The 2011 was sponsored "TC KOI, Hill House Koi, Avenue Fisheries, and Kusuri Products" and koi2000
A massive thanks to them all for the generosity and assistance they all provided.
The 2011 Closed show was held at our regular venue, at the South Essex Garden Show ,
at Barlylands Farm, on the 11th and 12th of June 2011.
AS always a excited team arrive on the Thursday to the show ground to set up the show
This year our pitch had been moved that brought problems for water access and drainage. Alan Hurley and his team quickly resolved the problems
It was not long before the Crouch Valley members had the marquees up and vats had been organised, and was ready to fill with water.
This year the show has been modified to include extra vats for exhibitors this now pushed the number up to 20 vats.
A big thank you must go to the members that give up their time from work and schedules during the day to get the show setup
The second day the general public had some Koi to view and a big thanks to Members who assisted on the Friday
Friday Evening the Show fish arrive and a late night was had, but a big thanks to the Team that Stayed over and made sure the fish healthcare was looked after and the security of the site was upheld.
The Big Day is the Saturday, many thousands of visitors are attracted to the garden show and all are eager to view our Koi.
Darren Hepple would have attracted new members, when he talks with passion about the benefits of a Koi Club,
Once again we stayed with the Crouch closed show size allocation for the Koi, where as the BKKS will have 8 sizes of Koi we only have 3, These Koi sizes are as follows.
Size 1 & 2 are our size 1, size 3 & 4 is our size 2 and finally size 5, 6, 7 & 8 is our final size 3.
The BKKS provided a fantastic team of judges that worked hard to find our champion.
AS always we would like to thank them both for their time and efforts, thank you.
Also on location was representation from the HSC, once more we would like to thank them for their time and dedication for the welfare of the Koi, thank you.
Saturday Night is a great social time, A thanks to Dave Baker Darren and myself for the BBQ , but also to all the other committee members that make sure all the food and drinks is there, fresh and ready.
SUNDAY
Day four arrived and it was time for the results, so here are the awards as follows.
Grand Champion - Kohaku – Ryan Peschino
Mature Champion - Kohaku – Peter Barnes
Adult Champion - Kohaku – Paul Timothy
Baby Champion - Kohaku - Peter Barnes
Best Vat – NO. 7 Laurence Harvey
Best in size 1 Kohaku Peter Barnes
Best in size 2 Kohaku Paul Timothy
Best in size 3 Kohaku Paul Timothy
Best in size 4 Sanke Peter Barnes
Lastly a massive thanks to Alan as show Chairman, and Deputy Andy, and not forgetting all of the members for the massive support.
Looking forward to 2012, when I hope the weather is a bit better for us !
Many thanks
Ian
Our 2011 show is sponsored "TC KOI, Hill House Koi, Avenue Fisheries, and Kusuri Products"
2011 CLosed show will be at our regular venue, at the South Essex Garen Show ,
at Barlylands Farm, in Essex on the 11th and 12th of June 2011.
If Memebers require a show vat please put name in the book at section meetings.
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Crouch Valley Closed Show Report by Graham McCartney
SPONSERED BY
Crouch Valley Koi Club seems to be in full summer swing, the May auction had only just finished and before they knew it along came June and it was time for their 2010 Closed Koi Show at the South Essex Garden Show at Barleylands.
Thursday 10th June saw the 1st day on the show ground for setting up the show, many of the garden dealers stalls had already arrived at Barleylands and had already begun to errect their pitches.
It was not long before the Crouch Valley members had the marquees up and vats had been organised, and was ready to fill with water. This year the show has been modified to include extra vats for exhibitors this now pushed the number up to fifteen vats.
A big thank you must go to the members that give up their time from work and schedules during the day to get the show setup in swift time. Thank you.
Day two saw the final changes to the layout and airlines and airstones being added to the vats, this was all completed by mid day ready for the arrival of Koi and so that the general public had some Koi to view.
It's showtime day three and Saturday morning, Koi were in the vat and Judging was to be taken place that day, with the show being a closed show we have a a different size allocation for the Koi, where as the BKKS will have 8 sizes of Koi we only have 3, These Koi sizes are as follows.
Size 1 & 2 are our size 1, size 3 & 4 is our size 2 and finally size 5, 6, 7 & 8 is our final size 3.
This year the show was made up of 94 Koi, the matrix for these koi was size 1 had 26 Koi entered, size 2 had 44 Koi entered and finally size 3 had 24 Koi entered, this was shaping up to be a well contested closed show.
The BKKS judges that attended on the Saturday was Bill Johnson and trainee JSC Iain Kirkbright, on that note I would like to thank them both for their time and efforts, thank you.
Also on location was Tim Fisher and John Botha from the HSC, once more we would like to thank them for their time and dedication for the welfare of the Koi, thank you.
Saturday had been a long day and normally after most shows people are looking forward to getting home and putting their feet up with a nice cold one, well not at Crouch Valley Koi Club. Being the Saturday and the day England was playing USA in their opening game of the World Cup we decided to have an after show party, so we fired up the BBQ's and got into the party spirit of the world cup.
SHOW SPONSERS
Select Nishikigoi & Hill House Koi and TC Koi
a Massive thank you !!
Day four arrived and it was time for the results, so here are the awards as follows.
Grand Champion - Kin Matsuba - Fred Phillips
Mature Champion - Kohaku - Ryan Persechino
Adult Champion - Gin Rin - Chris Bellinger
Baby Champion - Kohaku - Peter Barnes
Best Vat - Laurence Harvey
Crouch Valley would like to also say a thank you to Keith Bertie for presenting the awards for us.
Graham McCartney
BKKS & Crouch Valley Member
Once a year our koi put on a show.
Carefully nurtured through the winter and early spring the koi in our ponds are ready to 'dazzle' their admirers throughout the new season.
Our main competition is the 'Closed Show' held once a year at Barleylands, in Billericay, as part of the South East Essex Garden Show, organised by Aztec.
At this closed show only club members are allowed to enter the competition.
The challenge and anticipation are high. Who will be be the proud owner of the New Grand Champion?
