More Details of some of the 2002 Winners
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Best of Variety Persian Neuter, Supreme Neuter & Supreme Exhibit Supreme UK Grand Premier Yankidoodle Fairy Dust Chinchilla female neuter owned by Caroline Wheeler and bred by Susan Signey | ||
| Caroline and her mother Julie bought 'Floss' and her litter sister Grand Premier Yankidoodle Silver Confeti ('Candy') in April 1999. Although they were show quality they were bought purely as pets and it was only afterwards that Julie and Caroline decided to try showing them. |  photo by Marc Henrie | |
 | This was highly successful - Floss achieved seven overall Best in Show wins in the past seventeen months, together with numerous Best Longhair and Best Neuter wins. Floss is very much the boss of the two cats and gets very upset if she thinks her sister is getting too much attention. Luckily Candy is happy to take the back seat. | |
| Floss also has the ideal show temperament - she is always completely relaxed and friendly with judges and stewards, always happy to show off and just loves to be the centre of attention. She is also a very vocal cat and cries quite often just to get Julie and Caroline's attention. They, of course, are still on cloud nine and still cannot believe that Floss has achieved the ultimate accolade of Supreme Exhibit. |  | |
 photo by Marc Henrie | Best of Variety Semi-Longhair & Supreme Kitten Lionmaine Kennya Brown Tabby Maine Coon male owned & bred by Julie Chadwick | |
| 'Conan', as he is known at home, was one of seven kittens in Julie's first litter. He weighed in at 5.5oz at birth - and was 15lb by the time he was nine months old. (He is the one with the grin on his face, back to back with his red brother, Kalahari) |  | |
 | The kittens had lots of visitors when they were growing up so were all very friendly. Julie's niece Emma and her partner Barry fell in love with Conan, so he went to live with them, but loves to go visiting and often goes round to Julie's house to play with all her other cats. It was Emma and Barry who gave him the name Conan - they thought it suited his large muscular frame! | |
| Conan has claimed the hearth rug as his own, and only lets a select few people sit on it with him; if you are not on his list he pushes you off with his huge paws. |  | |
 | Conan's favourite trick is eating and drinking from a spoon which he manages to hold in his paw - ideal for finishing off Barry's breakfast cereal! | |
 photo by Marc Henrie | ||
| It is Julie who takes Conan to his shows and on the first occasion, when he was only 14 weeks old he came second. He followed that with six shows where he was first and Best of Breed. |  | |
| Best of Variety Persian Adult & Supreme Adult Supreme Champion Westholme Inthe Vertical |    |
 | The Best of Provisional Breeds Kitten & Supreme Provisional Breed Exhibit was Barijka Homer a Brown Spotted Bengal male owned by Jim & Sandie McLeod and bred by Frances Peace Homer is the McLeod's first Bengal stud boy. Sandie & Jim say he has a fantastically loving nature and a great personality (he talks a lot!). They hope that he passes his temperament and good looks onto his kittens! His desire to communicate with his owners has developed into a new game ... chewing the plugs off mobile phone headsets - especially the expensive ones! photo by Marc Henrie |
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| He has had numerous wins in his short show career (he is only 6 months old), including Best in Show Foreign at the West of England & South Wales Cat Society Show in August 2002 when he was only 15 weeks old. | |
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 | Best of Variety Semi-Longhair Adult Grand Champion Atticus Pellinor Brown Tabby & White Maine Coon male owned by Joy Lambeth and bred by Kerry Butterworth |  | ||
| Pellinor is Joy's first stud boy. She says he is a wonderful boy with a very loving nature, which he passes on to his beautiful kittens. His favorite game is chasing dried leaves in the garden - and he loves to talk!! He has had numerous wins in his short show career (he is only two and a half years old and not yet fully mature), including Best in Show Semi Longhair at the North of Britain Cat Show December 2001, when he was just a kitten of 7 months, and a nomination for Best in Show at the Maine Coon Cat Club Show 2002. |  | |||
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 | Best of Variety British Shorthair Adult - UK Grand Champion Brocklair Brocade - British Tortie female, owned & bred by Stephanie Harrison-Croft Since Brocade, "Polly" to her friends, won Best of Variety British Adult at the GCCF Supreme Show in 2000 she has been shown only twice. Once in 2001 which was at the at the Supreme where she won Best of Breed along with her first UK Grand. |
| The second time was again at the Supreme, in 2002, where she won her second UK Grand which was to Stephanie beyond words. She then went on with true professionalism, was totally unperturbed (unlike Stephanie, who was even more of an emotional wreck than the first time for which she says she must apologise) and sailed through the day's events without a blink of an eye to win Best of Variety yet again. For Brocade to have achieved this once let alone twice is a dream come true for Stephanie but for Polly herself, she still remains the gentle, calm, unassuming and beautiful "queen" that she truly is!! |  |
