Autumn Beauty Wins Open Reserve In Show At Colfax

English Angora Autumn Beauty attends another Sunday show on September 20, 2026 at Colfax.

Judge Kate Smith examines Autumn Beauty on the Best In Show table.

Judge Kate awards the open Reserve In Show to Autumn Beauty.

 

Annual Barn Cleaning Weekend

So many empty carriers, going to a show with big entries?

Buns in the carriers.

No, they are not on the way to a show, they are waiting for their condos to be cleaned.

Autumn Beauty has the biggest coat, she also has a bigger carriers to be her temporary home.

Autumn Beauty is enjoying her attention being inside mama's house.

Trays are power-washed.

Feeders are also washed with Dawn.

Condos are flamed then power-washed.

Power-washing the ceiling.

Power-washing the condos.

In addition to the rabbit stuff being cleaned, on important job is to rid of the spinder webs.

 It's 3-1/2 day job.  Essentially the entire weekend plus the entire Frieday and a part of Thurday were used to make the barn clean again.  It's back breaking work but it feels so good to see a clean barn free of cobwebs mixed with wool, and wonderful to have clean condos for the beloved English Angoras.

Show C Best In Show Judging at Cloverdale

Jordan Miner judges Best In Show in show C.

One more view of judge Jordan judging.

BOB English Angora.

Reserve In Show is Californian shown by Theresa Gowen.

Best In Show is Betty Chu's English Angora.  

This concludes the show photos and reports of the triple all breed shows at Cloverdale held on Sunday, September 13, 2026.

 

Show B Best In Show Judging at Cloverdale

Show B Best In Show is judged by Kathi Groves.

BOB Californian.

BOB Lilac.

BOB English Angora.

Best In Show is Airi and Lillian Bearden's Mini Rex.
Reserve In Show is Theresa Gowen's Californian. 

 

Mid Autumn Festival 2026

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also called Harvest Moon Festival, it is one of the three major festivals in Asia.   This is the only Asian festival that has a rabbit in the folklore.   The folklore was told in older blogposts, here is the earliest one:
Northern California Angora Guild: Harvest Moon Festival
If you are not familiar with this folklore, click and do a read.

It's intereting that our next show coming up uses the rabbit and moon cake in the cover of the catalog.  Got to share this cover.  If you are interested in showing or visiting this show, it's on October 3, 2026 at the fairgrounds in King City, CA.

Rabbit and moon cake are associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival, but not cavy.  Guess the cavy is added on to reflect the show at King City includes a cavy show.

 

Show A Best In Show Judging at Cloverdale

Show A Best In Show judge is Ted Deloyola from Oregon.   Juliet Hamak is working on her rabbit judge's license, doing the "assist" under judge Ted.   Juliet is a long time cavy judge.

Another view of judge Ted at the Best In Show table.

More Best In Show judging.

Reserve In Show is Beth Nelson's Tan.

Best In Show is Janice Skerik's American Fuzzy Lop.   

 

Show C English Angora Judging at Cloverdale

Judge Ray places the BOV English Angora, a white senior doe.

English Angora colored senior buck.

Colored senior buck, also the BOSB winner.

Judge Ray examines the colored senior doe.

English Angora colored senior doe wins the BOB and advances to the open Best In Show.

For a list of winners, go to:

 NCAG Show Results: September 13, 2026 Angora Showing at Cloverdale

Show C Satin Angora Judging at Cloverdale

Ray Stacy is our judge for our Angoras in show C.

Casey is the table clerk for judge Ray.

White senior does on the table.

Judge Ray examines the white Satin Angoras. 

White senior doe is the BOB Satin Angora.

The black junior buck is nice but still needs time to grow.

For a list of winners, go to:

 NCAG Show Results: September 13, 2026 Angora Showing at Cloverdale

Show B English Angora Judging at Cloverdale

Judge Cathy starts English Angora judging with the white variety.

Judge Cathy placing the first place white senior buck.

When Charlie was showing, his specializes in English Angora, especially the REW.

Judge Cathy has good blowing power!

Senior doe or senior buck, who gets to be the BOV white variety?

The BOV goes to the white senior doe.   

The next class is the colored senior buck.

The two finalists for the English Angora colored senior buck class. 

The chocolate tort buck on the left gets the first place.

The colored senior doe is on!

The colored senior doe is the English Angora BOB, the BOSB goes to the white senior buck.

For a list of winners, go to:

NCAG Show Results: September 13, 2026 Angora Showing at Cloverdale