Samfio & Stormchaser Leonbergers

Cairo has passed his B Test at water training, he will try for his C Test in October.

Thaila and Summer have both had their eyes tested, both all clear.

Thaila is due in season in the next couple of weeks, we plan to mate her on this season.

Shadow (Mr Green) is now a PAT dog, Well done to Merle who has qualified all 4 of her Leo's as PAT dogs.

Summer won her 3rd and most important CC at Midland Counties Championship show!!!

She is now a Champion at just 20 months old!!

The Stormchaser's had a great day with Cairo winning the Yearling class, Beluga the post graduate class, Tarn the Limit class and the Res CC and Cruz 2nd in Limit.

My Thanks go to Peter Jolley who was the judge on the day.

Peter was the very first judge to award Leonbergers CC's in 2002 at CRUFTS.

His Bitch CC winner and Best of Breed was Summer and Tarn's Grandmother .... Nabilah Nerasha Von Welland the Stormchaser...'Storm' who at nearly 12 years old, is still going strong.

July 2008

Summer wins her 2nd CC and BEST OF BREED!!! at the South Wales Championship show.
She is the youngest Leonberger in England to win a CC , she now has 2 CC's and is only 17 months old!!

Winning her class at the show also gave her the final point she needed for her Junior Warrant Title!!

June 2008.

After winning Best Bitch at Three Counties last week, Summer wins another Best Bitch and the Bitch CC at Blackpool!!!

March 2008. Summer wins BEST PUPPY IN BREED at Crufts 2008 !!!! Flame 'Stormchaser Zhivago's Love' wins the Res CC.

Dec 18th 2007'Summer' ended the year going Best Puppy in Breed at LKA. A great start to her showing career winning 3 Best Puppy in Breed, 1 Best Puppy bitch in show and 1 Best Bitch. All at Championship shows. Lyn's puppy, Tomba ( Stormchaser Ta Pinu J.W. Anw.Dt.Ju.Ch.Klub ) was entered at 19 shows as a puppy from which he won 11 Best Puppy awards, 4 at Ch shows, two at CC. Ch shows. He won twelve group places including 7 x Puppy Group 1's and adult G1. From these shows he also went on to win a record breaking six Best Puppy in Shows.. three of them within one week and gained his Junior Warrant at just eleven months.. the youngest Leonberger to do this (breaking his mother Flame's previous record of gaining her JW at twelve months). He won Best Puppy in Show and Res Best Male at the LCGB Open show at just ten months of age. Tomba has qualified for the East Anglia Supermatch ( three times over ! ) and for the Kent Supermatch both to be held in early 2008. Tomba is the fourth generation of Top Winning Leos... his great Grandmother, Nora won Best in Show at the German Club show. His grandmother Storm was Top Leonberger of 2001 and won Best in Show at the LCGB show and was the first BOB at Crufts with CC's and his mother Flame is the first and only Ch Leonberger in GB to have gained all three titles.

OCT 23rd 2007 LEONBERGER CLUB OF GB CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW. 'Summer' won 1st place in the Minor puppy class (10 present) and then went on to win Best puppy Bitch in show!! 'Thaila' gained VHC in a large Limit class (16 present) 'Cairo' (Mr Red) got reserve in the Minor puppy dog class October 7th 2007Bailey (Mr Yellow) passed his A test at water rescue today. Flame (CH Stormchaser Zhivagos Love JW SHCM) also passed her A test today. The water training is finishing for the winter months and will start again next summer where Cairo, Bailey and Flame will all train for their B tests. Sept23rd 2007DRIFFIELD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW. Summer gained a 1st place in Puppy Bitch, then went on to win BEST PUPPY and BEST BITCH in Breed !!!!!! DARLINGTON CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW. Summer gained another 2nd in the Minor Puppy Class. Sept 13th 2007 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW. Summer competed at her 2nd Championship show on September 1st, She got another 2nd (7 present) in the puppy bitch class. Luna competed at her 1st show in Luxembourg and gained a VV2 'Very promising 2' August26th 2007 THE WELSH KENNEL CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW. Summer went to her 1st Championship show in Wales on Aug 18th. She was in the Puppy Bitch class, there were 7 puppies present and Summer came 2nd!!!!! So she has qualified for Crufts 2008 on her first outing. August5th 2007 Cairo (Mr Red) passed his A test at water rescue at just over 6 months old, both he and Bailey (Mr Yellow) attend water training during the summer months. June 18th2007 THE LEONBERGER CLUB OF GB OPEN SHOW. We went to the club open show at Digswell yesterday with Darcy,Paris and Summer. Paris won the Veteran bitch class, she was handled by our friend Pam who owns Layla's Brother 'Cruz', who also won his class, Darcy taking 2nd in Veteran. Then they both competed in the Brace class....... Which we won so they were Best Brace in Show!!! Bailey and Cairo came to the show, it was the first time i had seen them since they left here as 9 week old puppies. They are both looking beautiful and met their daddy 'Zak' who won Best Dog and Best opposite sex at the show. 'Stormchaser Ta pinu' bred by Lyn, won 1st in Puppy Dog, Res Best Dog in Show and Best Puppy in Show. We had a great day, meeting the puppies again and then with all our wins !! May 24th 2007Paris is 7 years old April25th 2007Darcy is 8 years old today!! Layla's Hip & Elbow scores are back, Hips : 5:7 Elbows 0:0 April23rd 2007All the puppies have settled very well in their new homes, Here are their new names : Mr Red - CAIRO Mr Green - SHADOW Mr Yellow - BAILEY Mr Blue - YOGI Miss Pink - LUNA Miss Purple - SUMMER. 'Summer' is the puppy we kept from this litter, her page will be added soon. April6th 2007The Puppies are all leaving for their new homes, i will add some new pages with pictures of them with their new families. Mar 1st Thaila's puppies are now registered with the Kennel club, all the paperwork has come back and we have all the names we wanted. Feb 4th 2007Thaila's puppies have arrived, they were born on January 30th. 4 Boys and 2 Girls . Thaila is a super Mum and all her babies are doing very well. New puppy page will be added with up dates and photos Jan 4th 2007 EXCITING NEWS.. Thaila is having puppies.. They are due around Feb 3rd. Thaila's 'Husband' is 'Baltizar Iz Poselka Sokol For Lionslord'(IMP) '' ZAK ''. November 2006Thaila went to visit her new 'Husband' We are hoping for some Beautiful puppies!!! October 2006 We all went along to The Leonberger Club of Great Britain 5th Championship show on Oct 22nd. What a day!!! We arrived late with Darcy's Veteran class already being judged!! We were allowed to enter the ring and to my absolute shock and delight we won 1st place. There were some Beautiful girls in her class who I have admired in the show ring. Thaila came 5th in her limit class out of a large entry. Paris was in the open class, she won 1st place!!!! We then had to go into the Challenge, Paris won the Res CC and Darcy went on to win Best Veteran in Show!!!!!