Dancing With Dogs Crufts Success for Derbyshire Duo

Posted By Freelance Writers Date: 20/03 Posted Under: Dog Events

Kath Hardman of Morley, Derbyshire and Karen Sykes of Belper, Derbyshire won the Crufts Canine Freestyle and Heelwork To Music Finals at the largest dog show in the world.

Crufts dancing dogs heelwork to music dancing-dogs-crufts-crossbreed.jpg

Kath with her Crossbreed ‘Spice’ won the Canine Freestyle Competition and Karen with her Working Sheepdog ‘Fly’ equalled this by winning the Heelwork To Music Final, dancing to Minuet in E by Boccherini.

Furthermore, Kath and Spice represented England in the International Freestyle Competition against ten other countries including Germany, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, New Zealand & the Netherlands.

Kath & “Spice” gave a stunning performance to “If I only had a Brain” from The Wizard of Oz.  Finland was placed second and Scotland third.

Not only did they take every trophy for dancing with their dogs at Crufts, Kath and Karen also achieved two 5th places and a 6th with their other dogs in the Crufts HTM and FS finals.  Between them Kath and Karen qualified all of their dogs for the finals which represented 25% of the finalists places.    An incredible achievement for these training buddies!

Kath, Karen and their talented dogs have performed all over the country and also abroad.  They have appeared in a production at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and made many TV appearances.

Additional info and photographs on

www.dancingdogs.co.uk

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