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July 13th & 14th West Palm Beach Dog Show

Cane Sets A New Record & More!

WinQuest Chambray Storm Warning Cane, owned by Tracy & Bill Graham did this weekend what had never been done before by any Chambray male dog. He became the youngest male puppy to win points before they were a year old!!!! Up until this weekend, it was Dusty that won on the day of his first birthday, Cane is only 7 month's old.

Just in case someone thought that win was a fluke, he wins back to back Winners Dog on Sunday as well, giving him 4 points for the weekend of shows.

In addition at Saturday's show, Cane's sire, Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff took his 15th career Best Of Breed

Trooper Wins Jr Puppy & Group 3 @ Match

Chambray's Ruff Rider (Trooper) owned by Matt $ Kathrine Chapman continues the Chambray winning match tradition by winning Best Junior Labrador puppy and a Group 3 in the Sporting Groups. This win makes it 17 matches in a row that Chambray puppies have dominated.

June 22 2008

Jewel Dazzles At Orlando

th Johanna and coming off a 3 month conditioning program, she was in top form in a very competitive 12 to 18 class and then out-shined the rest of the winners in the Winners Bitch c0mpetition for her 1st 3-point major win. The major held right on the nose, but for added insurance she went BOS over bitch specials. Jewel now has 5 points and the 1 major.

June 7/8 2008

New Charm Champion, Jewel & Rocky Also Score Points
Chambray Trifecta #29 & Cher Match Too!
Two of Chancey's grandkids take BOB's

Charmed Weekend At Lakeland

The outcome could not have been scripted any better
than the reality that unfolded at the Lakeland shows this weekend!

Chambrays Charmed N Counter needed a 3-point major win to become Chambray Labradors #21 Home-Bred Champion. With 19 females present for judging, those numbers alone were not enough to accomplish the feat. The only way possible for her to get the major, was for her to win Winners Bitch for 2 points and then beat the Winners Dog (her litter mate Rocky) & also beat all 4 champions, including her sire Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff!!!!!! She had to go the whole nine yards and win over the awesome lineup of specials and win a Best Of Breed!!!!!!!!!

Mission Impossible to say the least, but hey, Never Say Never and with seemingly long odds, Jessica and Charm teamed up for their 3rd Best Of Breed of the year, fulfilling the requirements for the 15 points & 2 majors for the highly coveted AKC  Championship. Later in the day, the dynamic duo would rise into the rarefied air of the Sporting Groups and score a major upset with an astonishing Group 4, astonishing because class dogs seldom if ever receive placements in the groups.

Along the very sweet and shortened journey to her title, she would set some records.

• Charm becomes the youngest ever Chambray champion at the age of 16 month's

• Youngest Major-point winner at 7 month's of age

• Youngest Best Of Breed winner at 12 months

• Most Best Of Breeds from the classes (3)

• She is also the 1st champion of our 6th Chambray generation

• The win today was also her 4th Trifecta in 1 year (actually  1st half of 2008), TRIFECTA = Winners Dog, Winners Bitch and Best Of Breed
  Charm has teamed up twice with both her littermate brothers for the phenomenal feat, see Bred By Trifecta #29 below.

Charm was totally championed from the Bred By Exhibitor class by her breeder/owner Jessica Herzon and now they will receive the prestigious invitation to compete at the 2009 & 2010 AKC Eukanuba National Championships.

Jewel & Rocky Also Score Points

WinQuest Chambray Jewel In The Ruff, owned by Faith Bandklayder & Neil Wasserman would save the day for Chambray at Saturday's Lakeland show by winning Winners Bitch for 2 points. This win was Jewel's first AKC venture into the winner's circle of points. Jewel is handled by Johanna Herzon.

Chambrays Hogan's Hero Rocky would join his sister Charm in the winning fest at Sunday's show and take his 4th Winners Dog of the year taking him to a total of 6 points. Rocky is handled by Janice Granda.

Chambray scores
Bred By Trifecta #29
Lakeland Dog Show June 08, 2008
4th Chambray Trifecta in 2008

"Trifecta"

• Winners Dog

• Winners Bitch

• Best Of Breed

By dogs from the same breeder or kennel.

#29 Lakeland's Trifecta 06/08

 Ch Chambrays Charmed N Counter

Best Of Breed
Best Of Winners
Winners Bitch

 Chambrays Hogan's Hero Rocky

Winners Dog

#28 St Pete Dog Show Trifecta 03/29

 Chambrays Charmed N Counter

Best Of Breed

 Chambrays Hogan's Hero Rocky

Winners Dog

WinQuest Chambray Donna Gia

Winners Bitch

#27 Boca Raton Dog Show 02/24

Chambrays Charmed N Counter

Best Of Winners
Winners Bitch
Best Of Breed

 Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks

Winners Dog

#26 Boca Raton Dog Show 02/23

 Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff

Best Of Breed

Chambrays Charmed N Counter

Best Of Winners
Winners Bitch

 Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks

Winners Dog

Cher wins Best Lab Puppy In Match

Chambrays And The Beat Goes On continues her winning beat ways with yet another Best Labrador Puppy In Match and a Group 2 at the Lakeland Dog Match Saturday night. She also won a 1st place both Saturday and Sunday at the regular shows from the 9 to 12 Puppy Class. Watch for Cher and Jessica Herzon to team up in the Bred By Exhibitor class now that Cher's sister Charm has finished her championship and moves up to the special's class.

Chancey's Legacy Continues

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey  passed on earlier this year at the age of 11 years old, however her imprint at the Florida shows continues as her grandkids dominate the Winner's points as well as the Best of Breeds.

This past weekend at the Lakeland Dog Shows shows, two of her grandkids swept the BOB's, as Mr. Big won it at Saturday and on Sunday Charm came from the classes with a Winners Bitch and then went over the specials, including Mr. Big and over her own sire Hogan to take the Best of Breed award.

Another of Chancey's grandkids, Charm's littermate Rocky would join her win with a Winners Dog and together they would post the 4th Trifecta for the year, making it number 29th for Chambray.

