{"id":3038,"date":"2022-03-14T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2022-03-28T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T04:21:01","slug":"chloes-brother-xander-gets-a-cc-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/2022\/03\/14\/chloes-brother-xander-gets-a-cc-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Chloe&#8217;s brother &#8211; Xander &#8211; gets a CC in England!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3041&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/darwynthebestisyettocome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xander &#8212; Darwyn the Best is Yet to Come<\/a> &#8212; was awarded a Championship Certificate (CC) in England during 2021!\u00a0 He is conditioned and presented by his owner, Mrs. Alexandra O&#8217;Connell.\u00a0 Xander, bred by us here at Darwyn, is a litter brother to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/our-dogs\/chloe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chloe (Grand CH Darwyn&#8217;s Morningstar)<\/a>, who was Canada&#8217;s #1 Welsh Terrier for 2021, and a son of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/our-dogs\/robbie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbie<\/a> and Zora.\u00a0 Behind Robbie and Zora are beautiful examples of the breed, with many wins to their names also.<\/p>\n<p>Xander being awarded a CC is really exciting on many levels!\u00a0 Alexandra also got 2 CCs with our girl, Charley &#8230;. but that&#8217;s in the next post.<\/p>\n<p>CCs are hard to get in England &#8212; especially for someone new to dog showing!\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n<p>Why?<br \/>\nIn the UK, champions compete directly with the non-champions for the Championship Certificates (the rest of the world, champions compete in a separate champions class).\u00a0 UK Championship Certificates are referred to as CC&#8217;s.\u00a0 In the UK, you need 3 CC&#8217;s to become a champion.\u00a0 The UK has very few championship shows, compared with most other countries in the world, and not every championship show offers a CC for the breed.\u00a0 The UK also is geographically much smaller than Canada and the US.<\/p>\n<p>SO:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>very few opportunities to be awarded a CC,<\/li>\n<li>with small geographic distance, you compete with almost everyone all of the time (in the US or Canada, distance keeps many apart for most of the year)<\/li>\n<li>champions that are being campaigned for Top Dog Status, compete with all of the non-champions for these (very limited in supply) CCs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is common for some breeders to never be awarded a CC in their breeding and showing career (Xander is Alexandra&#8217;s first show dog).<\/p>\n<p>The UK dog show scene, like other parts of the world, have many people that have participated for a long time, know their breeds and how to present them.\u00a0 My breed, Welsh Terrier, is a specialist breed in that the trim and presentation takes some time to really learn.\u00a0 People that are new to the breed face a steep learning curve.<\/p>\n<p>I am so very proud of how well Alexandra has done.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not easy.\u00a0 Xander is her first show dog and her first hand-stripped terrier breed.\u00a0 She flew over to my home in Canada when he was a 5 month old puppy.\u00a0 She came to pick him up, and got a mini-crash course education from me in trimming and presentation.\u00a0 She proved that her learning didn&#8217;t stop there, but she has continued to learn, and has put in a significant amount of effort to learn details, nuances, asking questions, reading books and constantly trying to improve.\u00a0 Now that he is 2.5 years old, I feel like she is well on her way with her knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>I love it that her family is also participating.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra&#8217;s youngest daughter, Sophie, is participating in Junior Handling, and doing a great job!\u00a0 Her oldest daughter, Rebecca, started her own professional ring-side candid photography business (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/intheringphotography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In The Ring Photography<\/a>).\u00a0 Some of Rebecca&#8217;s photos have been used in advertisements from other breeders.\u00a0 They are really beautiful photos, as Rebecca has a good eye for quality, for balance, for composition with the artistic edge.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra recently competed at her very first Crufts experience, and did very well.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crufts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crufts, held in Birmingham England, is one of the worlds largest dog shows<\/a> with over 16,000 dogs competing in 2022, of which 34 were Welsh Terriers.\u00a0 Alexendra had 2 that she presented there, Xander and a girl that I co-own with her, Charley.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More about Charley in the next post.<\/p>\n<p>Well done to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/letoha_terriers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letoha Team!\u00a0 This is Alexandra&#8217;s kennel name she will be breeding under<\/a>.\u00a0 Keep up the great work, we are very proud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/darwynthebestisyettocome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to check out Xander&#8217;s Instagram page<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3044&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3047&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3048&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3046&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3045&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3049&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"luv-separator luv_dynamic-79285918     \"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/darwynthebestisyettocome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to go to Xander&#8217;s Instagram page<\/strong><\/a><strong> that Alexandra posts once in a while to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3041&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Xander &#8212; Darwyn the Best is Yet to Come &#8212; was awarded a Championship Certificate (CC) in England during 2021!\u00a0 He is conditioned and presented by his owner, Mrs. Alexandra O&#8217;Connell.\u00a0 Xander, bred by us here at Darwyn, is a litter brother to Chloe (Grand CH Darwyn&#8217;s Morningstar), who was Canada&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,166,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show-news","category-awards","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotchin.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}