Toronto English Angoras

Competitors starting to set up fist thing in the morning Every first two weeks of November, the country comes to the city to celebrate agriculture at the Toronto Royal Agricultural Winter Fair .  The Royal is the largest combined indoor agriculture fair and international equestrian competition in the world! It is a huge event held at the historic Exhibition Place grounds downtown Toronto. The Royal is predominantly known in the city for its many horse and performance dog events but it also includes various large and small livestock competitions, including a rabbit show. The rabbit show at the Royal is organized by the Dominion Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Association . DRCBA was founded in 1909 and is essentially the Canadian version of ARBA.  Angora and wool spinning demo area Judging tables before the start of the show I did not bring any of my rabbits to compete as all have been shaved already but I did come out to volunteer and help with clerking duties. A show clerk is the person who

Our final ARBA show for this season was at Komoka, just outside of London, ON. This was the biggest showing of English Angora people so far this year! We had a total of 7 exhibitors come out handling 11 rabbits. Two people were brand new to showing and one was new to ARBA shows having participated in Dominion shows before. It is very nice to see the local competition field growing in our breed! We were joined by show veterans Julie and Mary. It was a beautiful day for grooming I travelled to the show with 4 contenders:  Electric Wario, 10 mo old Black buck  BerMah Miew Miew, 8mo old Blue Tort doe BerMah Maurice, 7mo old REW buck  Electric Iroc, 6mo old REW buck All together, we had a total of 11 English Angoras and 7 exhibitors competing: 2 Sr colored bucks (including Electric Wario) 4 Sr colored does (including BerhMah MiewMiew) 2 Jr colored does (including BerMah Morel, a Jr Black doe handled by Julie) 2 Sr white bucks (BerMah Maurice and Electric Iroc) 1 Sr white doe (Maurice's