Tobias has had some fabulous achievements in the showring in recent weeks. In 12 weeks of showing he has achieved:
1 x Best in Group
4 x Runner-up Best in Group
2 x Best Intermediate in Show
6 x Best Intermediate in Group

Few, if any, Dogues in Australia have achieved these sorts of results in such a short space of time.

Niki has arrived in Australia and is currently in quarantine. She will arrive home at the end of July.

Crux is now out of quarantine and at home with one of his co-owners, Bellarouge Kennel.

Joelle's litter is confirmed as being a successful genetically split litter, with one puppy being Nate's and three puppies being Arthurs.
Joelle has re-entered the showring after having her babies and at her first show took Challenge Bitch and Runner-up Best of Breed taking her over 600 championship points.

Cher takes a 7 point Challenge Bitch at Kalbar and gains her first championship points.

New pages for Darius, Crux, Cher and Niki. New photos of Nate. Show results for Tobias, Ben and Sian.

May has commenced with a fabulous start as Tobias is awarded his first Best Exhibit in Group/Intermediate in Group by Mr D. Staines (Qld) at the Burnett Kennel Club Championship Show.

This makes him our second Dogue to win Best in Group at a Championship Show. We are the only kennel in Australia to breed 2 Best in Group winners at Championship show level. Sian also has a Best in Group at an Open Show, making her our 3rd BIG winner.

Tobias also takes Runner-up in Group at the Burnett Kennel Club Open Show under Mrs J. Ireland (Qld).

Not to be outdone by Tobias, Darius takes Best Minor Puppy in Group at the South Burnett National Kingaroy Championship Show under Mrs R. Hartmire (Qld) and then again at the Burnett Kennel Club Open Show under Mrs J. Ireland (Qld).

Not letting the boys have all the fun that weekend, Cher takes Best Minor Puppy in Group at the Burnett Kennel Club Championship Show under Mr D. Staines (Qld).

What a weekend it was!

Tobias takes his 3rd Runner-up Best in Group/Intermediate in Group in the last 8 weeks at the Blackbutt Agricultural Society Championship Show under Mrs B. Balaam (Qld). Mrs Balaam then awards him Best Intermediate in Show.

Benjamin is also awarded Best. Aust. Bred in Group by Mrs Balaam.

Sian is awarded Best Open in Group by Ms M. Starkey at the Waterloo Bay Kennel Club Open Show.

Crux has arrived in Australia and we are absolutely thrilled with him. He displays breed type rarely seen in Australia and we believe he will make a major contribution to our own kennel and to his co-owners Bellarouge and Amedange Kennels.

Joelle's babies are doing well, but unfortunately we lost 2 of them. The remaining 4 are doing well and putting on weight.

Unfortunately, Camelots Lady of the Lake "Danika" will not be coming to Australia. She is not as strong in the rear as we had hoped for and upon the recommendation of Kris at Camelot Bordeaux she has been placed in a pet home.

We are delighted as Tobias' father, Ch. Rhodonite Roman Emberez (Imp UK), is awarded Runner-up Best of Breed at Sydney Royal. Huge congratulations to Leanne and Shawn at Bellarouge.

We are very happy with the new pictures of Crux. He is growing in to an outstanding young male. Crux can be viewed on Dogzonline. Hopefully I'll get his web page done soon.

Joelle has 6 puppies on 6 April. All puppies are reserved.

We are only half way through March and we are delighted as Tobias is awarded Runner-up Best in Group/Intermediate in Group at the Tweed River Canine Club Championship Show by All Breeds judge, Ms Y. Smith (TAS).

Darius is awarded Best Baby Puppy in Group at the Tweed River Canine Club Championship Show by Mrs J. Hocking (VIC).

Tobias does it again! He is awarded Runner-up Best in Group/Intermediate in Group at the Goomeri & District Show Society Championship Show by All Breeds judge, Mr W. Chambers (QLD). This is Tobias' third Runner-up in Group award.

In his first show in Minor Puppy (age 6 months and 2 days), Darius is awarded Runner-up Best of Breed behind Tobias at the Goomeri & District Show Society Championship Show.

Joelle is confirmed pregnant. She has been bred to both of our imported males, Nathaniel and Arthur. Puppies are due mid April.

Tobias takes Runner-up Best of Breed at the Royal Canberra Show.

