About Us
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"D'Arcy" ---oo0oo---
Ian & Marilyn Cooke started DELAFORCE KENNELS in 1992 with the arrival of our first litter. We are only a VERY small select kennel, located in Lewiston, South Australia. The kennel is named after our foundation bitch - Taurorn Beluschka AZ CD (*Ch Elvarado Super Star A BSCL:1 x *Ch Pejanka Uschi A CD BSCL:1), known affectionately as DELTA, hence - 'Delaforce' DELTA was our first pedigree GSD & was initially purchased for Marilyn to do obedience. Delta was purchased from Gail and Brian Fielder (Taurorn Kennels) long time obedience friends. It was because of Delta, we became members of the GSDC of SA, which led to an involvment in showing both Specialist & All Breeds. Delta was an all round German Shepherd, not only did she perform well in the show ring - obtaining in Group awards and Runner Up in group awards; she also obtained her CD (Companion Dog Title) in three straight trials always finishing in the top 3 placings. Her last trial saw her awarded 1st place with a score of 192/200 and Ian lost 3 points from her overall score - it should have been 195! She was also the highest dog in Trial. She won the Top Dog award at the Woodville Dog Obedience Club Inc in 1995. Delaforce have now bred 4 comformation excellent graded animals and 2 obedience excellent graded animals from 2 dams. In total we have bred and/or owned 8 excellent graded animals comformation and/or obedience, with many of them being multi excellent graded. We have taken 7 animals to survey 5 of our own breeding and 2 we purchased; with all gaining classification, 6 attainng class 1 and our lovley *Astasia Zola AZ being class 2 only because of her height. (This restriction has now changed of course!!). We have breed and/or owned 4 Australian Champions (Conformation) made up of 3 GSD's & a Greyhound and 2 Obedience Champions - 1 Border Collie & 1 GSD. At this point of time we have only bred 11 litters from 6 dams, so as can be seen we are a small select kennel - only 11 litters in 16 yrs. 10 animals of our breeding have been presented for x-ray of their hips and elbows with all 10 passing thus gaining their 'A' and 'Z' stamp for hip and elbow dysplasia. We believe that quality and soundness start with good quality mother lines.
A daughter of Australian Champion *Kardin Chats Champion 'A' H-Neg BSCL: 1 VA (Krueger who was the 1994 National Gold Medal Winner & Multi National Medal Wiiner) (A repeat mating of our successful first litter) Purchased originally for obedience; but the show/breeding bug bit and Brittany proved she was of the quality to both perform and produce. Always supporting and assisting Andrew through his endeavour from 1994, when he obtained a 12 week old Kruger puppy at the MBE held at WEST BEACH, Adelaide, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Brittany (or Britt as she was often called) was multi excellent graded (normally handled by Ian or our then 11yr old son Graham). Brittany became the foundation bitch of ANDREW's kennel, producing a Multi Excellent graded daughter, an Australian Champion son (from the same litter), a son who worked in correctional services, an excellent graded grand-daughter and other progeny who gained there A & Z stamps Sadly, Andrew lost Britt to bloat at 7yrs of age, then sadly we lost Andrew.
** Congratulations to Gail and Titan who is now Australian Champion Taurorn Muad Dib A Z, obtaining his title with a 25 point BEST IN GROUP on the 07/05/06, then to top off a wonderful day Gail and Titan were awarded - 'BEST IN SHOW'. What a way to finish off your title! Titan did this from the Junior class. Titan goes back to this wonderful girl and of course Gail's own breeding Taurorn Beluschka AZ CD (Delta our number 1 girl)** ** STOP PRESS: 22/10/06 NOW BREED SURVEY CLASS 1 - CONGRATULATIONS ** 2006 DOGZ ONLINE POINT SCORE : - AUST CHAMPION TAURORN MUAD DIB A Z BSCL:1 MULTI EXCELLENT is **NO 1 WORKING DOG IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA ** and **NO 4 GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG IN AUSTRALIA **
Fred returned to us and purchased another girl 'Delaforce Hocus Pocus' (*Nilson vom Wildsteiger Land (Gmy) aZ H-Neg x *Astasia Zola AZ daughter) Both of Fred's girls pedigrees contain the very good lines of *Alk von Domenica (Gmy) a Z VA.