So far this year, Chancey's grandkids have accounted for 15 Winners Dogs/Bitch for 39 points plus more than
7 Best Of Breeds.

Ft Myers Fl May 17 2008

Ft Myers Match

The 7th annual Ft Myers' Match Get Together for Chambray Labradors and the Partners Program was a rousing success. The tradition for this event is for the new owners to actually handle their own puppies in the ring while the Herzons watch from outside the ring.

There were a total of 34 mostly new owners of puppies from the Class of 2007 & Class 2008 that made the trip over to the West Coast of Florida. Not to be excluded from the festivities, some of our long standing partners also attended to witness the new owners handle in the ring. Most of the people came over on Friday night and were on hand for Saturday's regular AKC show, others drove over in the afternoon in time to catch the action of the match.

Chambrays Bailey On the Rocks (Class of 2007) with his owner Neil Wasserman proved the crown with some lively entertainment as bailey would take Best Of Breed Adult Labradors and a Sporting Group 1. It was at that time that Jessie jumped in and handled Bailey to a Best In Match Adult.

Chambrays And The Beat Goes On, "Cher" handled by her owner Mary Jakeway would prevail from the Senior Puppy Class and take a Best Senior Puppy and a Group 3 in the Sporting Group.

Chambrays Scarlett Of The Ribbons owned and handled by her owner, Nina Otto would take a Best Junior Puppy, a Sporting Group 1 and head into the Best In Match competition where the Terrier was awarded BIM Junior Puppy

Congratulations to all our owners for making the trip over and having such a great time. We look forward to next year's event.

Orlando Fl May 3/4th

The International Dog Shows
Orlando Fl

er venue than the International dog shows for debuting puppies and introducing them to the ways of the dog shows. Most of the owners that travel with their new puppies to Orlando twice a year for these shows are also being initiated to a whole different world that most of them did not know existed.

The atmosphere is much more laid back and not as rigid as the AKC shows. Of course the competition is not as stiff, since most of the dogs are from the local Florida community and the majority of the dogs entered are owner handled. Although in the last 3 shows there have been an increase in the numbers of professional handlers that are coming and bring some very nice dogs.

Another big difference at these shows are the different breeds that are registered with the International group. Where as AKC recognizes about 157 breeds of dogs, the IABCA recognizes over 300 breeds from throughout the world.

For Chambray Labradors and the Partners Program, the attraction is that 3 to 6 month old puppies are allowed and with the reduced number of matches in our area, this provides a great proving ground for the up and coming new
puppies and their owners.

For the most recent results click on the following.

Vero Beach Fl April 26/27th
The Math Adds Up At Vero
Hogan BOB & Gr 3
Bailey Winners Dog & BOW

The Vero Beach dog shows provided a great venue to sharpen our pencils,
put on our thinking caps and do the math!

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff, owned by  our good friend and partner Rosie Feeley adds yet another BEST OF BREED to bring his career total to 14 BOB's.  Since he was competing against 4 other specials in Breed competition both days, that gave Chambray 25% of the dogs present in the Breed competition for the weekend, Hogan won 50% of the time! None of the other specials won a BOB since the judge awarded the Breed to the Am Bred class bitch at Saturday's show.

His Group 3 placement on Sunday brings those numbers up to 5 Group wins out of the 14 times he has been in the Sporting Group competition for a whopping 35% ratio. For Labradors, group placements do not come easy competing against all the extra fluffy sporting dogs.

Int Jr Ch Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks, owned by Neil Wasserman and Faith Bandklayder  wins his 5th Winners Dog award for the year accumulating a total of 7 points. With his consistent domination of the Bred By Class and the way he has racked up the Winners Dog points thus far for 2008, he could very well be pointed out at the next AKC shows in Ft Myers on May 17th and 18th. At Vero, there were 2 dogs competing in the Bred By Exhibitor Class both days, with Bailey winning the Bred By Exhibitor class 100% for the weekend and winning the Winners Points 50% of the time for the 2 days of shows.

For those still confused about winning & numbers........it is not how many dogs you bring to a dog show, it is about the quality of those dogs that makes a winner a WINNER!!! Numbers don't lie, winners don't need to!

Chambrays Affinity Chance (Honey) was awarded Best Labrador Puppy over the puppy that won Winners Dog at Saturday's show. Honey is from the 2nd Connie X Hogan 5 Diva's Litter.

UKC BIS/Int Jr Ch Chambrays Hogan's Hero Rocky won his Open Yellow class both days for a 100% batting average and was awarded Reserve Winners Dog at Saturday's show.
Int CH Chambrays Strike Of Genius was awarded Reserve Winners Bitch at Sunday's show.

Perry Ga. April 11/13th
Rocky Does Georgia

UKC BIS/Int Jr Ch Chambrays Hogan's Hero Rocky traveled to the Perry  Ga. dog shows and came back with 2 Winners Dog awards out of the 3 days of showing. Int Jr Ch Chambrays Trinity Makes Waves also made the trip with owner Karen Gjertsen, winning Reserve Winners Bitch twice as both dogs were handled by Janice Granda.

Rocky now has 3 Winners Dog award for a total of 4 points.

A Chancey Bittersweet Weekend March 29/30th
Charm Winners Bitch BOB
Bailey Winners Dog Best Of Winners
 

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey passed away on Friday March 27. Her contributions to Chambray Labradors and the Partners Program for the betterment of the breed have been documented throughout this website in articles, short stories and in this newsletter, however her imprint on the breed can be easily seen on any weekend  at any dog show in Florida, as her grandkids from four of her own kids are constantly in the winner's circle more often than not.

This weekend at the St Pete Dog Shows one of her grandkids from her daughter Am/Int Ch Chambrays Mad About Madeline's would be awarded a Best Of Breed at Saturday's show. Her granddaughter Chambrays Charmed N Counter  from Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chance N Counter (Connie) was awarded Winners Bitch at the same show on Saturday.

On Sunday, Charm won her 2nd Best Of Breed for the year with another Connie son Int Jr Ch Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks being awarded Winners Dog for the 3rd time this year as well, Bailey was also the Reserve Winners Dog at Saturday's show.

