If you were not able to pronounce Hódmezővásárhely, nevermind. This is a small city on the south-east part of Hungary, near the Serbian border. Sometimes, even for the Hungarians is difficult to spell it, but the city is not so far from Zoltan's place. Actually we entered Ivana in the last moment, when we got noticed, that the entries are still possible, so we thought why not? We can give it a try. Although there were quie heavy rains throught the week, for the weekend the situation got worse: throught the country there were serious storms, floods, so I've never thought that even driving would be so tiring. I arrived to Zoltan's place on Saturday evening, we let the dogs: Heather, Gigi, Andreas and Ivana play a little bit, while we went to watch a movie. it turned out that this was not our best idea (not the movie, but to let the dogs play), when we arrived home, all the dogs were full of mud, you can imagine how this looks in such a bright colour as Ivana's!
So Ivana spend the night into the house ans we hoped that she can dry by the morning. Well, she could, and during the one and a half hour driving she even could dry a little bit more. When we arrive thank God the rain stopped to fall for a while. The show took place on the Hódmezővásárhely fair. Actualy Vásár in Hungarian means fair, so since long time this place took home to fairs in the region. The place also was very well equiped. As here are also horse, cattle and other agricultural fairs it was professional. Half of the rings were indoor, but as wolfhounds are quite weather resistants, our ring was outside. The good thing is, that although the ring was outside, there were special boxes built from wood around the place, most propably for horses, which were quite suitable for a wolfhound:-) So the cleaning of Ivana begun: we had to take out all the dry mud from her. We met a lot of riends as well, so we spend the half day chating and laughing with friends, that is what I like in a show! Judit Fóti was there with 2 magyar agars, Monika and Laszlo Kutvölgyi were there with Tilka, their lovely barzoj, and of course they took their beautiful and European Winner Iarla (Lord) with them. We had a very good time together!
The judge of the sighthounds was Laszlo Erdos, who is a well known and well respected judge in Hungary- it is funny, that so far he only judged me once, when Uther completed his breeding certificate. But for example he often judged Zoltan's dogs.
Of course, the rain started to fall right before the begining of the judgement of the wolfhounds, and it got heavier. Ivana was not alone in her class- this time our old friend Julcsi Lutz were there with their lovely young bitch Ianna. Actually we were running in a storm while the judge watched the dogs- it was everything-thunder, rain, so it was very challenging to concentrate to the handling. But this time it worked! Ivana, for the first time was unresistable in the ring, I mean she behaved perfectly, she stood perfectly, she was really as a real show dog. And it worth it, because she got Excellent 1, Hungaria Prima Junior and Junior BOB titles. But most importantly, with this title, she is Hungarian Junior Champion! WOW! I am so proud of her, and so happy! The BOB title was given to the beautiful Iarla, who later finished as BOG3 in the best in show program (Congratulations, to Laci and Monika!)- but we did not waited it, as we wanted to get back home early. Attached the pictures- please consider the weather, so our outfit is not for the red carpet:-)
On the pictures: bitches young class. Picture bellow: Iarla, the BOB and BOG3
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