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The Curly Coated Retriever Club commemorates Remembrance Day – Lest We Forget
Curly Coated Retriever Club Open Show, 21 February 2026
Entries are now open for our February Single Breed Open Show. The show will be held at The Kennel Club Building, Stoneleigh Park, Stoneleigh, Kenilworth, and our Breed Judge is Caroline Griffin-Woods (Migwell). On the same day we will also be holding our AGM.
Entries for the show can be made via Fossedata and will close at Midnight on Sunday 8 February 2026 – please note there will be no extensions.
CCRC Calendar 2026
Calendars are delivered and ready for posting!!! Limited stock available! £10 + postage or hand delivery to LKA
FB Message the club shop or email curlyclubshop@outlook.com to arrange payment and postage.
Curly Coated Retriever Club Trophies
Please don’t forget to send us your Show Results, they all count towards the points at the end of the year that determine who wins the coveted Club Trophies. Whilst we do our very best to collate show results throughout the year, for a lot of the Open Shows we are very much dependent upon those in attendance to let us know the results, and we are of course very grateful to our regular contributors. But please don’t rely on others, and remember if you miss out on a trophy because you didn’t send in your results, there can be no recourse once the trophy winners have been announced.
Gundog Breeds Association Of Scotland Championship Show, 15 November, 2025
The entries have been announced for GBAS Champ Show at Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow – 7 Dogs, 8 Entries for Judge, Hans Stigt.
The Merseyside Gundog Club, 9 November 2025
Judge: Mr Lesley Bain (Wenichones)
Class 126. Puppy, Entries: 2 Absentees: 1
1st 266 – Tusepo Miss Scarlett (Mr N & Mrs S D Spraggins), BP
Class 127. Special Yearling, Entries: 1 Absentees: 0
1st 262 – Violeta Mariposa Horace Du Moulin Du Paulu (Imp Fra) (Mrs V Dooley), BOB
Class 128. Limit, Entries: 3 Absentees: 3
Class 129. Open, Entries: 2 Absentees: 1
1st 265 – Tusepo Amazing Love (Mr N & Mrs S D Spraggins), RBOB
AV Gundog
Judge: Miss K E Sillince (Tomlow)
Class 178. Veteran, Entries: 31 Absentees: 16
2nd 264 – Sh Ch Maycourt Hot Love at Tusepo, (Mr N & Mrs S D Spraggins)
Class 181. Junior, Entries: 28 Absentees: 17
VHC 262 – Violeta Mariposa Horace Du Moulin Du Paulu (Imp Fra), (Mrs V Dooley)
Please see below the latest updates from The Kennel Club, recently shared by our Breed Health Co-ordinator, Nina Parker-Miles.
• Mentoring & Canine Midwifery Programme
This new initiative aims to support new and aspiring breeders by pairing them with experienced mentors who can offer guidance, reassurance, and practical advice drawn from their own experience.
Invitations to apply to become a mentor are being sent to breeders today, and we’ll also be sharing the announcement on our Facebook channel.
If you know of any breeders within your community who you believe would make excellent mentors, we’d be very grateful if you could share this opportunity with them.
Successful applicants will be invited to attend our first Canine Midwifery Day at the Waltham Petcare Science Institute on 2 December 2025, where they’ll help us shape and develop this exciting new programme.
Application Form
Application Deadline – 16 November 2025
Any queries can be addressed to health@thekennelclub
• Congenital Heart Disease webinar
We are contacting you regarding an exciting webinar we are holding on Wednesday 12th November from 7:00pm to 8:30pm, which is freely available to anyone who would like to find out more about congenital heart disease in dogs.
In partnership with the Veterinary Cardiovascular Society (VCS), The Kennel Club’s Health team are pleased to invite you to the third webinar in our series of free webinars about heart disease in dogs. This session will build on the insights from our previous introductory webinar, presented by Dr Hannah Stephenson, and acquired heart disease webinar, presented by Dr Emily Dutton. In this follow-up webinar, expert cardiologist Dr Chris Linney will take an in-depth look at congenital heart diseases (present at birth) and how they differ from the more common acquired heart diseases that develop later in life.
For more information or if you’d like to attend the webinar, please register here.
Midland Counties, 26 October 2025
Breed Judge, Tom Mather’s critique is now available here on the Show Results Page.
United Retriever Club Open Show, 22 October 2025
Judge: Mrs C Gill (Jocagil/Amreville)
Puppy (0,0)
Junior (4,1 absent)
1st and RBOB Sutton and Whitehead’s Foxriever Immortal Spirit. 16 month old black upstanding dog with a lovely attitude. Correct wedge shaped head with minimum stop and parallel planes. Good ear shape and ear set. Muscular shoulders and good straight bone to forelegs. Well sprung rib, deep enough for age, slight tuck to loin. Excellent width of second thigh and well let down hocks. Good tail carriage, Moved well. Correct coat and curl.
2nd Sutton and Whitehead’s Foxriever Fire Fly. Liver boy of just 12 months, well up to size. In good coat. Good head planes but slightly wider in skull than 1. Strong neck into good forequarters. Well boned with good strong pasterns and tight feet with well arched toes. Good depth to chest but not as mature as winner. Moderate bend of stifle. Moved well.
3rd Pavitt and Whiteheads’s Foxriever Fire Cracker
Post Graduate (3,1 absent)
1st Sutton and Whitehead’s Foxriever Immortal Spirit. Repeat.
2nd Edworthy’s Brightmeadow Man of Steel. Liver dog shown in good coat with correct curl. Wedge shaped and well balanced head with good eye and correct well set on ears. Strong slightly arched neck in to muscular shoulders but would have liked a more visible fore chest. Good bone and well bodied with correct length of loin. Strong hindquarters but can overstretch himself when free standing. Moved well.
Open (2,1 absent)
1st and BOB Edworthy’s Maycourt Heartbreaker 5 year old Black male. Won BOB on his maturity Good head with parallel planes, small ears well set on. Strong neck free from throatiness. Well laid back shoulders good straight bone and strong pasterns. Slightly longer than tall with well sprung deep rib , held his top-line on the move. Good, well muscled rear angulation. Moved well. Good coat with crisp curls.
Aberystwyth & District Canine Society, 5 May 2025
Judge: Mrs Cindy Stangroom
Graduate (1) 1 Stephens, Brightmeadow Come On Eileen, Mature 18mth B. Correct wedge shaped head in good proportion with her size, Strong neck into well laid back shoulders. Deep brisket well ribbed up. Standing on straight forelegs and correct tight feet. Strong in topline and level which she held on the move. Shown in a rich tight coat and muscular condition. Presenting a good honest balanced picture. BOB
Open (1) 1 Stephens, Ravenho Looks Like Trouble for Brightmeadow. Mature nearly 3 yr old dog.Upstanding and slightly on the taller side, Masculine head of correct wedge shape. Deep brisket. Muscular hindquarters well set tail, just slightly dropping away and not such a level topline as the winner of Grad. He had to give way to the more balanced picture of the winner in Graduate.