Chambray scores its 28th Bred By Dogs Trifecta
St Pete Dog Show March 29th 2008

"Trifecta"

• Winners Dog

• Winners Bitch

• Best Of Breed

By dogs from the same breeder or kennel.

St Pete Dog Show March 29th 2008

Best Of Breed - Chambrays Charmed N Counter

Winners Dog - Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks

Winners Bitch - WinQuest Chambray Donna Gia

March 15th/16 2008 Ft Lauderdale Dog Show
Chief Wins! Cher Wins! Charm Reserve

Hail To The Chief!!!!

Int Ch WinQuest Chambray Chief Stroup's story has been well documented throughout the Chambray website. He has his own page of adventure, accolades and awards (click on his name above), his owners, Ralph and DeeDee Stroup have written several articles that are available at the Reference Library describing their acquisition and rearing of our adventurous boy and now we add yet another chapter to his 2.5 year existence as a great family dog and also prime show dog, he is now AKC champion-pointed!!!!!!!

Due to health issues with the Stroup family, Chief came to live at Chambray Farms back in November of 2007 and for 4 months he has been in training getting him ready for the big time and that time has arrived. In the last 4 weekends of shows he has won the very tough Open Yellow Class 4 out of 8 show for a 50% average and has been awarded a Reserve Winners dog in addition to the Winners Dog from today.

Chief will next be at the St Pete dog shows on March 29/30 and may well go home to be with his family that has missed him tremendously. We look forward to Chief to continue his winning ways for the rest of the 2008 spring and summer show season.

Congratulations to my good friends and partners Ralph and Dee Dee Stroup who as partners for the betterment of the breed, I could not ask for anything more. They have always been there with 100% support for Chief and for Chambray and for the Partners Program.

Congratulations also to my co-breeder and partner Geraldo De Souza of WinQuest Labradors.

Cher Wins Best Labrador Puppy/Gr 3 & RWB

Chambrays And The Best Goes on, aka "Cher" wins her second Best Labrador Puppy in the last 3 weekends of shows and also takes a Group 3 at the Saturday Ft Lauderdale Dog Shows, she was also awarded Reserve Winners Bitch.

Chambrays Charmed N Counter came close on Sunday with a Reserve Winners Bitch as well.

March 9th 2008 West Palm Beach Dog Show

Yet Another Chancey Weekend

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey is now 11 year's old and has long since been retired from showing, but her influence at the Florida dog shows continues with yet another generation of dogs dominating the wins.

In her time, with very limited campaigning Chancey racked up the Best Of Breed wins and also multiple sporting group and then her 3 daughters and 1 son took over starting in 2002 and continued the family domination through 2006 with all the followings wins, awards, accolades and accomplishments between them.

• 4 AKC Champions

• 4 International Best In Shows

• 37 AKC Best of Breeds

• 2 AKC Group 1's

• 12 AKC Group Placements

• # 22 Ranking USA

• # 1 Ranking Florida

• A Best Puppy In Show

•  Eukanuba

• Westminster

Now a new generation, her grandkids, are at the forefront of the wins at the dog shows in Florida. At the Boca Raton dog shows back in February, it was her granddaughter Chambrays Charm that would win back to back Winners Bitch, with her grandson, Chambrays Bailey taking Winners Dog both days and Charm was awarded Best Of Breed on Sunday to complete the 2nd Family Perfecta ever recorded for Chancey. The first was accomplished by her son Lance taking Winners Dog, her daughter Maddie taking Winners Bitch and her other daughter Karley taking Best Of Breed all at the same shows.

At the recent West Palm Beach Show, her grandkids would repeat the feat with her grandson Mr. Big taking Best Of Breed, another grandson Rocky taking Winners Dog and her granddaughter Charm going Winners Bitch.

Let's give credit where credit is due................
Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey,
the Chancey Legacy continues!

Congratulations to Rocky and Charm

UKC /Int Ch Chambrays Hogan's Hero Rocky wins his first points with a Winners Dog for 2 points and Best Of Winners at the recent West Palm Beach dog shows. Chambrays Charmed N Counter would join Rocky in the winners circle with her 3rd Winners bitch of the year and the 3rd time she joins up with one of her littermate brothers to sweep the Winners Dog/Winners Bitch awards.

March 1st 2008 South Dade Kennel Club

Hogan Wins His 13th BOB

Hogan added to his breed count by winning his 13th Best Of Breed in 1 year's time. It was last year in March that he took Best Of Breed back-to-back at the West Palm Beach Club dog shows to begin the awesome odyssey that propelled him to the # 18 Labrador in the USA for the 2007 show season. So far for 2008, he has added 2 more Best Of Breeds to his growing resume as a special's dog.

Chambrays all time record for BOB was recorded by 2 of our past champions, first in 1994-1995 by Ch Chambrays Caleb and then tied by Ch Chambrays Maddie, both with 18 Best Of Breeds over their illustrious show careers.

February 27th, 2008

Monster Weekend For Chambray

A Family Affair of Trifectas

The Boca Raton Dog Shows on February 23/24 provided the backdrop for one of the most awesome show weekends for Chambray Labradors ever with back to back Trifectas! That's Winners Dog & Winners Bitch & Best Of Breed by dogs from the same kennel all in one show. Prior to this weekend, Chambrays had accomplished the feat a state record 25 times, now numbers 26 and 27 make it even sweeter as it was achieved by a sire and his offspring on succeeding days.

Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks won Winners Dog at Saturday's show and his littermate, Chambrays Charmed N Counter won Winners Bitch/Best Of Winners and that was followed by their sire, Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff taking the triple crown of Best Of Breed.

Sunday's results were similar but with a twist! Bailey repeated as Winners Dog, while Charm repeated as Winners Bitch, then came the twist as she was also awarded Best Of Winners & Best Of Breed.

