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NEWS AND EVENTS

The Heat Is On - Heading To California

Hundreds of spectators gathered around the densely packed Best In Show ring at the World Dog Show in Bratislava. With great excitement they watched the Eukanuba World Challenge Qualifying Heat take place just before the BIS winner title was awarded by FCI President, Hans Muller, to Jenny Hall’s “Northgate’s As You Like it” from Sweden. The Eukanuba World Challenge has become a high profile event in the three years since its inception. Hans Muller President of the FCI commented “This qualifying heat is a welcome addition and an important part of the competition and we are delighted that it is being held at the FCI World Dog Show».

Representing their selected countries from around Europe, 15 dogs were presented to 3 well known FCI all breed judges, Horst Kliebenstein from Germany, Rui Oliveira from Portugal and Espen Engh from Norway. From these 15, they selected 9 dogs which were then evaluated by FCI all breed judge, Stefan Sinko from Slovenia. Ultimately he selected 3 finalists, in no particular order. These three magnificent dogs have each secured a place to represent their country and compete in one of the four non geographical sections at the Eukanuba World Challenge 2009 in Long Beach, California, USA on 12^th / 13^th December. The event is hosted at the AKC / Eukanuba National Championship 125^th Anniversary Show.

The qualifying finalists are the Greyhound “Multi Ch Estet Classic Glamorous” from Estonia, owned by Olga Gorbatsjova & Oleg Galiakberov; the Alaskan Malamute “Multi CH Sno Quest’s King of Landwood” from Malta owned by Denis Ciappara and Ivan Calleja; the Siberian Husky “Mutli Ch Tomika’s Northwest Passage” from Slovenia owned by Maja Golob.

These three outstanding dogs will be competing with other top winning dogs from around the world. To find out more information visit

Learn more about Eukanuba World Challenge on www.eukanubaworldchallenge.com.

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