Online Windsor entries have been extended by one week to Wednesday 29th May. There's no additional charge for entries made after the original published closing date. Please go to www.dog.biz and follow the link to Windsor Show.

Owning to the ill health of Mrs Doreen Furzland, Polish Lowland Sheepdogs will now be judged by Ms A. King.

Also, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels (Bitches) will now be judged by Mrs S. Korn, subject to KC approval.

The full schedule for Windsor Championship Dog Show 2013 is now available on the Higham Press website and entries can be made on Dog.Biz website.

Schedules can be obtained by post from the Windsor Dog Show Secretary, 13 Rennets Close, Eltham, London, SE9 2NQ. Please enclose a self addressed and stamped envelope large enough to take an A5 schedule. Additionally they can be requested by telephone on 020 8556 6607 or 020 8850 5321 (no calls after dark, thank you) or by fax request to 020 8850 5205. Also you can email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - please put "Schedule" in the address line and include your full address including Post Code in standard envelope format in the message.

Schedules will be available for collection from the distribution points from the usual stands at Championship Dog Shows.

Windsor Dog Show Society are pleased announce that in addition to following Stakes Class sponsors, whom we thank for their continued and most generous sponsorship :-

• Royal Canine for Veteran and Special Beginners;
• The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme;
• Pro Plan/Dog World Puppy Stakes – a heat of the “Pup of the Year” Competion (see page 14 of schedule)
• Eukanuba Champion Stakes – a heat of the Eukanuba Champion Stakes Competition (see IFC of schedule)

We welcome :-

• Petplan returning as sponsors of the Junior Stakes Classes (see page 2 of schedule)
• Dog World as sponsors of the Brace Stakes Classes.

Remember also The Kennel Club Breeder’ Competion. Enter on the day with no charge, and supported by Agria in association with Our Dogs (see page 10 of schedule).

The 62nd Windsor Championship dog show was once again held in the idyllic setting of the Home Park – the Queen’s back garden. With the backdrop of Windsor Castle the scene was set for a royal jubilee event. Flags were flown, the national anthem was played and some of the ladies of the committee wore very fetching shirts with a sparkling Corgi embossed on the front.

On the secretary’s table was a framed reply from the Queen to a message that Windsor society had sent her on the occasion of her jubilee.

The championship show was two years old when Queen Elizabeth came to the throne and the society certainly made the most of this historic year with lots of specials and prizes, there was even ‘her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Junior Stakes’ with excellent prize money.

It’s one of my favourite shows of the year for its ‘hazy, lazy days of summer’ feeling with Pimm’s as almost a tradition as well as the summer party. Although I know it rains occasionally, my memory tells me it is the most sun-soaked show of the summer. Of course it isn’t always, but it just evokes memories of Catherine and Beefy Sutton standing outside in the brilliant sunshine surveying the showground.

Grateful thanks to Pam Blay and Dog World for the above opening to her show report.