First Annual
Old Dominion Gold Cup
Mini Silky Show
was held in Herndon, VA at Frying Pan Park
on April 21, 2006.
Judge: Judy Ratcliffe, Scottsdale, VA
Chris Holdt, Toms Brook, VA Consulting
Judge
Frank Baylis, Toms Brook, VA Third Best
Coat in Show Judge
A special thanks to all of our
sponsors:
Show Sponsors
Redneck Acres, Crystal Liles, Salina KS
(Ad)
Sol-Orr Farm, Renee & Steve Orr, Lignum, VA
(Ad)
Springs Run Farm, Janet & Robert Shlanta, Marshall, VA
(Ad)
Mini Valley Farm, Bill & Jan Lake, Hacker Valley, WV
(Ad)
High Pointe Farm, Debbie & Mark Smith, Gloucester, VA
(Ad)
Backyard Adventures Farm, Eric Hernandez, Ft Lauderdale, FL
(Ad)
Fallen Fence Farm, Jeanne Allen, Warrenton, VA
(Ad)
Division Sponsors
Driftwood Farms, Kristen Foy, Long Island, NY
(Ad)
Eagle Cove Farm, Keli & Ron Harold, Orange, VA
(Ad)
Jacobs Run Farm, Ada Marie & Allan Kindrick, Earlysville, VA
(Ad)
Quartz Rock Goats, Kylie Lassiter, Unionville, VA
(Ad)
Class Sponsors
Cedar Run, Gary & Joanne Earls, Catlett, VA
(Ad)
I would like to thank Glen Cox, our
Photographer, he really caught the essence of the show.
The first MSFGA-sanctioned show turned out to be
a rousing success. We had 9 farms participating coming from 3 states
and entering 41 goats. We were thrilled to have such a large turn
out for our first show. We also had tremendous support from others
as you can tell from our sponsors listed above. A big thank you to
all of the sponsors, exhibitors and hard workers.
Getting Ready
The ring, trophy table, stalls and
all other necessary accouterments were set up Friday starting at
noon. There were trophies to be awarded for Best in Show, Best Coat
in Show, Grand Champion in each division, Get of Sire, Produce of
Dam, Judge's Choice Award and Viewer's Choice Award. By 2:00 the
ring was ready and exhibitors were starting to pick out the trophies
they wanted to take home.
Exhibitors Meeting
The show began with the exhibitors meeting at
2:30 where Renee thanked all those who supported the show, explained
the order of judging and introduced the judges for the day.
Chris holdt, Frank Baylis and Renee Orr
working out the kinks.
As always there were a few more things that
needed to be ironed out.
JUDGES
You can't have a show without judges, can you?
Judy Ratcliffe on the left did a great job as the show judge with
Chris Holdt, center, acting as consulting judge. Frank Baylis,
right, served as third judge for Best Coat in Show and then helped
out as announcer.
Jeanne Allen's Mom
Robert Shlanta and Jamee Hall getting collars and leads ready for
the show
holding one of Jeanne's goats and our
expert ring steward ring steward behind her, Sharon Joly
As well as judges, a show needs exhibitors. Some
folks plan ahead and get to relax before going in the ring. Others
need to be highly organized to get the right animal to the ring at
the right time.
Some of the goats were really anxious to get to
the ring and others just had a ho-hum attitude about the whole
thing.
SHOW TIME
The first class was the Best Coat in Show with
nine animals competing for this honor. This class was different from
the rest of the show in that three judges independently judged
the class, ordering all goats from first to ninth. Their score cards
were given to the show clerk to tally and the tension
mounted.....and mounted! The results of the class were not to be
announced until after Best in Show.
Junior Does
The first set of classes were the Junior Does
(Does under 24 months)
The photo above is of our first class of Junior
Does under 3 months. From left to right they are: Sol-Orr's Dulce
Dora and Steve Orr of Sol-Orr Farm, Sol-Orr's Sun Poppy and Renee
Orr of Sol-Orr Farm, Driftwood Farms Spritzer and Kristen Foy of
Driftwood Farms, Sol-Orr's Athena and Kylie Lassiter of Quartz Rock
Goats and Sol-Orr's Blue Moon and Janet Shlanta of Springs Run Farm,
handling for Kylie Lassiter.
Above is our judge, Judy Ratcliffe, going over
the entrants to our 6 to 9 month junior doe class. From left to
right: Bayshore's Swiss Miss & Jeanne Allen of Fallen Fence Farm and
Sol-Orr's Key Lime & Sandy Middlebrook of Centerstream Farm.
The above photo is of class winners competing for
Grand Champion Junior Doe. In the back row from left to right were
the second place winners: Becky McElwain of Sil0-View Farm, Sandy
Middlebrook of Centerstream Farm with Sol-Orr's Key Lime and Debbie
Smith of High Pointe Farm with Sol-Orr's Dixie. In the front row
from left to right are the first place winners: Steve Orr of Sol-Orr
Farm with Sol-Orr's Dulce Dora, Jeanne Allen of Fallen Fence Farm
with Bayshore's Sunkist, Jeanne's Mom of Fallen Fence Farm with
Bayshore's Swiss Miss and Janet Shlanta of Springs Run Farm with
Sol-Orr's Deva.