These two  "Family" Trifectas were preceded by the first ever Chambray family Trifecta back in the summer of 2004 when 3 offspring's of Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey would go into our record books with the incredible feat*. That day it would be Ch Chambrays Twist Of Fate winning Best Of Breed, her half brother Chambrays Chisholm Sir Lancelot winning Winners Dog, Best Of Winners and her littermate sister Chambrays Maddie taking Winners Bitch. Not coincidentally, Chancey is Charm and Bailey's grandmother.

* Call It What You May; It’s A Real Big Deal!  (read about the first-ever family Trifecta recorded for Chambray Labradors)

This weekend's wins go into the record books for Chambrays with the following.

• 1st littermate Winners Dog - Winners Bitch & do it again at the next day's show!!

• 1st sire & littermates combining for a Trifecta (Saturday's show)

• 1st littermates to combine for a Trifecta (Sunday's show)

• Youngest Best Of Breed Winner, Charm. She already owns the record for the youngest puppy ever to win a major-pointed show in November 2007 as a 7 month old puppy

• Youngest Chambray male to win points, Bailey at 12 months of age and then wins again the next day.

February 10th 2008

Hogan USA # 18 Labrador for 2007
&
Westminster Bound

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff CGC TDI K9K finishes in the
Top 25 Labradors for the 2007 show season, making him the
3rd Chambray dog to finish the year in the Top 25.
In 1995 Ch. Chambrays Caleb was the
#9 Labrador and in 2004 it was
Ch Chambrays Twist Of Fate (Karley)
that ended the year in 22nd place.

Hogan will also be competing at Westminster on Feb 12th 2008,
with Jessie Herzon handling him at the most prestigious of dog shows.
Hogan is now the 3rd Chambray dog to compete at the stellar venue, with Caleb making the trip in 1995 and Am/Int Ch Chambrays Mad About Madeline visiting the "garden" in 2004

Purina's Breeder Showcase
Orlando 12/13/07

Hogan Best Of Breed Adult Labrador
Rocky Best Of Breed Puppy Labradors

Hogan's 2nd Breeders Showcase Win!
Chambray's 2nd Sweep Of Awards In 3 Years

The Purina Breeders Showcase held each year in conjunction with the 3-days of shows at Orlando has become a tradition for breeders to showcase their best produce. Chambray's first venture to this new venue was back in 2005 when Hogan took Best Of Breed Adult Labrador and Frida was awarded Best Of Breed Labrador Puppy, creating our first clean sweep of the highly coveted awards.

This year it would be Hogan and his son Rocky  that would take the 2 top prizes for the breed, Best Adult and Best Puppy Labradors.

December 8th & 9th
Miami Dog Show Bonanza

Hogan, Frida, Charm, Trinity Win Big
Molly, Sammie, Rocky come close!

The Greater Miami Dog Club celebrated their 60th anniversary in December of 2007. This year also marked the 22nd year that Chambray Labradors has attended and competed at our own city's dog  show venue.

Chambrays Out Of The Ruff (Hogan) won his 11th Best Of Breed of the year at Sunday's show, he was also awarded a Group 4 in the Sporting Groups.

Chambrays Charmed N Counter, Hogan's daughter won Winners Bitch & Best Of Winners at Saturday's show for 2 points. At Sunday's show she was awarded Best Bred By Exhibitor Labrador and also won a Group 2 in Sporting Bred By Exhibitor.

Chambrays Strike Of Genius (Frida) won Winners Bitch at Sunday's  show for 1 point.

Chambrays Trinity Making Waves was awarded Best Labrador Puppy at Saturday's show and a Group 2 in the Puppy Groups.

Rounding out the weekend with awards were WinQuest Chambray Some Like It Hot winning Reserve Winners Bitch, Chambrays Good Golly Miss Molly winning Reserve Winners Bitch at Sunday's show and Chambrays Hogan's Hero winning Reserve Winners Dog at Saturday's show.

It should be pointed out the Charm (Connie), Frida (Karley), Trinity (Lance), Molly (Lance) and Rocky (Connie) are all grandkids of Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey from 3 of her own champion kids, Connie, Karley and Lance.

November 2007
Banner Month of Good News!

Optigen Results, OFA Results, Hogan Continues Winning-Producing Great Litters & His Puppies Keep The Beat Going!

Surely November of 2007 will be a memorable month for Chambray Labradors and the Partners Program for the Betterment of the Breed.

With the advent of DNA testing for Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) available at more affordable rates, 9 more dogs were tested and each and every one passed with perfect results, CLEAR of PRA. That means that none of these dogs will ever come down with the dreaded blinding disease, nor will they ever pass it on to any of their offspring. Congratulations to each of their owners for these great results and thank you for investing in the future of the breed. Congratulations to the following dogs and owners for taking part in the Betterment of the Breed.

Chambrays Hogan's Hero

Chambrays And The Best Goes On

WinQuest Chambray Bella's Son Sonny

Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks

WinQuest Chambrays Jewel In The Ruff

Chambrays Laffittes Mutiny Princess

WinQuest Chambray N Nick O Time

WinQuest Windfall At Chambray

Chambrays Good Golly Miss Molly

all were tested for PRA and all are CLEAR of PRA

Clearances for PRA, hips, elbows, heart and thyroid are the foundation to producing a higher percentage of healthy and sound puppies.

Congratulations to the Newest
CGC Graduates 11/20/07

Int Jr Ch WinQuest Chambrays N Nick O Time CGC K9K

Int Jr Ch Chambrays Bearfoot Buddy CGC

Int Jr Ch WinQuest Chambray Jewel In The Ruff CGC

Int Ch WinQuest Windfall At Chambray CGC

Int Jr Ch Chambrays Good Golly Miss Molly CGC

Int Jr Ch Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks CGC
click on names above to go to their pages
Greenhead Shallow CGC

Great work owners!

Great dogs have titles on both end's of their name.

November 23 & 24 2007

Ft Myers Dog Shows

Hogan wins  Back-To-Back BEST OF BREEDS
Hogan's kids Rock & Roll @ match

Am/Int CH Chambrays Out Of The Ruff CGC TDI K9K
continues with his winning ways as he adds 2 more Best Of Breeds to his already
 super impressive resume. He now has 10 BOB's and 3 Group placements
in 2007 and there are still 5 shows left in the year.

