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Banglore, late Mrs. Rajlaxmi Reguraj was a great ambassador
for the breed. She joined the GSD movement by importing
quilting dogs and bitches. A dog owned by her ‘Ch.
Kora’, became the first German Shephred to be
The Dog of the Year. From her kennel ‘Fleetwood
and Artega’ came a finest female, Artegal’s
Will of Fire and many others. Her son Mr. Nagendiran
Reguraj, who was an All Breed Judge and very knowledgeable
in German Shepherds, handled all her dogs to glory and
top positions. Mrs. Reguraj played a vital role in forming
the German Shephred Dog Club of India and was the President
of the Club. The G.S.D fraternity lost a friend at the
untimely sudden demise of Mr. Negendiran Reguraj.
Mr. Amar lqbal singh Dhillon. An Ex Member of Parliament,
entered the German Shephred scene with his American
import Darengo Leonhaus Journey and got some success
in the show righ; he later shifted to German bloodlines.
Under his kennel prefix ‘Rising Star’, he
produced a lot of champions. The significance of his
breeding is that he uses all the best import males available
in the country. One of the top female produced at his
kennel is ‘Ch. Kelly of Rising Star’. In
his late 80s, he is still an active participant and
makes it a point to be present in major dog shows and
specialty shows.
In Delhi, Karwinder Singh and his sister Nina Anand,
bred some qualityd dogs under the prefix ‘Fineberg’,
with their German stock from Fidelius. They had a very
beautiful Quando Arminius daughter, Gina von der Burg
Reihnsten.
Mr. C. Ramaswamy from Coimbatore, under prefix ‘Goldwins’
bred some excellent specimen, like Goldwin’s Marko
and Goldwin’s Olimbus and many others from his
German imports Sony and Atensberg Max were very popular
show dogs.
Late Mr. Vijay Singh of Patiala was a great enthusiast
and has a great passion for the breed. His kennel ‘AyeVee’,
produced very good specimens. He imported some of the
famous winners like Videx Kimo, Videx Tula, Videx Nathalie,
Fipssi vom Sultzblick, Rock von haus Tepferd, Fedor
von Steinwaypark. He was the Past President of the German
Shephred Dog Club of India. His untimely demise was
a great loss to the German Shephred Breed in India.
In mind 80’s Mr. Bharat Bhushan Beri from Calcutta
imported some quality German Shepherds from kennel ‘Estherlager’
of Holland, owned by respected SV Judge J.G Hann. His
dog Goya von Esterhlager won multi Best in Show lineups.
Mr. Beri imported a beautiful female ‘Tina van
dan Alheides Hoeve’ and later imported an Ulk
Arlett son ‘Yupp von Esterhlager’; he imported
many dogs from famous kennel ‘Bedwin’ and
contributed to the gene pool of the eastern part of
the country. Mr. Chanchal Sarkar, from Calcutta imported
a pair ‘Shoterways Xargas and Shooterways Yana’.
This pair produced some exceelent dogs and bitches from
every litter.
In south, mr.vijay Varghese, imported many good dogs
like Xero vom Saverland, Wastyl von Arlett, jock von
Restrauch, Varena vom Bewei, tell von Winnloh and many
biches. He sold Xero vom Saverland and Wastyl von Arlett
to an experienced breeder from Pune, named Mr.azim farooqui.
He produced some excellent specimens out of these two
dogs, under his prefix ‘Fags’. He is regularly
importing dogs from top German Lines like; lgor de Brunskilltal,
Hulk aus Agrigento, Eros vom Nindorfer Haus fro his
breeding program and his home breds like Fags Fanny,
and now Fags Nash are top specimen of the breed.
Another passionate enthusisast, Mr. Pradeep kumar Ghosh
from Calcutta imported many dogs from Germany and Bedwin
kennel of England contributing a lot to the east. His
famous winning dogs were Cirichol of Titenhof, Ch. Fando
of Dogmatix who did a lot of winning in eastern show
circuit.
In early 90’s Mr. S. Pathy from coimbatore, owner
of famous ‘Sanscraintes’ kennel, took interest
in German Shepherds and imported top class German Shepherds
from Australia, England and Germany. He bred quality
stock to improve the breed; his import Wadcre Dexi won
numerous Best in Show lineups.
