- January 5th and 6th, 2008. Land O' Lakes Kennel Club shows (Pictures)
Luis and Magic earn a First Award of Merit in a Top Junior Handler competition and a Third place in regular Junior Handling. Magic also does well in Conformation, getting a hard 'look' on Sunday for BOB. Cinder shows well for us!
- January 19th and 20th, 2008 Central Iowa Kennel Club (Pictures)
Magic (Ch Himmlisch Furst Magic Moment) won Best Of Breed Both days.
Cinder (Von Link's Cinderlady von Rose) won First in her class, Winners Bitch and Best Opposite sex to BOB to earn 1 point on Saturday. On Sunday she won her class and went Reserve Winners Bitch.
- February 17th. Keomah Kennel Club (Sorry we forgot the camera)
Magic (Ch Himmlisch Furst Magic Moment) wins BOB (#11)
Cinder (Von Link's Cinderlady von Rose) wins First in her class, Winners Bitch and BOS for 1 point
- March 1st. (Pictures)
"Ellie", Cedar Hills Enchanted Yellow Rose comes from Washington state to Iowa to live with us!
- March 22nd and 23rd, 2008 Dubuque Kennel Club (Pictures)
Magic shows well both day.
Magic and Luis win their Novice Intermediate Junior handler class. This is their second leg.
Cinder wins first in her class, Winners Bitch and Best of Winners over the boys for 2 points on Saturday. Very close to a Major. On Sunday she wins her class and Winners Bitch.
- April 12th and 13th, 2008 Southeastern Iowa Kennel Club (Pictures)
Magic goes BOB both days (#12 & 13)
Ellie visits her very first show and has a ball!
Cinder wins 1st in Open class, Winners Bitch and BOS both days.
- April 19th and 20th, 2008. Waterloo Kennel Club (Pictures)
Exciting win!!! Magic goes BOB (#14) on Saturday. We finally get the nod from judge Vincent Mulligan over the top winning Special in the midwest. (A dog that went Group 4 the next day and had won a BIS in 2007). We are so proud!!!
Luis wins his Junior Handler class both days with Magic and wins a couple nice trophies!
Cinder had a bad day on Saturday going second in her class, but she makes up for it on Sunday. She wins her class, goes WB, BOW and BOS over some nice dogs. Way to go!
- April 26th and 27th, 2008. Heart of Iowa Kennel Club (Pictures)
Nice set of shows in Marshalltown. Magic goes BOB on both days (# 15&16).
Luis is rushed into the JH ring on Saturday. Literally, Magic went from the winning BOB to the ring next door with Luis. Luis gets a second place. On Sunday Luis wins his class.
- May 24th-26th, 2008. Prairieland Standard Schnauzer Specialty. (Pictures)
Big Specialty show. This was Ellies first time in the ring, just turning 6 months. She showed well in Sweeps under judge Arden Holtz (she is also the club president). She got third in Sweeps and placed second the three days we showed her. She also helped her daddy Preston win the Stud dog Class. Preston won BOB on Saturday and went Group 2. Ellies breeder, Jodi Moline and Magics breeder Kathi Dvorak (she also owns Preston) attended this show. So we had a great visit and learned a lot about grooming and presentation.
Cinder shows well and Wins the Open Class, goes Winners and takes BOS on both days. She looks great and wins over some nice girls. She has enough points, but still needs her majors. Hard to get a major together.
Magic showed well two days we showed him. Some of the top Specials in the country were there and we compared well. Luis and Magic did great in the Juniors ring, Luis got his third win to complete his Novice status.
- July 12th and 13. Duluth Kennel Club .... sorry no pictures
This was kind of a spur of the moment show. Iowa City shows were canceled due to a flood and Suzanne wanted to see what a Canadian judge would think of Cinder so we went from showing one dog one day to making a full weekend of it.
Cinder showed pretty well in some big classes. She got a third on Saturday, which was very good.
Ellie did very well on Saturday. She won her class and went winners bitch and then went on to go BOS over a Special for her first point ... wow at only her second show weekend. She also went Winners on Sunday for her second point. The only drawback was that she beat Cinder. But then she needed the points more than Cinder.
- August 2nd and 3rd. Coulee Kennel Club (Pictures)
Great show for Ellie! She came home with her first 3 point major on Saturday. She won her class went Winners and Best of Winners on Saturday. She followed it up on Sunday by Winning her class and going Winners Bitch for two more points.
Cinder showed very well although the judges didn't notice. She did win her class both days and go Reserve.
Magic also did well on Saturday. He went BOB (#17) over a nice bunch of dogs and then went on to make the cut in group! But then on Sunday that same group judge dumped him for a puppy in the breed ring. Go figure!!!
- August 10th 2008. Freeborn County. We showed only one day. (Pictures)
Ellie went Reserve Winners
Cinder showed well both days and won her class.
Cinder won her class!
- August 23rd and 24th. St Croix Valley Kennel Club. (Lots of Pictures!)
The Heartland Specialty was also on Saturday. It was fun to put Ellie in Sweeps even though she was the youngest in her class, she did place second. Lots of find dogs and good friends.
In the regular classes Ellie won her class on Saturday and Sunday. Magic was pulled in a large class of Specials with Liz and Penny on Saturday. Liz won with Vegas.
- August 29th, 30th & 31st Tri City and Cedar Rapids Kennel Clubs. (Pictures)
This was a fun 4 show weekend in the Amanas. We showed the first three days. Penny Duffee came in and took group placements with her boy on Friday and Sunday. She also hosted a nice pick-nick on Saturday at her camper. She was kind enough to show me a few things ... hope I learned a thing or two.
Magic went BOB (#18)
Friday was a great day for Cinder! I took a hand at trying to show her to see if a change of handlers would give her more comfidence in the ring. She won her class, went Winners Bitch and BOS for a point. Ellie went Reserve. Pennys boy went BOB over Magic.
On Saturday Ellie won her class and Cinder was second in hers.
On Sunday Ellie won her class and went Best Puppy. Suzanne had a great time showing her in the Puppy Group!
There was also a sanctioned "B" Match on Sunday. Marco got his first chance to show a dog in the Pee wee Junior Handlers. He won his class with Ellie. (Pictures)
- Magic is ranked 15th Standard Schnauzer by Canine Chronicles at the end of August.
- September 6th and 7th. DesMoines Kennel Club. (Pictures)
Another big day for Ellie on Saturday She picked up her second Major and now only needs 5 single points to gain her Championship. She won her class went Winners and Best of Winners and BOS on Saturday. She also won her class on Sunday.
Brenda Combs came in with a Special from California. Seems like Magic is constantly going up against the top dogs in the country!. Brenda won BOB both days and took a Group placement on Sunday.
- October 11th and 12th. Mason City Kennel Club (Pictures)
Not much to mention here for this show, Luis did place 4th in Junior Show. Take a look at the pictures, the dogs looked wonderful and all showed well.
- Magic is invited to the 2008 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship as one of the Top Standard Schnauzers in the country. Quite an honor!!!
- October 8th and 9th. Minneapolis Kennel Club. (Pictures)
Luis had the best weekend. He took third place in the Open Senior for Juniors. His first time out with the big kids.
I also had the privalage to judge the Working group at the Match. We all had good fun! (Pictures)
- Looking forward to next year. We hope to finish the girls and get some big wins for Magic .... and we hope to see some puppies out of our Magic man!!!
The dogs showed well but didn't bring home any big wins. Liz won BOB both days with Vegas.
