Sunday at Cow Palace

In the past few days, we have seen photos from the Grand National Livestock Show rabbit competition on Saturday April 14.

On Sunday, April 15, California Rabbit and Cavy Shows put on double all breed shows at the same building. There were French and Satin Angoras shown, but no English Angora entered.

At the top photo, we see our new judge Keelyn with the Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex French Angora shown by Lindsay. In the second photo, Keelyn is seen with the Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex Satin Angora and their mom Tracy.

In the third photo, Judge Wade is holding the Best Opposite Sex and Lindsay is holding the Best of Breed French Angora. The fourth photo shows Wade carefully examining the French Angora during the breed judging.

Both judges are very young; both did very well in judging. We are not only seeing the present, but also the future for many years to come.

Keelyn's Judging Debut

There are two new judges who received their licenses recently. Keelyn is the second new judge who we featured on our blog.

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At the Cow Palace Grand National Livestock Show, Keelyn made her judging debut. At 16-1/2 years old, Keelyn is the youngest judge in CA, or may be in the entire country. Her 4-H leader Stephanie made the best observation:

"I have watched Keelyn grow up and it is so wonderful to see her get her judging license. Keelyn works very hard in ALL her projects and excels in everything she does. I wanted everyone to know that Keelyn is a wonderful person and I wish her great success with her new judging career. I wish I could have been there to watch her judge officially for the first time, but I know I will see her soon."

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The top two photos show Keelyn judging with Allen doing the writing. The third photo is Keelyn with her mom and her 7-year-old sister Melody.

It's not Cow Palace if there is no cow. In the fourth photo, Keelyn and Melody are watching the cows during the lunch break.

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Congratulations to Keelyn, her supportive mom and cute little sister. We look forward to seeing Keelyn judging in the shows regularly.

Best and Reserve In Show Winners in Both Shows

This is probably the first time that we have a set of complete photos of all winners of the Best and Reserve In Show. These are the winners of the Grand National Livestock Show on Saturday, April 14.

The top photo is open winners in show A, from left to right are Judge Cathy, Allen with his Netherland Dwarf and Tracie with her Champagne D'Argent.

The second photo is open winners in show B, from left to right are Allen with his Netherland Dwarf, Judge Wade and Betty with her English Angora.

The third photo is the youth winners in show A with Judge Wade. The very right is Keelyn who made her judging debut on that day. There will be a post about this new judge in a few days.

English Angora Winners

In show A and B at Cow Palace on Saturday, Betty won the Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex with her colored English Angora.

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Top photo shows Chu's Fawntasia who won the Best of Breed in both shows. She also went on to win Reserve In Show in show B.

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The second photos is Chu's Joey who won the Best Opposite Sex in both show A and B.

Satin Angora Winners

Tracy's beautiful Satin Angora won Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex in both show A and B at Cow Palace on Saturday.

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Top photo is Tracy with her two winners in show A and the second photo shows Tracy and two winners with Judge Cathy.

French Angora Winners

At the Grand National Livestock shows at Cow Palace, Lindsay's white French Angora senior doe took Best of Breed and Carol W.'s broken senior buck took Best Opposite Sex in show A. This show was judged by Judge Nita.

In show B, Lindsay's white senior doe took Best of Breed again and Lindsay's colored senior buck took Best Opposite Sex. This show was judged by Judge Cathy.

Fawntasia Wins All Breed Reserve In Show

After leaving our hearts in San Francisco some 20 years ago, rabbit shows are back to Cow Palace as a part of the Grand National Livestock Show.

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Chu's Fawntasia took all breed Reserve In Show in the Grand National show B. At the top, Fawntasia is seen in front of the Cow Palace poster.

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In the second photo from left to right are Allen with his black Netherland Dwarf that won the Best In Show, judge Wade from MO, and Betty with Fawntasia.