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A New Adventure For Asterel

Early in 2020 a convoy of 4 vehicles along with 14 Estela’s set off on the long journey to our new home in the beautiful central region of Portugal,in a little village called Pedrógão de São Pedro,which is close to the town of Penamacor in the region of Castelo Branco.It took 5 days to complete the journey driving through France & Spain,a very exhausted group of travellers arrived at the Quinta which would be our new home.

Deeago x Xiquita Puppies

Introducing our latest babies- They are 2.5 weeks old. Here they are having an al-fresco breakfast in the sunshine this morning. They are starting to eat well ?

These puppies are from Asterel Deeago x Asterel Xiquita. There are 8 puppies in total with an even split of 4 girls and 4 boys. All brindle except for one boy, who is already spoken for.

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National Working and Pastoral Breeds Show

Another warm weather show at NWPB, if a tad windy but again the dogs coped well, with perhaps the breeze helping somewhat. Some nice results under all rounder judge, Mr Frank Kane. Our results were:

Reserve Best Dog and Best Veteran- Asterel Red Rum
Best Bitch- Drika Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp Portugal)
Best Puppy- Asterel Kat Colorado
3rd Open Dog- Asterel Dexter
2nd Puppy Bitch- Asterel Tuppence (Co-owned by Carol Ogborn and Rosemary Titman)
2nd Junior Bitch- Asterel Belle Starr at Garregddu (Owned by Tracey and Rebecca Roberts)
1st Post Graduate Bitch- Asterel Xquita
VHC Open Bitch- Asterel Bohemian Rhapsody

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Windsor Ch Show

Another scorching hot summer day at Windsor show. Lovely for the humans but a little harder hitting on the dogs. However they still coped well and achieved some great results under judge; Mr Reynolds-Frost. Welldone Asterel gang! Our results were:

Best of Breed- Xuva Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp Port)
Reserve Best Dog- Asterel Deeago
Reserve Best Bitch- Asterel Xquita
Best Puppy- Asterel Kat Colorado
Puppy Dog- Asterel Sam Spade (Owned by Julie Holt)
1st Post Graduate dog- Asterel Innuendo
2nd Junior Bitch- Asterel Belle Starr At Garregddu (Owned by Tracey and Rebecca Roberts)
3rd Junior Bitch- Asterel Tuppence (Co-owned by Carol Ogborn and Rosemary Titman)
2nd Post Graduate Bitch- Asterel Bohemian Rhapsody

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Starr wearing her cool coat in a paddling pool to cool down.

Blackpool Ch show 2015

Sunday 28th of June was Blackpool show, this year at a new venue. The weather wasn’t the greatest and the pathways round the showground were poor making pulling a heavy trolly loaded with grooming equiptment, bags, seats, etc, very hard. Upon finding our benches we discovered that the end one was covered in rain water, deeming it unusable, meaning we had to move our benching around a little. However, after all that fuss, a great days results were achieved under breed judge, Marion Sargent. For the second consecutive year,  an Asterel puppy has made the puppy group shortlist at this show, handled by Rebecca Roberts. Last year it was Asterel Xudavnown (Braxton) who is now living in Oz. This year it was the turn of Asterel Kat Colorado, under puppy group judge Mrs Sue Searle. Our other results that day were:

Best of Breed- Drika Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp Port)
Reserve Best Dog and Best Veteran- Asterel Red Rum
Reserve Best Bitch and Best Puppy- Asterel Kat Colorado
1st Post Graduate Dog- Asterel Deeago
2nd Open Dog- Asterel Fernando
1st Post Graduate Bitch- Asterel Bohemian Rhapsody
2nd Post Graduate Bitch- Asterel Xquita

3 Counties Ch show

Friday 5th of June was the Pastoral day at 3 Counties Championship Show 2015. Unlike most Champ shows were Working and Pastoral groups are paired together, at this particular show this year, the Pastoral Group was paired with the Utility Group with breeds like the Akita, the Dalmatian and the Poodles. Our results for the day under breed judge Mr Richard Kinsey were:

Res Best Dog- Asterel Deeago
Res Best Bitch- Asterel Xquita
Best Puppy- Asterel Kat Colorado
2nd Post Graduate Dog- Asterel Innuendo
3rd Open Dog- Asterel Belmonte
2nd Puppy Bitch- Asterel Tuppence (Co-owned by Carol Ogborn and Rosemary Titman)
3rd Puppy Bitch- Asterel Belle Starr at Garregddu (Owned by Tracey and Rebecca Roberts)
2nd Open Bitch- Drika Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp Port)

Southern Counties Ch Show 2015

Sunday 31st of May was Pastoral day at Southern Counties Championship show 2015. The estrelas we took to represent the Asterel Gang that day were Deeago, Xuva, Rhapsody, Quita, Kat, Drika and Fernando. Our results under judge Jill Peak were:

Reserve Best Dog- Asterel Deeago
Reserve Best Bitch- Asterel Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Puppy- Asterel Kat Colorado
1st Puppy and Junior Dog- Asterel Sam Spade (Owned by Julie Holt)
1st Limit dog- Asterel Deeago
2nd Open dog- Asterel Fernando
2nd Puppy Bitch- Asterel Tuppence (Co-owned by Carol Ogborn and Rosemary Titman)
1st Post Graduate Bitch- Asterel Xquita
3rd Open Bitch- Drika Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp Port)
Res Open Bitch- Xuva Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp Port)

Bath Championship Show 2015

A lovely bright sunny day at Bath show. The dogs did us proud once again with more great results. Very pleased to see all 4 current Asterel puppies at the show, so lovely to see the next generation grow and mature. Our results for the day under judge Ken Humphries were:

Best of Breed- Drika Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp port)
Best Dog- Asterel Deeago
Best Puppy- Asterel Belle Starr at garregddu (Owned by Tracey and Rebecca Roberts)
Puppy Dog- Asterel Sam Spade (Owned by Julie Holt)
2nd Post Graduate Dog- Asterel Innuendo
3rd Open Dog- Asterel Belmonte
2nd Puppy Bitch- Asterel Kat Colorado
3rd Puppy Bitch- Asterel Tuppence (Co-owned by Carol Ogborn and Rosemary Titman)
1st Postgraduate Bitch- Asterel Bohemian Rhapsody
2nd Postgraduate Bitch- Asterel Xquita

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Monte and his puppies. (left to right)                                       Starr and her parents (left to right)
Tuppence, Kat, Brody and Monte.                                             Endo, Drika and Starr.

W.E.L.K.S Ch show 2015

Another good show for Asterel at W.E.L.K.S Championship Show 2015. Our results under judge Mrs C Moffat were:

Best Bitch- Asterel Bohemian Rhapsody.
Reserve Best Dog- Asterel Deeago
Best Puppy- Asterel Belle Starr at Garregddu (owned by Tracey and Rebecca Roberts)
3rd Post Graduate- Asterel Xquita
3rd Open Dog- Asterel Fernando
2nd Open Bitch- Drika Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp port)
Res Open Bitch- Xuva Da Costa Oeste at Asterel (Imp port)