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to decide the winners. It was good to see so many visitors
THE ALL ENGLAND from all over the country attend our Show, a good time for
everyone to catch up and chat about Koi.
YOUNG G KOI SHOW The Grand Champion was awarded to Paul Williams for

Presented by The South East Koi Club his Size 5 Kinginrin Showa which in addition took the
Size 5 Champion and Best Non Gosanke Awards.
Unfortunately, on Saturday there was an accident on the
bridge at Dartford which was closed and caused delays
Although the South East Koi Club have organised for our visitors coming from the north. I know it took some
over 50 Koi Shows since 1982, putting on The All people a great deal of time to get to the Show but some
England Young Koi Show with Koi entered up to 65cm sadly had to turn back.
was something very different.
A big thank you to Saki-Hikari who have generously
Being a bit of an unknown quantity, particularly being sponsored the Show and supplied their Premium Quality
held early in the year we decided to have 30 vats Koi Food for the Exhibitors and Club Members who
which would reduce the setting-up time. helped erect and take down the Show. I would also like to
thank Kusuri, Palintest, Colombo, Waterco and Domburg
All the vats were booked early and there was a reserve
Sportprijzen Holland for generously contributing their
list in case anyone cancelled. On the Saturday before
products to our Show.
the Show we had arranged to move the vats and
pipework ready for Monday when everything would be
moved into position and we could start filling the vats. 2018 The All England Young Koi Show – Breakdown of Entries
A week before the Show I looked out of the window Show Class Size 1 Size 2 Size 3 Size 4 Size 5 Totals
Kinginrin Showa owned on Saturday morning and my heart sank to find there Kohaku 8 9 11 15 16 59
by Paul Williams wins had been a downfall of snow. I cleared the snow off
Grand Champion, my car and drove to the Showground where ten to Sanke 6 9 6 7 9 37
Size 5 Champion and
Best Non Gosanke. twelve of our members had managed to get there. Showa 1 3 7 11 6 28
It was cold, there was a blizzard, but we all carried on
moving the equipment. I don’t know what everyone Utsurimono 4 7 8 5 5 29
else was thinking, but we kept saying “it’s going to Bekko 0 0 0 3 1 4
warm up and the sun will be shining”. We had our
meeting on the following day and returned to the Asagi/Shusui 1 1 2 3 2 9
Showground on Monday to start setting-up. It got Koromo 2 3 2 5 2 14
warmer as the week progressed but Mick Preston,
Kawarimono 2 5 6 8 6 27
our Show Chairman, took the precaution to arrange
for the halls to be heated. Hikari Muji 1 4 4 3 3 15
Hikari Moyo 0 3 2 4 3 12
Benching began on Friday when most of the Koi
arrived, the last were benched on Saturday morning Hikari Utsuri 1 3 3 0 0 7
when judging was undertaken by our International
Tancho 1 3 8 4 5 21
Team of Judges led by Senior Judge Gary Pritchard.
282 Koi were entered in the Show, displayed in 30 Kinginrin 4 6 7 1 2 20
Show vats. There were, as always, some superb Koi
Totals 31 56 66 69 60 282
entered which I’m sure placed pressure on our judges
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