At 18 months pictured by Carl-Emil
International, Swedish & Danish Champion, World Winner 2008
WINTERKLOUD FREJYA
(Fürstin Games Master to Winterkloud ex.Cransbere Tyegah Lillie of Winterkloud)
Born: September 30, 2006 Breeder: Sarah McGill, England
At 18 months pictured by Carl-Emil
Pictured at six months, just about to catch something of interest...
2010
June 19
We have just had a
lovely weekend at the Swedish KC All Breeds show in Alfta,
north of Stockholm. Our Ch Winterkloud Frejya was BOB, Group winner and ended up
3rd Best in Show!!!
Litter sister and brother Airescot Good Fellow and Airescot Goody Goody
(Ch Winterkloud Hector ex. Schnaffentangens Gimme Gimme) were awarded their qualifying CC's
for their Swedish
titles. Good Fellow is owned by Liz-Beth Liljeqvist of Newfoundland fame in
Sweden
and he won his title winning three CC's in a row.
At the Alfta show the breed was judged by Cindy Pettersson and the group by Paul Stanton.
Best In Show was judged by Leif Ragnar Hjort, Norway.
Below a few pictures from ringside in the group final taken by Torbjörn Flygar..
June 17
No Updates about Frejya on this page for six months! Incredible!
To make up for this neglect we'll now brag about the good news that she gained her third CC in England
at Southern Counties All Breeds Championship Show June 5th and can thus add another prestigious title to her previous ones!!!
She was also Best Of Breed.
BOS to Frejya, winning his first CC in England, was the new import from Canada
Am/Can Ch Hilanne's Shoot For The Moon.
Affenpinschers were judged by the English breed specialist Delia Shepherd.
2009
December 14
This year's final International KC show in Sweden took place in Stockholm 12-13 December.
Sunday 16 Affenpinschers were entered under Nina Karlsdotter, who found her BOB
in Winterkloud Hector. BOS to him was Frejya, still not in her best coat since her recent litter.
Frejya's son Airescot Merry Christmas "Tarzan", by Ch Airescot Peer Gynt, made a successful debut in Junior class.
He was awarded the dog CC and was beaten only by Hector.
His owners are Christer Ivarsson and Peter Hellholm, Party-Line's Poodles and Kerry Blue Terriers, Sweden.
Tarzan was expertly
handled by Christer. We look forward to seeing more of them in the rings next
year.
Below is a picture of Frejya's daughter Airescot Summer Temptation "Melissa" by Ch Linsgift Hairy Potter,
now almost 4 months old.
Even if Frejya is the most perfect mother she'll now have at least a year without any such duties.
November 11
At the Danish KC
two International All Breed Shows in Herning November 7 and 8
Hector and Frejya both won their Danish titles, Frejya won her 13th and
qualifying CACIB
for her
International title. Hector was BOB both days. He had already been awarded his
qualifying CACIB.
Day one Affenpinschers were judged by Zeljka Fon Zidar, Slovenia.
Day two they were judged by her husband Miroslav Zidar.
Frejya's puppies by Ch Linsgift Hairy Potter are now 11 weeks old.
At the English Affenpinscher Club's Championship Breed Specialty
Hairy Potter won the Dog CC and was Res. Best In Show.
He's by Ch Uncle
Urkle at Cransbere ex. Linsgift Bedellus Maudy Merrier.
Best In Show was the bitch Avantgarde Mistress Moonshine, winning her second CC.
She is by Roxilyn
Just So for Rosehayes ex. A. Mehitabelle, and is thus a half sister to our
"Madicken",
Avantgarde Moonshine Madness Madam, as they are sired by the same dog.
We are very proud to now have stock so closely related to all these top winning Affenpinschers.
Breed specialist Carole Mumby, kennel Carmichan, judged the entry of 102 Affenpinschers.
We haven't been very good at taking pictures of Frejya's
puppies, but this is what their heads looked like at nine weeks.
They are now 11 weeks old.
