"NOVEMBER" WHAT A MONTH
November has been a very busy month for us this year, we've been to 5 big shows around Europe including Poland, England, Belgium and Holland twice. We are over joyed at what we have achieved this month including,
- IN HOLLAND, Emberez Eleanor picked up a RES CAC RES BEST FEMALE and Rolex became DUTCH YOUTH CHAMPION
- POLAND, Emberez Eleanor became JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION
- BELGIUM, Emberez Eleanor wins Best female CAC and CACIB at the Eurodog show
- HOLLAND, Emberez Eleanor picks up the res CAC and CACIB at the ALL WINNERS SHOW
- ENGLAND, Emberez Apollo wins the title of DOGUE DE BORDEAUX OF THE YEAR 2006 in the UK
Also we received conformation of Apollo's French Champion title and Apollo's son Dillen Van der Paterhoek has also become French champion. We are overjoyed that both father and son have won the most prestigous title in the world for the Dogue de Bordeaux, we would like to congratulate Bart and Cressy for all their hard work with Dillen and Apollo.
More News! Our beautiful male Tailor is now living in Mexico, His new owner Armando came over to visit in November and took Tailor home with him. Also one of our bulldog puppies Emberez Frost went to live with Maria and Pedro in Spain. Also just arrived at our kennel is our beautiful new puppy Macedonia Athena "Honey" daughter to Apollo.
To top of the excellent month we have had we had a great surprise this Sunday 26.11.06. We mated our girl Aphrodite 8 weeks earlier to the beautiful Temple Felson son "Lockerice Solomon" and Aphrodite showed no signs of being pregnant. Aphrodite sleeps with us "luckily" and we woke up at 2am to find her with 2 beautiful female puppies suckling on her. We were very shocked at what had happened especially as she was a week early too and cant believe how lucky we are that both Aphrodite and the pups are ok. The puppies are beautiful and Aphrodite is a fantastic mother and both are doing well. pictures below.
MULTI CHAMPION EMBEREZ APOLLO 26.11.06 photo by Dean Sawyer

We had a great time at the UK DDB Club's grand Final Dogue de Bordeaux of the year. Especially as Apollo took the biggest win of the day and won the title Dogue de Bordeaux of the year. Its also a sad time for us as we knew after this show that we would be retiring Apollo from the show ring but we are overjoyed he finished his show career on such a high!

As much as we would like to keep campaigning our beautiful boy especially as he is at his peak and has never looked better than he does right now, we feel he has already done enough, he has won so much over the past few years and he deserves to relax now, stay at home living on the sofa, we owe him that much.

We now have new dogues to campaign who are already proving highly successful in the ring in Europe and England.

Also at the show a beautiful puppy we bred Emberez Jagger won best male puppy in the Bordeaux of the year competion and became reserve puppy of the year. So the two best males in the show were both Emberez dogues! Well done to Kay and Steve with Harvey!!

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Emberez Eleanor (All Winners show, Amsterdam 25.11.06) Critique Judge Breed Specialist C Habig (DE)

Outstanding Bordeaux, Exceptional balance standing and moving, full of quality and charisma. Dynamic movement, very altheletic, wonderful neck and shoulders, true head, excellent substance, perfect expression, perfect condition, super temprement and handling. In all respects very special.

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The surprise puppies from Aphrodite