(Afghan Hound Database and Breed Information Exchange)
TURKUMAN (Page 1)
(Author Steve Tillotson, April 2010)
Juliette de Bairacli-Levy
November 11th, 1912 - May 28th, 2009
A TRIBUTE TO JULIETTE
"How many memories about Juliette. Such an intelligenct LADY. She could get the name of Lady of Flowers and Plants. I don't think anybody could know more about as she did.
She stayed here with us for very long time and a few times. Juliette wanted to repose here with her dogs Flute and my Dolphin (a beautiful gift from her) and loved to take walks everyday with them out of house. She liked to take very long for the walks with them as dogs liked smelling every herb and Juliette was very patient and relaxed. She said such a walk for a dog was the same than a newspaper for a person. Curious!
I remember at Cynthia's (Ed: Cynthia Boissevain, Branwen Afghan Hounds) home she was invited for long time very often. It was lovely seeing both women together. Completely different both them but always such a good friends. Cynthia loved Juliette's rose marmalade with almonds and I did too. Delicious!
It's impossible forgetting Juliette's smell of lots of varieties of plants and flowers all mixtured. It stayed at her room here for long when she left home. A true parfum. We still use some of her NR products like Birth Aid tablets and Tree Bark Gruel powder. They helped us so much in our breeding. Before with our Afghans and now with our Persian cats and Griffies.
So how could be possible to forget her? We are really lucky to have met the most adorable hippie gipsy woman over the world. Small woman but great heart. Juliette sure found out another paradise of flowers and plants over the rainbow and is now with all her Turkuman Afghans. They "children" finally recovered her Goddess forever!"
J. Ignacio Vidorreta
Sumava's Afghans
April 2010
Juliette at Crufts 2002. Photo John Hope (England) k9photography@btinternet.com)
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The caption that goes with Jon's great photograph is as follows - "A rare visitor to Crufts this year was Juliette De Bairacli Levy of the famous Turkuman Kennels, seen here watching open dog as Gamer and Polo did battle. She watched a number of afghan classes and looked at a number of other breeds during her time in the UK.". Thank you Jon for sharing this wonderful photograph
Trapper of Grandeur, a Ch Triumph of Grandeur son
Roger Rechler and Michael Canalizo with Ch Shahkira of Grandeur,
Ch Shahhphire of Grandeur and Ch Shahrp of Grandeur
THE SIGNIFIGANCE/IMPACT OF TURKUMAN
Afghans carrying the Turkuman prefix are behind the foundations of the following kennels
- Westover UK
- Khorrassan UK
- Carloway UK
- Acklam UK
- Patrols UK
- Grandeur USA
- Hookstone UK/AUST
- Netheroyd UK
- Valdorern UK
- Sharaz UK
- Ringbank UK
- And many others
Several of the above Kennels are themselves dominant and/or influential contributors to our pedgree history. It is thus self apparent that Turkuman is very important to the development of the breed, especially in the UK where WWII seriously curtailed breeding, but the Turkumans were able to breed in that period. The signifigance of Turkuman upon USA bloodlines is also enormous due to the proliferation of Grandeur bloodlines throughout USA pedigrees
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