Eurasia – biggest event and dogshow in Russia (Moscow). Italian greyhounds were judged by Iveta Vojtekova (Slovakia) -first day and by Age Gjetnes (Norway) – owner of well know sighthound kennel of Norway. Due to my business trips I had no possibility to visit Russia so our italian greyhound Silvento Diamoura Angioletta aka – Amoura, was showed at Eurasia by our friend – Liudmila Zarudnaya who went to Moscow with her russian borzoi. Last year during EURASIA – 2011 our italian greyhound Amoura became BEST JUNIOR of the first day of Eurasia-2011 and this year this sweet baby is BEST BITCH of the second day of Eurasia – 2012. Italian greyhounds were strictly judged especially during second day of the show – from 15 dogs there was 8 marks VeryGood – so I’m even a bit proud that Amoura managed to get her CACIB on the second day. Just want to say thank you to Liuda Zarudnaya who showed and brought Amoura to Russia, to Luba Largina and Iryna Ivantsova for their help at the show, for Elena Yanchevska for this photo above and for everyone who kept fingers crossed for Amoura who finally became Champion of Russia, Champion of RKF, Champion of Eurasia – 2012. I’m proud of my little baby who coped with such hard trip!

EURASIA-2 (25.03.2012)
Judge - Age Gjetnes (Norway) - 19 IGs
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc CAC BOS CACIB Champion of Eurasia – 2012,  Champion of RKF
(open class – 1 bitch in the class)

EURASIA-1 (24.03.2012)
Judge - Iveta Vojtekova (Slovakia) - 23 IGs
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc-1  CAC r.CACIB Champion of Russia
(intermediate class – 5 IG bitches in the class)

This time I went to Donetsk not to work in the ring but finally to show my dogs myself. It was double CACIB show and I sihned 2 of our Iggis – Silvento Diamoura Angioletta and Hellica Forum Romanum, both of them travelled from Kiev to Donetsk by plane and it took my just one hour to get there and it was really very comfortable and dogs had no problems as they travelled aboard on my hands. So regarding the show itself: judges were really strict – we were really lucky to get under Miklos Levente (Hungary) on the first day, who is known as a breeder of sighthounds and on the second day - Schill Roberto (Romania). There were 7 italian greyhounds at the show and among them 2 dogs from russian kennel Iz Ozherelia - Fortuna iz Ozherelia and I vot Udacha  iz Ozherelia. I want to express my congratualition to the owners of Fortuna and I vot Udacha as well as to the kennel Iz Ozherelia and my big thanks for the judges – Miklos and Schill it was a pleasure to get under your expertise. So here are our results:

Results of our italian greyhounds from the second day of the show 04/03/2012:
Judge - Miklos Levente (Hungary) 7 IGs
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc  CAC  BOS CACIB  BOB
(open class /1 IG bitch in the class)
Hellica Forum Romanum - exc
(intermedia class / 2 IG bitches in the class)
Results of our italian greyhounds from the first day of the show 03/03/2012:
Judge - Schill Roberto (Romania) 7 IGs
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc  CAC became CH of UA
(open class /1 IG bitch in the class)
Hellica Forum Romanum - vg
(intermedia class / 2 IG bitches in the class)

Today at Gomel CAC show our sweet princess – italian greyhound Hellica Forum Romanum became Junior Champion of Bielaruss. Way to the show from Ukraine was really hard, lots of snow, awfull roads and typical problems with custom. Ring of italian greyhounds was judged by Galina Zhuk from Bielaruss, so here are the full results of Helli at this show:

Judge - Galina Zhuk (Bielaruss)
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc jCAC  jBOB BOB BIG-1 Junior Champion of Bielaruss
(Junior class / 1 IG in the class)

So we are happy to announce that we got new girl in Ukraine. Today beautiful princess Lucilla Forum Romanum arrived to us from Poland – kennel Forum Romanum. Lucilla Form Romanum – aka Lucci lives in Dnepropetrovsk city with our sweet Silvento Diamantine Tenera in the family of Sasha and Katya and co-ownership with Silvento KL. Luci is active, brave, just little moster like Hellica Forum Romanum – by the way – Luci is a sister of Helli by mother line. We are thankful to Karolina and Piotr for letting Luci go to Ukraine