Boy 1, Airescot Summer Affection Boy 2, Airescot Summer Attraction
Girl 1, Airescot Summer Temptation Girl 2, Airescot Summer Fascination
September 25
Frejya's puppies by Hairy Potter were four weeks old when they were kindly pictured by Alfred Hove,
kennel Oceanwild, Norway.
As this litter is the result of Summer Love in England
the boys are named Airescot Summer Affection and Airescot Summer Attraction,
the girls Airescot Summer Fascination and Airescot Summer Temptation.
Boy 1 and Boy 2
Girl 1 and Girl 2
August 25
This morning Frejya gave birth to her litter by GB Ch
Linsgift Hairy Potter, two boys and two girls.
They were born a few days earlier than expected but mother and puppies are
thriving after an easy whelping.
Below you can see
pictures of Hairy Potter and his sire as well as a fantastic five generation
pedigree of the litter,
kindly made up for us by Pilar Hannan, Spain, who has also taken the picture of
"Gus".
Hairy Potter, "Potter" Uncle Urkle At Cransbere, "Gus"
August 12
After a couple of
successful months in England with her breeder Sarah McGill our Ch Winterkloud
Frejya is back home in Sweden
since a week, very pregnant after having been bred in England to the young GB Ch
Linsgift Hairy Potter
(US GB Ch Uncle Urkle at Cransbere ex. Linsgift Bedellus Maudy Merrier).
Pedigree and pictures will soon be published here. The litter is expected by the end of August.
June 16
Yesterday, at Three Counties Championship Show in England,
Ch Winterkloud Frejya won her second Res. CC,
this time beaten for Best Bitch by Rosara Rock Star At Ingerdorm, judged by Mrs.
Sonya Saxby.
BOB, winning his third and qualifying CC, was the young male Linsgift Hairy
Potter,
by Ch Uncle Urkle at Cransbere, the sire of our newborn puppies.
Best Puppy at this show was Winterkloud Rockefeller, also a son of Uncle Urkle
ex. Winterkloud Liberty, older full sister of Frejya and the dam of our Ch
Winterkloud Hector.
Congratulations to Linda and Sarah McGill to another successful day.
At last new snapshots of Frejyas puppies by
Peer Gynt
6 months old on Friday, June 19.
The male Airescot Merry Christmas, "Tarzan" is living
happily with Christer Ivarsson and Peter Hellholm
at kennal Party-Line's in Sweden. Airescot Happy New Year has stayed with the
Airescots.
Airescot Merry Christmas, "Tarzan"
Airescot Happy New Year, "Happy"
June 10
At Southern
Counties Championship show Frejya won the reserve CC,
this time beaten for Best Bitch by Carmichan Jazz Meena JW. The judge was
Jessica Gruninger, Darkle Affenpinschers.
From Post Graduate Linsgift Hairy Potter won his second CC and BOB.
From Delia Shepherd,
Avantgarde Affenpinschers, we just received a picture she took at WELKS a month
ago of Frejya and "Gus",
Ch Uncle Urkle at Cransbere, the two CC winners at that show. In the breed ring
Sarah McGill handled them both in their classes,
but for this picture Karen Edwards kindly helped her with Frejya.
May 25
At the All Breeds Championship show at Bath May 22 there were no CC's on offer for Affenpinschers,
but Liz Stannard all the same had a very good entry of 34 Affens.
We were delighted that Frejya again was Best Bitch and BOS, this time to Kilbarchan's Master Copy JW.
May 11
Yesterday
Frejya won her second CC in England, again
with BOS and again handled by her breeder, Sarah McGill.
This was at the National Dog Show in Birmingham. BOB was the res. CC winner at
WELKS Linsgift Hairy Potter.
Res. Dog CC was Ch Kilbarchan's Master Copy JW, res Bitch CC was again Ch Mimosa
Of Riogaioch JW.
The entry of 57 was judged by John Turner.
May 3
Back home after having delivered Frejya to her breeder Sarah McGill, who will be showing her in England for a couple of months.
Her first show was only a few days after her arrival to Sarah, WELKS All Breeds Championship show.
Hiding in the
background this was the first time I have seen Frejya from ringside, as I've
always handled her myself.