Hogan's daughter, Chambrays Charmed N Counter  was awarded
Reserve Winners bitch at Sunday's show. Int Jr Ch WinQuest Chambray Some Like It Hot was the Reserve Winners bitch at Saturday's show.

Meanwhile, some his other offspring from
Am/Int CH Chambrays Chance N Counter's CGC TDInc K9K
two litters have totally dominated every single match that they have competed in
throughout Florida. One or another of their puppies has won Best Labrador Puppy at
every match so far in 2007 with one of the puppies, Rocky taking 6 out 8 match wins. At this match it would be Chambrays And The Beat Goes On (Cher) winning Best Jr. Lab Puppy and a Group 1 and Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) winning Best Sr Lab Puppy and a Group 2.

Int Jr Ch Chambrays Greenhead Caramela CGC TDInc RN K9K
was awarded Best Adult Lab and a Group1 at the same match.

Below are the matches and results.

Vero Beach Fl April 2007
Best Lab Puppy Group 1 - Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky)

Davie Fl May 2007
Best Lab Puppy Group 1 BEST PUPPY IN MATCH - Chambrays Charmed N Counter

Ft Myers Fl May 2007
Best Lab Puppy Group 4 - Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks (Bailey)

West Palm Beach Fl July 2007
Best Lab Puppy Group 2 - Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky)

Miami Fl September 2007
Best Lab Puppy Group 1 - Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky)

Gold Coast Fl September 2007
Best Lab Puppy Group 1 - Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky)

Ft Lauderdale Fl OctoberFest Match October 2007
Best Lab Puppy Group 2 - Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky)

Naples Fl November 2007
Best Sr. Lab Puppy Group 2 - Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky)
Best Jr. Lab Puppy Group 1 - Chambrays And The Beat Goes On (Cher)*

*Cher is from the second litter born in August.

October 20th & 21st

Albany Ga. Dog Shows

Gia Back-To-Back Wins.

Int Ch WinQuest Chambray Donna Gia, and handled by Pino Renzulli take back to back Winners Bitch at the Albany Georgia Dog Shows, plus take a Best Of Breed and a Group 3 at Sunday's shows. These are Gia's first pointed wins, however we expect the winning ways to continue with this super sweet and very typey girl.

October 13th & 14th

UCI International Shows

Orlando Fl

The Chambray gang came away with 100% success with their
V1's and SG1's at this most recent International UCI 4 shows in 2 days at Orlando Fl.

All 4 Best Of Breed Labrador Puppy were won by our puppies, with Buddy taking 2 of them , Jewel and Rocky taking one each.

Best Bred By Labrador Puppy were also snapped up by our puppies with Rocky taking 2 of the Bred By's and Venus and Trinity taking one each.

Beach Boy attained his Bronze title and is now
Int/CACH-Bronze Ch Chambrays Diamond In The Ruff CGC TDInc K9K.

All of the following attained their Int Jr's title.

Int Jr Ch WinQuest Chambray Jewel In The Ruff
Int Jr Ch Chambrays Hogan's Hero
Int Jr Ch Chambrays Barefoot Buddy
Int Jr Ch Chambrays Prissy Woman
Int Jr Ch Chambrays Trinity Makes Waves
Int Jr Ch Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks
Int Jr Ch Bella's Son Sonny
Int Jr Ch Chambrays Good Golly Miss Molly

10/13th & 14th 2007

Hollywood Fl.

2 Best Labrador & 2 Group 1's

Nikki

Int Jr Ch WinQuest Chambray N Nick O Time takes 2 Best Of Breed Labrador and 2 Group 1's to earn her 3rd Major win for her UKC champion's title. UKC championships require 3 majors and 100 points, Nikki accumulated 165 points and the 3 majors in her quest for the UKC title.

She is now UKC/Int Jr Ch WinQuest Chambrays N Nick O Time TDInc K9K

Caramela

Int Jr Ch Chambrays Greenhead Caramela CGC TDInc RN K9K also won a Best Of Breed & a Group 1 at her first ever UKC show

09/29 & 30th 2007

De Land Fl. Delightful Weekend

Chambray & the Partners Program for the Betterment of the Breed enjoyed a most delightful weekend with a Winners Bitch/Best Of Opposite Sex win by Chambrays Charmed N Counter at her very first AKC show, making her the youngest ever Chambray dog to score major-pointed championship points. She is now 7 months old.

Making the win by Charm even more delightful was the fact that she is a grand daughter of Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey,  adding to her great contributions to the breed was that the Winners Dog/Best Of Winners/Best Of Breed is also a grandson of Chancey.

Rounding out the awesome weekend was Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff (Hogan) winning his 8th Best Of Breed award and also his 3rd Group placement this year. Hogan is Charm's sire from his first ever litter with Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chance N Counter.

Turning in excellent performances were

• Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) winning his 6 to 9 Puppy Class on Saturday.

• Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks also won his Bred By Exhibitor class at Saturday's show.

• Chambrays Jewel In The Ruff also took a 1st place from the 6 to 9 Female Class at Saturday's show.

• Chambrays Strike Of Genius went 1st place both Saturday and Sunday from the Open Yellow Class and was awarded RWB on Sunday.

• WinQuest Chambrays Bella's Son Sonny won the 6 to 9 Males Class on Sunday.

• Chambrays Barefoot Buddy was unopposed from the Novice Class and performed awesome with Ryan handling

• Chambrays Prissy Woman also was unopposed in the Novice class and turned in a great performance.

• Chambrays Greenhead Caramela was unopposed from the Open Chocolate Class and as always is Chambray's and the Partners Program's goodwill ambassador at all these events!

09/26/07

Rocky Does It Again!

Chambrays Hogan's Hero, (Rocky)  goes Best Labrador Puppy and a Group 1 at the Gold Coast Match on 09/16. This now makes 4 competitions in a row that he excels at with the highest win for a puppy and then a first place win from the sporting groups !

09/22/2007

Best Labrador & Group 1  plus a BEST IN SHOW!!!!