So show season was started from Ukraine. Italian greyhound Silvento Diamantine Tenera from Dnepropetrovsk was showed today in Kharkiv CAC show … what to say it was awfully cold in Kharkiv – I was invited by Kharkiv UKU club to work at the show with the judge from Russia – Anna Babaeva, show was late for 3 hours, no catalogues, diplomas etc … just angry exhibitors everywhere and for sure all this anger was straight not to the club who was late with everything – but to the ring stuff – so it was indeed “cool” show where I ever worked…Nevertheless Tina had great results and became best of the breed and was judged by Zoya Oleynikova from Kiev. It is a pitty that due to the work in the ring of Babaeva I had no time to look how Tina was showed – but I’m happy with her results in any case. I just want to say thankful to Zoya Oleynikova for her judgement and Anna Babaeva for practice I had in the ring with her.

So here are the results of sweet Tina from the city – Kharkiv:
Judge - Zoya Oleynikova (Ukraine) – 3 IGs at the show
Silvento Diamantine Tenera – exc CAC BOB
(Intermediate class / 1 dog in the class)

It is our tradition to sum our result of the year each year! This 2011 year brought to us really good result and i really dont know whit what to start..so probably let’s start with our show results:
- We visited 29 dog-shows this year and 10 of them were abroad;
- Our italian greyhounds gained 9 titles this year, among them: Junior Champion of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Junior Winner of Ausrtia, Junior Winner of Sighthounds club of Austria, Crufts 2012 nomitation;
- We participated at the dog shows in France, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia;
- Our Silvento Kennel will be 5 years old in a few weeks;
- We expect 3 additions to our kennel this year – the first one will be in January 15;
- We already entered our dogs to the planned 10 dog-shows for the year 2012 – in Austria, Bielarus, Russia, Kiev, Donetsk, Kharkiv, WORLD DOG SHOW and other small shows in UA and several other abroad and it is just our plans till sumer – the rest will be decided later!

but if to go into details…
1) begining of 2011 – January, after SKI-hollidays in Alps I went to Poland and already in the morning was drinking tea and looking to small playing monster – Hellica Forum Romanum … so this is the way how 2011 year started for us!
2) end of March, I’m driving to the biggest dog-show in Russia (Moscow) – “Eurasia – 2011″, Iggis were judged by Adriana Griffa from Italy. Our Italian greyhound Silvento Diamoura Angioletta became Junior Champion of Russia there!
3) May, Amoura was showed in Sevastopol under Skadina and Pepper judgement and in a week Silvento Diamoura Angioletta became Junior Champion of Ukraine!
4) PARIS, France…July, we pass 2500 km from Kiev to Paris with Hellica Forum Romanum in order to get to the WORLD DOG SHOW 2011, where she was showed in Puppy class and became 4th in the ring!
5) several small CAC shows and in September Silvento Diamantine Tenera became Junior Champion of Ukraine!
6) end of September Hellica Forum Romanum just became 9 months old and entered to Junior class and hardly 2 weeks passed as she already finished her Junior Champion of Ukraine title!
7) autumn…our italian greyhound Hellica Forum Romanum showed in Austria and just one CAC left for her to finish JCJ Austrian title and now she is just Budesjugendsieger 2011, ÖKWZR Junior Trophy Winner.
8 ) October…I’m going to Poznan (Poland) where Hellica Forum Romanumwas 1st in the ring in Junior class from 3 bitches and gets there her second Polish jCAC under Lisbeth Mach so becames Junior Champion of Poland! And later we had lot of small and big shows in Ukraine where our dogs were best of breed …
Our results shows who we are…and I hope I may be proud that besides of my 10hours everyday work, lots of trips abroad