It was a joy to see her showing as happily as ever, and I was, of course,
delighted that she was awarded the Bitch CC and BOS.
BOB was GB&Am Ch Uncle Urkle at Cransbere, "Gus", and the res. CC winner was a
son of his, Linsgift Hairy Potter.
Gus is owned by Sarah and her mother Linda, but was also handled by Sarah.
55 Affenpinschers were entered under Siv Jernhake, Sweden.
The Toy Group was judged by Liz Cartledge, where "Gus" was pulled out but unplaced.
April 15
The Swedish KC International Easter show was our first time out this year in Sweden.
This time Affenpinschers were judged by Birgitta Hasselgren, Sweden.
Frejya was BOB, and in the afternoon finals she was #2 in the Group, judged by Elzbieta Chwalibog, Poland.
In the evening
Frejya had been invited to the Champion of Champions Gala Match Show,
based on her merits in group competition during 2008.
For an Affenpinscher to be invited to compete with last year's top winning dogs
of all breeds
was a great honour indeed. She didn't win the match, of course, but we were very
proud of the way she performed.
Next week Frejya is off to England, where she's going to spend a couple of months with her breeder Sarah McGill
to try her luck in the British show rings.
March 15
*Today
we must brag about being awarded prizes for the Top Winning Affenpinscher 2008 (Ch
Winterkloud Frejya)
and for the Top Winning Swedish Bred Affenpinscher 2008 (Airescot Peer Gynt).
The prizes were given out yesterday at the Swedish Schnauzer Pinscher Club's
Annual Meeting.
What we didn't know until yesterday was that Frejya was also #2 of all Schnauzer
Pinschers in Sweden 2008,
only beaten by the top winning black Miniature Schnauzer Ch Fixus Hasta La Vista.
*We
are also very proud that Frejya's group placings during 2008 have qualified her
to be one of only four breeds
from the huge FCI group 2 to be invited to the Champion of Champions competition
held in connection
with the International all breeds Easter show in Stockholm next month.
January 30
At last we have managed to take a couple of snapshots of Frejya's puppies by Peer Gynt, six weeks old today.
The boy Airescot Merry Christmas and the bitch Airescot Happy New Year.
"Merry"
"Happy"
2008
December 21
The day before
yesterday, December 19,
Frejya without
any problems gave birht to her litter by
Airescot
Peer Gynt.
Disappointing to all who were hoping to have a puppy from this litter, as there
were only two of them, a male and a bitch.
In these days
of Christmas Greeting cards they have been amply named
Airescot Merry Christmas (the boy) and Airescot Happy New Year.
They are very well taken care of by their proud mother,
and as you can see on the picture below they are fat and shiny.
UPDATE October 17
*Winterkloud Frejya has at last come
into her long awaited season and today she was successfully bred to
Airescot Peer Gynt,
so we hope for a litter by medium December. For both of them it will be their
first litter,
and as for Peer it will be his last in this part of the world as he is off to
his new owner in Australia in the beginning of November.
For more details and pedigree of the expected litter go to
Affenpinscher/Breeding.
*As I realize that I haven't made any
individual Updates on our Affens since June,
I'll try to cut out from the main Updates the news which concern each dog.
Below are some of the Updates about Frejya's incredibly successful Summer 2008.
Update September 16
September 13-14 the Swedish KC held its International two day All Breeds Show
in the beautiful Sofiero Castle Park and the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Specialty a few miles from there.
To these shows we had entered Airescot Peer Gynt and Winterkloud Frejya.
Breed judge at Sofiero was the Swedish allrounder and Schnauzer-Pinscher specialist Nina Karlsdotter.
From an entry of 17
Affenpinschers she placed Frejya BOB, winning her 17th CC and her 8th CACIB.
BOS to her, winning his 6th CC and his first CACIB having just reached the
eligible age of 15 months, was Peer Gynt.
Saturday afternoon Nina Karlsdotter decided to give Frejya the group,
a terrific
achievement by Frejya in this huge group and her first #1 , even if she has been
close to it before.
The picture below was taken there and then by Per Undén.
