Show report from Wakefield Championship Obedience Show 23/24/08/25
We would like to thank everyone who made the show the huge success it was.
Huge thanks to all the judges & stewards who very kindly offered to join us this year, to our Chief Steward Graham Armstrong who goes above & beyond, he does an excellent job for us, & also to Rachael, his wife, who also gets stuck in to help us out.
Unless you have ever run a show you cannot actually appreciate how much work goes into it, the preparation beforehand, the organisation, the stress involved, the endless lists required, the ordering, the running around, it’s a mammoth task, but, it is so worth the end result when we get the comments/feedback we get every year. Are we up to the challenge to do it all again next year?? If we are we will need JUDGES & STEWARDS PLEASE!!! Without them, there is no show.
We must also thank Sue Osbourne & her lovely team of ladies, & Martin of course, who work so hard before & on the show days to provide the beautiful buffet lunch for the judges, stewards, officials & helpers, they receive so many welcome compliments, it really is a lovely spread.
To club members, Karen Shires & Dave Craven who make sure we get all the equipment we need from the club premises to the show ground.
To the Wakefield Dog Club members who turn up on the day to help out.
To the small but very able team of people who very kindly come to help us with the preparation & setting up of the show including Pierre who helps with the day parkers.
To Bev Smith who attended the show from the Midlands for the very 1st time to scoreboard one of the Tkt classes but ended up doing whatever job we asked her to do.
To my young friend Torey Bramhall, who literally comes with her Grandparents just to
assist me, I must drive her mad with my constant mumblings about we have to do 
Finally, my biggest thanks must go to my daughter, Emma, I absolutely wouldn’t be able to run this show without her help & expertise
Congratulations & Good Luck at Crufts 2026 to our Ticket winners, Shirley Clowes, Louise Williams, Julie Rowlands & Lynn Hillary, to the YKC Members who were successful enough to also qualify & to the KCGC Spec Pre-Beg qualifiers
Hopefully we will get to do it all again next year
Debra & Emma Lavender