Chambrays Hogan's Hero, better known as Rocky wows the judges from the puppy classes in his breed and goes all the way to a Best In Show at the Hollywood Fl UKC shows . Rocky has been on a tear lately with back to back Best Labrador Puppy and Group 1 wins at matches at West Palm Beach and at the Miami match.

09/17/2007

Miami Dog Match Winners

The last match before the real deal begins for the puppies of the Class of 2007 was held at their home grounds of these superb show prospects. Int Baby Ch Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) wins Best Labrador Puppy and a Group 1 making it now 6 matches in a row that one of  puppies from the Class of 2007 win in matches held throughout Florida. This now makes 3 matches that Rocky takes Best Labrador Puppy and his 2nd Group 1.

Joining Rocky in the winners circle was Chambrays Greenhead Caramela with a Best Adult Labrador and a Group 3

Vero Beach Match - April 2007
Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) Best Labrador Puppy & Group 1

Davie Match - May 1st 2007
Chambrays Charmed N Counter Best Labrador Puppy Gr 1 Best Puppy In Match

Ft Myers Match May 19th 2007
Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks Best Labrador Puppy Group 4

West Palm Beach Match
Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) Best Labrador Puppy & Group 2

Chambrays Van Dalen Madison Jacksonville Match August 11 2007
Best Labrador Puppy Group 2

Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) Miami Match September 16th 2007
Best Labradors Puppy Group 1

Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) Gold Coast Match September 26th 2007
Best Labradors Puppy Group 1

09/01/2007

Jason & Nikki OFA Good News

Both Int Jr Ch WinQuest Storm Major (Jason) and Int Jr Ch WinQuest N Nick O Time (Nikki) have passed their hip clearances. Jason is from Am/Int Ch Surry's Obscured By Clouds (Bella) first litter bred to BISS Windfalls Pipe Major and Nokki comes from Bella's 4th litter bred to BISS Ghoststones Hyspire's Dressed To Impress (Armani)

Watch for Jason puppies in the spring of 2008 as he has been bred to Am/Int Ch Chambrays Moon Over Maya and Chambrays Gypsy Blanco

08/19/2007

Connie & Hogan's Encore Performance

The bags were packed, the appointment was made for a c-section with Dr. Eich in Ft Lauderdale and we were ready for an "easy" delivery. I say easy, because I have been having heart problems lately and one of the things at the top of the "Do List" was to lessen STRESS!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course my regular 6 CUPS OF CUBAN COFFEE per day were already non-existent for the last 2 weeks. I had already cut back considerably my daily dog training appointments
and me and the missus agreed not to disagree as much!

So, I figured I had all the bases covered.

A thorough examination was performed by the vets, blood test was sent out to the lab and  X-rays were taken 6 days before the due date and 6 little outlines were detected even by the untrained eye, mine! The c-section was scheduled for day 60 on Wednesday, and all was set.

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, no one told Connie about our plans and she surprises the entire Herzon family with a 16 oz. white female at 12:30 AM Tuesday morning (08/14/07). Connie ate her dinner 6 hours earlier and showed no signs of delivery with no contractions, even 1/2 hour before the puppy was found crawling next to her in her large condo-crate. So imagine our amazement at this turn of events.

STRESSSSSSS, extra medication and hoping that all goes well with the delivery until I can drive the hour to Ft Lauderdale at 6AM.

Well, the Powers From Up Above were looking down upon me and the entire delivery went like clockwork. The only hitch was delivery #3 at 2:45 AM. She had extra contractions, extra pushing and then out plops a 7 OZ tiny puppy!!!!! Well that doesn't make sense! All that extra stuff for a super tiny puppy and then out comes the placenta with another tiny little puppy attached!!!!!

TWINS!!!!!!!! One was 7 OZ and the other was 6 OZ, GIRLS!!!!!

From then on a puppy came every hour and a half and all the puppies were girls!!

By the time it came to pack up and leave for the vets at 6 AM, she was finished and all was well. No need for a c-section or the long ride.

Connie at 52 days pregnant looks on as Jessie works her son, Bailey from the first litter.	1st white girl	2nd white girl	3rd big dark girl	4th medium dark girl	5th girl small dark girl

08/12/07

Madison's Win Makes 5 In A Row

There have been 5 matches in Florida that have been attended by Chambray puppies thus far this year and they have won all 5! The latest match in Jacksonville Fl had Int Baby Ch Chambrays Van Dalen After The Storm. aka Madison winning Best Of Breed Labrador Puppy and a Group 3 in the Sporting with tough competition to keep the Chambray streak going.

• Kicking off the wins was Chambrays Hogan's' Hero (Rocky) winning BOB Puppy and a Group 1  at the Vero Beach Match in April.

• Next came Chambrays Charmed N Counter winning BOB Puppy, Group 1 & BEST PUPPY IN MATCH at the Davie match in May

• Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks wins BOB Puppy and a Group 4 at the Ft Myers Match in May

• Chambrays Hogan's Hero would perform the hat trick by winning his 2nd BOB Puppy and a Group 2 at the West Palm beach match in July.

08/06/07

Another High For Hogan

To add to his ever growing credits, Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff CGC, a.k.a. Hogan, is now a registered Therapy Dog and the newest member of our K-9 For Kids Community Service Programs. Together with his owner and new K-9 Coach Rosie Feeley, he will now spread his good will at schools, clinics and hospitals with visits which provide therapeutic value to those in need there.

With this new accomplishment, he now becomes
Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff CGC TDI K-9 Companion

07/31/2007

Hogan Hits The Big Time!!

The newest rankings are in for 2007 and Hogan is now listed at #19 for the period from January 1st to June 30th 2007, in the Canine Chronicle. In very limited showing, locally in Florida and against some of the highest ranked Labs in the country that have traveled down this way, he has managed to win 6 Best of Breeds in 15 shows to earn those 227 Breed points. With shows in September, October, November and December, we expect Hogan to add a few more BOB's before the year is out. Since the rankings came out on June 30th, Hogan added to his national breed count with another Best Of Breed at the Sarasota shows.

