Lionhead Nationals - wow - large # of entries

TinysMom · Apr 19, 2011

From one of the lionhead email lists:

Hi Everyone,
The numbers are in and they are great! This year we have 470 entries in Open and 98 entries in Youth, making a total of 568 Lionheads entered in the show!! This compares to 509 in 2010! We have 51 exhibitors in Open and 16 in Youth. There are 14 Statler entries and 11 Youth have signed up for the Symposium on Friday night! How exciting is that!
Here is the breakdown by Variety in Open:
Black - 90
Blue - 28
Blue Point - 3
Chestnut Agouti - 8
Chinchilla - 4
Chocolate - 20
Orange - 5
Otter - 13
Pointed White - 33
Red - 4
REW - 69
Sable Point 34
Sable marten - 3
Siamese Sable - 49
Smoke Pearl - 26
Tortoise - Black - 63
Tortoise - Blue - 15
Tortoise - Chocolate - 3

The breakdown by Variety in Youth-
Black - 15
Blue -1
Blue Point - 2
Chestnut Agouti - 1
Chocolate - 1
Orange - 3
Otter - 2
Pointed White - 3
REW - 6
Sable Point - 19
Sable marten - 2
Siamese Sable - 13
Smoke Pearl - 8
Tortoise - Black -15
Tortoise - Blue - 6
Tortoise - Chocolate - 1

Whoppie...we are on a roll! Remember I am taking changes or substitutions until Thursday this week. After that, absolutely no changes as I'm running the paperwork! See you soon! Cheryl

LindyS · Apr 19, 2011

Does this mean theres a better chance of geting them approved by arba? Im geting annoyed with waiting for a yay, no more nays.

mistyjr · Apr 19, 2011

They got 2 more years to go. This fall if they do pass. But I heard from somebody that is the new SOP book they were talking about the Lionheads and Lion lops. Which ever comes first to be approved.. I dont know though. But heard it from somebody else.

TinysMom · Apr 19, 2011

mistyjr wrote:

They got 2 more years to go. This fall if they do pass. But I heard from somebody that is the new SOP book they were talking about the Lionheads and Lion lops. Which ever comes first to be approved.. I dont know though. But heard it from somebody else.

To my knowledge there is no standard out there for Lionlops (well really - no COD (certificate of development)).

From what I've been told by ARBA judges - if lionheads pass - lionlops would not be likely to get approved for a COD because they would not be enough different.

But that was three years ago I think.

I'm not sure though that ARBA is open to the idea of lionlops....just from lots of discussions I have had with folks who've been breeding a while.

TinysMom · Apr 19, 2011

LindyS wrote:

Does this mean theres a better chance of geting them approved by arba? Im geting annoyed with waiting for a yay, no more nays.

Lionheads have been having a national show since....2003 maybe? I'm trying to remember - I think their first show was in 2003 in Rhode Island. (I helped write the history portion for the last Lionhead guidebook - you'd think I'd remember!!!).

Until lionheads pass ARBA - their National shows will always be held at OSRBA - the Ohio state show.

Once they pass and are a breed....then the club may decide to move the show around on an annual basis like other national clubs do.