North of England Fife Fancy Canary Club Show 2009
Goole Leisure Centre
Sunday 15th November 2009
Judges Engaged: Mr S Reynolds, Mr H Clarke, Mr P Gillott, Mr R Godsall, Mr M Limrick, Mr J Murray, Mr C Adams
Main Awards:
Best Fife Canary In Show J I Ross - Heavily Variegated Buff Hen
Best Champion Fife Canary in Show I Watson - Clear Buff Hen
Best Novice Fife Canary in Show J I Ross - Heavily Variegated Buff Hen
Best Junior K Stewart - Heavily Variegated Yellow Hen
Champion Special Awards:
Best Of Colours Champion
Best Clear I Watson - Clear Buff Hen
Best Ticked to 10% Lightly Variegated Smith & Evans - L/Var Yellow Hen
Best Variegated A P Carline - Variegated Yellow Cock
Best Heavily Variegated D Lumsden - H/Var Yellow Hen
Best Self Green Smith & Evans - Self Green Buff Cock
Best Foul Green G Spencer - Foul Yellow Hen
Best Cinnamon A P Carline - Var Cinn Yellow Hen
Best Allied to White G Wilson - H/Var Blue Hen
Novice Special Awards:
Best Of Colours Novice
Best Clear G Curry - Clear Yellow Hen
Best Ticked to 10% Lightly Variegated T Hague - L/Var Yellow Cock Best Variegated T Campbell - Var Buff Hen
Best Heavily Variegated J I Ross - H Var Buff Hen
Best Self Green G Holdsworth - Self Green Buff Hen
Best Foul Green G Holdsworth - Foul Yellow Hen
Best Cinnamon G Curry - Var Cinn Yellow Hen
Best Allied to White T Hague - Self Blue Hen
A staggering 1,468 Fifes were entered at arguably one of the worlds biggest Fife shows, the North of England Fife Fancy Canary Club Show. The top award went to a cracking Heavily variegated buff hen benched by novice exhibitor J I Ross (pictured below), best champion was won by I Watsons clear buff hen.
The champion section attracted an enrty of 1,105 birds with many of the first 24 classes attracting large entries in excess of 40 birds, the heavily variegated yellow hen class saw an entry of 61 birds alone. I Watson took the top champion award with a clear buff hen bird, Smith & Evans took two top colour awards winning best ticked to lightly variegated with a nice yellow hen and the Self Green award with a quality Self green buff cock. Their achievement was matched by Tony Carline who's very good variegated yellow cock (pictured below) took the variegated special and a Variegated Cinnamon yellow hen took the cinnamon special. Dave Lumsden took the Heavily Variegated colour special with a tidy yellow hen, Gerald Spencers Foul Yellow Hen (picture below) and Gary Wilson Healivy Variegated Blue Hen (pictured below) completed the Champion Line up.
My own team faired okay with a 2, 3 and two sevenths, my team of whites did well and a lightly variegated buff hen also did well, once again the lighting at the show came under some stick (hence the poor quality of the photos) however it was a superb entry and a very well run show.
I Watsons Best Champion in Show and Best Champion Clear Tony Carlines Variegated Yellow Cock taking the Best Champion Variegated
Gary Wilsons superb Heavily Varigated Blue Hen taking best Allied to White Special Geralds Spencers Foul Green Yellow Hen takes the top award
The Novice section attracted entries of 355, the top award, and best in Show went to J I Ross, the remaining colour specials were well split with George Curry taking a brace with Best Novice Clear (picture below) with a clear yellow hen and Best Cinnamon, with variegated cinnamon yellow hen, Georges achievement was matched by Graham Holdsworth who took the Best Foul, with a tidy Foul yellow hen, and Best Green, which he won with a self green buff hen (pictured below), and T Hague who took the best ticked to lightly variegated award and the Best Allied to White, with T Campbells Variegated Buff hen completing the Novice Colour Specials.
George Currys Best Novice Clear, a tidy Yellow Hen Graham Holdsworths Best Novice Green, A nice self Buff Hen
Best Junior in Show - K Stewart Inside the show hall