Their second hound was Gloverndale Gelert, (‘Olly’), who
Colin handled at trials.
Meanwhile Pat and Ken had three hounds before they bred from their
Ch. Mondalis Mrs. Umney,
(‘Tilly’) with a litter named after characters created by
Charles Dickens.
Colin handled three dogs from this litter at trials;
Jacob Marley
(‘Byron’), Ch. Mr.
Macawber (‘Rommel’) and Barnaby Rudge (‘Reagan’)
Barnaby Rudge was a Senior Stake winner, and in 1991, won the Bloodhound
Club Kelperland Trophy
Stake.
From this litter, only Barnaby Rudge had progeny,
and from this litter Ruth and Colin kept Ch. Robinswood Thurlow, named after a stalwart of the Association
of Bloodhound Breeders (ABB ), Brian
Thurlow.
Thurlow climbed through the stakes at trials, after gaining his show
title at an early age. He won the Senior Stake, and in 1996, the ABB Brough
Cup. In 1998, he won the Bloodhound Club Millvery Trophy.
Thurlow sired the first litter having the Millvery Affix, named with the
theme Gone with
the Wind.
From this litter, Sandra Standela had Millvery Renegade , ‘Falcon’ who gained
his Woking Trial Champion title in the Senior Stake at the Bloodhound Club Autumn Trials in 1997. Handled by
Jim Jennings, he then went on to win the Bloodhound Club 1997 Kelperland Trophy Stake.
from which Ruth and Colin Avery chose Chasedown Just Reward,
‘Conner’.
The back-drop to these pages is from a photograph of Thurlow jumping over
a log in 1997, by kind permission of John Daniels, Professional Photographer. In 1998, he also captured a series of photographs
representing three generations of liver and tan dog hounds, featured in other
pages . . . .
Conner started his show career by being Best in Show at the Bloodhound
Club Open Show Spring 1998.
He then sired two litters for the Railside kennel, before siring the first
Brighton litter of the new millennium.
