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This year, there were 389 koi entered in the show,
THE ALL ENGLAND displayed in 52 show vats. The International Judging
KOI SHOW Team led by Senior Judge Carol McCall split into three
teams to carry out the judging.

Presented by The South East Koi Club Judges: Carol McCall (England); Toen Feyen (South
IT TOOK Africa); Mark Kleijkers (Holland); Gary Hazely (Northern
Ireland); Stefan Malm (Sweden); Niko Bellens (Belgium).
45 MINUTES
The All England Koi Show is over for another year Guest Judge: Masato Hoshino (Japan).
and a big thank you to everyone who contributed to TO JUDGE Trainees: Miki Ames (Germany); Anthony Grey (England).
making it a success. Congratulations to Raad Hassan
who has won the Grand Champion Award for the third SIZE 5
year in succession with his Size 7 Sanke. Not to be KOHAKU There were so many kohaku entered, 29 Size 4 and 27
outdone, Andy Baker won the Best Non Gosanke Size 5, it took 45 minutes to judge Size 5 and Carol McCall
Award for the third year in succession too with his said there was not a bad kohaku among them.
Size 7 Shiro Utsuri, a ‘hat trick’ for both exhibitors and
never been achieved before in the history of the Show. The standard of the koi exhibited was again extremely
high and so many high class koi went home without
winning an award, no reflection of the quality of these koi.
Our Baby Champion must get a special mention, the
winner was an Ikarashi Kazuto Showa supplied by
Walcot Koi and exhibited by Jack Bunker, a long term 2017 The All England Koi Show – Breakdown of Entries
member of the South East Koi Club.
Show Class Size 1 Size 2 Size 3 Size 4 Size 5 Size 6 Size 7 Totals
Members of our Benching Admin team remember the
Grand Champion Kohaku 1 19 17 29 27 16 9 118
Size 7 Sanke owned by day Jack visited the Show. He was a babe in arms
Raad Hassan. being taken to visit his Grandma who was one of the Sanke 2 7 6 13 14 12 5 59
benching team. Some years later he became one of
Showa 6 10 8 13 3 2 42
the show workers alongside his father, John, taking on
various jobs including that of benching. By a weird Utsurimono 3 6 9 3 8 4 2 35
freak of coincidence the first koi he ever benched was
Bekko 1 2 1 4
one exhibited by this year’s Adult Champion winner,
David Pope. Asagi/Shusui 1 2 2 3 8
Koromo 2 4 7 3 1 17
Over the years, Jack has regularly exhibited at the
Kawarimono 1 8 7 10 7 33
South East Show with pocket-money koi picking up
prizes in Round 1 (Class by size) throughout his Hikari Muji 1 1 3 2 4 3 14
school and University days. Now, as a young man he’s
Hikari Moyo 1 4 4 5 3 2 19
been able to put his vast experience to good use by
selecting a champion. Rather than sit at home resting Hikari Utsuri 3 1 2 2 8
his laurels, Jack was there at the breakdown of the
Tancho 3 3 3 5 2 3 2 21
Show to put the 2017 All England Koi Show to bed,
Best Non Gosanke ready for next year. Kinginrin 1 4 5 1 11
Size 7 Shiro Utsuri
Totals 18 61 67 86 89 47 21 389
owned by Andy Baker.
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