We are Ralf and Conny Malz, both born 1967/68 and we lives with our Flats in a suburb from Kassel, our hometown. Kassel is a city in the middle of Germany, surrounded by hills and mountions, with a river and some small lakes in the area. Conny and I are working for the goverment in different tasks.
Our Kennel Affix is "Beautyfield´s".
Conny makes agility, dummy work and also shows our dogs. She is the brain at our Kennel. I´m hunter and hunting dog judge and so I´ve train our dogs as gundogs, go to huntingtests and to hunt. Since 2002 , I teach a course for hunting dogs at a hunting dog club in Kassel the Kassel Area.
Since 2003 I´m judge for Hunting tests in the German Hunting Society (JGHV).
After finishing our problems with the German Retriever Club (DRC) for the Kennel Clubs law comitee at the 31. Oct. 2008, our Kennel will look forward for the future. Conny is now member of the German Retriever Club too, and also inhebitor of the kennel affix.
Coco has had her first litter in breeding right by her breederin B.M. Mallfors in 2006 and we had done the first litter under our affix "Beautyfield´s" with CH Wagging Tails Rolf Muntz. Hopefully we´ll breed so sucessful like her and Calles, Calebris Kennel breed, in the future.
At the moment we have our B-Litter with Coco´s daughter. Our liver Champion Bitch CH Calebris For Your Eyes only.
She was mated with Kvicksans Hole in One - " Jerry". A young male which lives in the near of Uppsala and is related to Skrallan over his father, CH Black Micas That´s enough "Sune" - an outstanding male at the moment in Sweden, owned by our friend/ breeder Linda Edberg. More you can see under Breeding/B-Litter.
Our breeding ideals are breeding real "Dual Purpose Dogs". Excellent dogs after the FCR Standard, which aren´t blame herself in the showring on the one side and be sucessful at working, huntingtests an maybe sometimes in the future fieldtrails. But for work it´s nescessarier for us that they have good hunting dogs and not only sport-dogs.
Our dogs since we started are:
Merlin was the first Flatcoated Retriever, who entered our life in 1996, followed by his sister Leá. This changed our life forever. Merlin died in spring 2005 of cancer, Lea goes over the rainbowbridge in spring 2009 with 13 years.
What started with a nice pet for my wife, changed in a really fast way, to a great hobby for me and my wife. First the dogs, than the shooting licence, hunting dog training for the dogs and me, agility training for Leá and my wife and the growing wish of breeding black and liver Flatcoated Retriever with excellent working talent in a few years.
In 1998 we got GER CH / VDH CH Camwood Randy the Copper Rebell, our joker, breed by Sven and Andrea Gmür´s Camwood Kennel, from Switzerland. He is a liver stud dog, with excellent results in German shows and work.
In 2002 we got a nice black girl from Britt-Marie Mallfors and Calle Klippmarks Calebris Kennel in Sweden.
Int U CH/ GER CH / VDH CH / Lux.CH/ Ö CH/ Polnish Ch Calebris Coco Beautyfield Mousse. She is a pretty, happy and workaholic girl, which absolved several Gun Dog test on first placements and has show sucess at shows in Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland.
Coco have had her first litter by Calebris Kennel in Sweden called BOND litter in spring 2006. After the loose of Almanza I´m on Fire which was the first choice (we´ll always remember this great dog), it was one of his son´s, Starworker´s Dancer in the Dark, owned by S. Winter/Flatcastle in the Netherlands and breed by Helle Nielsen from Denmark.
From that litter we get "CH (VDH) Calebris for your eyes only" called Smilla or sometimes Grinch. Smilla has some show experience now, was always judged with Exc. , most time placed as 2 nd. She has now sucessful absolved some hunting tests. The VJP in spring 2007, a vildspur beginner test with Godkänt in Sweden in Summer 2007. The JPR in Germany with 260 points with 1. place and the HZP with 176 points in autumn 2007. Furthermore she absolveld the elite huntingstest (VPS) with 192 points in 2nd prize in autumn 2007, as testwinner too. In spring she was first by the Btr Test. At the CACIB Show in Lingen/D 2008, she got her first CACIB and her 2nd CAC. The first she got at the CACIB Show Dec.2007 in Kassel our hometown. Since spring 2009 she is also Champion of the German Kennel Club.
Smilla has her first litter, our B-Litter in Spring 2010. She was mated with Kvicksans Hole in One "Jerry". More under breeding.
Many thanks to Britt-Marie and Calle, which give us the possibility to have a litter after Coco. No to say for the hospitility and the knowledge given to us in this weeks and finally, Smilla. Coco´s daughter which moved as newest member of the family down south.
