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type/breed/showmanship, perhaps it’s easier to him BOB at Crufts in 2015. Austin went on to
win the lottery. win Top Pastoral Puppy in 2014 and became the
youngest Champion in the Breed at 13 months,
I had been looking for a while to find myself a which it is now held by Viking. Austin was also
nice male and I remember looking on Facebook top male in 2014 and then in 2015 he topped the
one day and seeing a picture of a black tri dog Pastoral Group. He continued into 2016 where
moving in profile and I thought, ‘wow’ this is what he was Top Australian and at Bath Championship
I want. That dog was AKC CAN CH Hearthside show he won BIS, my first with an Aussie. His last
Riveredge Sure is Summum (Quizz). I cheekily show in the UK was Crufts in 2018. Sadly we lost
messaged Betsy and said, if you ever breed him to Lymphoma 4 months later whilst travelling
anything like Quizz would you let me have one in the USA. He set the bar high with 30CC’s taking
here in the UK. To that she said, I have the repeat the Male record and winning numerous groups.
litter here at home and that was it, I booked a
puppy and he was to be called Austin. I got to see Mark for the first time back in 2016
when he was just a year old. I had taken Austin
Austin hit the show ring with a bang winning the and Meme to our first ASCA shows in France and
Reserve Dog CC at his very first show at just 6 I remember seeing this gangly puppy but boy he
months of age in fact, the judge, the late Meg could move and I followed his career closely. He
Parnell-Carpenter, was the Judge that later gave came to Crufts a couple times with a handler but

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