Ben is a gorgeous boy with a real laid back personality. He has matured into a magnificent dog who is built low to the ground, with good width and depth of chest, solid bone, and very good topline. He has a beautiful head with correct closed angles, strength of muzzle, good chin and wrinkle. His rich red colouring is an added bonus. He is structurally very sound and certainly is a very harmonic, balanced package.

Ben is one of the most awarded Dogue de Bordeaux in Australia.

He finished 2006 as the No. 1 DDB in Australia and 2007 as the No. 1 Australian-bred DDB (and No. 2 nationally).

He has achieved 2 Best In Group (Group 1st) and 5 Reserve in Group (Group 2nd) awards at All Breeds Championship Shows and 1 Reserve in Group at an Open Show, in addition to countless Classes in Group.

Ben is the only Australian-bred Grand Champion to hold Best in Group awards and he is one of only three Dogues in Australia to hold multi Best in Group awards.

Ben is only the third DDB in Australia (and only the 2nd Australian-bred DDB) to be placed at Group level by an international judge when he was awarded Reserve in Group from the Junior Class (17 months old) by Mr Stan Zielinksi (USA) from 188 dogs entered.

Ben won Puppy of Breed at Brisbane Royal in August 2004, Res CC Dog at Toowoomba Royal in 2005 and RU BOB at Toowoomba Royal in 2006. He also took Best Intermediate Dog at the 2006 Sydney Royal (from a class of 4) under Mr J. Juslin (Finland) and first in the Australian-Bred class at the 2007 Canberra Royal under Mr R. Scoggins (USA).

Ben is now in semi-retirement from the show ring as we are concentrating on showing his fabulous children.

We have only bred one litter from Ben and we are absolutely delighted with his children. His daughter, Australian Champion Bordogue Joelle, was the Number 1 DDB Puppy in Australia in 2007 (DOL Pointscore). Another 3 of his children finished in the Top 10 DDB puppies in Australia in 2007.

Joelle has continued her showring success taking Challenge Bitch and Reserve Best of Breed at Toowoomba Royal (2008). She has finished 2008 as the No. 1 Ausralian-Bred DDB and No. 2 Nationally. She also finished as the No. 3 DDB Puppy in Australia in 2008 despite not being eligible to record any points for the last half of the year (DOL Pointscore).

Another daughter, Aust. Champion Bordogue Sian finished 2008 right behind her sister as the No. 2 Australian-Bred DDB and No. 3 Nationally (DOL Pointscore). Sian was also took Reserve Challenge Bitch at Brisbane Royal in 2008 and Challenge Bitch at the Toowoomba Royal in 2009. Sian also made breed history by becoming the first Australian bred bitch to be awarded Best Exhibit in Group, at any all breeds level, at the Burnett Kennel Club Open Show.

Ben is one of our house dogs and an absolute delight to have around. One of his favorite activities is still sleeping in his chair in the house and if we leave anything laying around that he can get his teeth in to, believe me he will still chew it up. (In his youth mobile phones, TV remote controls and furniture were the tastiest items around!)

In October 2007 Ben also became a "TV star" when we were approached by Brendan Williams Films for a Dogue with the face of an angel and the temperament to match, to appear in the Suncorp Insurance TV Commercial. He was required to sit on the back seat of a Mini Minor with two small children and shake his head so the slobber went everywhere. The commercial was shown across Queensland for 12 months.

Ben is an impressive dog with the success in the show ring to back it up!