(Rayvonley Lion)

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1st. Place in Special Junior Dog at Crufts 2006

Best Dog at Crufts 2007

For more puppy pics please see the Past Litters page.

Leo (Lion) at 3 days old.

 

4 weeks old
5 weeks 2 days
10 weeks old
Naughty Leo under the watchful eye of his elders!
Leo and Becky
13 weeks (Christmas 2004)
13 weeks old with Aunty Dalia looking on.

4 months

February 2005

March 2005

Seen here at the Breed Show held on 9th. April 2005.

Leo at a Ring Craft meeting on 20th. April 2005 aged 7 months.

Seen here winning Best Puppy at the Birmingham Championship Show in May 2005.

Seen here at 'All About Dogs' on 15th. May 2005 aged 7 1/2 months.

8 months

June 2005 aged 9 months.

Taken on 7th. August 2005 aged 11 months.

Taken at Discover Dogs (Earls Court, London) on 13th.November 2005 aged 14 months.

15 months

16 months old (22nd. January 2006)

17 months old (5th. March 2006)

Crufts 2006 (1st. Place in Special Junior Dog)

8th. April 2006 at the Breed Show

Reserve Best Dog: 8th. April 2006 at the Breed Show.

30th. April 2006

At 'All About Dogs' on 13th. May 2006.

Leo in the Group Final at the Birmingham National Championship Show on 14th. May 2006.

25th. June 2006

National Working Breeds: 15th. July 2006

Open dog line up, one of the best in the UK ever. Mastino from Steve Cox 1st., Rick Bailey 2nd., George Zadeh 3rd., Mandy Berry 4th., Kim Slater 5th.

Steve and Leo at Malvern 2006.

Rayvonley Lion at 20 months. Taken by famous animal photographer Marc Henri (Kennel Club photographer) for a new hard back general dog book that comes out in December 2006. Leo will represent our breed in this book.

Taken on 27th. August 2006 aged 23 months.

Leo winning Best of Breed at the Richmond Championship Show 9th. September 2006.

 

28th. January 2007

30 months

Crufts 2007 (9th. March)

Rayvonley Lion awarded Best Male at Crufts 2007.

Leo's Crufts 2007 win reported in the 14th. March edition of the 'Evening Echo'.

Leo at the Club Show 2007.

Rayvonley Lion:  Reserve Best Dog at the Neapolitan Mastiff Club Show 2007.

National Working Breeds Championship Show held on 14th. July 2007: Rayvonley Lion, Best of Breed.

 

Leo placed 8th. at the Mario Querci Trophy Show 2007 in Italy.

 

Leo (Reserve Best Dog (Crufts 2008).

The BBC followed Leo's Crufts success with a interview at Steve's kennels two weeks previous to Crufts 2008 which covered a brief  history of the mastino and some of the Rayvonley dogs. This was shown on BBC2 on 8th. March 2008.

On the 5th of November I was asked by the U.K. Kennel Club to attend a press / photoshoot with Leo, in association with Sky Movies and Channel 5, at Battersea Park in London. Leo, alongside a few other breeds represented a famous dog movie star: In Leo's case (RAYVONLEY LION), two of my past dogs, RAYVONLEY ROMAN WARRIOR and RAYVONLEY CRISPINA, who played 'FANG' in the Harry Potter films.

It was a really fun afternoon with Leo acting the true star. He was even asked to put his paws in a ceramic plaque, leaving his mark as well as having a bench with 'Fang' on it dedicated to the famous mastino "FANG" in the films.

Leo and I had a short interview which was shown later that evening on Channel 5 news.

Leo (as 'Fang') and Toto: London Metro newspaper on 6th. November 2007. Photography credit goes to Shaun Curry (Press Photographer for the London Metro newspaper).
 

All photos courtesy of Rebecca Smart of the Kennel Club Picture Gallery

 

 

To download and play a movie of Leo:

  • Right click on LeoMovie1 (7.74 MB) or LeoMovie2 (1.12 MB).
  • Left click on 'Save Target As.....'
  • Click Save wherever you want the file downloaded to.
  • When it has downloaded, left click on Open.

Show Results

Birmingham National Champ Show in May 2005

  • Best Puppy

 

Darlington Championship Show on 17th. September 2005

  • Best Puppy in Show

 

Crufts 2006 on 9th. March 2006

  • 1st. in Special Junior Dog

 

Breed Show on 8th. April 2006

  • Reserve Best Dog

 

Birmingham National Champ Show on 14th. May 2006

  • Best of Breed

 

National Working Breeds Show on 15th. July 2006

  • Best Dog and Reserve Best of Breed

 

Richmond Championship Show on Saturday 9th. September 2006

  • Best of Breed and pulled out in the Working Group

 

Crufts 2007 on 9th. March 2007

  • Best Dog

 

Club Breed Show 2007

  • Reserve Best Dog

 

National Working Breeds Championship Show on 14th. July 2007

  • Best of Breed

 

LEEDS Championship Show on 23rd. July 2007

  • Best of Breed

 

RICHMOND CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW IN SEPTEMBER 2007

  • BEST DOG
  • RESERVE BEST OF BREED

 

Working & Pastoral Breeds of Scotland Show on 4th. November 2007
  • BEST DOG
  • BEST OF BREED
This final win makes Leo the top winning male in the UK for 2007!

 

Crufts 2008

  • Reserve Best Dog

 

Bath Championship Show 2008

  • Best Dog (R.B.B)

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