More of her on her own side.
On May, 30, 2008 - Black Mica´s for honor & glory / Skrallan moved to Beautyfield´s. A nice tempramentful girl from Black Mica´s Kennel in Uppsalla/SWE. Many thanks to Linda. Skrallan is a daughter from SUCH Black Mica´s that´s for sure and NUCH Hempths Vally-Vic. A granddaughter of twotimes Stockholm winner, SUCH FinCH SV Black Mica´s Don´t Quench the Fire. We looking forward if she will be as good as her name forspoke. She has 3 CAC in the meantime and sucessfully done JP/R (beginner hunting test for Retriever), a common hunting test and the Btr (Bringtreueprüfung). So after some starting problems with her working abilities, we are now on the right way.
And from the Beautyfield A-Litter from Coco and Joep in Summer 2009, Beautyfield´s Amy Winehouse - "Stina" and Beautyfield´s Agnetha Fältskog - "Tjorven" stay by us. Stina has won the Puppyclass at the DRC Show in Höchstadt/Aisch. Tjorven has got an Very Promising at the DRC Show in Herrenberg. Both like to retrieve and have a very good relationsship to older dogs and especially humans.
Just for the history. A short review of our dog and working life with FCR´s over the last 10 years. We started with Merlin & Lea as pet dogs and come over them to work, hunting and a lot more.
In 1998 Merlin got his gundog certificate and in 1999 I´ve made the same tests with Léa and Randy with sucess. In 2000 Randy and I joined the BTR test in spring with sucess and in autumn the BLP/R, the test which allows him to start at the working class at shows.
In 2001 we have had our greatest sucess at this time. He joined the VGP Test, the highest competition from the hunting club society and absolved it with 300 points and the 1. price after 2 days of hard work. The VGP is the master test in Germany normally for pointers like German short hair, usw. He although have great sucess at shows. Got 7 CAC´s and diverse Res. CAC´s and V-placements, so he is German Club and VDH Champion. Since spring 2000 he has the breeding licence as Stud dog. Hips B, Elbows free, Eyes clear incl. Gonio. Than we were lucky to get Calebris Coco Beautyfield Mousse from Britt-Marie and Calle´s Calebris Kennel in Sweden.
Coco was first, winner of the HZP in Hofgeismar with 174 points. Then 2nd at the VPS (master test after the shoot) with 192/I. Price (from 200p). Absolved the JEP with sucess and last but hopefully not at least won JP/for Retriever with 260points and the other day the BLP/R with 311 points. And this at the age of 16 month. At Nov. 2003 she absolved the Obidience test with 57 from 60 points and got her first CAC at the German Clubshow in the Gun Dog Class. At this stage she has few times won her class at shows and was 2nd at the Retriever working test in the snooping class in summer 2003.
So she absolved all hunting tests, like HZP, VPS, BLP/R, JP/R and Btr, with great sucess. 3 times winner at these tests. In 2004 as we stay in Sweden by Britt-Marie, she and Randy, absolved the viltsspurtest for beginners with sucess. And in 2005, Coco absolved the viltsportest in openclass with a 1. price. After some great show entrys and several CAC and CACIB´s, with BOB and BOS, since December 2004 she is German Club Champion and VDH Champion, since March 2005, Luxembourg Champion and since Dec.2005 International Champion and last but hopefully not least Austrian Champion in December 2006.
In Summer 2006 she has had an litter by our friends Britt-Marie and Calle in Sweden. From these, the Bond-litter we pick up Calebris for your eyes only or Smilla as we call her.
Smilla got her first star´s at the youthtest in spring 2007 which she solves with 50 points. For a retriever a good result. In summer 2007 we started at the vildspurtest in Gällivare. She absolveld the beginner class with "godkänt". Furthermore she started sucessful at JPR , HZP, VPS, Btr and Working Tests. Some pictures and results are on the homepage of the huntingdog club,
www.jgvnordhessen.de/fotoframe.html
Skrallan has done several hunting tests in 2009 and 2010 with sucess.
We show our dogs at several shows a year in Germany and other countrys and trained them for tests and hunting activites.
All of our dogs lives in our house as real familiy members and we enjoy her quality as pet in the same way like their working qualities.
But with all in our life, sometimes you´ve fun and luck, sometimes not. So Merlin our first, died of cancer short before his 9th birthday. The first days after that was hard, but nobody can change the way of life and so we can only reserve him a place in our heart.
Whoever has said, "Flatcoated Retriever are the greatest dogs of the world", he has found the right words for this supereb dogs.
Ralf Malz April 2010