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| Best of Variety Foreign Adult Grand Champion Papaver Cressida Black Smoke & White Cornish Rex female owned & bred by Mr P B & Mrs J Arnold |  |
 | Best of Variety Burmese Adult Champion Ambaskin Little Poppet Chocolate Burmese female owned & bred by Mrs J S Cowan |
 | Best of Variety Oriental Adult UK Grand Champion Amenra Beau Bruin Havana male owned by Pam Wilding and bred by Carol Ward This is a repeat performance for Beau Bruin, who was Best of Variety Oriental Adult in 2001 - how's that for consistency! |  |
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| Best of Variety Siamese Adult - Grand Champion Highiq Hojo - Blue Point Siamese male owned by Barbara Gould and bred by David & Sylvia Ravenshear | |
 | Best of Variety Persian Kitten Jervo Titian Dream Red Tabby Exotic SH female owned & bred by Mrs J A Boyes |  |
 | Best of Variety British Shorthair Kitten - Hytek Totty - British Black Tortie female, owned & bred by Peter & Catherine Darnell On a warm May night Ch Brocklair Bliss produced five healthy kittens - Hytek Theodoric (Orange-eyed White male) Hytek Etain & Hytek May Blossom (Orange-eyed White females) Hytek Taizer (Blue male) and Hytek Totty. The Darnells were delighted with such a promising litter. They hadn't had a Tortoiseshell kitten before - she was quite a surprise. | |
| The first show that she could enter was Teeside when she was 14 weeks and 3 days old - she won 1st, Best of Breed and 4 firsts in side classes. A fortnight later she won 1st, BOB, 6 firsts, BIS Kitten and Overall BIS Exhibit at BSHCC, followed by 1st & BOB at Cumberland and Yorkshire then Best of Variety at the Supreme at 6 and a half months. She is following in the pawprints of her father - Gr Ch Hytek Purr Zazz (Orange-eyed White) who won BIS Kitten and overall BIS Exhibit when he was 7 months old at the SH&TCC in 1995 and went on to be Best of Variety British Adult at the Supreme in 1995. |  | |
 | Totty insists on eating alone. She will sit and watch the other cats wolfing their food down but make no attempt to join them. Her food must be prepared specially for her - beef, chicken, rabbit, prawns etc - and warmed up in the microwave for 11 seconds. We are sure she can count! She does a little meow just as it pings. Nice young ladies don't eat from the floor and only the table will do for Totty. She sits waiting to be lifted up and when she has finished her meal she comes for a cuddle and a purr. One of us has to sit with her while she eats. She stops eating if we move away. | |
| She is fascinated by ballpoint pens! One by one they all end up on the floor. She seems to know that she is a bit of "Posh Totty". |  | |
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| Best of Variety Foreign Kitten Magaeli Totalymodernmilly - Tortoiseshell Asian Smoke, Burmese colour restriction, female owned by Mrs S A Cook and bred by Mrs H A Andrews | |
 | The Best of Variety Burmese Kitten was Pegavi Tornado, a Cream Burmese male owned by Michele Codd and bred by Peggy Paris When Michele approached Peggy about the possibility of buying a kitten for stud, from the mating of her old Cream, Gr Ch Starshadow Kubla Khan to Peggy's gorgeous UK Gr Ch Pegavi Graceful Gaea, she could not have been more helpful. Michele went to look at the litter for the first time when they were about 9 weeks old, and selected a boy with a beautiful coat and good head shape. Collecting him a few weeks later, his nose break had started to disappear, since he was teething. Nevertheless, she was confident that it would return. | |
| So Pegavi Tornado, known as F3 after the air defence variant of the Tornado aircraft, came to live in Lincolnshire. His first shows were not propitious: his nose break had disappeared totally, his muzzle was pinched and his eyes had an oriental cast, all caused by teething. Judges withheld 1sts and Best of Breed awards right, left and centre. Until the Yorkshire Show in
October, a few days after his 15 year old father had died of kidney failure,
when F3 decided to stop teething and enjoy a 'red card day' for the first
time. Michele is confident that he will be as good a stud as his dad as well; he started spraying at 5 months! Best of Variety at The Supreme was a huge surprise and great joy, to Peggy as well as Michele. Lots of boiled coley for supper that night (for him, not her) and Champagne too (for her, not him). Here's hoping for the future - F3's progeny are already named - Eurofighter, Jaguar, Hercules and Chinook, as starters! |  | |
 | Best of Variety Oriental Kitten Shermese Sparklingice Foreign White male owned by Jane Muir-Taylor and bred by Celia Simpson | |
