ASFA Trials - Rocky Mount, NC

Jne 9 and 10, 2012 - Tash runs his first American Sighthound Field Association trials this weekend and wins Best of Breed both days. He finishes his first day of running and comes home with Best In Field. Tarifa, adds 18 points towards her ASFA title while Tash earns his first 24 points. Congratulations and thanks to respected judges, Ian Davies, Sara Lenahan and Dean Wright. Your very nice comments about our boy were very much appreciated.

MASTER COURSER

June 2, 2012 - Camden, SC. At and 9 years and 8 months, Tarifa finishes her Master Courser requirements. We are so proud of our wonderful little courser. She would not give up even though she strained a rear muscle on her last course. What heart you have, dear Tarife. Tash adds another Best of Breed and turns in a good performance for Best In Field but not good enough to beat the Borzoi, Shimmer. Congrats to Shimmer and her owners. I know you were proud!

Lure Coursing Majors

May 19 and 20, 2012 - Reidsville, NC It wasn't an easy course but what an exciting weekend. In addition to sharing the day with other lure coursing friends Tash and Tarifa each brought home a lure coursing major. On Saturday, the indomitable Tarifa shows she's still got some coursing left in her by winning Best of Breed for a 4 pt. major. Tash comes home with his first lure coursing 3 pt major. The following day, Tash took the Breed for another point. And Tash completed his Senior Courser requirements this weekend. We had a lovely ceremony commemorating Pat's beautiful Borzoi Rod by having a 4th dog run. Pat generously gave beautiful rosettes to the Borzoi Best of Breed winner each day. As much as we wanted to, it was nearly impossible to say many words about Rod because we all broke into tears remembering this lovely Borzoi who lost his life doing what he loved....lure coursing.

New Saluki Champion

May 12th - Mid Atlantic Hound Association of Central North Carolina Lashes finishes her championship with another major under Judge Chuck Bagnell at the MAHA sighthound specialty. Thank you for putting the finishing touches on our little girl. She is now Ch. Omen Cee Candace Khariz JC

In Best of Breed competition, our young Ch. Elsto Atash-Khariz is Select Dog for a 4 pt major. May 13th - Lashes makes her debut in the Champion class and wins a 3 pt major Select. Woo hoo! Tash duplicates his win of the day before by being awarded another 4 pt major Select. He is now halfway to his Grand Championship with 3 majors and 13 pts. Thank you to Judge Sharon Clark for Sunday's awards.

New Champion!

April 13, 2012 - Friday the 13th turned out to be a winning day for Cassie...new Champion Elsto Khariz Dixieland Blues JC who finished her title in grand style with a 5 point major under Mary Ann Alston in Perry, Georgia.
Congratulations to the latest champion at Khariz and congratulations to Cassie's owner Barbara Brewer

Salisbury KC

April 1, 2012 - What a great day for Khariz Salukis.Omen Cee Candace Khariz JC (Lashes) was Winners Bitch and Best of Winners for a 4 point major bringing her within 3 single points of her championship.And, in Best of Breed, Tash, Am. Ch. Elsto Atash-Khariz JC was Select Dog for a 4 point major.Thanks to judge, Lowell K. Davis for these terrific wins.
Tash and Lashes are pictured above relaxing at home after their wins. :o)

Lure Coursing Results - Reidsville, NC

Feb 25 & 26, 2012
We had our first weekend lure coursing of the year in Reidsville, NC this weekend. It was Tash's first official AKC trial and we are very happy with the results.
Tarife - at 9 1/2 - shows she still has the will to run and surprised us by beating Tash for Best of Breed on Saturday and adding another qualifying score to her Master Courser pursuit and another point towards her LCX
Tash takes his first Best of Breed Sunday and earns his first two points towards his Lure Coursing Championship and two qualifying scores towards Senior Courser.
We are looking forward to running again in May.

Odin Wins!

February 19, 2012 - NKK International show in Bø Norway.
Ch. Elsto Khariz Odin is Best of Breed and Hound Group 1 in a strong entry at the international show at Bø. Handled by his owner, Jorunn Kirkbakk in Breed and Patrick Oware in the Group. Wonderful showing.
Amanda, Multi Ch. Elsto Khariz Amazing Amanda is Best Opposite Sex keeping it in the family.

Afghan and Saluki Successes

February 11 and 12, 2012 - Congratulations to Ch. Elsto Khariz The Magic Aladdin on his back to back Best of Breed wins under two respected sighthound specialists, Thornborg Skaar and Bjorg Foss.

February 12, 2012 - In the Saluki ring, Ch. Elsto Ata Alanna-Khariz is Best Opposite Sex and her brother, Ch. Elsto Atif-Khariz is Best of Breed and Hound Group 4.

Congratulations to all.

2011 Results

2011 is now history and we are proud of our dogs that have done well in the show ring and the lure coursing field.

