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Entrant: 10 Champion Clayfield's Mon Ami |
The 1970's belonged
to 10 Champion Clayfield's Mon Ami, OFA#GS-5117 H&E. 10 Champion
Clayfield's Mon Ami decisively cut a World Record destined for the Guinness
Book of World Records. Mon Ami was inducted into the Guinness Book in 1986
after winning "10 Championships and Multiple Best in Shows on 4 Continents" to
be the greatest Winning International Dog in the World.
Her Championships occurred in this time sequence:
1974~ Mexican
1975~ American and Canadian
1976~
Bermuda, Colombian, and Venezuelan
1977~ South African and Dominican
Republic
1979~ Portuguese
1984~ F.C.I .International
10 Champion Mon Ami was the:
*1st American dog ever to win the
Portuguese
and South
African Championships.
*1st dog to become the World's
only Quadruple Champion,
C.A.C.I.B. by the age of 36 months.
*1st American owned dog ever to win Best in Show in Spain
and Winner's Bitch at the
coveted annual Madrid, Spain
show.
The newspaper
account of 10 Ch. Mon Ami in South Africa called her "America's secret weapon".
Her efforts and deeds are permanently recorded in 25 languages of the top
selling copyright book in publishing history, the Guinness Book of World
Records, (currently 220 editions with global sales to more than 51 million). At
all International shows, with the exception of one, 10 Ch. Mon Ami was owner
handled by Neal Leas. She flew in excess of 100,000 air miles to meet
International competition.
4 Continent 10
Champion Mon Ami is a full page feature in the superb 1990 book The
Total
German Shepherd Dog (page 90) by Mr. Fred L. Lanting, international judge,
breeder, author and lecturer. Ch. Mon Ami, also appears in the color photo on
the outside back cover with the premier judge of Holland, Mr. T. Van Dijk, as
she was going Best in Show over 1,000 dogs in
Johannesburg, South
Africa.
On Nov. 17, 1988 a "Special Achievement Award" was presented by the
German Shepherd Dog Club of America at the national specialty in Houston, Texas
to 10 Ch. Mon Ami and Neal D. Leas, as her handler, for their unprecedented 4
Continent Championships.
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