07/15/2007

Caramela Wins Again!

What more can you say about the dog that does it all? She's the apple of her owner's eye, she's a Companion K-9 for  the K-9 For Kids Program, she's a Therapy Dog Inc., she competes in Rally and has a title to prove it and today at West Palm Beach she wins Winners Bitch/Best Of Winners at the last show of the summer show season! What a joy she is to all that meet her and 3 judges in 7 months of very limited showing have liked her enough to award her Winners Bitch on those 3 occasions. Congratulations to her owner, Maki Nieto-Menendez who partners with "Caro" in all these activities.

Rocky Wins Best Labrador Puppy & Group II

The Hogan X Connie puppies are 4 for 4 at Florida matches, with Int Baby Ch Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) winning Best Labrador Puppy at the very first match at Vero in April and now Best Labrador Puppy at the 4th match in West Palm Beach. In between those 2 matches, Rocky's sister Chambrays Charmed N Counter was to win best Labrador Puppy and Best Puppy In Match at the Davie match on May 1st and their brother, In Baby Ch Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks winning Best Labrador Puppy at the Ft Myers match in May 19th.

07/08/2007

Hogan Adds Another BOB & Group II
Venice Dog Show July 8th
Dusty Wins 2pt Winners Dog

The Chambray boys came through at the 2nd day of shows at Venice Fl. with a 2pt Winners Dog win for Int Ch Carmays Duststorm At Chambray CGC, now with 12 points and 1 major to his credits and only needing a 3pt major for his AKC champion's title. Dusty seemingly had hit a major dry spell with his last win coming in November of 2006 and none so far in 2007. He will now have to wait for a major-pointed show to get back in the ring. Jessica Herzon handled both boys to their wins, with Dusty winning from the Open Yellow Class and Hogan winning as a "specials" from the Breed ring.

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff CGC continues his 4-month dominance at the Florida shows with his 7th Best Of Breed since the West Palm Beach shows in March. Since then he has gone head to head with the #3, the #5, the #12 and #19 Labradors in the country in 17 shows, including the Westminster BOB winner and a Eukanuba BOB winner. All these BOBs count for the 2007 Eukanuba Championships, with the Top 25 Dogs in each breed receiving an invitation to compete at the prestigious venue. A dog who wins a Best Of Breed receives 1 point for each dog of that breed in competition for the day. In previous years 300 points was almost a sure bet for making the Top 25, Hogan now has 262 breed points and the deadline is September 30th for totals.

07/01/2007

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Reading & Enrichment Service Programs

Chambray Labradors & the Partners Program for the Betterment of the Breed in partnership with Maki Nieto-Menendez proudly announce the launching of a community service program bringing together teams of specially trained dogs with their owners to serve as Therapy Dogs in school, clinic and hospital settings.

The K-9 For Kids program will serve to assess, train, evaluate and certify suitable dogs and their owners to participate in pre-approved facilities where children may benefit from the therapeutic value that dogs of this nature provide.

Maki will oversee the entire program, with Chambray Dog Training providing the majority of training needed to qualify as a candidate for the program. As a community service, free of charge, Maki will provide the evaluations for the dogs to be certified Therapy Dogs.

All of the members of the Partners Program, Chambray owners, Professional Canine Service clients and other dog related contacts have been notified and encouraged to
participate in this great community service program.

For more information, contact us at labs@chambraylabradors.com

Editors Note: July 2nd 2007 - The K-9 For Kids programs mentioned above were announced on June 27th 2007 and to date the response has been overwhelming in support and in interest for participation, both from the groups mentioned above and from visitors to the Chambray website. Thank you to all that have pledged support and contributions.

06/25/07

Hogan Dominates The BOB At Orlando
2 Out Of 3 Days

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff CGC added 2 more Best Of Breeds to his already impressive resume bringing his Best Of Breeds total to 6 for the 2007 Eukanuba national rankings. This weekend's wins come over 7 champions including the #5 and #12 Labradors in the country. The 2 wins added big numbers to his national totals as there were 53 dogs
entered each day.

Each year from October 1st to September 30th the following year, Best Of Breed totals are kept for each breed and the top 25 dogs in each breed receive an invitation to compete at the AKC Eukanuba National Championships.

Traditionally in Labradors it takes close to 300 points to reach the prestigious 25th place in the rankings, of course a higher placement creates better bragging rights!

At this time we don't have an official count, nor a standing  for Hogan, but we figure that he has close to 250 points as of this writing and we still have 6 Florida shows left until the September 30th deadline.

06/10/07

UCI International Shows

This past weekend, the UCI International Shows were held in Orlando Florida and that's 4 shows in 2 days, so talk about hectic!!!!!! Well, now add handling 13 Labradors times those 4 shows and your talking real turkey here folks or maybe that's chickens with their head's cutoff!

Okay, okay, for the animal rights people, let's not be so graphic, but it was grueling to say the least, however as the famous credit card commercial states, those 4 shows  were PRICELESS for each dog there!

Priceless in terms of training and exposure for each of the 13 dogs and puppies that made the trip and priceless for each of their families that were there rooting them on. No training class, nor match, not even an AKC show provides so much hand's on training for a dog as this particular venue does.

Although Chambray Labradors and the Partners Program dogs have dominated the Labrador wins at every International Show in the last 5 years, this one will certainly go down as one of our very best. According to the UCI superintendent, this was the very first time that he could recall where Labrador puppies won all 4 Group 1's and represented the Sporting Groups in Best In Show!!!

Jane Roppolo, renown AKC judge and the Labrador judge for show #3 proclaimed to me "This is the best lineup of Labrador puppies that I have seen in many, many years of judging" she said referring to our puppies and she further stated "I know and like your type and this group is just superb".

The Labrador judge for show #2 stated that "Your male puppies have set the bar so high for every other Labrador out there and it is difficult comparing the rest of the dogs to them!"

