We were very excited when we mated All About Eve to Lust at First Sight since they were very complementary and it was a beautifully line bred pedigree. However, we really wanted a bitch puppy since we had so many good males already. There was a flashy bitch in the litter so that was obviously going to be the one we kept. We became so fixated on keeping a bitch that we basically overlooked all the males until we set them up on the table at seven weeks and a dog puppy blew us away. Square and perfectly balanced, he had this wonderful angulation, short back, lovely quarters and a very typey head. It was quite clear that he wasn’t going anywhere!

Like all of our Boxers, he wasn’t a quick maturer but he did well in his puppy classes, qualifying for Pup of the Year and going Best Puppy at City of Birmingham 2011 under Terry Nethercott, then progressing to win the Puppy Group under Val Foss.

The following year we had lots of males to show and his famous sire was still going great guns, so the younger boys had to take something of a backseat. However, he was in the last few for the ticket at the Anglian Boxer Club under Edna Woods (on the same day that his sire went Best in Show) and he won his first RCC at Leeds under Terry Donovan. Through the rest of 2012 he was always thereabouts, getting down to the final few in the challenge on several occasions.

In 2013 he won his way out of Post Grad and started winning Limit Classes from Windsor onwards. He was awarded his first CC by Steve Hall at the August SKC when he went on to take Group 3 under Dr Ron James.

With Il Messaggero also winning CCs The Outlaw had to go up into Open where he more than held his own. He started 2014 with a bang by winning his second CC & BOB from Andrew Brace at Manchester, he was then awarded top male at the Boxer Event by the three judges Christine Ellingworth, Meg Purnell-Carpenter and Ann Wildman but the best was yet to come.

To make up a new Champion is something special. To do so at Crufts is out of this world! On 6 March 2014 Ch Winuwuk The Outlaw was awarded his third CC and Best of Breed by Linda Carnaby. He went on to a shortlist in Frank Kane’s very strong working group.