At the Schnauzer-Pinscher Specialty the following day Leni Finne from Finland was our breed judge.
Both CC's were again given to Peer Gynt and Frejya, but this time Peer was BOB and Frejya BOS.
Before rushing back
to the Sunday BIS finals at Sofiero we had time to take Peer Gynt into the
Specialty BIS final,
where he was BIS #3, judged by Wilfried Lohmann, Germany.
The SKK BIS final
at Sofiero was judged by Jochen Eberhardt, Germany.
Frejya was unplaced, but we were very proud to be there and Frejya was much admired.
Update August 20
Two SKK All Breed
shows held only a few miles apart, one National, in Norrköping, one
International in Nyköping
August 16 and 17 , both days in pouring rain. A shame, though, that so few
Affenpinschers were entered.
Svante Frisk,
Sweden, judged Saturday. Sunday our judge was Howard Ogden, England,
the well-known Griffon breeder and toy group judge.
Both days our Junior World Winner Airescot Peer Gynt won the CC and BOS, a few weeks too young for his first CACIB.
BOB both days was
our World Winner Winterkloud Frejya, winning her 15th
and 16th CC and 7th CACIB.
She will not be old enough to compete for her qualifying CC until the end of
September,
but by then we hope
that she will be in whelp to Peer Gynt. He will be off to his new owner in
Australia
as soon as he has done his enjoyable duty with Frejya. Very sad to let him go,
but hopefully he'll have fun and be useful downunder.
At the Saturday show Frejya was placed second in the huge group, judged by Marja Talivitie, Finland.
The picture above was taken there and then by Johan Frick-Meijer.
Update August 6
The Swedish Affenpinscher Club Unofficial Breed Specialty was held last weekend, August 3,
judged by Cindy Pettersson, Sweden. She had an entry of 50 Affens, nine of which were puppies.
Best Puppy In Show
was Anita Andersson's 7 months old Airescot Christmas Cracker
(Ch Anzolas Vincent Black Shadow ex. Terrietype I'm Jane Airescot).
Just like at last year's Specialty our Ch Yarrow's Jungle Jim was Best In Show, this time handled by Anita Andersson.
Second Best Male
and Best Swedish bred Affen was our Airescot
Peer Gynt, handled by my ex-husband Petter Fodstad,
who as usual had made an excellent job with all our Affenpinscher coats.
Third Best Male was our Winterkloud Hector,
handled by me, Nenne.
Just like last year our Winterkloud Frejya was Best Bitch and BOS, as usual handled by me.
No doubt quite a family affair to be proud of!
Update July 4
A substanstial
Update today with results from the World Dog Shows
Two wonderful days for our Affenpinschers at the CC Breed Club Show July 2 and the World Dog Show July 3.
*At the CAC Breed Club Show 41 Affenpinschers were entered under judge Bo Skalin, Sweden.
He found his dog CC winner and BOB in Winterkloud Hector from Junior Class.
Second to Hector in Junior Class was Airescot Peer Gynt and he was awarded the reserve CC.
´Winner of the bitch CC and best bitch was Winterkloud Frejya from Open Class.
In the finals Hector was BIS-2 Junior, judged by Tamas Jakkel, Hungary.
*At the World Dog Show the following day Elina Tan-Hietalahti, Finland, had an entry of 50 Affenpinschers.
Her choice for Best
Junior dog was Peer Gynt and he was thus Junior World Winner.
He was also awarded the res. CC and was BOB Junior.
This time Winterkloud Hector was second to Peer Gynt in Junior Class.
World Winner and awarded the bitch CC, CACIB and BOB was Winterkloud Frejya,
thus winning her 13th CC and 5th CACIB in Sweden.
At both shows Frejya and Hector won Best Brace in breed.
Fortunately our
visitors from England Delia Shepherd (Avantgarde Affenpinschers) and Julie
McEvoy,
gave me helping hands. Julie did a great job with handling Hector, as he and
Peer Gynt were both in Junior Class
and Hector and Frejya again managed to win the double. Congratulations to their
breeder Sarah McGill, England.
