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WORLD WINNER 2003 & NED KAMP. Grausturm Extra Special (LH) "Digger"

Digger is the first Grausturm dog to go overseas. He is trained by Johny and his dad Hans Van Holstein. Digger won Best of Breed at the World Winner Show in Dortmund, Germany in May 2003, making him a World Champion and the first Australian Weimaraner longhair to gain this honour. He was also 2nd Best in Show at Weimaraner Specialty in Holland in 2003. He is also a Dutch Champion (Ned Kamp). Digger has been graded "Excellent" under many different judges, including at the World Winner Show in Amsterdam 2002 and in Dortmund 2003. He was invited to go to Crufts in 2003 and 2004, perhaps the first Australian Weimaraner to have this honour. Unfortunately he could not attend 2003 because of paper work problems with vaccinations so he was reinvited for 2004 and has also earned this honour twice since!!

Digger is working well in the field and has already gained 3 C diplomas and 2 B diplomas for his field tests and came 2nd out of 60 dogs at his last trial and was also the youngest Weimaraner to achieve this award.

Digger has been given an excellent hip score grading.
 

Aust Ch/SVCH/NW'04/SW'07/Vet.World Winner 2008 Grausturm Dare To Dream (LH) "Sasha" Graded Excellent

Sasha resides in Sweden with Pernilla Nordlund and Rolf Ryberg of Classic Dream's kennels.

Sasha has proved a success in field, show and breeding, winning internationally BOB Sweden & Norway, as well as Australian specialty wins (Victoria, Adelaide). Her progeny includes Sydney Royal winners Grausturm In The Mist and Grausturm Ima Tassi Devil. She is a top retriever and open class bloodtracking.

Sasha became Norwegian Winner (NW-04) in 2004. She was also shown at four biggest International shows in Sweden - at Stockholm, Skara, Ängelholm and Stenungsund, and was BOB with CK (Champion quality) AT ALL OF THESE SHOWS. Sasha has also won three CACIB's (towards Int Ch title).

In May 2005 Sasha was shown at the Swedish specialty show for Weimaraners and other Gundogs. Under the very strict Finnish judge Raija Tammelin in a hard competition of excellent Longhairs Sasha went Best of Breed! Not to finish there, in the afternoon Sasha, handled again by Pernilla, went BIS-4! At the time of writing, Sasha had been shown by Rolf and Pernilla 13 times and won Best of Breed at ALL of the shows.

Moreover, in 2005 Sasha also became a Swedish Bloodtracking Champion (SVCH) and World Veteran Winner at the World Dog Show 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sasha produced two litters for Classic Dreams, many of her offspring now holding various performance and show titles, including International & Swedish & Norwegian & Finnish & Nordic CH, Swedish Bloodtracking Champion, J (Hunting merited) Classic Dream's Im A Flying Fox "Frej" (LHC).
 

BISS/LV/LT/EST/RUS/UKR/BLR/PL CH Grausturm Love Is A Drug, BH Retriev. Exc. "Audry"

Audry lives with Irena Shuke in Latvia, Europe. At 9 months of age Audry already had a Best Puppy In Gundog Specialty Show award, and 7 Best Puppy In Breed's. Her first time in Junior Class in September 2005, having just turned 9 months of age, she went BOB and placed 3rd in FCI Group 7 in the Finals. To date she has been graded "very promising" and "excellent" conformation by judges from Belorus, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Russia, Latvia, Sweden, and Germany.

On her 10 months birthday, Audry passed her Retrieving Test with a PERFECT score, and was thus graded "excellent", becoming one of the top gundogs of the Latvian Gundog Breeders Club. Audry has also passed her Marsh Bird test with the grade "Very Good" and is thus entitled to be shown in Working Class at all FCI shows. After her splendid performance at the Retrieving Test she is now used as a back up dog at hunt tests for any dogs that refuse to retrieve from water. In her owners' words, she is a very un-demanding, easy to manage, gentle and loving dog at home.

Audry is exclusively handled by her owner Irena Shuke in the showring and in the field. Find out more about Audry at www.weimaraners.lv 

Audry's arrival in Europe was featured in The Mercury on 30th March 2005. (Click on the article to read it.)

AUST CH Grausturm Prince O Grey (LH) "Gandalf"

In 2007 Grausturm produced 5 puppies including 2 longhairs and 3 shorthairs. GANDALF THE GREY was one of these puppies! Gandalf is from our NZ import Merlin and his mum is Mischka (LH) from our top winning litter born in 2004 which includes 4 champions from the one litter.

Gandalf has won BABY IN GROUP under gundog specialist Mrs P Freeman (Vic). He has also won several PUPPY and MINOR AND JUNIOR in group awards. Gandalf won Reserve Challenge at the Victorian WEIMARANER SPECIALTY 2008 under American Weimaraner Specialist. He is now an Australian Champion.

Gandalf is the sire of our Silver litter to Nala and our themed Surprise litter to Kimba.

He has been tested as ultra-fertile (he produces on average 11 pups in a litter) and his semen is now stored in Australia. He has a clear eye certificate.

His new owners, Ward and Breezy Powell of Nimiq kennels in Canada are thrilled with his beautiful temperament, as he gets along with all dogs (including other intact males) in the household.

Gandalf currently has puppies (born 05 May 2009) in Canada out of CAN CH Stealyka's Blick Der Nacht LK - "Logane": 4 longhair boys, 2 shorthair girls and 5 shorthair boys! Some photos below at 6 weeks:

white SH boy & purple SH girl

orange SH boy and gold LH boy

And some more photos of Gandalf....

At home in Tasmania....

....and in Canada, with his new family.