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Fortune's Feet Don't Fail Me Now & Fortune's Blueprint
(Banbury Vincent x CH Dickendall Busckstone Blooper)

  We had a great showing at the Raleigh Durham Labrador Retriever Club Specialty! 
CH Fortune's Curious George took a prestigious Judges Award of Merit both days at the show and
our barely six month old boys out of CH Dickendall Buckstone Blooper x Banbury Vincent
really made us proud by going 1st and 2nd in both their regular and sweepstakes classes both days!!
To top it off, Fortune's Blueprint, one of these two boys went Reserve Winners Dog and Best of
Opposite in Sweepstakes!!! WOO HOO!!!!   It was a fabulous weekend for us!!

At the Myrtle Beach Kennel Club shows, Banbury Vincent wowed us by going Best of Breed from
the classes the first day and then going Winners Dog, Best of Winners & Best of Opposite the next! 
We are also proud of CH Fortune's Outside the Bun for going Best of Opposite to Vince the first day
and then beating the pants off of him the next by going Best of Breed!  Way to go Frita! And, lastly,
kudos to Boots, co-owned by Amy & Buzz Gibson of Grayson Labradors for going Reserve
Winners bitch the first day and going Winners Bitch the next!  WOO HOO!!

CH Fortune's Curious George, aka Monkey, showing off his stuff at the
Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac show, 2009, in Frederick, Maryland.

YIPPEEEEEE!!!  Congratulations to our new Champion, CH Fortune's Outside the Bun at Grayson!
Frita lives with and is dearly loved by her co-owners, Amy & Buzz Gibson of Grayson Labradors. 
Many thanks to Rusty & Jen Howard for finishing this lovely chocolate girl! 

Okay, now who could pass up the opportunity to photo both girls, bred by us, but
loved & co-owned by Amy Gibson! What a day!  Winners and Reserve- it just doesn't happen like this very often!!  KUDOS!!

Fortune's Outside the Bun at Grayson goes Winners Bitch and Best of Opposite Sex
at the Hilton Head Island Kennel Club shows!!  WooHoo Frita!!!

Fortune's JuJuBee at Grayson goes Reserve Winners Bitch in one of her first shows
at the recent Hilton Head Island shows!!  Yeah Jubee!!!

Our new visitor, Banbury Vincent, going Winners dog, Best of Winners, Best of Breed and
the icing on the cake... a GROUP III at the Hilton Head Island Kennel Club shows!!  Thank you Judy Doniere
for the special win!!

    Check our our boy, CH Surry's Ummagumma at Fortune, making his cover model
debut on the February/March issue of this great magazine!!

CH Fortune's Curious George, aka Monkey, earns prestigious JUDGES AWARDS OF MERIT both
days at the Coastal South Carolina LRC entry in January under respected breeder judges
Gail Shearer of Bonaventure and Jill Ickowski of Wiscoy.  YIPPEEEE!!

   And here she is!!  Our newest addition to the Fortune family!! 

CH Fortune's Curious George earns a JAM at the Raleigh Durham LRC Specialty under prestigious breeder judge,
Kendall Herr of Dickendall Labradors.  Way to go Monkey!!

    Fortune's Curious George, thrilled us by finishing his show championship in style with two more major wins by going
Winners Dog, Best of Winners and BEST OF BREED two days on the Kentucky circuit under respected breeder judges,
Tom & Gail Shearer.  Thanks to all who have helped us enjoy these wins!!! 

    Fortune's Curious George, aka Monkey is the man!!!  He wowed us again by going Reserve Winners Dog at the Atlanta
Supported Entries under breeder judge, Debra McKinley and then...drumrolll.... by going Winners Dog the next day for a 4point major under
respected breeder judge, Lisa Weiss.  Many thanks to those who cheered him on!!!! YIPPPEEE!!

    Kudos again to Monkey, our Fortune's Curious George, as he goes Winners Dog in Atlanta for a Major Win
under respected Judge Don Sturtz!! YEAH!!

Congratulations to our Fortune's Curious George for going Winners Dog & Best of Opposite at the Chattanooga, TN dog shows under
respected judge, Bonnie Threllfall.  Way to go Monkey!!!

    Hats off to Laura Quinlivan of Wyoming, with her boy, Fortune's The Grand Tycoon, aka Kona, for achieving their first
Qualifying Novice Agility Leg and by winning the Novice Agility Class at an AKC Agility competition in Idaho!  WAY TO GO!!

  At the Beaufort Kennel Club show held in May, we had a great time!!  Our boy,
Fortune's Curious George, thrilled us by going Winners Dog and our girl, Fortune's Jet Puffed took 
Winners Bitch & Best of Opposite too!  It was an incredible day for all of us!!

       
Fortune's Shake Your Groove Thing (Disco) & Fortune's Outside the Bun (Frita)

 
                                              Fortune's Colby Jack                                              

  At the Myrtle Beach Kennel Club shows held in April, we had an incredible weekend!!  Our boy,
Fortune's Colby Jack, thrilled us by going Winners Dog, Best of Winners  & Best of Breed both days. 
Also, to make the weekend even better, our two litter sisters, Fortune's Shake Your Groove Thing &
Fortune's Outside the Bun (loved & co-owned by Amy Gibson) are now affectionately known as the "Pointed Sisters" took a
Winners Bitch & Best of Opposite award each day! 

    At the Coastal South Carolina LRC shows held in January, our girl, Fortune's Gimme A Kiss really wowed us by going
BEST IN SWEEPSTAKES and then her brother, Fortune's Curious George, going BEST OF OPPOSITE IN SWEEPS to her!! 
It was quite a day for all of us!!!!

    At the Raleigh-Durham Labrador Retriever Club Specialties held on November 9th & 10th, 2006, all of our Labbers thrilled
us by doing really well! Fortune's Gimme A Kiss, aka Smooches, won her regular class the first day and placed 2nd the next and she was
2nd in her Sweeps classes both days.  Her brother, Fortune's Curious George, aka Monkey, won his regular & sweeps class the first day
and went on to RESERVE WINNERS DOG and BEST OF OPPOSITE IN SWEEPSTAKES.  Then, on the second day, he got 2nd in his
regular classes, but then thrilled us by going BEST IN SWEEPSTAKES!!  Lastly, our boy, CH Surry's Ummagumma at Fortune, aka Gilmour,
earned the first JUDGES AWARD OF MERIT on the day one and then went BEST OF OPPOSITE SEX on the second. 
WHAT A FABULOUS TWO DAYS OF SHOWING!!!!  WOW!!

At the AQHA REGIONAL SHOW in Perry, Georgia this August, BAD ACID, aka Johnny, took me to the CHAMPIONSHIP in the
Amateur Hunter Under Saddle division and RESERVE CHAMPION in the SENIOR HUNTER UNDER SADDLE division.  We
won a beautiful winter blanket for Johnny and an incredibly too big for your belt buckle!!  After some much needed rest after last year's showing,
we are thrilled to have done so well!!  Many thanks to our trainers Kelly & Rick Christy of Christy Quarter Horses in Ocala, Florida.

    At the Raleigh Circuit of Shows held in March, our boy Surry's Ummagumma at Fortune totally wowed us by winning the first three days of the circuit!!!  AND, he finished with his last win by going BEST OF BREED and becoming a new CHAMPION!!! YIPPPEEEEE!!
Specials thanks to our handlers Rusty & Jen Howard!!