17/04/2025
Settershow 29 juni 2025
KEURMEESTERS STELLEN ZICH VOOR | Nu de Settershow nadert en de voorbereidingen in volle gang zijn, willen we met jullie het een en ander delen over de aankomende Settershow. Hoe mooi is het dan om eerst de keurmeesters aan jullie voor te mogen stellen. Dit doen zij via hun eigen verhaal hieronder.
Nog niet ingeschreven voor de show? Klik op de link hieronder. Wel zo handig toch? https://www.onlinedogshows.eu/nl/Show/Index/4132/Settershow_KCMISC_IRWSC_NGSC_VES
DAVID PIKE | I would like to thank the Dutch Irish Setter Club for inviting me to judge their forthcoming show. I have been in the breed since 1983, purchasing our first Irish Setter as a pet from Olwen Hunt of the famous Sowerhill Kennel in May 1983. We were encouraged by Olwen to show Sowerhill Kelt and at his first championship show in October 1983, much to our delight he achieved a third in minor puppy under the late Mr Barry Rhodes in a class of 18. We campaigned him and achieved 1CC under the late Bobby James at North East Of England Irish Setter Club in 1987 and a further 2 RCC under the late Ailsa Harvey and the late Valerie Foss. We obtained our foundation bitch Sowerhill Aphrodite of Redclyst in September 1987 and we bred our first litter from her in June 1989. We kept a dog and a bitch Redclyst Milton Duff and Redclyst Glen Lossie. Lossie went on to achieve her Junior Warrant (under the old Royal Kennel Club system 12-18 months) and a RCC under the late Mrs. Laughton - Moore. Redclyst Glen Lossie was mated to Sh. Ch. Marksway Marquis and again we kept a dog and a bitch Redclyst Glen Fergus and Redclyst Glenury Royal. We campaigned Fergus and achieved a RCC under Mrs Bonnie Andrews. Fergus was used at stud extensively by several well-known breeders and now appears in the pedigrees of a number of dogs in the ring today. Since then, my wife and I have continued to breed from our dogs and have achieved stud book numbers for 13 of the dogs we have kept. A further 3 dogs owned by other people which we have bred have achieved their stud book numbers and our Redclyst Glen Fergus sired numerous Show Champions. I first awarded Kennel Club Challenge Certificates in 2000 and have awarded 7 sets of CC’s including two breed club shows. I have also had the honour of judging in Sweden and Belgium. My wife and I currently have 12 Irish Setters of which seven are veterans (we have always had a policy of never rehoming our dogs under any circumstances). I am currently showing five Irish setters both at Open show and Championship show level. I am very much looking forward to judging your forthcoming show.’
DAVID BIELEFELD | ‘Since my early childhood dogs have always been an integral part of my life. I grew up with my grandparents’ German Spitz, while later my family owned Caucasian Ovtcharkas. At the age of 10 I was introduced to the lovely Irish Setter and I was immediately obsessed by this breed. My foster-mother and I bred Irish Setters under the Kennel Affix “Gillarry’s”, based on the famous English Carnbargus lines and the German Aristocrat lines. We also kept Labrador Retrievers and other gundog breeds at our house. Over time we had a much stronger interest in performing dog therapy with our Setters and Labradors than in showing and hunting. After completing my high school, my foster-mother and I stopped breeding our canines. I studied German Linguistics, Literature and Special Needs Pedagogics at the University of Cologne. I am currently employed as a High School teacher (German, Music and Special Needs) and teaching advisor in the district government Düsseldorf. I am a member of various Dog Clubs and also perform Ring Stewarding for Dog Clubs in Germany and in Israel while living there. In 2014 I lived in Israel for several months, where I also completed my Master’s Degree on Animal Assisted Therapy with Dogs. I look forward to broadening my experience in judging. In 2014, at the age of 29, I became a Breed Specialist for Pointers and Setters and was perhaps one of the youngest judges in Germany at that time, later on I finished also most of the breeds in Group 5. I judged various CAC shows throughout Germany and my first CACIB show in Dortmund, Germany in 2016. Through the years I judged in different countries on CAC and CACIB level (Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland and Ireland). I am also invited judging the Irish Setter Breeders Club Open Show in May 2025 in England. Actively, my wife and I do participate in showing, hunting and breeding our dogs in Germany and abroad. We do breed English Pointers under our old Kennel Affix “Gillarry´s”. I look forward to judge in the Netherlands. I am delighted to have received this invitation.’