Our Italian greyhounds Silvento Diamoura Angioletta akka Amoura and Silvento Diamantine Tenera akka Tina took part on the biggest shows of the year in Ukraine – Kiev Russ 2011 and Crystal Cub 2011. Actually Tina participated only on the first show – Kiev Russ but our results were excellent as usual … it is the 4th year when we have such success on this shows. Competition was not so great – 2-3 dogs in class but still it is not so bad for Ukraine. First day IGs were judged by John Wauben and on second we had to have Rita Rayners … but just before the ring we fount out that she didnt come unfortunatelly … so we had Victor Khizhnyak from Ukraine and for my surprise Amoura was signed on open class not on intermediate where i entered her. But we are very happy with the results we have as well as with the results of our ‘pupil’ – if it is possible to say so… - Inuus Forum Romanum who finished his Junior Champion UA title. My big congrats to the owners and breeders – Forum Romanum kennel!

Results of our italian greyhounds from Kiev Russ:
Judge – John Wauben (Netherlands) 13 IGs
Silvento Diamantine Tenera- exc -2  R.CAC
(intermedia class / 3 IG bitches in the class)
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc-1  CAC  BOS CACIB
(open class /2 IG bitches in the class)
Results of our italian greyhounds from Crystal Cub of Ukraine:
Judge – Khizhnyak (Ukraine) 12IGs
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc-2  R.CAC
(open class /2 IG bitches in the class)

Today we enjoyed great party, as I was invited with my italian greyhounds to the opening of the first TRUSSARDI shop in Ukraine, monobrand shop. As models I took Hellica Forum Romanum and Silvento Diamoura Angioletta. Also I invited there our friend Liudmila Zarudna who took her 2 IGs – Tsatsaka ZairWeise Khirkhe and Fiesta Valentyna Premium. Trussardi shop was opened just in the center of Kiev, we enjoyed champain while dogs were posing as models and charming ukrainian celebrities. After models showed new winter collection with the participation of our italian greyhounds we moved to the famouse lounge-bar OK-bar were our IGs again participated at the show with models one more time. This event was really grandiose and not only on city level – opening of this boutique is a huge event of the year in ukrainian fashion world and I’m happy that my dogs were part of it! I’m very thankful to the people who organised this opening for invitation, to models, photographers and Liuda who agreed to go with me to this party! Photos from the party will be added during the whole week and mostly to my album on FaceBook, so see you there ))

What to say – we had crazy weekends in Poland! There was double CACIB show in Poznan, one of my most favorite cities in PL that I visited already for 3 times and the first time was 5 years ago when I came there to the WDS 2006 and met Helli’s breeder Karolina for the first time. After awfully long way by train from Kiev – I enjoyed a cup of coffe and went for a walk around the city. Poznan became for me a city of  ’getting new friends’  as every time I come there I get more and more new friends. I’m very thankful to Monika Nowak, Katarzyna Mijakowska, our good friend Ania Szynkiewicz and breeder of Helli – Piotr for all the help at the show and nice photos and for everything you did for me! Also I’m thankful to Helli’s breeder Karolina for the support she provided and was nice to hear you and sorry that we didn’t meet this time…Thanks God i was lucky to get polish sim-card due to often trips to Poland so it was easy to be in touch with everyone.

So … the show…It was doube CACIB shows (22-23/10/2011). At the first day there were just 16 italian greyhounds, our Hellica Forum Romanum was entered to Junior class as she is just 11 months old. Italian greyhounds were judged by Lisbeth Mach from Switzerland and there were 3 italian greyhound bitches in the competition with Helli. So Helli made me happy by getting jCAC and becoming Best Junior! And by the way baby finished her Junior Champion of Poland title. Helli already had one jCAC from the national show but for finishing jCH PL she had to obtain jCAC from the international dog show. So at the second day 22 italian greyhounds were showed and judged by Stefan Stefik from Slovakia. He judged in a quite strickt way and prefered heigher dogs…Probably Helli became an exception as she was the only one small IG who was placed at the show. By the way by my request Stefan Stefik measured Helli – very nice when judge agrees with your requests. Helli was showed in junior class where were 6 bitches entered and Helli was placed as 4th.  In common I liked the show and very happy with Helli’s results, thanks a lot to the judges Lisbeth Mach and Stefan Stefik to Helli’s breeders “Forum Romanum” kennel.

