Welcome to our Christmas & BCC Show Newsletter!

November 2016 *Bengal Cat Club Show Special*

The Bengal Times Brought to you by

THE BENGAL CAT CLUB

Hello members! Thank you so much for joining us for

our latest newsletter, we hope you enjoy it as much as

we have enjoyed bringing it to you.

On 26th November 2016 we held our 11th

Championship show at Cricklade nr Swindon. As

always the show was a great success! Our entries

were up on last year and we had a special addition in

the form of the rather lovely Toygers! Thank you to

Sue Moreland for her fabulous suggestion to add them

to the schedule. The show once again was run

effortlessly by Elaine Robinson & her fantastic team -

I’m sure everyone will agree we have the best show

team there is. The Bengal Cat Club extends a massive

thank you to you all for everything.

We must thank our Committee who work tirelessly leading up to the show & on the day.

Our Chairman & Vice President Barrie & Rosie Alger-Street always provide the warmest of welcomes and as well as exhibiting are

busy all day making sure everything is going smoothly & always on hand for any help & advice.

Our Secretary Annie Wedge-Coak for designing our new club banner that debuted at the Supreme & for all her hard work leading up

to and during the show.

Kevin & Suzanne Workman who debuted this year as our Cup Secretaries; not the easiest of jobs, but they did fabulously. We must

extend a massive thank you to Su & Steve Goodger who helped support Kevin & Suzanne in the transition. Thank you also to Kevin

for the Newsletter photos.

Julie Hyland & Tracey Wilkinson for their fantastic support & help on the day. Tracey baked some lovely cakes, donated the most

stunning BIS cushions in memory of her dear Oobalou Lady Jane, as well as Hampers for the raffle, for the BIS Household pet AND

our fabulous HCM raffle hamper raising £12.16 to go to the DNA research in the USA. Julie bought her wonderful boy IMP GR PR

Typhast Xerxes on exhibition & decorated his pen fantastically!

Matt Workman & Matthew who ran the raffle collecting a fabulous £172.

Sue Moreland & her team for providing our vetting in & veterinary support. Sue also donated a wonderful trophy for our BIS Toyger.

Linda Whitmore for her tireless work Stewarding & helping with the show team handing out awards - We also welcome Linda to our

Club committee this year. Linda was co-opted in, in November and we know she will be a fantastic addition. Thank you also to Sheila

Bradburn for helping with the handing out of Rosettes.

We also send out a thank you to Tracey Fordham & Steve Lott for their continued support & dedication to the club - we hope you

have enjoyed your holidays.

Thank you to our Exhibitors, Judges & Stewards

We are continuously over whelmed by the support of our members who pull out all the stops to make our show great! The raffle

prizes donated were wonderful, from Homemade cakes, biscuits, wine to stunning gifted hampers.

We also send out a big thank you to all our judges & their stewards on the day :

Mrs. S Amor, Mrs. J Harrison, Mrs. H Marriot-Power, Mrs. C Pike, Mrs. S Rose, Mr. J Trotter & Mrs. P Wilding

Not that we want to keep you waiting toooooo long for the Best in Show line up results, but! We couldn’t not share just some

of the stunning prizes that were awarded. Our Best in Show pens looked amazing, with beautiful gifts galore.

Above are our ‘Judges choice’ rosettes which are awarded each year by each judge to their favourite exhibit, these

prove extremely popular and are a real honour to receive.

Above were won by GR PR Typhast Kimi of Ziggian - what a haul!

New additions to the show

Sonia also donated two lovely Rosettes which were awarded to

her best Bengal Glitterglam Nefertiti owned by Mrs Sue

Maclaine and to her favourite white household pet OBIGMC

Winter Star owned by Mrs R Hart

We had some new trophies donated this year including some really special prizes donated by our member Sonia Lee in memory

of her dear Moses who sadly passed away recently. Sonia donated two trophies for our Golden Oldies; Eldest Bengal in Show

and Eldest Household pet in show. BOTH trophies were awarded to our very own Julie Hyland whose wonderful boy Typhast

Xerxes was the eldest Bengal and her lovely Household pet girl ’Dreamer’. Both at 10 years of age! Thank you Sonia.

Many thanks to Linda Whitmore of Velastar Bengals for her

kind donation of a new club trophy. This really is a beautiful

addition and the club have received it with great thanks.

Donated in memory of Linda's dear girl Kalle.