And many thanks again to my ex-husband Petter for keeping our Affenpinschers' coats in such fine shape.
Some pictures below from the two shows.
Hector winning BIS-2 Junior BOB-winner Hector, handled by Julie, pictured with our breed judge Bo Skalin and Frejya
World Winner Frejya being awarded BOB at the World Show Photo: Claes Hedberg
Frejya and Hector in the two finals competing for Best Brace in Show.
At the World Show (left) they were pulled out but unplaced. Photo: Claes Hedberg
At the CAC Club Show (right) they were BIS-3
Update June 15
Two shows to report from.
*June 7 at the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Club Specialty in Gävle
Winterkloud Frejya won her 10th CC, BOB and BIS-2, all
the way through judged by Öystein Eikeseth, Norway.
Best in Show was the black Miniature Schnauzer Ch Fixus Hasta La Vista.
His breeder Anne Wallin took the picture below and kindly sent it to me.
On this occasion her daughter Jannica, who is also the co-breeder, was handling the dog.
We now have two
dogs to show in Junior Class and this time Winterkloud Hector stayed at home
amd Airescot Peer Gynt had a lovely day
winning the dog CC and was BOS to Frejya.
In the afternoon he was BIS-Junior, judged by Sonny Ström, Sweden.
*The
following weekend, June 14, Peer Gynt was shown again at the Swedish KC
International show at Avesta
and won his third CC and BOB, judged by Britta Roos-Börjeson, Sweden.
BOS to Peer was Winterkloud Frejya, winning her 11th CC and 5th CACIB,
Peer, just having celebrated his first birthday, is still too young to be
awarded CACIB.
UPDATE June 15
June 7 at the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Club Specialty in Gävle
Frejya won her 10th CC, BOB and BIS-2, all the way through judged by Öystein Eikeseth, Norway.
The photo below was
taken by Anne Wallin after the final,
in which her black Miniature Schnauzer. Ch Fixus Hasta La Vista was BIS, handled
by daughter Jannica.
The following
weekend, June 14, Airescot Peer Gynt was shown at the Swedish KC International show
at Avesta
and won his third CC and BOB, judged by Britta Roos-Börjeson, Sweden.
BOS to Peer was Frejya, winning her 11th CC and 5th CACIB,
UPDATE May 27
Last weekend at the Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Club Specialty at Österbybruk
Frejya won her CC #8 and BOB. Breed judge was Kirtsi Kentala, Finland.
The following day
at the Swedish KC All Breeds Show at Österbybruk
Frejya, won her CC #9, but was beaten for BOB by her young kennel mate
Winterkloud Hector.
Breed judge was Csaba Zsolt Lokodi, Romania.
UPDATE April 21
Yesterday at the Swedish KC National All Breeds Show in Västerås near Stockholm
Frejya
won her seventh CC and was BOB. Her day was crowned
by a 3rd in Group placement.
Gunnel Holm, Finland, judged the breed. Group judge was Göran Bodegård.
UPDATE March 27, 2008
The next show for Frejya was the SKK International Easter
Show in Stockholm,
where she won her 6th CC and her third CACIB.
Marie Hamill from Ireland judged the breed and Frejya was her BOS-winner.
BOB-winner was the young Anzolas Vincent Black Shadow, "Knutte",
winning his 10th CC and first CACIB, owned and handled by Chatrin Lundberg.
Frejya and "Knutte" are both still too young to qualify for their titles.
"Knutte" is the sire of our recent litter ex.
Terrietype I'm Jane Airescot,
so we were all very pleased.
The pictures below were taken at the show by "Tjotte".
UPDATE January 8, 2008
At two International All Breed Shows in Gothenburg, Sweden last weekend
Frejya was for the first time old enough (15 months) to be eligible for a CACIB.
She managed to win
two CC's, two CACIB's and furthermore she was BOB both days!
Breed judges were Johan Juslin, Finland and Terry Nethercott, UK,
the latter pictured below with his breed winner. Can you see the dog?
