FEATURE


Young Karl Lewis receiving his award from Chris Smith for best junior exhibit at the National, having already won best junior in the CCBA section .


(Left) Ron Hill who took best champion lipochrome, and on the right Mick Burke winning best champion melanin and also best coloured canary in show .


Peter Finn judges the Novice birds: I have judged the National show many times over the years but it still gives me a buzz. It’s great to meet all my friends from the fancy. At this year’s show, the novice colour canary section was very impressive. In the lipochrome section there was some good competition in the red classes. The final outcome was an impressive variegated intensive red taking the top award. The owner of this bird was Daniel Poxon. When this bird went up for Best in Show award, it came very close to the Champion exhibit. The novice Self section had smaller classes but had some outstanding birds. The final winner from this section was an


intensive red Isabel. The owner of this bird was Mark Higginson. Over the last few years there has been a


massive improvement in the quality of the novice colour canaries. Many novice birds are now equal in quality to many of the champion birds. Thanks to all my stewards and helpers


for making the show run so smoothly. Peter Finn


The show over all was a huge success but the story of the day was our own colour canary junior Karl Lewis who won best Junior in the whole national show with his superb intensive yellow lipochrome, a day I imagine he will remember for a long time collecting his glass award.


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