The 2009 National
2009 BKKS Grand Champion
The results are in and it is with great pleasure that we are able to announce that Bill Oakley has walked away with the grand champion award for his superb Sanke (pictured below). Congratulations to Bill and everyone else that showed their koi this weekend and congratulations to those people that guessed correctly in the contenders poll.
All the results will be posted on the site over the next few days.
Grand Champion Contenders
As is always the way at the National and other Koi shows the Grand Champion award is always the first one to be decided by the judges. The BKKS judges have now viewed all the Koi on display today at Newark and have narrowed their contenders for the Grand Champion award down to just 6 koi.
Read more: Grand Champion Contenders
The Showman's Diary
As the date of this years British Koi Keepers national show draws closer there are some BKKS members that aren't sat at the side of their ponds wondering which of their koi they are going to take along to the show.
As is the case every year, a band of dedicated members pitch up to the showground a week before the event in order to over see the construction of the marques, the cleaning and erection of the show vats and essentially do everything that we all see when we walk through the gates at 10am on the Saturday morning.
Martin Barnet the show's vice chairman keeps us all upto date with the progression of the build.
Read more: The Showman's Diary
2009 National Show
The last weekend of June will see the BKKS set up camp once again at the Newark Showground to host the National Show. The Show Committee is working extremely hard to ensure that it is a great show for all our visitors. Once again the Society would like to thank all it’s sponsors and as with last years show, the Society is delighted to be working with major sponsors Oase, Tetra, Evolution Aqua and Kusuri, whose generous support enables a show of this size to take place.
2009 National Show Membership Offer
As part of the BKKS membership drive for 2009, kindly supported at the National Show by Evolution Aqua, Kusuri, Oase, Tetra and KOI Magazine, we are happy to make the following announcement.
All members who join or re-join at the National Show in June will be entered, free of charge, into a draw for an EA Easypod.