Photo: Tjotte
UPDATE December 17, 2007
Yesterday at the Stockholm International and Nordic Winner
Show in Stockholm
25 Affenpinschers were entered under Swedish judge Patric Ragnarsson.
BOS to our "Ross" was Frejya, last time out in Junior
Class, as she is soon 15 months old.
She was still too young to be awarded the CACIB, but she won her third CC and
was
Nordic Winner Junior Bitch 2007 as well as Nordich Winner Affenpinscher bitch
2007.
These lovely wins qualified her for Crufts 2008.
We are very proud that she finished 2007 as #3 Affenpinscher in Sweden
UPDATE August 21, 2007
The past weekend
was one of the craziest of my doings so far,
but luckily also very successful and thus worth all the struggle.
As
Ross, our American Affenpinscher, has a docked tail there
are not many countries
in which he can be shown to get qualified for his International title.
So far he has 17 CACIB's in Sweden, one in Finland, only thanks to the
dispensation
for docked dogs given at the European World Winner show last year.
In the Baltic countries dogs with docked tails are still allowed to be shown,
so Friday evening
Ross and I flew to Estonia and the International All Breeds show in Tallinn.
We arrived a couple of hours after midnight, and after very few hours of sleep
at a hotel facing a night club
we went to the show, where Ross won the CC, CACIB and BOB and was thus qualified for his International title.
As our flight back to Sweden was in the late afternoon we couldn't stay for the group judging,
but got home reasonably early for some more hours of sleep, before driving off at 6.00 a.m.
to the Swedish KC All Breeds show in Nyköping, to which show Ross
and our 11 months old Affen bitch Winterkloud Frejya were entered and were to be judged first in our ring at 9.00 a.m.
Of the18 Affenpinschers entered Ross was again Best Dog, Frejya was Best Bitch winning her second CC from Junior Class,
and then she was BOB over Ross and later even pulled out in the Group!
She is the second bitch ever to have beaten Ross for BOB in Sweden. Our breed judge was Svante Frisk, Sweden.
UPDATE August 1, 2007
At the Affenpinscher Specialty almost 50 Affens were entered under Swedish Breed Specialist Siv Jernhake.
We had the most
fantastic day with "Ross", Ch Yarrow's Jungle Jim,
winning Best In Show,
and our British import Winterkloud Frejya, winning Best
Opposite Sex from Junior Class.
From Intermediate
Class our "Micki", Terrietype I'm Jane Airescot,
from Ross' first Swedish bred litter, was fourth Best Bitch.
Go to Micki's page to see a couple of pictures of her and Petter Fodstad.
Again I must thank
my ex-husband Petter for helping me make our Affens so well presented,
and this time he was even there himself to give a hand with the handling.
UPDATE July 16, 2007
At her last show in Puppy class at the Swedish
Schnauzer-Pinscher Club Specialty in Borås, June 30th,
Frejya was again BOB Puppy, judged by Paolo Dondina and BIS-3 Puppy judged by
Ulf Bråthen, Denmark.
And July 14th, now in Junior class, she was awarded her first CC and BOS by Diane Anderson, US.
Photo: Ingunn Axelsen
UPDATE May 28, 2007
Frejya is now 8 months old and very full of herself.
At the SKK International All Breeds show at Österbybruk May
12-13 she was again BOB Puppy, judged by Hans Almgren,
and in the big ring Cindy Petersson pulled her out among some 60 puppies of all
breeds.
At a Swedish Schnauzer-Pinscher Specialty yesterday she was
BOB Puppy, judged by Anita Whitmarsh,
and then Tornbjörn Skaar chose her for his Best Puppy In Show!
UPDATE April 9, 2007
Frejya made her show debut in Puppy class at the Swedish
Kennel Club International Easter Show in Stockholm
April 7-8, 2007, one week over the eligible age of six months.
A little hesitant in the ring to begin with she soon found out that showing was
great fun
and managed to beat the other four Affenpinscher puppies for BOB Puppy.
Breed specialist Siv Jernhake, Sweden, was our judge.
We were very proud that Svante Frisk, Sweden, pulled her
out in the final ring
when she was competing with some 60 BOB Puppies of various breeds.