For the results and new titles click the icon below

06/01/07

Caramela's New Title

How about this amazing dog, one day she is doing her thing with Maki as a Therapy Dog having kids read to her and the next day she's running through a specially marked course of  exercises to earn her Rally Novice (RN) title! In order to earn the RN title, a dog must score at least a 70 out of a 100 points at 3 different trials; each successful trial is called a leg, so a dog must earn 3 legs to achieve the title for that particular level of Rally competition.

Having scored the required above-70 scores at each of her first 3 trials, she earned her 3 qualifying "legs" and now is officially Int Ch Chambrays Greenhead Caramela CGC TDI SARA RN. While all the titles are great to have, her greatest attribute is her devotion to Maki in whatever Maki decides to participate in. "Caro" now serves as Maki's Service Dog on trips away from home, providing Maki with comfort and companionship to alleviate stress. As an officially certified and accredited Service Dog, Caro may accompany her handler anywhere, including the work place, public places, stores and even on an airplane.

05/23 2007

K-9 Reading Program In The News

Chambrays Greenhead Caramela CGC TDI SARA goes to school!

One of the local TV stations featured an exciting concept in education recently on one of their broadcasts; using dogs for area school's reading programs. Teams of specially trained and certified dogs along with their trainers visit schools that have pre-approved the project. The dogs are brought into the reading classes where children will read out loud to the dogs.

Those in charge of the program say that children are less inhibited and are  more likely to read to a dog than they are to the teacher or in front of the whole class. Reading specialists say that improvement in reading skills can be documented by the use of this K-9 to Kids reading program.

Upon viewing the segment on WTVJ recently, it was my extreme delight to see that both dogs used in this upstart project were Chambray dogs. One of them is owned by one of my closest friends and Partners Program participant, Maki Nieto with Chambrays Greenhead Caramela CGC TDI SARA. Maki is one of the local program's founders and now provides testing and evaluations for certification for new dogs and owners that are interested in joining this wonderful volunteer activity.

Stay tuned for more information on this K-9 For Kids Reading Program in the months to come. Maki may be contacted at  MCNieto@aol.com for more information.

Way to go girls!!!!! 

Editors Note: I have received many emails asking about this very special program. Maki Nieto has provided more information with the following:

05/19 & 20 2007

Family Affair Weekend
At Ft Myers

The Ft Myers Dog Shows provided the backdrop for a truly family affair weekend for Chambray, the Partners Program and the many new owners that made the 2-hour trek over to the west coast to watch the shows and also to participate in the Puppy Match  on Saturday night.

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff (Hogan) scores his 4th Best Of Breed of the year at Saturday's show to start off the winnings for team Chambray. I had the honors of handling Hogan for the day, as Jessie his regular handler was back in Miami at her graduation prom. Hogan was to go beyond the Labrador ring by winning his first group placement, an awesome Group 2!!!!

After the show on Saturday the club hosted a Puppy Match in the evening that was attended by most of the New K9 Kids On The Block. Before this match, 2 of the puppies from the Hogan X Connie litter had won Best Labrador Puppy at the 2 other matches attended, with Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) taking Best Labrador Puppy at Vero and then went on to a Group 1. Chambrays Charmed N Counter followed that act with a Best Labrador Puppy, Group 1 & Best Puppy In Match at the Davie Match.

For this match it would be Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks that would rise to the top and beat out the other Chambray kids for Best Labradors Puppy, he also was awarded a Group 4 in sporting.

Rounding out the family affair weekend was Hogan's sister and Bailey's aunt, Int Ch Chambrays Summer Arrogance winning her 3rd Winners Bitch and a Best Of Opposite Sex over 2 specials, adding two more points to her champion points . In addition she was awarded Best Bred By Exhibitor Labrador.

Congratulations to all the winners and to all the puppy owners that made the trip, as all of the puppies performed beautifully!!!

See Match Photos below!!

Puppy Matches

05/05 & 06 2007

Best Of Breed  for Hogan
Winners Bitch for Frida

Winners Bitch for Sammie

Am/Int Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff (Hogan) continued his winning ways at the South Dade Kennel Club dog show with his 3rd Best Of Breed of the year, going over the Labrador specials that won BOB at Westminster in February.

Int Ch Chambrays Strike Of Genius  (Frida) becomes the 3rd different bitch to win  points this year, following after Dahlia at Palmetto and Sammie at Vero. This now gives Frida 2 Winners Bitch and 4 points towards her AKC champion's title.

Int Ch WinQuest Chambray Some Like It Hot wins her 2nd Winners Bitch award in as many weekends. She now goes into second place at the Scoreboard with 6 points toward her championship.

5/01/07

Charming The Judge

Without missing a beat at the recent Davie Fl match, Chambrays Charmed N Counter went from 1st place female Lab Puppy to Best Labrador Puppy and then  kicked it into high gear and waltzed to a Group 1 from the Sporting Group .

The competition in Best In Match was formidable and it took a Quick Step by her handler Ryan Herzon to sashay out of the ring with a Best  Puppy In Match.

The judge, long time Labrador Retriever owner and exhibitor of champions himself, Hector Hector was totally smitten with Charm and her future potential as a show dog and even a "specials dog" once she titles. He confessed to be leaning towards the Boston Terrier for the BIM award, but could not deny the overall conformation and performance and awesome presentation by Ryan in the ring with Charm.

Two professional handlers on the scene also commented on how Charm and Ryan reminded them of Karley and Jessie in their run for the roses in 2004 with a Labrador Retriever National Ranking of 22 USA and eventual invitation to the Eukanuba

Although it is a bit premature to be thinking at those levels with a 3 month old puppy, it sure does validate the entire Partners Program for the Betterment of the Breed.

4/28/07

Sammie Shines @ Vero

Iples takes a 2-point Winners Bitch to add to her 2 other WB for a total of 5 Points at the Treasure Coast Dog Club shows in Vero Beach. She was also awarded Best Of Winners in addition to her Winners Bitch placement.

Chambrays Hogan's Hero (Rocky) one of the outrageous puppies from Connie X Hogan litter took Best Labrador Puppy at the match that followed the show and then went on to take a Group 1 from the Sporting Group. Rocky is owned by new owner Karen Gjertsen.