Junior Grand Champion Doe
Reserve Junior Grand Champion Doe
Sol-Orr's Meadow Sweet
Sol-Orr's Deva
Owned by Springs Run Farm
Owned by Springs Run Farm
Senior Does
Senior Grand Champion Doe
Reserve Senior Grand Champion Doe
Sol-Orr's Maggie Mae
High Rock Rainy
Owned by Sol-Orr Farm
Owned by Driftwood Farms
Junior Bucks
Above is the 12 to 18 month
Junior Buck Class. From left to right were: Sol-Orr's Gangster shown
by Becky McElwain, owned by Silo-View Farm, Sol-Orr's Pioneer shown
by Janet Shlanta, owned by Springs Run Farm and Sol-Orr's Magnum
shown by Steve Orr, owned by Sol-Orr Farm.
This is the Grand Champion
Junior Buck Class. It's the only picture that was taken of this
class, sorry it's not easier to see. The closest buck is the winner
of the under 3 months junior buck class, Sol-Orr's Pop Gun, owned by
Sol-Orr Farm. The next buck is the 6 to 9 months junior buck class
winner, Sol-Orr's Monroe, owned by Sol-Orr Farm. The third goat in
line is Sol-Orr's Espresso, winner of the 9 to 12 months junior buck
class, owned by High Pointe Farm. Finally way up there and almost
out of sight is Steve Orr with the 12 to 18 months junior buck class
winner, Sol-Orr's Magnum, owned by Sol-Orr Farm.
Junior Grand Champion Buck
Junior Grand Champion went to
Sol-Orr's Magnum, shown by Steve Orr, owned by Sol-Orr Farm. The
Reserve Grand Champion went to Sol-Orr's Monroe owned by Sol-Orr
Farm, but there was no picture taken of Monroe, sorry.
Senior Bucks
There were only 2 Senior Bucks
entered. From left to right are: Bayshore's Prince Charming and
Sol-Orr's Noah.
Senior Grand Champion Buck
Senior Grand Champion Buck was
Bayshore's Prince Charming owned by Sol-Orr Farm. Reserve Grand
Champion was Sol-Orr's Noah owned by Sol-Orr Farm.
Best In Show
This was our Best In Show
Class. From left to right were: Sol-Orr's Meadow Sweet, Jr Doe Grand
Champion, Sol-Orr's Maggie Mae, Sr Doe Grand Champion, Sol-Orr's
Magnum, Jr Buck Grand Champion and Bayshore's Prince Charming, Sr
Buck Grand Champion.
Best In Show and Old Dominion
Gold Cup winner was Sol-Orr's Maggie Mae owned by Sol-Orr Farm.
Best Coat In Show Class
Above are the Best Coat In Show contenders. From
Top left to bottom right is: Sol-Orr's Magnum, owned by Sol-Orr
Farm, Sol-Orr's Maggie Mae, owned by Sol-Orr Farm, Sol-Orr's
Espresso, owned by High Pointe Farm, Sol-Orr's Gangster, owned by
Silo-View Farm and Sol-Orr's Noah, owned by Sol-Orr Farm.
Best Coat In Show Winner
Sol-Orr's Noah, owned by Sol-Orr Farm
Costume Class
The costume
class consisted of three Contestants, including a bride, a hula
dancer and the devil himself. Jeanne Allen did a great job on her
costumes, her goats looked adorable and made us all grin.
Winner of Costume Class
Bayshore's Sun Kissed
Owned by Jeanne Allen of Wether or Not
Viewer's Choice Award
We offered our
Spectators a chance to vote for their favorite Mini Silky. After the
votes were all tallied, Kylie Lassiter with her Junior Doe,
Sol-Orr's Blue Moon, won the Viewers' Choice Award.
Kylie Lassiter
with Sol-Orr's Whistler in the left picture, he was second in the 6
to 9 months Junior Buck class . The right picture is of Kylie
Lassiter with Sol-Orr's Athena, she took 4th place in the Under 3
months Junior Doe Class.
Kristen Foy of
Driftwood Farms with High Rock Rainy and Driftwood Farms Hummer.
Candid Shots
Below are some candid
shots of the show. It was so much fun and over so quickly!
Sharon Miller
Karin King
The Hula Girl
Our Gate Keeper
caught playing with a baby
Steve with
Sol-Orr's Noah
Bedrock's Tootsie Roll & Coyote Creek Lydia
Sol-Orr's Magnum
"Bean" Sol-Orr's Espresso
Mark Smith with Sol-Orr's Arabella
Bayshore's O'Henry
Renee with Sol-Orr's Pop Gun
Sol-Orr's Espresso "Bean"
Sol-Orr's Dulce Dora
Sharon Miller hamming it up for the camera
Kylie Lassiter with Athena
Renee Orr, Frank Baylis & Linda Brown
Janet Shlanta and Blue Moon
Bayshore's Sun Kissed waiting to go in the ring
Dawn Hawthorne and Jeanne Allen catching up in the ring.
Judy Ratcliffe, Judge
The show was soon over and we
would like to thank our judge for doing a superb job. We missed all
of you who couldn't attend, but by sharing these pictures, we hope
to make you feel like you were part of the fun we had. We plan to do
it again next year and we hope that all of you can join us then for
another fun filled afternoon of showing Mini Silkies. For complete
results of the show, click on the Complete Show Results link below.
Thank you for looking.
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