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2025 CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW Entries close 17th October (postal) or 26th October online!
Entries are now open for our Championship Show, to be held at Brackley Leisure Centre (Northamptonshire) on Sunday 9th November.  Louisa Henry (Trinzy) will judge Smoothcoats, while Longs will be judged by Rosie Clarke (Oxsirius) and Lyn Ison will judge the Best In Show. 

Baby Puppy classes are again offered for dogs of between 4 and 6 months and the Ballybroke Memorial Stakes for all puppies 6 to 12 months of either coat, with a cash prize of £50 for the winning puppy.

Hot food will be available at this show from a catering van. We look forward to seeing you there!  Download a schedule and enter online at Fosse Data.  If you are unable to download and print a schedule, please contact the Hon Treasurer Bernard Coxhead who will be happy to post one to you.

2025 OPEN SHOW
The show was held on Sunday 4th May at Brackley Leisure Centre.  We had quite a good entry of 58 longcoats and 57 smooths for our judges Lindsey Anderson and Isobel Taylor.  Our AGM was held during the lunch break and at the end of the show the judges conferred together to select the BIS awards.

Critiques for this show can be viewed/downloaded here in PDF format:
Longcoats
Smoothcoats

2025 YEARBOOK STILL A FEW COPIES REMAINING!
If you missed picking up your copy of our latest yearbook (the Chihuahua Chronicle) at Crufts or the Open Show, it's still not too late.  This is the go-to reference for show results and the achievements of top winning dogs for the whole of 2024.  The New Champions Gallery has a photo and pedigree of each new champion made up during the year, and there are lists of all CC and RCC winners and their pedigrees, 'Top Dog' award wins and other facts and figures.  The second half of the book contains stunning full-colour advertisements by breeders and exhibitors featuring their beautiful Chihuahuas.  It will be on sale again at our Championship Show in November at the cover price of £10, or you can order it now from this website for £12.50 including postage and packing to a UK address, £16.00 to Europe including Irish Republic, £20.00 to most of the rest of the world or £21.00 to the Pacific region (Australasia).  Click here to go to the yearbook sales page.

OUR 75TH ANNIVERSARY CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW
Founded in 1949, the British Chihuahua Club celebrated its Diamond (75^th) Anniversary with a fantastic Championship Show on Sunday 17th November 2024.  There were a multitude of prizes and small gifts for the exhibitors, with a cash prize from the Club of £75 for the Best in Show winner, and one of Amy Wilcox's legendary celebration cakes to share.  Amy also delighted the exhibitors by providing hot food for breakfast and lunch at heavily subsidised prices.

Mrs Lyn Ison (Lynpix) was the Smoothcoat judge and chose Serena Hunt's Champion Diamonchi Button Moon for Moltobello as her dog CC and Best of Breed.  The bitch CC was claimed by Emma Huntley with Jahneemah's Just The Ticket.  Reserve CCs went to Dorothy Entwistle's dog Dorenty's Arfa Sixpence and Steve Rooney's Champion Yorone We've Got The Moves, while smoothcoat Best Puppy and Best Veteran were Emma Hicks' import Xmas Dancer De Petit Roi Mojito at Casiatodo and Felicity Murray's Borjomi Brightness respectiively.

Former longtime BCC committee member, Treasurer and Secretary Mr Guy Hazlehurst returned to the club to judge Longcoats and his choice for Dog CC and Best of Breed fell upon Emma Hicks' longcoat Champion, import Chiquita De Oro Top Ten at Casiatodo, while Dorothy Entwistle's Champion Dorentys Heidi Hi took the bitch CC.  Reserve DCC went to Teresa Barker's Mocha Vanilla Baralicia and there was more success for Dorothy with her second RCC of the day awarded to her up-and-coming puppy bitch Dorenty Textututango, also awarded longcoat Best Puppy.  The longcoat Best Veteran was Sharon Robson's UK and Japanese Champion Go My Way Jp's Sherry Gold with Tidos.

Earlier this year at our Open Show in May, for the first time we included Baby Puppy classes, newly sanctioned by the Kennel CLub, for dogs of 4 and less than 6 months.  We offered these classes again for this show, and several promising youngsters were entered.  Best s/c Baby Puppy was Di Fothergill's Diamonchi Italian Stallion and the l/c was Michelle Emmerson's cheekily-named Ismirelle's Kiss My Fluff. Due to KC rules on these classes the winners were not able to compete further.

At the end of the morning's Dog classes the annual Ballybroke Memorial Puppy Stakes class was held in memory of the late Graham and Margaret Foote.  Our Best in Show judge Mr Tony Allcock OBE awarded the winner's certificate and £50 cash prize (donated by the family) to Nick and Leah Todd-McCoid's beautiful longcoat puppy dog Rubyanlo Dream Boy.  Then at the end of the show, he chose the smoothcoat BOB, Serena Hunt's dog Ch Diamonchi Button Moon for Moltobello as Best in Show (pictured left) while Emma Hicks' dog Ch Chiquita De Oro Top Ten at Casiatodo was Reserve.  Best Puppy in Show went to Dorothy's Dorenty Textututango with Sharon Robson's Ch/JapCh Go My Way Jp's Sherry Gold with Tidos taking Best Veteran in Show.

We would like to thank all the exhibitors who attended and all the very hard-working officers, committee members and volunteers who made the show both possible and successful.  Full results have been posted up on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/thebritishchihuahuaclub