Ronan, Talisman's Byzantine Empire, got ANOTHER Best in All Breed Show, he managed to get two
Best of Breed Opp Sex awards too, but totally blew the specialty, so while he's racking up BIS ribbons,
we still haven't gotten him the "get out of show jail" of the ISWS Specialty win would give him. His sister Sazi has the triple Ch title of ISWS Rarities/NAKC , and IABCA , with four Specialty wins, 1 NAKC, 3 ISWS,  and recently also got her Straight Racing Championship, so shes a dual ISWS Ch now. At this point, she's been mostly relieved of show duty , and is pursuing the much more fun options of racing and coursing with occasional appearances at shows .  We'll keep plugging away at shows with Ronan till he gets his Specialty win.  I'm not sure where he is in terms of his Rarities/NAKC Grand Ch status either, but I suspect he is getting close.

New gal in the tribe, Ilsa, from the Tyler Cinder litter, Talisman of Art Nouveau , garnered three Best Puppy in Show awards !  She is a fun gal to show, and really seemes to enjoy herself. She's  matched Helios's show debute.
 
 Helios , Talisman's Light of Helios , managed to get a RWD in Specialty show , and his sister Phoenix got RWB in Specialty show to match!
 
Helios also managed to get 6 points towards the 12 needed to get his straight racing championship about two weeks before the show too! Given that this was his first ever racing outing, I was beyond thrilled. He was best First Time Entered dog in the breed as well.

 Little Dresden, Talisman of Merovingian, got two Best Male Puppy in Breed awards, losing Breed to his sis in one show, but didn't manage to last all weekend since after show 1 he started really not wanting to move out, so scratched him out of the last two shows and just hung out with the little fella and gave him lots of cuddling .
 
 Talisman of Tarazed Scirocco , showed with owner Ann Steele, managed several WB and went all the way to Reserve Best in Show , and also got the Specialty win, of WB, so she wound up becoming a Dual ISWS Ch too! So she's now ISWS Rarities/NAKC, IABCA Int Ch Talisman of Tarazed Scirocco, SRC CQ !

 So it was a good show weekend for the home team!
 



 
Top Left, Ronan with me and judge Patricia Gail Burnham, Top Right Ilsa with me  judge Terry Campbell, and judge Patricia Gail Burnham  , Bottom Left, Tara with Ann and judge Terry Campbell.