Mr. Guruprasad from Chennai who has a very good eye
for German Shepherds, imported a glamorous dog called
Yasso von der Urbecke. Yasso won a lot in Indian show
circuit. Mr. Guruprasad bred some outstanding specimens
out of yasso and his import female, Gora de Grupeto
and later on imported dogs like Flyn von Sanmarko, Cent
von der Urbecke to contribute to the development of
the breed in southern India. Now is a committee member
of German shepherd dog club of India.
In the meanwhile, a lady from Chennai, Mrs. Kala Krishna
under prefix ‘Vinmin’ imported a dog from
Australia, Ch. Augnadow Cruister Classic; he was a deeply
pigmented, masculine dog of good proportions. Later,
she imported quality dogs from Germany, viz., Farinja
von der Kahlerheide, Fanti vom Murrtal, Nira vom Murrtal,
Quartrx vom Murrtal. Quartz vom Murrtal proved to be
an outstanding producer of many champions of her kennel.
Still she breeds quality dogs with her imports.
The year 2001 saw a new beginning, when a young man
of Afghan origin named Abdullah Noori, got fascinated
by GSD’s. India saw a top winning and producing
dog, V 10 – Quando von Nordlandzwinger a VA Scott
Deodatus son. Before that, in the year 2000, Mr. Noori’s
import SG 34 – Karly vom Murrtal (Litter brother
to VA Kevin) had become Dog of the Year in India. But
Quando impressed the Indian show ting and created hype
and enthausiasm among GDS lovers. With his ring presendce,
anatomy and movement, he became Dog of the Year for
three consecutive years and alos was crowned twice as
the Indian Sieger. Quando produced a lot of top show
winning progeny. Mr. noori imported lot of winning dogs
like; V 7 Fedor Steinway Park, SG 11 Rocky vom haus
Tepferd, V 11 Bob von der Grafenburg, and 1st VA bitch
hannie vom Team Fiemereck to contribute to the gene
pool in India.
At present, a young breeder named Vishwas Raj, from
Bangalore (Wolfenhaus), has been very successful with
his imports as well as his home breds. His imports,
Xavier von der Urbecke, Delfa von der Urbecke, Yossy
von der Urbecke, Lutzi von Stefanopertal have been very
successful in the show ring.
Mr. Kapil Krishnamurthy from Coimbatore under the prefix
‘kingsway’, has imported some very good
shepherds from Germany. He has a quality Nero nobachtal
son and double Sieger yasko vom Farbenspeil son, Rascos
von Messebau. He also has some top quality bitches in
his kennel and is producing some good specimens he clinched
the Vice Sieger title in open class male category, in
11th Indian Sieger show at Coimbatore.
A young man named P. Nityananadh with his kennel
prefix Kingsland, from south a passionate breeder, produced
many champions by using the top producing sire Eros
Forst-Kammer. Kingsland presented a progeny group by
Eros, in 2009 Indian Sieger show, and his home bred
dogs are continuously winning in all breed and specialty
shows.
Apart from the above, Late Mr.Rajinder Malhotra, Mr.
Mukul Vaid, Mr. Jagteshwar Singh, Sheriff Dayan, Mr.
Vivek Jaychandran, Mr.Amar Parekh, Mr. Subhash Patil,Mr.ajit
Mathew, Mr. vijay Ramakrishna,Mr.pradeep kumar,Mrs.Sashikala
Giri, Mr.Saibal chakrabarty, Mr.Somanth Ghosh, Mr.Avijoy
singh mukherjee , Mr.S.R.prusti,ms.Gauri Nargolkar,
Mr.Ajmer Singh Dadhwal,Mr.vishal Sudam, Mr.Peter Moses,
Mr.Satish Shukla, Mr.Aniruddh singh Mr.Sunny dhaliwal,
Mr.P.Ravi,Mr.Mehboob khan, Mr.Pradip kumar, Mr.Krishna
Kumar, Mr. Harchand Singh, Mr. N. Santhosh, Mr. Ramabhadran,
Mr. Jagdeeshwaran, Mr. T.P. Roy, Mr. I. Dhanashekhar,
Mr. M.Mothes, Late Mr. Manuben Joshuaraj have contributed
immensely to the GSD movement and development in the
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