2011 produced:

The Number 1 Afghan Hound and the Number 1 Sighthound in Norway: Elsto Khariz Amazing Amanda

The number 1 Saluki in Norway: Omen Yaffa to Elsto-Khariz JC

5 new champions:
Elsto Atash Khariz (American)
Elsto Ata Alanna Khariz (Norwegian)
Elsto Afareen Khariz (Norwegian and Swedish)
Elsto Atif Khariz (Norwegian)
Elsto Khariz Magic Alladin (Norwegian)

Many new titles and exciting qualifications (Crufts, Eukanuba)

Specialty winners, Group winners and Best In Show winners

Top Ten Breeder awards

6 Top Ten Dogs

Region 7 Lure Coursing Best of Breed - 2nd Day:
Dual Champion Abu Baqr's Ellah Tarife SC (at 9 years of age)

We are proud of all the accomplishments and thank the owners of these dogs for loving them, taking excellent care of them and getting them out to shows.

Here's hoping 2012 will be just as exciting.

Nordic Winner Show

December 12, 2011 - Stockholm, Sweden. The Saluki Ring.
Yaffa and Anna have a fabulous time in the saluki ring. With an entry of 48 salukis which included 27 bitches, Yaffa come home with Best Opposite Sex, Crufts qualification (again), Swedish Champion, Nordic Champion, CACIB and Nordic Winner 2011. Yaffa is also Number One Saluki in Norway for 2011.
What a fabulous end to a fabulous year. Thanks to Anna Storesund for her wonderful handling of our parti saluki.

Stockholm, Sweden Nordic Winner Show

December 11, 2011
OMG! What an incredible day with fabulous results.
Elsto Khariz Amazing Amanda is Best Opposite Sex at the large Nordic Winner show held in Stockholm, Sweden. She became the Afghan Hound Nordic Winner 2011 at this show, won the CACIB and qualified for Crufts again.
Amanda has once more finished as Number One Afghan Hound for the year in Norway. Congratulations to Tove and Kjell and Patrick who handled her to these wonderful wins.

Winston Salem, NC

Furniture City KC, Dec 11, 2011 - We had some fun at Furniture City. Lashes adds another point in her title pursuit and Tash picks up his first points towards his Grand Championship. Many thanks to the person who helped with the dog shuffling and who took Lashes in the ring for me for Breed.
Good job!

Tash in Reidsville

November 26, 2011 - Tash runs with Tarifa to complete his qualified courser requirement. It was a beautiful run and he will now be able to work towards his Lure Coursing title as well.
Thank you to Mike McNamer for the fabulous picture.

November 19, 2011

Concord, NC - Cassie, Elsto Dixieland Blues, continues to add points in her title pursuit by being Winners Bitch, Best of Winners, Best Opposite Sex in Concord under Judge Anthony DiNardo.

Stord Kennel Club, Norway

November 13, 2011 - Norwegian Ch. Elsto Ata Alanna-Khariz has another great day in the show ring. Best of Breed and Hound Group 2 at the Stord Kennel Club. Congratulations!!

ASFA Region 7 Invitational

November 5 & 6th, 2011 - Tarife celebrated her 9th birthday on October 17th but she proved she still has what it takes to make it around a lure coursing field. MAHA hosted the Region 7 invitational at Reidsville and Tarife showed her stuff once again by being Best of Breed on Sunday.
Congratulations to Kirby Overcash and Miles for taking home the ASA trophies by being overall high scoring for both days and winning Best of Breed on Saturday.
Tarife is 6 points short of her ASFA Field Championship. But age sure isn't stopping her!
Congratulations Tarife.

Champion Number 4 for Yaffa's litter!

October 15, 2011 - Another champion for the Silmarillon/Yaffa litter.
Elsto Atash-Khariz finishes his American championship in grand style at Hanover KC in Wilmington, NC, with a 4 point major, Best of Winners and Best of Breed. Congratulations Tash for a wonderful finish. Thanks to all for the very nice comments about our young saluki. Thanks to judge Dierdre Petrie for this win. This makes 4 champions out of this lovely litter.
Lashes was Reserve Winners Bitch.

Amazing Amanda

October 9, 2011 - Elsto Khariz Amazing Amanda continues her amazing career by winning Best of Breed, Hound Group 1 and Best in Show 3 at the international Norwegian Kennel Club show in Hamar, Norway. Congratulations to her owners, Tove and Kjell for a fabulous winning day.

Three New Coursing Titles

October 1 and 2, 2011 - AKC Lure Coursing meet at Reidsville produces three new JC (Junior Courser) title holders:

Elsto Atash-Khariz JC- "Tash" - Saluki
Elsto Khariz Dixieland Blues JC- "Cassie" - Afghan Hound
Omen Cee Candace Khariz JC- "Lashes" - Saluki

The event was hosted by MAHA - the Mid Atlantic Hound Association. The weather was incredibly windy and the courses were challenging but the dogs had a great time.