| 'Becks', as Jane calls him, was bought for her as a present by her friend Angela Pruss. At the Show the Best of Variety judge, Mrs Hamilton, whittled down her choice down to two kittens - the other was Angela's Oriental Lilac, Shermese Arctic Mist. She then chose Becks, much to Angela's amused disgust. Angela says that's the last time she buys Jane a kitten! This was not Becks' first success - he was Overall Best Exhibit at the Tabby Point Siamese & Progressive Breeders Cat Club Show - nor his last: two weeks later he was Best of Variety Oriental at the National. |  | |
 Becks as a baby |  .. and at 7 weeks old | |
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| Best of Variety Siamese Kitten - Shermese Royal Seal - Seal Point Siamese male owned & bred by Celia Simpson He is called Bertie (after the late Queen Mother's husband). Since the show he has gone to live with his new owner, Mrs Barbara Harrington, who was delighted with his results. | |
 Bertie at 8 weeks |  and at 11 weeks |
| Best of Variety Semi-Longhair Neuter UK Grand Champion & Premier Shandatal Queenofhearts Seal Point Birman female neuter, owned & bred by Shirley Talboys .... another of our repeat winners Qtie (as her friends know her) was born in March 1996. Her first two appearances on the show bench were not exactly "covered in glory" but she did qualify for the 1996 Supreme at the third attempt. In early November 1996 she became Best in Show Kitten at the Birman Cat Club Show. Shirley then realised that Qtie had "Star Quality" and was probably the best Birman she had bred. This was confirmed at the Supreme Show when Queenofhearts became Supreme Kitten in 1996. A few weeks later David and Shirley Talboys took Qtie down to London for the weekend to attend the Centenary National Show. This was a special event and exhibitors were asked to dress in Victoria or Edwardian costume. David wore morning coat and silk top hat, Shirley wore a back velvet Edwardian dress, with velvet cape and a large black and red feathered hat. Queenofhearts became Best in Show Semi Longhair Exhibit and went up on stage for the Final Overall Best in Show. |  | |
 | The winner was an Oriental Spotted kitten. The owner of the overall winner was not at the show, so Shirley, David and Qtie were asked to give an interview to Sky Television News. Rosemary Gowdy was also interviewed. The viewers must have been amazed to see a woman appear on their screens at 5.45 pm on a Saturday afternoon, wearing a large feathered hat and holding a cat. Shirley did persuade the interviewer to mention the fact that it was the 100th Show, hence the rather odd outfit! Queenofhearts quickly became a Champion and then took a rest from the show bench to produce her first litter in May 1997. The Grands came slowly because of breaks for kittening. | |
| The first UK Grand Champion Certificate was won at the 1999 Supreme Show, the second, and that very special title was won in 2000. After a break from the Supreme Show in 2001, Queenofhearts returned in 2002. She had been spayed in April 2002 and had won her three Premier Certificates in three consecutive shows, the third being won at the Wyvern Show in September. It was a wonderful experience to come to the Supreme six years after her win as Supreme Kitten and once again win Best of Variety and be back on the stage to be judged for Supreme Exhibit. Queenofhearts is a "star" and she behaves like a "star". She is a "queen" amongst Birmans and is also know as "HM" (Her Majesty) to those near to her. She is most certainly rules the Shandatal household in regal style! |  | |
 | Best of Variety British Shorthair Neuter Champion & UK Grand Premier Mardenka Marciano British Cream & White Bicolour male neuter owned by Mr A & Mrs L Bosio and bred by Mary Le Monnier |  |
 | Best of Variety Foreign Neuter Grand Premier Blandings Ivan Russian Blue male neuter owned & bred by Jill Jackson |  |
| Best of Variety Burmese Neuter Grand Premier Minahto Sonofnighte Lilac Burmese male neuter owned by Peter & Kay Wiltshire and bred by their friend Gill Allen |  | |
 | "Milo" was born on the 3rd January 2000. He lives with just two other cats: his lilac litter brother, Minahto Nitefighter (pet name Sammy) and older chocolate brother Premier Minahto Yukanna (pet name Kyat). S | |
| Milo and Sammy are both named in memory of their dad, Rosie Alger-Street's Grand Champion Typha Qweens Nighte. They were in the last litter he sired. Mum is Champion Julibu Twitter Glitter. |  | |
 | Milo has had quite a show career to date. Only shown twice as a kitten he had two red card/Best of Breed days. One of these at the Burmese Cat Club Show 2000. It took nearly a year to be made up to Premier but then this year he won the first four Grand Premiers in which he was entered, followed up by Best of Breeds at the next two, the Burmese Cat Club Show and the Wiltshire. The Supreme was his first show since July. | |
| This is his first Best of Variety win in any show although he has often clearly been in consideration. His owners and breeder were absolutely thrilled when he was held up as the Best of Variety and so proud seeing him on the stage at the end of the show. Here he is posing with his rosettes and his pen decorations from the show |  | |
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| Best of Variety Oriental Neuter - Grand Premier Chaijon Dark Angel - Oriental Black male neuter owned by Mrs D Hinchliffe and bred by Mr J W & Mr G Turner | |
