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Valache kennels is about 40 minutes North of Adelaide, just before 
the Barossa Valley. Our home is over 100 years old, set on 10 acres which leaves plenty of room for our dogs to run, although these days a large part of the property is taken up by our daughter Kate's horses! We showed our first German Shorthaired Pointer in 1978, Ch Feldjager Bit O' Choclat who was soon joined by Ch Tirriki Meisterwerk QC CDX... we are indebted to their breeders, Viv Bretherton and Peter and Robyn van Haasteren for their generosity and advice over the years. We have now bred just over 30 Show Champions as well as owning another10 from outside kennels. We usually only breed one or two litters a year. Visitors are welcome any time. 
Kate and her palamino pony, Golden Ace Apollo have become a successful partnership, to win several One Day Events, including the 1999 Grade 4 Pony Club State Championships in April. 
Dressage is Kate's other
competiton code and our thoroughbred mare, Forever Amber have now a new foal we call Oskar out of a Dutch Warmblood, We hope Oskar will be a successfull dressage horse when he grows up! 
Somehow time is set aside
for Junior Dog Handling Competition and Kate was the Junior Section winner at the South Australian State Final in 1998, handling Robyn Pridham's Weimaraner bitch Ch Divani Ulterior Motive. 
In 1999 September the 5th, Kate won The State Junior Dog Handler Final at the Royal Adelaide Show and she was handeling an American Cocker Spaniel, "CH. Azel Lites Camera Action" who is owned by John, Valerie and Erin Carter. 
I (Anne) am now licenced to judge Toys, Terriers, Gundogs, Hounds and Utility Dogs at Championship Shows. Garth, my husband is currently
GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTERS Garth, Anne & Kate Raymond Lot 10 Coventry Road, EVANSTON GARDENS, S.A. 5116 AUSTRALIA Phone: 08 - 85 222 900 BACK
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