The Velastar Bengals trophy was awarded to the AC spotted

Adult Club class winner.

Congratulations to Mrs Susan Moreland MRCVS with her

lovely boy CH Kiabindhi Sultanofswing

The Kalle Memorial Trophy

The Best in Show Winners

Ok, so we didn’t want to keep you waiting too much longer. We are very pleased to announce the Best in Show Winners for 2016.

Best Male Adult, Best Adult & Overall Best in Show Exhibit

UK & OBIGR CH Typhast Greatballsofire owned & Bred by Mr & Mrs Alger-Street

Huge congratulations must also go to Typhast Bengals winning the Prefix Brace & Reserve Prefix Brace!

Prefix Brace Winners : UK & OBIGR CH Typhast

Greatballsofire & Typhast Fairflorence

Prefix Brace Reserve : GR CH Typhast Covergirl & GR PR

Typhast Kimi of Ziggian (Owned by Annie Wedge-Coak)

The Best in Show Winners

Best Female adult in Show

GR CH Tobysden Pyrrha Bred & Owned by Mrs Susan Moreland MRCVS

Best Female Kitten & Overall Best Kitten

Typhast Fairflorence Bred & Owned by Mr & Mrs Alger-Street

Best Male Kitten

Jasiri Ali Baba Bred & Owned by Mrs Tricia Cosford

Photo courtesy of Sue Moreland

Best in Show Winners

Photo courtesy of Mrs Wedge-Coak

Best Female Neuter in Show

GR PR Typhast Branda owned by Mrs Janice Ransom

Best Any other variety in Show

Toyger Mistymogwai Knight Indarksatin owned by Mrs Susan

Moreland MRCVS

Ted is the FIRST Toyger in the country to gain his 4 GCCF Merit certificates

(he actually now has 5!)

We had 5 Toygers entered on the day, so it was a lovely turn out for this new

breed working towards preliminary status. We wish them the best of luck.

We must thank the Toyger exhibitors for helping to raise the exhibit numbers

for this years show. In total we had 65 cats entered - 3 up on last year.

Thank you!

Best in Show Male Neuter & Overall Best in Show Neuter

GR PR Typhast Kimi of Ziggian owned by Mrs Annie Wedge-Coak

Best in Show Household Pets

A lovely entry of the most beautiful household pets to our show this year.

Thank you to the following members for supporting our show & bringing your wonderful Pets (We had 11 in total)

Mrs Julie Hyland with IGMC Dreamer

Mrs L Talboys with IGMC Gobbolino

Dr K E Ford with IGMC Boris Agrippa

Mrs D Lewis with UK & OGIGMC Mr Tigga

Mrs L Whitmore with Cassiopeia

Congratulations to

Best in Show Non-Pedigree Pet : Boo owned by Miss R Lynch

Best in Show Pedigree Pet & Overall Best in Show Household Pet :

OBIGMC WINTER STAR Owned by Mrs R L Hart

People choice winner : IGMC Gobbolino owned by Mrs L Talboys

For the full results listing from the show please do visit the GCCF Show Reports page at :

http://www.gccfcats.org/Show-Information/Show-Reports?EntryId=18427

Final Round up

The issue wouldn’t be complete without some fun photos from our show day. We would like to thank everyone for making

our Christmas show what it was. We had an extremely positive AGM with some fantastic Secretary, Treasurer & Welfare

statements - So look out for these in the minutes from the AGM in due course.

Our Committee also provided copious amounts of Mince pies & Mulled wine to help get everyone into the spirit of things.

All Exhibitors were gifted a goody bag that were kindly donated by Tracey Wilkinson & Claire Workman with sweets and

Cat toys plus a lovely brand new Bengal Cat Club pen from the club.

We will be holding our 2017 show as usual - so if you think this looks like it could have been a lot of fun (it was!) and you

would like to join in next year, then please do! Remember we always have classes for Household pets so you don’t even

have to have a Bengal.

Top Left : Julie & Barrie the Elves, Top right: Suzanne & Kevin the jolly

Reindeers, Bottom Left Tracey Mrs Christmas herself and the ‘Ferocious Beast’

otherwise known as the adorable IMP GR PR Typhast Xerxes

Thank you for reading - don’t forget its almost time to renew your membership, we’d love to have you join us for another year &

More! Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas & Prosperous New Year from all at The Bengal Cat Club