" Fred & Hokey " ---oo0oo---
Prior to that Ian & Marilyn were heavily involved in Obedience, both life members of the Woodville Dog Obedience Club. Marilyn trained her non-pedigree GSD to trials standard at WDOC & then went onto become an instructor & Chief Instructor. Marilyn also trained a Greyhound (Leah) to Trials Standard. Marilyn now has another GREYHOUND - Aust Ch Elwick Summer Love (V) (Poppy) who is doing very well in the show ring. (2005 & 2006 - Best Of Breed Adelaide Royal Show; 2007 R.U. Best of Breed)
Ian joined WDOC in 1977 with his Border Collie BEN. This is where Ian & Marilyn met. Ian & Ben flew through the classes. (Marilyn was his instructor). Ian and Ben enjoyed obedience and went as far as they could in those days - they became Ian and Ben AOC - a title made up of obedience & tracking. Ben was the first non-pedigree Australian Obedience Champion & the first Border Collie to achieve this feat in South Australia. They were inaugural members of the Pal Super Dog Team in Sth Australia, performing all over the state. Ian is a past president of WDOC, holding that position for some 6 years. Ian & Ben AOC were Top Obedience Dog & Handler at WDOC in 1988, Ian & Delta achieved the same feat in 1995. Delta achieved her CD title in straight trials, always in the top 3 places finishing with a score of 192/200 & first place. We have been involved in the dog world whether it be obedience or showing for nearly 30 yrs.
For a relatively new and small kennel we have had some success in both rings. We have bred and /or owned animals that have achieved In Group & In Show awards as well as Australian Champion titles in the All Breeds ring and Obedience arena. In the Specialist ring, we have had animals achieve excellents in both obedience & conformation & have had animals placed 'on the pegs' at Nationals, obtain In Show awards as well as, an obedience Winner of Winners and Silver Medallist (2008 GSD National Show & Restricted Trial). Our 22 year old son Graham now does some of the specialist handling for us, starting out at 11 years of age when he out handled his dad at Broken Hill handling *Delaforce Bel Espirit AZ ET (Brittany) into 5th place 'on the pegs' in a large Open Bitch class under a Belgium Judge. The judge seemed very impressed when Graham could answer his questions before the interpretor had finished, (he was learning German at School at the time!) He has now matured into a very good handler. With the rapport he has with the dogs he is a pleasure to watch in the ring. We have even now got him handling in the All Breeds ring. (Thanks Gray). Graham has also handled other breeders animals to 'on the pegs' placings at speciality shows including Nationals.
And now introducing our new handler Miss Tina Sunman who at 14 yrs of age and coming from an 'All Breeds' background is doing an excellent job with our Team.
Everything we have achieved we have done on our own; it has been a hard work but it has ben an honest worth while slog to achieve what we have - doing it on our own!!
Now its time for the new 'kids'
and they are making us proud.
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We sincerely THANK those people who have purchased our dogs & put in the hard yard to achieve these milestones. We especially THANK all those people who have purchased puppies & older dogs & made them much loved & very well cared for family members, as this is our first priority. ---ooOoo--- Ian is a qualified Group 5 Championship Judge and is a qualified GSD specialist judge having met all the criteria via the German Shepherd Dog Council of Australia schemes. Ian has judged in Victoria, South Australia and at the Waikato Working Dog Club in New Zealand, where he gave a baby puppy dog; Oakway Quiz Master Baby Puppy in Show; he is now NZ Ch Oakway Quiz Master AZ and was the 2006 Bronze Medal winner at the 34th Australian National Show & Obedience Trial held in Melbourne Victoria. Ian currently holds the position of Tattoo Registrar for the German Shepherd Dog Club of SA. Marilyn is the current secretary of the Adelaide Kennel Club Inc. We are members of the following Clubs/Organisations:-
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