Coco - Best of Breed at NZ's National Dog Show 2009

What a thrill for the team.  Coco taking out Best of Breed over a strong entry and with 9 week old babies at home.  This is the second year in a row Cristabo girls have taken out Best of Breed at the National with last years award and Group 2 going to Medo (CH Cristabo Starlite Serenade).  This year, Cristabo bred Dals also won Reserve Dog CC (Cracka), Reserve Bitch CC (Ruby) Best Puppy of Breed (Cracka), Best Intermediate of Breed (West), Best NZ Bred of Breed (Ruby) and of course, Best Open of Breed (Coco).  Nearly a clean sweep!

Cristabo Dals also won BOB and RBOB at the National Prelude show held the day before with Oakley going BOB and Coco RBOB.

Unfortunately though, between breed judging at the Nats on Friday and finals on the Sunday, Coco somehow managed to break her tail.  The break is 3/4's of the way down the tail and recovery is not looking promising.  Will Coco be seen in the ring again?  Time will tell.  At least we have her beautiful baby "Cookie"coming on to fill the gap.