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2026 OPEN SHOW (Entries close 19^th April)
Entries are now open for our 2026 Open Show, which will be held on Saturday 2nd May at a new venue for us, Tomlinsons Canine Centre near Leicester.  We hope to be able to hold the show outdoors, weather permitting.  Our judges are Andy Shone (Pamedna) for Smoothcoats and Josh Parker (Zuvan) for longs.  Anne Fathers (Okajem) will be BIS referee.  As well as the usual classes we again have Baby Puppy classes, and new for us we offer a Champion Stakes class for Champion dog or bitch, with a prize of £10.

Our AGM will be held in the lunch break and we invite all paid-up members to attend. It will be immediately followed by the rescue AGM.

Tomlinsons have a cafeteria onsite, open from 9am, but please note the venue operates very strict rules; please do not bring your own sandwiches etc, as only food and drink bought in their cafeteria can be consumed on the premises.

To view or download a schedule and entry form, or to enter online, please click here to visit Fosse Data.   Online closing date is midnight Sunday 19 April, postal entries must be sent by 11^th April.

2026 BCC YEARBOOK (The Chihuahua Chronicle)
The latest Chihuahua Chronicle, with all the information from 2025, is now on sale.  Published annually since 1990, it's a valuable reference for show results and the achievements of top winning dogs for the whole of 2025.  The New Champions Gallery has a photo and pedigree of each new champion made up during the year, and there are lists of all CC and RCC winners and their pedigrees, 'Top Dog' award wins and other facts and figures.  The second half of the book contains stunning full-colour advertisements by breeders and exhibitors featuring their beautiful Chihuahuas.

You can order your copy from this website for £12.50 including postage to a UK address, £16.00 to Europe including Irish Republic, £20.00 to most of the rest of the world or £21.00 to the Pacific region (Australasia).  You may also be able to pick up a copy at the cover price of £10 at our shows.  Click here to go to the yearbook sales page.

2025 CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW
Our 2025 Championship Show was held on Sunday 9th November at Brackley Leisure Centre. Louisa Henry (Trinzy) judged Smoothcoats, Rosie Clarke (Oxsirius) the Longcoats and Lyn Ison was our Best In Show judge. 

This year as an experiment we arranged catering by a food van sited just outside the entrance, which served very welcome bacon rolls on arrival and hot dogs or burgers and chips forlunch.  Reactions were positive and his prices were reasonable.

Here are the main winners from the show:

• BIS, l/c BOB & Bitch CC: Rushton & Robson's Rushwarden Gold Charm with Tidos. This was her third CC, qualifying her for the award of Champion, subject to KC confirmation.
• RBIS, s/c BOB & Dog CC: Halls' Ch Jorazan Quincy Quirky Sox JW
• L/c Dog CC, Best l/c Puppy and RBPIS: Day, Bisson & Beaumont's Monicachi Money Talks at Beaulamey.
• S/c Bitch CC: Fothergill's Diamonchi Miss Sparkel JW.
• L/c RCCs went to the Pattersons' dog Bramerita Mr Motown with Bratilda and Todd-McCoids'bitch Rubyanlo Magic Trix JW. This was her 5th RCC, and with 2 x CCs previously gained, qualifies her for the award of Champion, subject to KC confirmation.
• S/c RCCs were Fothergill's dog Diamonchi Italian Stallion JW and Hicks' imported bitch Legado de Lagos La Fama at Casiatodo.  The former was the third new champion of the show (subject to Kennel Club confirmation) as this was his 5th RCC, having already been awarded two CCs.
• BPIS Rooney & Holland-Smith's smoothcoat Starceylon Nick Rockett
• BVIS Hunt's smoothcoat Ch Diamonchi Button Moon for Moltobello
• The longcoat Best Baby Puppy was Colquhoun's Okeanid Fantasy for Cleioanto while the best baby smoothcoat puppy was Hartley & Fahey's Zoomeera Stormbreaker. Meanwhile Parker's Zuvans Danger Mouse won the Ballybroke Stakes and £50 prize.

(Left) Winner of the Ballybroke Stakes, Mr Josh Parker with Zuvans Danger Mouse

Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to our excellent judges, to the hard-working committee who always pull out all the stops, and especially all the lovely exhibitors who came and supported our show.

2025 OPEN SHOW
The show was held on Sunday 4th May at Brackley Leisure Centre.  We had quite a good entry of 58 longcoats and 57 smooths for our judges Lindsey Anderson and Isobel Taylor.  Our AGM was held during the lunch break and at the end of the show the judges conferred together to select the BIS awards.

Critiques for this show can be viewed/downloaded here in PDF format:
Longcoats
Smoothcoats