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| Best of Variety Siamese Neuter - Grand Premier Dazzling Expectations - Chocolate Point Siamese male neuter owned by Mrs H A Bennett and bred by Andy Leonard & Nick Gourley | |
 | Best of Provisional Breeds Adult Sarwillou Kyu Kyusu Singapura female owned & bred by Mrs P L Larmour |
| Best of Provisional Breeds Neuter - Magnacata Nikita - Black Silver Shaded Tiffanie male neuter, owned & bred by Jennifer Ray Nikita is very proud to have been the one to score a hat-trick at the Supreme: in each of the last three years, the only three during which the Tiffanies have been at Provisional status, a Magnacata has made it onto the stage. In 2001 it was Nikita's son, Magnacata Flyme Tothemoon, who was Best of Provisional Breeds Kitten and in 2000 it was a close relative, Magnacata Mandarin Emperor, who was Best of Provisional Breeds kitten. In 2003 the Tiffanies have Championship status, so this is probably some sort of record. Nikita is an experienced show cat of three and a half years, who has been neutered for a while after siring one litter. He has won Best of Variety awards at various GCCF shows as a kitten and as an adult before now, so is no stranger to the limelight. He has the ideal show temperament - completely relaxed and friendly, and always happy to show off! His mother is Kagura Lalupino, Jennifer's original foundation queen, and his father Coomakista Owlett. As you can see from the pictures he has enormous feet (once described by John Hansson as 'like plates of meat'), but in spite of this he is a very graceful cat. |  | ||
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 photo by Marc Henrie | Best Non-Pedigree Longhair & Supreme Non-Pedigree Exhibit was Charlie, a Tabby & White male neuter owned by Josie Oliver Charlie, was born to a cat taken in by Katkins Shelter and along with the rest of the litter was hand reared. Although both his brothers were re-homed, Charlie remained at the centre as he was a very small and sickly kitten. He became the shelter cat and now enjoys the delights of the countryside of Essex when the shelter moved to Great Sampford. He has a calming influence on the other cats who seem to know he is in charge. He hasn't been re-homed due to a small problem ... spraying, despite being neutered at an early age. | |
| He is a cat that loves attention, which shows when he is on the show bench. Having been hand-reared he responds when stroked with a great big purr. He even purrs when he is having his bath before a show. He loves to be groomed, and spends much of his time grooming some of the other cats. His great delight is to sit in the outdoor compound watching the wildlife of north Essex and in the summer bathing in the sunshine. |  photo by Mario Mage Photography | |
 photo by Marc Henrie | Josie Oliver has shown Charlie for the last 18 months and he has considerable success in that time including winning his Open class at all six GCCF shows he has attended, going Best in Show at three of them, as well as BIS at various non-pedigree shows. He followed his win at the Supreme by winning the Dick Whittington Final at the National, two weeeks later. | |
| Best Non-Pedigree Shorthair was Welsh Midget, a Tabby male neuter, owned by Jo Evans Like Charlie, he had a very unfortunate start in life. Midget's feral mother gave birth under a shed in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. Despite Colwyn Bay Cat's Protection's best efforts they couldn't catch the mother cat - whom they had planned to leave to rear her babies before they neutered her and returned to the wild - so were left with no option but to foster the tiny kittens. |  | |
 | Sandra McHugo, who fostered them and did all the hard work, called Jo, knowing she would really love a silver tabby - all those Whiskas & Bacardi adverts! As soon as she saw Midget - so called, as he was the smallest at that time - she knew he was not a silver tabby but it was love at first sight! He joined Jo just before Christmas 2001 and has been a treasure from day 1, even with a huge, real, Christmas tree and all the presents laid out. He was an odd kitten, because he never slept! Jo's aunt breeds Burmese and she could not believe how much he could eat without passing out. Needless to say, to this day he is very lithe, but totally fit and muscular - and quite a good little hunter, though he never catches anything smaller than himself! | |
| Jo had been showing her other tabby boy, so had to try Midget on the bench. At his first show he came second but went on to get 5 firsts in his Open classes and 3 Best Kitten in Show, so Jo just had to take him to the Supreme. He had never been to such a large show, but he is so laid back and confident because all the humans he has ever met have simply wanted to either feed or cuddle him! With 22 shorthaired tabbies present on the day, Jo never expected him to win, but he won his class and beat the older male and the female class winner for Best of Group - and then went across the stage for the finals - and was awarded Best Shorthaired Non Pedigree. |  | |
 Midget with his friend Bobbit | ||
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