Champion Switherland Blue Jeans

 Winner of:        Top Basset Hound 1996,97,98,99 & 2000
                         Crufts, Best of Breed 1997 & 1999,
                          Hound Group 2 Crufts 1999,
                          Blue is the highest placed Basset ever at Crufts.

Winner of         36 Best of Breeds at Championship Shows
                        36 Challenge Certificates,
                        19 Reserve Challenge Certificates
.

Winner of:         4 Hound Group 1
                         5 Hound Group 2
                         2 Hound Group 3
                         3 Hound Group 4

Pedigree Masterfoods Champion Stakes Finalist 1997 & 1999

The mark of a true ambassador

Blue was not only a wonderful show dog he was also a wonderful sire and a fantastic dog to live with. Producing 12 UK Champions, 9 Swedish Champions, Champions in Finland, Norway, Denmark, Malta and World Champion.

He was the Top Sire UK 1999, 2002, 2003 and again 2004.
He finished 3rd Top Sire all breeds in the UK in 2003. Blue became Top Sire in Sweden 1999. You will find him at the back of most of the Swedsun Kennel’s Basset’s pedigrees.

He is sadly missed.

 
Best in Show SKC 1996 - photo by Lindsay

Crufts 1999 - Hound Group 2 - Photo by Carol Ann Johnson

 
Crufts 1999 - Hound Group 2 - Photo by Johnson

Winning the Champion Stakes Final Midland Counties 1999 with judge Ronnie Irving