004 and has sired nine
Champions so far. Suzanne's Match kennel has produced 13 Champions
despite breeding on a small scale.
Hoi Poloi took her 1st and 2nd CCs in 2006 at the
special Centenary show and Belfast, where she also took
Group#2. She is owned and bred by Ken and Pamela Crockett,
becoming the 6th UK Champion for the Havasu kennel (4 within
the last two years), and a first for sire and dam. She is by German
Ch Brait Nouz Grasshopper ex Irish/UK/Danish Ch Havasu
Humber Lady. The two are distantly linked by Ashgate breeding.
Two of Grasshopper's great grandfathers are UK bred, Danish Ch
Prince William of Clantartan and German Ch Trewen Tartan
Ranger. The litter also contained 3 other Champions, Am Ch H
Reeks Havoc at Charosmack, Can/Am Ch H Hobgoblin and recently
crowned Irish Ch H Pocus Hocus. Humber Lady is already the
granddam of a UK Champion, the Foster's H Hidden Treasure at
Thozow. Humber Lady's dam, H Impatiens won a CC and is a
granddaughter of Ir Ch Glenveagh Melrose Morag, dam of the first
two Glenveagh Champions, Giselle and Tamara. Giselle was the
IRISH/UK CHAMPION
HAVASU HOI POLOI
31.10.02
owners/breeders:
Mr K & Mrs P E Crockett
granddam of the first Havasu Champion, Glenveagh Natasha at H.
"Darcy" became the 7th UK Champion for Roz Dunne
after winning her 3rd CC at Welsh Kennel Club, after two
CCs in 2006. She and her litter brother, Cause A Storm
made their debuts in 2005 and took Best Puppy awards,
Darcy's at Crufts. Cause A Storm won a Reserve CC before
going to Australia and winning his title there quickly. Darcy
becomes the 8th UK Champion for her sire, Ch Hopecharm
Willie Makeit for Karamynd and 2nd for her dam, Ch C Clear
Dreams. Both parents are Group winners and former Top
Westies. Willie Makeit was BIS at 2002's National Terrier
and Top Westie in 2003. Clear Dreams won the Group at the
May Scottish Kennel Club in 2004 and was Top Westie in the
same year. The litter also contained a Canadian Champion and
an American Champion. Winning Best Puppy awards in 2007
was new boy Charosmack Cool Spook, a son of Cause A Storm
from another Charosmack group winner, Ch C Cool Secret.
CHAMPION CHAROSMACK
CAUSE TO WONDER
12.3.05
ow/br: Mrs R Dunne
"Spirit" made quite an impact in his first show year.
He took 8 Best Puppy awards, including the Puppy Terrier
Group and overall Best Puppy in Show at Three Counties and
#3 Terrier Puppy at South Wales, making him Top Puppy.
After turning one year he took 3CCs at his next three shows,
Bournemouth, City of Birmingham (BOB & Group#3) and
Richmond (BOB). He becomes the 8th UK Champion for Tina
Squire's kennel and descends from all 5 owned by her. He
becomes the first Champion for Int Ch Bellevue Careless Spirit
who lives in the Netherlands at the Dashing Devils kennel but
returned to Bellevue, siring 6 Best Puppy winners in 2007, one
Champion and another with a Reserve CC. Spirit Catcher's dam,
Holly Munday descends from all 5 previous Bellevue Champions
but links closest to Ch Bournehaven Birthday Guy, sire of
Careless Spirit and 4 UK Champions plus two 2007 Reserve CC
winners.
CHAMPION BELLEVUE SPIRIT
CATCHER
21.7.06
ow/br: Mrs T Squire
Aflame took her first CC last year at Driffield, then
her 2nd at Bath and 3rd at Richmond making her the 8th
Incheril Champion, the first since I And You're Mine in 1991
and the first owned by Douglas Berry, the son of Ela and Charlie
Berry. Mr Berry sadly passed away in 2007 and owned all the
previous Champions, everyone homebred. Aflame also becomes the
first Champion for sire and dam. Her sire is Hopecharm Willie
Gofar, the BP winning littermate of Ch H Willie Makeit for K.
Willie Gofar also sired another 2007 CC winner and Res CC winner.
He is a grandson of CC winner, H Full Of Fire who sired Aflame's
dam, I Firedancer, a RCC winner. Her litter brother Firecracker,
(also a RCC winner) sired RCC winners and another litter sister
produced a RCC winner to Willie Gofar. Aflame descends from And
You're Mine's dam, I Aida who in turn descends from the Incherils
first Champion, Amarylis, made up in 1966. Meaning the kennel
has made up Champions in every one of the last 5 decades.
CHAMPION INCHERIL
AFLAME
27.8.03
ow/br: Mr D Berry
Arry becomes the first Westie Champion for Linda
Minnett's Duskhunter kennel, though not the first UK
Champion as she made up an Irish Setter, Sh Ch Tamarisk
Tarragon of Duskhunter in the 1980s. Arry won CCs at the
August SKC in 2005, Leeds in 2006 and Driffield 2007, plus 2
Reserves along the way. His litter sister, Million'T'One has 3
RCCs including one at Crufts. They are by Irish Ch Burneze
Maxamillion, the litter brother of UK Champion Burneze Just
Annie Lusion. He has now sired two UK Champions. Arry's dam
is Duskhunter Charlies Angel, a daughter of CC winner, Bellevue
Sundance at D from a daughter of two other key bought in dogs,
Furzeleigh Star Quality at D and Aronstan Anna of D. The kennel
had a successful year with three puppies who all won BP awards,
Team Spirit, Winter Special and Devoneyre. Spirit & Devoneyre
are grandchildren of another daughter of Charlies Angel, while
Winter Special is a son of Sundance from a granddaughter of
CHAMPION DUSKHUNTER
MILLIONHEIR
17.6.03
ow/br: Mrs L Minnett
Anna. An earlier litter produced Australian/NZ Ch Duskhunter
X Factor of Whitebriar.




The kennel had a successful year with three puppies who all won
BP awards, Team Spirit, Winter Special and Devon Eyre.