He is only beaten for Best of Breed by his father, Ch. Rhodonite Roman Emberez (Imp UK), owned by Leanne and Shawn at Bellarouge. We were thrilled for Leanne and Shawn with Roman's result and also as their imported girl, Lois Bella Rouge z'Orisku took Challenge Bitch.

Joelle takes Reserve Challenge Bitch at the Royal Canberra Show.

Apart from Canberra Royal, we have only attended one other show in February and our show highlights are:

Darius is awarded Best Baby Puppy in Group by Mrs E. Locke (Qld).

We are finally able to announce that "Camelots Lady of the Lake", "Danika", will join us later in 2010. Danika is a half sister to "Arthur" with both being out of the very beautiful French bred female "Ch. Artemis des Gladiateurs du Guesny". Danika's sire is the French bred male, "Capitain Jack des Gladiateurs du Guesny". Her pedigree has a double cross to Simon Kwan with a touch of Brandoux Toezzz. We are extremely honured that Kris at Camelot Bordeaux has allowed us to have her as this is the last litter for Artemis and there were only two females in the litter.

We only attended one show in January and our show highlights are:

Darius, at his very first show, is awarded Best Baby Puppy in Group by Mrs J. Watts (Qld).
Tobias is awarded Best Intermediate in Group by Mrs J. Watts (Qld).

We are very much looking forward to this year.

We look forward to both Crux and Niki arriving this year. Niki will give us the opportunity to line-breed back to some very old lines, with Kobus and Jake being litter brothers and Niki having several crosses to them in her pedigree and also to the beautiful bitch Rumil van het Grevelingenland. Her pedigree will work very well with our Shelby sons.

We have some other exciting projects that we are working on with our partnership kennels, Bellarouge and Amedange, that will benefit and strengthen all 3 kennels in terms of bloodlines and quality.

We look forward to showing Shelby’s babies. Darius has the most stunning head already and the bone on his brother, Braith, is huge. We hope that both will be valuable additions to the breeding programs of all three kennels.

We will continue to show Tobias and Joelle to see what both can achieve this year, although we probably won't show as often as we are interested in pursuing other areas within the dog showing community.

Wishing all visitors to our web site a very Happy New Year!

The 2009 Dogzonline DDB Pointscore is finalised and once again, we have done very well.

Tobias is the No. 1 DDB in Australia for 2009 on the "Dogzonline Best of Breed Pointscore".
Tobias is also the No. 3 DDB in Australia for 2009 on the "Dogzonline All Breeds Pointscore".  
For a dog that only turned 2 years old on 12 November, his achievements in his short show career have been amazing.

Joelle is the  No. 2 DDB in Australia for 2009 on the "Dogzonline Best of Breed Pointscore" and the No. 1 DDB Bitch.

Reggie is the No. 4 DDB in Australia for 2009 on the "Dogzonline Best of Breed Pointscore".

Like 2008, we have finished 2009 with 3 of our home-bred dogs in the Top 4 nationally.  Once again, not a bad effort, if I do say so myself.

We would also like to congratulate Leanne at Bellarouge on Tobias’ sire, Ch. Rhodonite Roman Emberez (Imp UK), finishing No. 2 DDB in Australia for 2009 on the "Dogzonline All Breeds Pointscore" and taking Challenge Dog at Sydney Royal. We know that Roman has only had limited showing this year, so it is wonderful to see father and son do so well.

In addition to the Dogzonline results, the highlights for the year have included:

A clean sweep at Toowoomba Royal with 19 DDB exhibited, bred by 9 different kennels.  
Tobias BOB at only 16 months old.  
Reggie Reserve CC Dog and Runner-up Best of Breed.
Sian CC Bitch and Imogen Reserve CC Bitch.
Tobias Junior of Breed, Joelle Intermediate of Breed, Sian Aust. Bred of Breed and Reggie Open of Breed - a clean sweep!

Reggie take Challenge Dog and Runner-up Best of Breed at  Brisbane Royal, under Mrs B. Banbury (UK).

Tobias wins Runner-up Best in Group under Mrs H. Beasley (NSW)

Ben is only shown 5 times, but takes 3 Classes in Group from those 5 shows.

Tobias finishes 2009 on 523 championship points, and in what must be some sort of breed record, there is not a single 6 point challenge amongst them.

Joelle finishes 2009 on 590 championship points. She only has four 6 point challenges, usually because her competition didn't turn up.  

