Ch. Canigou Cambrai, also known as Albert (1992–2008), an
English Cocker Spaniel
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, is the most recent of his breed to win Best in Show at
Crufts
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Crufts is centred on a championship conformation show for do ...
in 1996, the seventh occasion it was awarded to a Cocker Spaniel and the first time for forty six years. For a while he was the most successful black male Cocker Spaniel of all time in the UK, and his descendants continue to be multi-show winning champions around the world.
Show history
In November 1995, Albert won best in show and the dog challenge certificate (CC) at the Championship Show of the Devon and Cornwall Cocker Spaniel Club, beating Sh. Ch. Shenmore Seeing Stars into reserve. He became Cocker Spaniel of the Year for 1995, again beating Shenmore Seeing Starts into second place.
In 1996 he was entered in Crufts once again, where he won best of breed under the eyes of judges Ken McFarlane and Jack Clarke. He went on to win best in show, becoming the first Cocker Spaniel since 1950 to do so, and the only cocker to do so that wasn't bred in the Ware kennel of H.S. Lloyd.
At the centenary championship show in 2002 of The Cocker Spaniel Club UK, he won best veteran in show.
Cambrai was the most successful black male Cocker Spaniel of all time in the UK until 10 April 2004, when Sh. Ch. Charbonnel Warlord overtook his record with a 29th CC and best in show at the Cocker Spaniel Club of Scotland.
Offspring
Albert sired several show quality dogs,
including multiple best in show winner in France and Belgium, Ch. Cornbow International "Ruben",
and Ch. Quettadene Personality who was the top winning female in Finland in 2001.
[ ] Albert's descendants continue to be show champions with Ch. Valotsara Unchain My Heart winning both the
Czech Republic
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Junior title and the
Luxembourg
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adult title, and one of her puppies, Ch. Adam Golden Janyt, was imported into America where he won Winners Male at the English Cocker Club of America National Speciality in April 2008.
Other descendants of Albert include Swedish Champion and runner-up junior at the
World Dog Show
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in
Milan
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in 2000, SwShCh Quettadene Lancelot, Australian champion Manunga Musketeer, and two time Polish champion Rain Or Shine Wrzeciono Czasu.
See also
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List of individual dogs
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Actors
Advertising
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References
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1992 animal births
2008 animal deaths
Best in Show winners of Crufts