Bad Boy ended the year as the US' #4 Sporting Group dog for 2009 and the #1 Irish Setter for 2009 (all breed) with 7 Best in Shows and over 45 Group Ones!!!!!
Best In Show Bad Boy is shown taking his latest Best in Show.
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CABERNET
Winning
at Sandemac Vineyards Cabernet is shown winning at the Sandemac KC in October. Congratulations to Cabernet and Michelle!
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Four week old babies enjoy a nice Spring day. They are the children of BIS Ch Windwood Inferno (Dante) and Ch Vineyards Black Eyed Suzie. The human in the pictures is our son-in-law, Dr. Nadim Salfiti. Credit for the pictures goes to his wife, our daughter, Dr. Kelly Salfiti.
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Sonny - International Champion!
<H1>Irish Setters</H1>Congratulations to CH Vineyards Red Sun Rising! Sonny is the proud
winner of the Japan Kennel Club, Inc., International Beauty Championship.
Ch Vineyards Bad Boy is shown with his friend and handler, Laura King. This
picture was taken last Fall by Laura's associate, Erin Gimbut, who also shows Bad Boy. Besides being a talented dog handler
and groomer, Erin is also an accomplished photographer.
Bad Boy had a fantastic trip to the East Coast for the Westminster weekend in January. There are several very prestigious shows prior to Westminster. Bad Boy was Best of Opposite Sex at the BASS and got an Award of Merit at another. Then, at Westminster itself, Bad Boy got an Award of Merit. We are very proud of him. He ended
February as the #2 Irish Setter, Canine Chronicle All breed statistics.
The February, 2009, International KC cluster weekend in Chicago was another good one for Bad Boy. He won Best of Breed three of the four days and got a Group 4 on Sunday. Bad Boy was just four in January. In Nashville, TN, the weekend of March 5th
- March 8th, Bad Boy got two Group firsts and two Group seconds.
Bad Boy is the son of our Ch Vineyards Toora Loora ROM. Toora Loora has
eight champion children already, with the "C" litter still to be shown. Bad
Boy's litter was the Irish Setter Club of America litter of the year for
2006 and Toora Loora was the dam (mother) of the year.
Contender wins
4 Point Major
Bad Boy gets
Westminster AOM!
Vineyards Contender is shown winning a four point major at the Milwaukee Irish Setter Specialty in February, 2009. He is shown by Erin Gimbut. He was shown twice that weekend, winning Best of Winners both days, getting his second and third majors. Contender is a full younger brother of our Bad Boy. He will be shown next at the Irish Setter Club of America National Specialty in June. He has 14 points, 3 majors. We are excited about Contender's special qualities: he is very, very dark in color, has good bone and substance, and is quite showy.
Ch Vineyards Bad Boy is
shown winning an Award of Merit at the prestigious Westminster
Kennel Club in Madison Square Garden in February of 2009 under Judge
Mrs. Anne Bolus. The AOM win capped a wonderful "Westminster
Weekend" with Bad Boy winning an additional AOM and a Best Opposite
Sex award at the BASS show in the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
Bad Boy, who finished 2008 as the #6 Irish Setter and who received
an invitation to Westminster, has continued his winning ways in
2009.
Bad Boy, who is elegant and typey and moves like a dream, is one of
our "B" litter which won ISCA Litter of the Year a few years ago.
At 17 months of age, he was BOS to his littermate, Belladonna, in
sweepstakes at
the Michigan National Specialty and made two cuts in breed. We are
very proud of Bad Boy.
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Best In Show
Ch Vineyards Bad Boy is shown with his friend and handler, Laura King. This
picture was taken last Fall by Laura's associate, Erin Gimbut, who also shows Bad Boy. Besides being a talented dog handler
and groomer, Erin is also an accomplished photographer.
