The Vizsla Newzsletter (Feb/Mar 1998) |
Photo: Michelle Taylor showing what the Vizsla owners world wide know Erdosne Dr Zsuzsanna Balogh (uses both names as her married surname is Erdos and the 'ne' on the end means Mrs, and her maiden surname - and professional name as a Doctor of Law - is Balogh) is the President of the Hungarian Kennel Club's Judges Committee. Zsuzsanna's husband (Laslos) is also a multi group judge so they travel quite extensively over Europe. Well the weekend of Jan 31st, Feb 1st we have been lucky enough to have her judging in 2 All Breed champ shows in New Zealand. To make it even better she judged Gundogs on Saturday and she is a breeder of Vizslas!! Getting a Vizsla specialist judge in New Zealand is just brilliant! Of course, since we were showing under her, we could not meet Zsuzsanna properly until after the shows. Saturday morning we arrived early (bright hadn't hit in yet). I had entered Ch Barat Amber Flight (Flight) & Barat Amber Flame (Flame) and was there with Jan Edwards who had entered four of her dogs - Ch Ruby Roze of Szep-Allat (Roze), Ch Suave Joe of Szep-Allat (Joe), NZ Ch Hubertus Claim to Fame Imp Aust (Fame) and Agasvari Ruby Rosely (Mouse). Also entered was another of Jan's breeding (litter sister to Joe), Scarlett of Szep-Allat (Scarlett) owned by Rod Hitchmough, and another Australian import, Gonnylde By Fig Tree Imp Aust (pet name unknown by me) owned by Brenda Wilkin. Roze took Best Bitch and Joe Best Dog with Flight taking Reserve Dog and Fame Reserve bitch. Open of breed was Fame, Intermediate was Roze, NZ Bred was Flame, Junior was Joe ... and we had no pups entered. On to Group judging we were beaten to the draw by a Labrador for Best of Group but Roze took Reserve of Group & Intermediate of Group while Fame was awarded Open of Group. The other 2 shows during the weekend were a gundog specialty where Roze took Best in Specialty Show! And another all breed champ show on Sunday saw Roze taken best of group AND Reserve in SHOW! Editors wistful comment: One day I plan to have Flight or Flame (and our new addition Spirit) doing that also! The plan was that the judge came back on Sunday after the show to stay with Yvonne Barton and the Vizsla people entertain her for a couple of nights.
Photo: Zsuzsanna relaxing with Yvonne Barton's pup, Tosca. Zsuzsanna does speak only broken English but once we had all relaxed from a hectic weekend of showing and judging we found that communication became quite straight forward. Yvonne is such a lovely, friendly person with a very OUTGOING husband that it would be impossible not to feel at home with them. And added to this was little Tosca (Yvonne's pup) who quite stole Zsuzsanna's heart! I think that Yvonne searched the luggage before Zsuzsanna's departure to ensure that no little orange live wire was packed to smuggle away. Actually there were several dogs during the time that I think Zsuzsanna was quite keen to take home!Zsuzsanna was perfectly content to spend her time relaxing, watching pups and adult V's (including a lovely walk and (dog) swim at the lake with 7 adult V's all having a JOYOUS time), looking at photos of NZ Vizslak over the years and talking about her dogs and ours! A trip tow watch the local cows being milked and a dinner out were the extent of her sightseeing but hopefully she enjoyed her stay in NZ as much as we enjoyed meeting and spending time with her. The next Vizsla visitors were Michelle and John Taylor from Gamefinder kennels in Australia (breeding both Vizslas and Labradors). Over for a family and sightseeing visit to New Zealand (John is an expat NZ'er who hasn't been back since 1976; Michelle has never been here before), they may have seen some family but most of their sightseeing was dog shows and Vizsla visiting! Anyone watching their holiday videos and photos will think that NZ is totally overrun by Vizslas! This delightful couple spent time with Val Aubrey and her dog Luka, met Darryl Walker and Rumer at an Auckland dog show and stayed with us (meeting up with Jan Edwards and Sharon Gillespie and their dogs) for several nights and attended the Tokoroa shows on Saturday giving them a chance to watch New Zealand history in the making and helping us to celebrate the occasion on Saturday night!! An added benefit to owning Vizslas is the nice people you meet who also own and love them!
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