BIS-RBIS-BISS-GCHS CHARTEROAK TRAXX OF Grandeur
Afghan Hound * Among All Breeds * # 1 # 1 # 5 Hound *
Grandeur... FOR THE RECORD BOOKS!
• Grandeur has owned 12 All-Breed Best In Show Winners with over 300 Bests collectively. • Grandeur has owned 18 Specialty Best in Show winners with over 200 Specialties earned. (when the average Specialty Entry was close to 100 Afghans at most events). • Specialty Records were held by Champions: Shirkhan, Blu Shah, Triumph and Tryst, all of Grandeur . • Ch. Tryst of Grandeur holds the record as the “Top Winning Hound of All Time” (her dam Ch. Shahpphire of Grandeur held the record as the Top winning BIS Afghan Hound (female) • Ch. Triumph of Grandeur (Trysts sire) holds the record as the “Top Winning Hound (male) of All Time. • Ch. Shahrp and Trademark of Grandeur each held the record as the Youngest Afghan Hound Champions (8 months, 11 days and 6 months and 17 days, respectively) • Ch. Rings True of Grandeur was the youngest Afghan Hound BIS winner at 10 months of age. • There have been over 300 champions by a Grandeur Sire or Damn of Significance. • Ch. Charteroak Traxx of Grandeur : AKA: Simba… is currently the Nation’s Top Hound and among the Top Five of All Breeds: There hasn’t been an Afghan Hound in the Top Ten All breed in the past three decades, the last were Ch. Tryst of Grandeur and her sire Triumph: Triumph is also the Sire of Simba!
Grandeur – est. 1941
Grandeur – Evelyn and Bill Rechler, Mill Neck, NY
CHARTEROAK – Gene and Shelly Vaccaro, Oxford, CT
Exclusive Handler – Teri Tevlin
68 | SHOWSIGHT MAGAZINE, JULY 2021
AFGHAN HOUND
*AKC stats as of 5/31/21
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