A Thankyou From Edith Newton

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Edith Newton has asked me to thank all K9ers who contributed to Nev's 80th birthday & to make his day a memorable one :thumbsup:

Here's a photo of the beautiful cake that Jenny brought along....

 

[dawn]

Edith Newton has asked me to thank all K9ers who contributed to Nev's 80th birthday & to make his day a memorable one :thumbsup:
Here's a photo of the beautiful cake that Jenny brought along....

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I'm SO Sorry Debs (honest ).

 

 

I knew it was someone's 80th and I knew it was your birthday so I put 2 & 2 together !!!

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I cannot think of a better way for Nev to celebrate his 80th than to be at CRUFTS on the day with all his friends about.

 

Look forward to your 90th Nev....

 

[dawn]

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[dawn]

The poem

 

[Juley]

I had no idea that Nev was 80. Hope Mark looks that good at that age! (w00t)

 

[dawn]

I had no idea that Nev was 80. Hope Mark looks that good at that age!  (w00t)

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[SIZE=14pt]Mark doesn't look that good now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/SIZE]

only joking Mark...

 

[Avalonia]

Edith Newton has asked me to thank all K9ers who contributed to Nev's 80th birthday & to make his day a memorable one :thumbsup:
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Here is a picture taken 30 Crufts ago... the first time I went to Crufts, back in 1977 with my mother. We went over from Canada to watch Rough Collies, which my mother bred and showed, but it was at Crufts 1977 that I saw for the first time and fell utterly in love with whippets. While Mom was over talking collies with people I sat ringside and watched whippets. I had two favourites that day and here is a photo I snapped with my old Kodak camera that shows the two dogs I loved the most. That is Nev Newton, 30 years younger, with Nevedith Bright Beret.

I did not meet Nev and Edith and get any Nevedith dogs for 10 years after that show, but the impression the whippet made on me that day was the reason we bought our first whippet in the early 1980s and searched out the people that bred the dogs that impressed me that first time when I was ready to go to England to bring English lines over for our own breeding program.

I missed being at Crufts to wish Nev a happy 80th, but he and Edith are always in my heart. They have been good and true mentors for over two decades now and we love both of them, unreservedly for all their goodness and their help and advice and constructive criticism over the years. I hope Nev lives to be a zillion.

Lanny Morry

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[quintessence]

Lanny do you remember who was judging that year?

Jenny

 

[Avalonia]

Lanny do you remember who was judging that year?
Jenny

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Hi Jenny, I hate to say it but I haven't a clue. :- " I am going through the recesses of my mind trying to figure out who the judge was but the truth is, it was my first Crufts and none of the judges were names I recognized from Canada. I cannot find the old catalogue I bought any more... that would have helped. I am sure there are people on K9 who will remember.

It is only about four or five years ago when I was going through my tons of photos from the past that I found this one in a box of stuff from the 70s and it blew me away to realize what I had stored away for a quarter of a century. Funny how my continuing partiality for brindles (Black Knight just blew me away) clearly goes all the way back to the start!

Lanny

 

[Strike Whippets]

Happy 80th Nev .....I remember Nutshell when she used to go head to head with Ralphs Royal Portrait in the group .....Great looking girls the pair of them :wub:

 

[kris]

ooooooooh i remember her!(royal portrait)she was lovely.ive still got a pic of her upstairs in my book. :thumbsup: ralph is showing her with his little tartan bonnet on,and his granddaughter is with him in the photo

 

[Strike Whippets]

Royal Portrait was just lovely .......Tartan and all :* ......What a Girl :wub: .......I loved watching the Hound group at this time as either Nutshell or Portrait won them .........I forgot how much I loved showing ....

