FEATURE REPORT FOR GLOSTER FANCY SPECIALIST SOCIETY T
his report has been prepared by the show Judges Jan and Ferre Willems. It was a great honour and a real pleasure to be invited to judge the Gloster Fancy Specialist Society show as part of one of the greatest and biggest bird shows of the UK, as the New National Show at Stafford surely is. We also highly appreciated the warm welcome and the hospitality of John Herring and his wife Josie, especially after our long journey from Belgium to England. So after a good meal and a refreshing night of sleep we could start with our challenge: selecting and nominating the best birds in each of the sections. And a challenge indeed it was: we were pleasantly surprised with the high level of quality of the birds, in each of the classes: not only in the champion but also in the novice and junior classes. So it took us some considerable amount of time and discussion in order to come up with our final results. In that sense, we would also like to express our thanks and appreciation to the stewards, who were of great assistance in this quite challenging task. The end results are some really beautiful birds that can be called the prize winners amongst a high quality pool of birds every participant can be proud of. Here are the winners:- Best in Show was won by Peter Bull, showing as a Novice, his unflighted 3 parts dark corona hen won against strong opposition, this bird also won Best Novice, Best Novice Corona and Best 3 parts dark in show. Peter also won Best
Yellow in Show with an unflighted yellow corona hen. These were just rewards for travelling all the way from the Isle of Wight to support the show. Best Champion went to Kevin McCarthy with an unflighted Buff corona cock, this bird also won Best Buff in Show, and Best Champion Corona. Kevin also had more success as his unflighted Cinnamon Corona hen took Best Cinnamon and Best Champion
Cinnamon.Best Champion Consort went to Mick Kelham with a flighted Buff consort hen; with the remaining Champion Specials going to John Cronin who won Best Champion Yellow with an unflighted Consort cock, in the White section he did even better as his flighted Fawn corona cock not only won Best White and Best Champion White it then went on to win Best White Canary in the whole Show. R & C Lootes had a very pleasing day in the Novice section winning Best Novice Consort with an unflighted 3 parts dark Consort hen and Best Novice Cinnamon with an unflighted Corona Hen; with son Michael taking Best Junior it was a good show for the Lootes family. Best Novice White was won by Ian Gooderham with a Consort Hen.
Allow us to conclude with some congratulations to the organizers of this beautiful bird show, and we wish John and the entire GFSS team all the best, and good luck with your continued path of such nice bird shows.
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