So here are the results of our princess Hellica from the first day of Poland show:
Judge – Lisbeth Mach (Switzerland)- 16 IGs entered
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc-1 jCAC  jBOB Junior Champion of Poland
(Junior class / 6 IG bitches in the class)

Today at the city Kharkiv while I was abroad in Poland with our IG Helli, sweet princess Silvento Diamantine Tenera (Tina) showed really good results under russian judge Ekaterina Senashchenko. Only month passed since Senashchenko judged Tina’s litter sister Silvento Diamoura Angioletta and gave her BOB … and now Tina got BOB under her! Well done, sister Tina! I’m very thankful to Tina’s owners for showing her in Kharkiv – my congrats with her win, I’m so proud of you. Also Senashchenko measured Tina at the show so officially Silvento Diamantine Tenera is 36 cm.

So here are the results of sweet Tina from the city Kharkiv:
Judge – Senashchenkolga Ekaterina (Russia) – 2 IGs at the show
Silvento Diamantine Tenera – exc CAC BB BOB BIG-1
(Intermediate class / 1 dog in the class)

Good news from Częstochowa city that is in Poland were today participated at the show our sweet princess Helli. There were just 5 italian greyhounds at the show. Italian greyhounds were judged by Wieremiejczyk-Wierzchowska Malgorzata (Poland). Our princess Helli got excellent and jCAC and is one step to finish her Junior Champion title. I’m very proud of Helli and really thankful to Helli’s breeders – Karolina and Piotr! My congratulations with the results of Forum Romanum italian greyhound team, what to say – well done! Also big thanks to the judge Wieremiejczyk-Wierzchowska Malgorzata.

So here are the results of our princess Hellica from Poland show:
Judge – Wieremiejczyk-Wierzchowska Malgorzata (Poland) – 5 IGs entered
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc  jCAC
(Junior class / 1 IG bitch in the class)

Excellent news from Krivoy Rog (UA). Week by week italian greyhound Silvento Diamantine Tenera makes me happy )). Today is Krivoy Rog there was a CAC show – IGs were judged by judge Olga Grin from Russia – she is very polite, delicate with dogs and gave very good and full gescription of Tina. Tina is a dog of our breeding was showed by her owner – Sasha and got her first CAC. I’m so proud of you, my sweet girl – last weekends you finished Junior Champion of Ukraine and today got 1st CAC already. I’m thankful to owners of Tina – Sasha and Katya who did such a long way in order to show this IG. My congrats to both of you with her win!

So here are the results of sweet Tina:
Judge – Olga Grin (Russia)
Silvento Diamantine Tenera – exc CAC BOB BIG-4
(Intermediate class / 1 dog in the class)

Today in Komárom (Hungary) there was one more show “Komárom Grand Prix” where our sweet IG Helli was entered. There was about 10 italian greyhounds at the show and 2 bitches in junior class – Helli and one more bitch from Czech Republic. Italian greyhounds were judged by Günther Ehrenreich from Austria, who is good specialist in sighthounds. Our princess Helli got excellent-1 and jCAC. I very proud of Helli and really thankful to Helli’s breeders – Karolina and Piotr! Helli was showed with her best handler who proved it for one more time today – with Piotr : ) and I’m very thankful to Piotr for showing my little monster! jBOB got Helli’s best friend – handsome dog – Fair Play Du domain De Chanteloup and BOB was beautiful Junior World Winner 2010 – Charlotte Forum Romanum (both owned by Forum Romanum kennel). My congratulations with the results of Forum Romanum italian greyhound team, what to say – well done! Also big thanks to the judge Günther Ehrenreich.