 

[Avalonia]

ooooooooh i remember her!(royal portrait)she was lovely.ive still got a pic of her upstairs in my book. :thumbsup: ralph is showing her with his little tartan bonnet on,and his granddaughter is with him in the photo

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I have a pile of Royal Portrait photos too! Ralph, complete as ever with his tartan tam, had her at Bath one year while I was there and let me take a dozen or more photos, very patiently. Royal Portrait was very much like a greyhound bitch we owned and showed with great success here in Canada at that time. She was a lovely strong bitch who was every bit the greyhound... Type is changing so much now I do not see anything like her style out there any more which is really too bad. Neither she, nor Nutshell, could put a bad foot down.

Lanny

 

[patsy]

Edith Newton has asked me to thank all K9ers who contributed to Nev's 80th birthday & to make his day a memorable one :thumbsup:
Here's a photo of the beautiful cake that Jenny brought along....

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Here is a picture taken 30 Crufts ago... the first time I went to Crufts, back in 1977 with my mother. We went over from Canada to watch Rough Collies, which my mother bred and showed, but it was at Crufts 1977 that I saw for the first time and fell utterly in love with whippets. While Mom was over talking collies with people I sat ringside and watched whippets. I had two favourites that day and here is a photo I snapped with my old Kodak camera that shows the two dogs I loved the most. That is Nev Newton, 30 years younger, with Nevedith Bright Beret.

I did not meet Nev and Edith and get any Nevedith dogs for 10 years after that show, but the impression the whippet made on me that day was the reason we bought our first whippet in the early 1980s and searched out the people that bred the dogs that impressed me that first time when I was ready to go to England to bring English lines over for our own breeding program.

I missed being at Crufts to wish Nev a happy 80th, but he and Edith are always in my heart. They have been good and true mentors for over two decades now and we love both of them, unreservedly for all their goodness and their help and advice and constructive criticism over the years. I hope Nev lives to be a zillion.

Lanny Morry

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[patsy]

Hi Lanny,

The judge was Molly Garrish, it was Ray Hill handling Bright Beret not Nev, and it was me handling Black Knight, a very proud day to take the breed under this famous lady. It was a first Crufts for Gaetano Turrini he was a young student at the time, he fell hook line and sinker for the same dogs as you.

Patsy Gilmour

 

[Avalonia]

Hi Lanny,    The judge was Molly Garrish, it was Ray Hill handling Bright Beret not Nev, and it was me handling Black Knight, a very proud day to take the breed under this famous lady. It was a first Crufts for Gaetano Turrini he was a young student at the time, he fell hook line and sinker for the same dogs as you.

          Patsy Gilmour

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Hi Patsy: I was there to watch Collies not whippets (my mother's obsession... I got to groom them and by that time I was in my late 20s and fed up to the teeth with the grooming requirements of high maintenance dogs) but when I saw this lovely short coated aerodynamic dog, I knew I had found the breed for me. I know I had the catalogue at some time but lord knows where now. But I had the foresight to mark the names on the two dogs I loved the most shown that day... I just assumed that was Nev though god's truth it doesn't look like him does it, but with all the hair that went on in the 70s to say nothing of the loud suits -- who knows! I rather thought that was you with Black Knight. He was my favourite on the day, and is the single most reason why we have whippets today. I came back to Canada and all I could talk about was that dog... Glad he is in some of our pedigrees even today.

On another note... do you know that we have a soon to be 6-month old black and white whippet male sired by Am.Ch. Sporting Fields Rockafella... litter brother to your Winged Dove out of a very nice SF black bitch? He's a real keeper I can tell you!

Lanny

 

[dragonfly]

I had spotted you there Patsy, looking very stylish!!

Cathie

 

[*Mark*]

excellent food & Drink!!

 

[parnew]

Edith Newton has asked me to thank all K9ers who contributed to Nev's 80th birthday & to make his day a memorable one :thumbsup:
Here's a photo of the beautiful cake that Jenny brought along....

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What a wonderful kind thing to do guys :thumbsup: there should be more of it. Happy B'day to Nev and I hope there are many more.