Sundown Australian Shepherds
  Hall of Fame Kennel # 26
  "show quality companions"
 
Richard W. Pittman & Michael S. Sabo
Senior Breeder Judge  Conformation  Obedience and Agility
El Cajon, California
619 - 445 - 4908
 
I began my journey with Australian Shepherds in 1965 when I spent the weekend with a cousin and fell in love with a blue merle puppy from a litter they had.  I took her home and the love affair has now been going on for some 43 years - her name was Pittman's Skieter Marie.  I am now ten generations down from Skieter and I still occasionally see a glimpse of her in the eyes of my pups!
 
The name Sundown was adopted in 1974 with the first Sundown dog also being my first champion - CH Sundown's Maize of Bonnie Blu.  I am very proud that Sundown is Hall of Fame Kennel 24.  I continue to compete in conformation, obedience and agility.
 
I am a Senior Breeder Judge and have had the distinct honor of judging in 24 states, Canada, Belgium and twice in Germany.  I have been honored with judging at nine National Pre-Shows and the ultimate honor of judging Best of Breed at the ASCA National Specialty in 1999, Altered in 2003, Agility in 2005, Conformation Finals in 2007 and the Agility Finals in 2009.  I also judge obedience (ASCA) and agility (NADAC and ASCA).
 
I continue to breed for dogs of high intelligence, with a sound body and outstanding temperaments.  My association with this breed has brought me countless wonderful dogs and friends!




                                            NEWS FLASH

We are home from the 2009 ASCA Nationals held in Greeley Colorado - it was a great trip (11 days) but a very long drive!!  I arrived in Greeley on Friday afternoon September 25 to prepare for the week.

Saturday morning was the first agility trial and Macy did well by getting 4 qualifying runs.  The conformation judge for Best of Breed that evening was injured and unable to judge so I had the unexpected pleasure of judging Best of Breed that evening!!

On Sunday I judged all the jumpers runs - had some great runs on my new courses.

On Monday I judged the agility finals - very exciting to see my courses run and I got some very nice comments about my courses - what an honor to judge the finals!!  During the nationals agility Macy did well getting another 3 qualifying runs with 2 first places and 1 second.

On Friday Chile was shown for the first time and was in a very nice class of 15 red bitches and placed FIRST!! 

We are very proud of both of our girls.  Was fun to go but nice to be home.

We brought Peter Kontos's dog Pyro (Sundowns Burnin The House Down) that I co-own home - look for him in the conformation ring - AND - he has been bred to our Macy (ATCH(2), NATCH(3) Taisho Macy Parade At Sundown) for a litter due the middle of December - all four colors are possible.  Pyro has 9 points and 2 majors, he is a beautiful red tri - we are excited about this litter!!
 
   
 
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