So here are the results of our princess Hellica from Hungary show:
Judge – Günther Ehrenreich (Austria) - 10 IGs entered
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc-1,  jCAC
(Junior class / 2 IG bitches in the class)

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Thanks for photo to Andreas Hüttner

What a week! Today in Tulln, Austria there was a club show ÖKWZR Trophy. Italian greyhounds were judged by Lotte Jorgensen from Denmark (owner of afghan hounds kennel). Our princess Helli was entered to the Junior class and got title ÖKWZR Junior Trophy Winner 2011. I’m so proud of my little girl. I’m thankful to Helli’s breeders Karolina and Piotr for all this Helli’s trip and for sure to the best handler – Piotr who showed my baby in Tulln! And my congratulations with the results of Forum Romanum italian greyhound team in Tulln and during competitions there, where by the way Helli participated too! On main ring Helli was put before azawak and irish wouldhound – had whippet and afgan hound before and took jBIS -3 ; )

So here are the results of our princess Hellica from Austria, ÖKWZR show:
Judge – Lotte Jorgensen (Denmark) - 12 IGs entered
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc-1,  Jugendbester, ÖKWZR Junior Trophy Winner 2011, jBIS-3
(Junior class / 2 IG bitches in the class)

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What an excellent day today : ) After some rest – show weekends continued. Today in Tulln, Austria there was the biggest and the most important shows of Austria where one our Italian greyhound princess participated - Bundessieger 2011 (CACIB). Italian greyhounds were judged by Roberto Posa from Switzerland (owner of greyhound, whippet, afghan hounds kennel). Our princess Helli was entered to the Junior class. So baby Helli who was only 10 months old several days ago made me awfully happy today  by getting title Budesjugendsieger 2011, and Crufts qualification. I’m so proud of my girl, who today became the first Italian greyhound of Ukraine who got such an important title – Austrian Junior Winner 2011. I’m thankful to Helli’s breeders Karolina and Piotr who made my dream come true and for sure to the best handler – Piotr who showed my baby in Tulln! And our congratulations with the results of ForumRomanum italian greyhound team in Tulln! Well done! I’m very thankful for this photo to Katarzyna Mijakowska Firewire.

So here are the results of our princess Hellica from Austria:
Judge – Roberto Posa (Switzerland) – 11 IGs entered
Hellica Forum Romanum –  Jugendbester,  Budesjugendsieger 2011, Qualification for dfs Crufts 2012

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What a day today…except excellent news from Austria I got a call from Kremenchug city (UA) with a good news again. Today is Kremenchu there was a CAC show – IGs were judged by judge Galina Zhuk from Belarus. Italian greyhound Silvento Diamantine Tenera out of our breeding was showed there and got her last jCAC that gave her the possibility to finish today her Junior Champoin of Ukraine title. I’m so proud of you, my sweet girl. I’m very thankful to owners of Tina – Sasha and Katya who did such a long way in order to show this IG-princess. My congrats to both of you!

So here are the results of sweet Tina:
Judge – Galina Zhuk (Belarus)
Silvento Diamantine Tenera – exc jCAC jBOB closed jCH UA

Our show-tour was continued….Yesterday we visited national dog-show in old city – Khmelnitskiy, where i was showing 2 of our italian greyhounds…This time I wanted to make my life easier and not to drive myself, after 1400 km that were passed last weekends, so asked my cynologist-friends to take me with them … what to say – better to drive yourself than to be connected with someone as we came back to Kiev at 6 AM!!! But the result are great – Hellica Forum Romanum closed her Junior Champoin of Ukraine and our baby Silvento Diamoura Angioletta got her one more BOB – from 6 IGs at the show and also BIG-2 … For sure i’m happy as Helli is only 9,5 months old and just entered Junior class and already got her 3d jCAC and closed her first junior champion title and Amoura was 15 months old not so long ago and already has 3 CACs. In total at the show there were 2 juniors, 2 dogs in intermedia class, 1 in open and one in champion class. It was a pitty that there was not competition of BestJuniors, but nevertheless I’m happy that Amoura was BIG-2!