After nearly 2 years, we finally breed another litter. Shelby has a genetically split litter of 5 puppies to Nate and Arthur.  We must thank Ron Newland at Frozen Puppies and Carolyn Pearen, owner of Fur Kids Vet Clinic, for their combined efforts and amazing achievement. We never thought we would have another litter from Shelby due to silent seasons and an ovarian cyst.  These are our miracle babies.

2009 was also a very sad time as we lost Samantha to bloat. Most of the achievements in our kennel are due to her and the wonderful children and grand children she has left us.

Shelby's litter is confirmed by DNA testing to be genetically split.  Darius, Braith and Cher are sired by Nathaniel z'Orisku.  Lucinda and Jaxon are sired by Camelots Caerleon.

Our new import male, Southern Cross z'Orisku "Crux" is coming along nicely.  The recent comments from his breeder Libuse were “Crux is wonderfull, beautifull, the best”. We were rather happy to read that. Crux is co-owned with Bellarouge and Amedange kennels.

We are delighted to secure a beautiful black mask daughter from the much sought after litter of Multi Ch Moby de Legeane and Chiara de Ruisseau de la Noue - "Unique z'Orisku".   We had reserved a female from Chiara's next litter earlier in the year and were delighted when Libuse advised us that she was breeding her to Moby. Niki's pedigree is full of the world's elite, Moby, Felson, Cetje, Brando, Rano and Chene.

The Dogue de Bordeaux Club of Australia is launched and we are one of the founding members.  The web site is:  www.dogueclub.com   The aim of the Club is education and protection of the breed.  

Keith was elected Vice-President of the new Queensland All Mastiff Breeds Club.  It is hoped that the Club be a source of information and  will raise awareness of the Mastiff Breeds in Queensland.

Benjamin is awarded Best Open in Group by Ms L. Niemann (SA)

Benjamin's Class in Group brings the total to 75 Classes in Group won by dogs we have bred carrying the "Bordogue" prefix. (This is in addition to 3 Best in Group (Group 1st) awards and 7 Runner-up in Group (Group 2nd) awards.)

Tobias is awarded Best of Breed by Mr S. Simm (Phil)
Joelle is awarded Runner-up Best of Breed by Mr S. Sim (Phil) and Mr H. Tast (Fin)

At age 2 years and 2 weeks, Tobias now has over 500 championship points (and not a single 6 point challenge amongst them).

New photos of Nate.
Pictures of Shelby's puppies on the Puppys Page.

News from the World Dog Show.
Nate's litter sister, "No Fear z'Orisku" is awarded Junior World Champion Female.
"Max z'Orisku", who is half brother to our new import "Southern Cross z'Orisku" is awarded Junior World Champion Male.
Huge congratulations to Libuse at kennel z'Orisku on these fabulous results.

Pictures of Shelby's puppies on the Puppys Page.

New pictures in the Photo Gallery page.

Shelby has 5 beautiful puppies - 2 girls and 3 boys.

At 22 months of age, Tobias is awarded Runner-up Best in Group/Intermediate in Group by All Breeds judge, Mrs H. Beasley (NSW), at the Allora Kennel Club Championship Show.

Imogen gains her Australian Champion title with not a single 6 point challenge amongst them.

New photos of Tobias and Imogen on their pages.

Leanne of Bellarouge Kennel in Sydney is currently in Europe and has chosen our next new import - a lovely son of the 2 x winner of the French Clubmatch - Multi Ch. Moby de Legeane.

Reggie takes Challenge Dog and Runner-up Best of Breed at the Royal Brisbane Show, under judge Mrs Brenda Banbury (UK) from 26 DDBx entered. We are so proud of our home-bred boy!!
Reggie now has over 550 championship points.

Congratulations also to our friends Cassandra & Randal on their Kangal Dog, "Jessica", taking Best of Breed and Troy & Peta Grennan on their Neapolitan Mastiffs with "Elmo" taking Best of Breed, "Indy" taking Challange Bitch and "Fern" taking Puppy of Breed.

At 21 months of age, Tobias now has over 400 Championship Points (with no 6 point challenges).

Arthur's mother, Artemis des Gladiateurs du Guesny, gains her AKC Championship title. Huge congratulations to Kris and Tony at Camelot Bordeaux.

Shelby is confirmed pregnant to our two imported boys, Arthur and Nathaniel. The puppies are due late September. See the Puppies Page.

At only 20 months old, Tobias now has 375 Championship Points (with no 6 point challenges).
At 2 years and 7 months, Joelle now has over 540 Championship Points (with only two 6 point challenges).
Imogen is now 3/4 of the way to her Australian Champion title (with no 6 point challenges to date).

