Show A French Angora Judging at San Jose

The triple shows were held at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

On Saturday morning, the day starts with the French Angora as the first breed of Angora on judge Cathy Szychulda's table.

There are 13 French Angoras on the table in both white and colored varieties.   Carol helps to clerk; Lillian and mom Airi Bearden on the right watching, next to Carolyn Silvas. 

French Angora white senior buck, BOSV.

French Angora white senior doe, BOV.

French Angora colored senior buck class winner, also the BOSB, shown by Betty Chu.

Colored senior doe.

Colored senior doe class winner and also the BOB, shown by Carolyn.

For a list of winners, go to:

NCAG Show Results: April 6-7, 2024 Angora Showing at San Jose (angorashowresults.blogspot.com)

 

Spacious Showroom at San Jose

This looks like a normal rabbit show room.

It looks like that exhibitors got a lot of space.

If you get an overall view of the showroom, you'll see how much space we have!   

The show is not really small, it's a normal sized 6-judge show.  The showroom is unbelivably huge.
What happens is that on Saturday there was an Indian Music Festival next to the original showroom Fiesta Hall.   Our wonderful fair manager felt that the loud music would not be good for the rabbits, so she moved the rabbit show to the Expo Hall that uses a different gate from the music event.  The square footage of this Expo Hall is over 30,000 sq.ft.  It is bigger than any of the rabbit showroom that we normally go to, except the ARBA conventions.   

This is what the Expo Hall looks like after the show was over.   My Angoras are still at the left corner wating for me to pull them out for the last trip to my van.      It is a wonderful building, judges and exhibitors are falling in love with it.  We are hoping that some of the bigger shows such as state convention or even WCC would consider this venue.  The fairgrounds are nicely maintained, got leveled parking areas, there are 3 hotels immediately next to the fairgrounds, and there are many more hotels within a mile or two.   There are restaurants, fast food, shopping centers close by.    

 

Open Top Winners at San Jose

Santa Clara County Stampede Club sponsors a 5-show weekend on Saturday and Sunday, April 6-7, 2024 at San Jose, CA.

In show A, judge Melissa Magee awards the open Best In Show to Betty Chu's English Angora.

Show A Reserve In Show is Kelly Hinde's Lilac. 

Judge Griffin Harrah in show B also selects Betty Chu's English Angora as the Best In Show. 

Julie Spier's Havana gets the Reserve In Show honor from judge Griffin.

In show C, judge Alysia Call picks the Tan shown by Beth Nelson as the Best In Show

 

Show C Reserve In Show goes to Betty's English Angora white senior doe.


  

In show D on Sunday, judge Stephany Brundage awards the Best In Show to Alysia Call's Britannia Petite. 

Reserve In Show in show D is Beth Nelson's Tan.

The last show of the weekend is show E.  Judge Chris Zemny awards the Best In Show to the Mini Rex shown by Lillian Bearden.  This is Lillian's first Best In Show, definitely a super happy moment.

Show E Reserve In Show is Alysia's Britannia Petite.

 

Camellia Wins Reserve In Show at San Jose

Raelynne and Camellia are sisters, the only two in the litter.  Both are beautiful and both have potential to go to the top.   Since there are only one BOB in each show, they are the BOV colored and BOV white competing for that honor in order to compete for the Best In Show or Reserve In Show.

Pretty Camellia wins some BOB but in a majority of the time, her sister Raelynne gets the honor.

At San Jose in show C, Camellia gets the BOB honor, she is waiting patiently for her chance to the top.

Camellia gets close, judge Alysia Call awards the Reserve In Show to Camellia in show C.

 

Raelynne Wins 8th and 9th Best In Show at San Jose

Raelynne has been doing really well in shows since her debut on November 25. 2023.

She has great wool and body, and....

  ... a very pretty face.   
 

On Saturday, April 6, 2024 at San Jose, judge Melissa Magee awards the open Best In Show to Raelynne in show A.  This is Raelynne's 8th all breed Best In Show.

A bit later, show B judge Griffin Harrah also awards the open Best In Show to Raelynne.  This is Raelynne's 9th Best In Show in 4 months of showing.   She also has won open Reserve In Show 3 times and a specialty Best In Show.     These 13 top position winnings were awarded by 13 different judges in the following chronological order: Kate Smith, Cheryl Blackman, Cole Rupprecht, Nate Burbidge, Courtney Collins, Ray Stacy, Misty Polisak, Uno Kivi, Cathy Szychulda, Michael Perez, Danielle Lowe, Melissa Magee and Griffin Harrah. 

 

Happy Birthday to Carol

Today, April 8,  is Carol’s birthday. 

We said Happy Birthday to Carol at the show in San Jose.  

We share a cake with our group and the judges and friends. 

We enjoy each other's company. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Carol on her real birthday.

 

Do You See Orange?

Do you see “orange”?  If you do, I hope you are seeing the table cloth!

I am a fawn French Angora.  As you can see my color and the table cloth that I’m sitting on are very different.  

Even with the sunlight shining on me, I am still not orange. 

 

If you ever hear anyone says that my color is orange, tell him that he needs to have his eyesight checked!