What I want to admit – is that we are happy that organisators agreed to give as a judge Senashchenko from Russia. We are thankful to Ekaterina Senashchenko for good words about not only our but all IGs in the show, for full descriptions of our dogs and for titles we obtained also we are thankful for ring assistants for their job and even if to count that judge was late for 3 hours – we are very happy and had reaaly good mood! Our congratulations for breeders of Hellica – Karolina and Piotr, to co-owner of Amoura – Tanya, to people who made company for us and also got good results with their italian greyhounds – Antonenko Lidia, Iulia, Elena Popova (pharaoh hounds)!
So here are the results:

National dog show in Khmelnitskiy
Judge – Senashchenko (Russia) – 6 IGs entered
Junior / 2 IGs in the class
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc jCAC jBOB
Intermadia class/2 IGs in the class
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc  CAC BB BOB BIG-2

Our italian greyhound Silvento Diamoura Angioletta became Junior Champion of Ukraine month ago but got her official certificate of JunCH UA only yesterday. Amoura closed her Junior Russian Champion title on Eurasia – 2011 (Moscow) this year and only now got Ukrainian certificate, we are hapy and my congratulations to Tanya and Oleg – owners of Amoura, big thank you to Tanya for handling Amoura, good care and for sure for participations on DogShows.

This weekends we had 2 CAC shows on western part of Ukraine! Almost 1400 km were passed, we are awfully tired but still happy with our results! shows were on Ivano-Frankivsk city and next show on Sunday in Lutsk. In Lutsk our dogs took jBOB and BOB but not looking to this we were so tired so left show after the judgement and decided NOT to stay for bests – I have to say that our IG who got BOB was THE ONLY one sighthound at the show!!!
I’m very sorry for Lutsk office of UKU and that such things may happen in Ukraine – as I had a call today that yesterday “some” Italian Greyhound entered BEST IG GROUP X and for sure took BIG-1 (as it was the only one sighthound at the whole show) … and even more – that dog even participated under the name of MY dog – Silvento Diamoura Angioletta, who has BOB and piece of paper that proves that we were send to BIG – X, not some other dog … I want to confirm to everyone, that my dog was in my car and was going back to Kiev with my while BIG-X was hold in Lutsk and my dog didn’t participate at BIG-X yesterday and I will not accept that BIG-1 and will insist on taking away that BIG-1 mark from the result from this show as it wasn’t my dog … and I’m really sorry that such AWFUL things may happen in Ukraine … Really ….

Nevertheless we are thankful to judges Lavrova (Moldova) and to Wieremiejczyk-Wierzchowska Ma?gorzata (Poland) for excellent descriptions of our italian greyhounds, nice words about our dogs and for sure to our breeders – Karolina and Piotr. Also mythanks to Olesya – owner of our Silvento diablitta rubesta – who took photos at the show, video and was my navigator on our awful ukrainian roads! Baby Helli became junior only week ago and already gained 2 jCAC, as well as our sweet amoura who entered grown-up classes only 2 weeks ago – so I suppose we have quite good results with girls))) Thanks for every one who helped up with this long trip, to organisators for all this judges and to all my friends who kept fingers crossed for us!
So here are the results:

National dog show in Ivano-Frankivsk
Judge – Lavrova (Moldova) – 4 IGs entered
Junior / 2 IGs in the class
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc jCAC
Intermadia class/2 IGs in the class
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc  CAC BB

National dog show in Lutsk
Judge - Wieremiejczyk-Wierzchowska Malgorzata (Poland) – 5 IGs entered
Junior / 2 IGs in the class
Hellica Forum Romanum – exc jCAC jBOB
Intermadia class/2 bitches
Silvento Diamoura Angioletta – exc  CAC BB BOB
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Pavlograd (Ukraine), CAC show. As a judge 10th group had Victor Shiyan – owner of kennel Bis Mon Sheri, who is a judge since 1979 and involved into dogs for more than 30 years.  Our sweet girl Silvento DiamanTine Tenera, who is owned by Katya and Sasha from Dnepropetrovsk, got really excellent description as well as a results. I’m very happy for Tina and wont stop saying “thank you” to Katya and Sasha for their good job. Sasha even handeled tina by himself. Tina has to get one more jCAC in order to close jCH of Ukraine title.

Judge – Victor Shiyan (Ukraine)
Silvento Diamantine Tenera – exc  jCAC jBOB ВОВ