Donnbrae Cardigan Welsh Corgis NZ

08/02/2026

Results from Gore & Districts Kennel Assn Championships show held at Gore 7&8 February. Saturday morning show Copperleaf Star Jasmine (Loulou) won Best of Breed - Judge was Mr Jimmy Wu of China. Saturday afternoon show CH Plantation Southern Journey (Ben) won Best of Breed - Judge was Mr ZhiDa Seven Duan of China. Copperleaf Star Jasmine (Loulou) went forward for Intermediate of Working Dog group and won - Judge was Mr ZhiDa Seven Duan. Sunday morning CH Plantation Southern Journey (Ben) won Best of Breed - Judge was Ms Sue Bownds of Australia. Loulou earned her 8th Challenge Certificate over the weekend and once approved by DogsNZ she will be known CH Copperleaf Star Jasmine. Our 3rd Champion in our kennel.

01/02/2026

Took Loulou (aka Copperleaf Star Jasmine) to our local kennel club Ribbon Parade today. She hasn't had any practice for the show ring since well before Xmas. Her training lately has been learning sheep dog skills and rounding up the lambs. Pretty proud of her today as she was against some very nice looking dogs who I think were very competitive. We gave Loulou a break from showing in the hope that she might come back more ready for the show ring and it looks like that has been a very good idea. Roll on next weekends shows at Gore.

07/01/2026

Welsh Corgi (Cardigan) Pointscore 2025
Show Dog of the Year National Leaderboard 2025
Ben finished the year as Number 11 on the National Leaderboard and Brynn finished the year as Number 12. That's a pretty good result for us as there are very few shows for us to attend in the far south of NZ.

07/01/2026

Delighted with our Ben. Number 1 in the South Island.

07/01/2026

06/01/2026

Really hoping this goes ahead.

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06/12/2025

Plantation Southern Journey aka Ben won his 8th Challenge Certificate at Forrester Park dog show in Dunedin today under Queensland Judge Mrs Sharron Taylor. Subject to DogsNZ approval he can now be known as NZ CH PLANTATION SOUTHERN JOURNEY. We have our 2nd Champion for our kennel.

15/11/2025

Our 1st official photo (thank you Claire of Flagstaff Photography)
Taken at Southland Kennel Club 2/11/2025 with International Judge Hannele Jokisilta. Ben aka PLANTATION SOUTHERN JOURNEY - Junior of Group and 2nd in NZ Bred Stakes.

02/11/2025

Busy weekend at the Southland Kennel Assn shows. I will have a better photo of Ben when the photographer's photos are put up. Ben (aka Plantation Southern Journey) did rather well for himself under International FCI judge Hannele Jokisilta of Finland. He took out Best Cardigan corgi 3 times over the weekend earning 3 more challenge certificates. On Saturday morning he also went on to win junior of group. We had four competing breeds to beat to get junior. On saturday afternoon I had entered Ben and Loulou in NZ Bred stakes not knowing what I was entering. It is all breeds competing against each other in an open age group class (excluding puppies and veterans). There were quite a number of dogs in the ring and to be given a 2nd in a stake class was I think quite a highlight for us.

24/10/2025

And the time lapse photos. It was lovely and warm 18 degrees and dropped to 8 within minutes. We were very fortunate however some family members have severe damage to their homes. Power restored today and we are very grateful to all the hard working emergency folks working long hours .

24/10/2025

This was the storm that rolled in over us on Thursday. It was worst than expected.

Here is a little wider view of Foveaux Strait as the big storm rolled in,Ruapuke on the far left,Invercargill Heads on the right.

10 portrait shot panorama stitched and edited in lightroom.
canon 5d3 - samyang 14mm

12/10/2025

It was fantastic to meet Kerrie with her sweet dog Ted today at our ribbon parade. Loulou was in awe of her half brother.