Well… Many things!!!
Since December due to family commitments and their breeder’s poor health the Taraly whippets have been a bit quiet but everything is getting in order little by little… Also we have had huge troubles with our computer for more than two months but hopefully everything is clear now! So please accept our apologizes for this long silence (also to the numerous people who wrote us emails… I am answering little by little day after day so please be patient and excuse us!!!).
On the International Show Scene our boys have made their best…
At his fist official Show after his return from Finland our Mojo, Multi Champion Taraly Stairway To Heaven was entered in October 2006 to the big VDH Centennial Show in Dortmund (Germany) where 100 whippets were entered and  I was very interested to see Mr Bo Bengtson’s judging (I never had the chance to see him before). To our biggest surprise and extreme happiness not only did Mr Bengtson found his champion class Winner in Mojo but also he awarded him Best Dog with CAC VDH ”Centennial winner title” and CACIB!!! Our heartfelt thanks to Mr Bengtson for appreciating our boy despite the show conditions were far from ideal for our boy (the show was held in a kind of underground garage and it was very cold… Too cold for whippets) and also our sincere thanks to whippet friends for the ring support and congratulations!!! This outstanding result could allow two more Champion titles to our already 7 times crowned boy… So maybe there will be some Mojo’s new adventures in Germany in the future!!! Who knows…???

World respected breed authority Bo Bengtson in Dortmund with his BOB and BOS winners.
Picture Courtesy of Marietta Birr – Whippet Top News
Mojo was also shown at World Show in Poznan (Poland) were he wasn’t placed with Exc but had the opportunity to meet some new friends… Also we were proud of the World Junior Champion 2006 in the name of Gone With The Wind High On Emotion, a good relative of our dogs: he is a grandson of our Shawn (Multi Ch My Knight du Manoir de la Grenouillère) and nephew of our Wendy (Actress High On Emotion) his dam being Wendy’s litter sister but also a cousin of our V’s being sired by their uncle, Pol Ch. Cobyco Center Piece (Vinny, Hacker and Eva’s sire being his litter brother UK Ch Cobyco Center Stage). Well done to this nice and so sound young boy!!!

Mojo in Poznan
Picture by Whippetview.be (Gilbert Simal)
During this time our Mojo’s nephew, Hacker, Taraly Virtual Heaven, was making his way to “adulthood”… In Alençon Int Show in France he was awarded CAC CACIB and BOB for judge Christian Magre and also in Chalons en Champagne Int Show this February he became Mrs Gil Polo’s from Spain CAC CACIB and BOS winner. A warm well done to Hacker and his mum and handler Nathalie (my sister)!!!

Hacker, Taraly Virtual Heaven (UK Ch Cobyco Center Stage X Taraly Seventh Heaven)
Pictured CAC CACIB and BOS in Chalons en Champagne.
Hacker has now 3 CACIBs 1 RCACIB and 4 CC’s in France
Another Taraly boy who has made quite well is “Drago” Taraly Black Power who has won several junior classes being placed everytime 1st except one where his solid blue “cousin” sired by our SBIS and Multi CH Taraly Malcolm X‘ son, Keep On Running Blue Bayou was placed first. It all stays in the family!!!

Drago aka Taraly Black Power (Multi Ch T. Stairway to Heaven X T. Too Funky)
Junior classes winner, Junior BOB Int show in Rouen
And during this time in Scandinavia…
Drago’s litter sister and brother has made us really proud becoming at Seinäjoki International show (Finland) for breeder-judge Elisabet Janzon BOB and BOS puppies. Mrs Janzon is the Wolftone Whippet breeder from Sweden.

BOS Puppy “Neo” Taraly Beloved at Whiptails
BOB Puppy “Mona” Taraly Black Panther
In October I had the great opportunity to go for a short visit to Stockholm, Sweden. This visit allowed me to visit Hagelby Sighthound Show were a lot of our relatives from the North were entered, the judge was Christophe Coppel from France. I had a delightful day meeting my dear “Jazz” Taraly Black Mamba for the very first time since he left France. Ursula and him made us really proud taking Best Puppy of The Breed and finally placed 4th in the Best In Show Competition! Our friend Malin Westlie did also very well with several of her Spike’s grand children with two classes winners: Macawe Wernher and Macawe Moonwalk. And also we had finally the great chance to meet the two fabulous Adagio sisters sired by Mojo. Well what to say… They really desserve their nick name of Fabulous sisters!!!  It was such a great time to spend day with Stefan and Morgan! I was invited to handle Patsy for Adagio Breeding group and this will stay in my memory forever. What a great thing to “feel” this quality quite familiar in your hands!!! The girls did extremely well with Eddie getting CC, best bitch, BOB and finally BIS3!!! Patsy was 2nd best bitch but as the judge told me afterwards: it could have been any of those two, they are so beautiful and close in quality!!!

Mojo’s daughter, “Eddie” Aka Adagio Rosebud, BIS3 in Hagelby
Since that came the 2006 Top whippet of the year from Sweden and we are so happy that Mojo’s daughters are already placed so well at their young age. “Eddie” became Top Whippet bitch n°3 with 200 points which is only 22 points less than her cousin Daphnée (Multi Ch Adagio She’s the One) who is Top whippet bitch 2006. Eddie is also TOP ROOKIE 2006 and Patsy is placed Top Rookie bitch N°4. Girls you make us proud!!! And again what a rewarding year for our friend Stefan!!! Top Whippet of the year with his dear boy Robbie, Top Bitch with Daphnée, Top Rookie with Eddie, Top Stud Dog for Robbie, Top Brood Bitch for his Fennaur Emmeline Pankhurst and by very far TOP BREEDER OF THE YEAR 2006!!! Heartfelt Congrats!!! Stefan I am so happy that your burning passion for the breed and love and respect for your dogs is so well rewarded, it is so desserved!!!
In November I had the chance to visit our friends Timo and Kirsi Aalto in Finland and to meet the puppies of the two litters sired by Mojo at Whiptails!!! It was so great!!! I also had the opportunity to meet several of Mojo’s kids’ new owners and wish them all good luck for the Future!!!
There too I could visit a show in the week end and went with Timo at Jyväskylä Int Show. The judge was Christian Vantu from Romania. My “babies” Neo and Mona were making their debut in Junior Class! Neo, Taraly Beloved at Whiptails became 1st Exc and BOS Junior while his sister Mona, Taraly Black Panther, became 2nd Exc and was shortlisted for quite sometimes for Best Bitch Competition!!! Many thanks to their owners Saija and Kirsi (Neo) and Anna (Mona) for entering your babies for me!!!

“Mona” Taraly Black Panther pictured by her “mum” Anna. Thank you Anna!
Finally our B Babies became one year old on 8th of February and they all received a postcard emailed by their mum Spicy and Dad Mojo but we take this opportunity to wish them again HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Neo, Jazz, Chilly, Lola, Luna, Spirit, Drago, Hiro, Tamiyah and Mona WE LOVE YOU!!!

The happy and proud parents: Mojo and Spicy…