Web site updated. Our new boys Arthur and Nathaniel added, along with Imogen. Pictures added to the Puppy Page New pictures of Benjamin, Reginald, Tobias, Joelle and Emily. Show results updated.

Our show highlights for June have included:

Benjamin is awarded Best Aust. Bred in Group by Mrs B. Balaam (Qld).
Tobias is awarded Best of Breed by Mrs L. Betts (Canada).
Joelle is awarded Challenge Bitch and Runner-up Best of Breed by Mrs L. Betts (Canada).
Reggie is awarded Challenge Dog by Mrs S. Verhulst (Canada).

May has been a month with a huge high and an absolutely shattering low. The high point was Sian winning Best Exhibit in Group and the terrible low was loosing Samantha to bloat. We just can't believe our naughty little lady is gone.

Our show highlights for May have included:

Sian becomes the first Australian bred DDB bitch to be awarded Best Exhibit in Group at any all breeds show!
She is also the first black mask DDB to be awarded Best in Group.
We would sincerely like to thank the judge, Mrs A.C. Holman (Qld).

Tobias is awarded Best Intermediate in Group by Ms Y. Smith (Tas).
Tobias is awarded Best Junior in Group by Mrs A.C. Holman (Qld).
Imogen is awarded Best Junior in Group by Miss C. Ryan (Qld).

Hip and elbow score results back for Arthur, Tobias and Nathaniel. All 3 boys come back under the Australian breed average for hips and all have perfect 0:0 elbows.

Our show highlights for March have included:

A clean sweep at Toowoomba Royal Show!
There were 19 DDB exhibited representing 9 kennels.
Tobias is awarded Challenge Dog and Best of Breed by Mr R.B. Jenkins (South Africa) at age 16 months.
Reggie is awarded Reserve Challenge Dog and Runner-up Best of Breed.
Sian is awarded Challenge Bitch.
Imogen is awarded Reserve Challenge Bitch.
Joelle is awarded Intermediate of Breed.

We believe this may be the first time in Australia dogs bred by one kennel have taken both Challenges and both Reserve Challenges at a Royal.

Benjamin is awarded Best Aust. Bred in Group by Mrs V. Schneider (Qld).

The 2008 Dogzonline DDB Pointscore is finalised and we have done very well.

Tobias is the No. 1 DDB Rising Star for 2008.
Joelle is the No. 1 Australian Bred DDB, the No. 1 DDB Bitch and No. 2 DDB nationally for 2008.
Sian is the No. 2 Australian Bred DDB, the No. 2 DDB Bitch and No. 3 DDB nationally.
Reggie is the No. 3 Australian Bred DDB and No. 4 nationally.

Finishing 2008 with 3 of our home-bred dogs in the top 4 (plus the No. 1 Rising Star) is not a bad effort, if I do say so myself.

Web site updated. Our "divine Miss Em" Emily added. New pictures of Joelle, Sian, Tobias, Reggie and Ben. Show results updated.

No shows planned until March as it's just too hot!

Our show highlights for November have included:

Sian is awarded Best of Breed by Mr T Eerola (Finland).
Tobias is awarded Challenge Dog and Runner-up Best of Breed by Mr T Eerola (Finland).
Reggie is awarded Best of Breed by Ms J. Quiros Kubas (Argentina) and wins the lovely decorative collar donated by Randal & Cassandra Beecham. See the picture on Reggie's page.
Tobias is awarded Best Puppy in Group by Mrs A.C. Holman (Qld).
Tobias is awarded Best Puppy in Group by Mrs D. Jovanovic (Qld).

Our show highlights for October have included:

Reggie is awarded Best Open in Group by Mr J. van Daalen (Qld)

Tobias attend the Queensland Puppy of the Year Final and does us proud!

Our show highlights for September have included:

Tobias is awarded Best Puppy in Show by Mr P. Warby (NSW) and qualifies for the prestigeous Queensland Puppy of the Year Final! This is a first for the breed in Queensland and Australia!

Tobias is awarded Best Puppy in Group by Mrs J. Mannell (Qld) and is then awarded Best Puppy in Show by Mr C. Woodrow (Qld).

Tobias is awarded Best Puppy in Group by Mr P. Cross (NSW).
Tobias is awarded Best Puppy in Group by Mr G. Kerr (Qld).
Joelle is awarded Best Intermediate in Group by Mrs J. Mannell (Qld).