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BYER KOI FARM

KOHAKU WINS THE

TOP AWARD

A Kohaku bred at Byer Koi Farm wins the top
award at Crouch Valley Photo Show 2020.
Adam Byer.

ADAM BYER When we received news that one of our customers
KOI had clinched a major award with a special Kohaku bred
here at Byer Koi Farm, it was tantalizingly close to the
business objective we set ourselves a few years ago,
which was to breed a Koi that went on to win a Grand
Champion award, and in fact, no other Koi beat this
Kohaku in the whole Show.
THE VERY In this strangest of years with the Covid-19 situation,
there have been no open Koi Shows in the UK. The
TOP AWARDS Crouch Valley Koi Club are one of the largest Koi Clubs
in the UK, and they always have a full calendar of
WERE BEST events. They’ve done a fantastic job of keeping their
GOSANKE AND members active this year and have been able to put on
1 of the 2 Shows they normally run a year; namely,
BEST NON their Photographic Show in the autumn, just for their
members. It is in this event that the Kohaku bred by us
GOSANKE did so well.

The awards built up by variety and by size in the
normal fashion, and topping out into 2 overall awards;
the Club feeling this was more suitable for the smaller
Photographic Show event, rather than the usual one
Grand Champion award that they would have for their
larger Open Show.

The very top awards at the Show, i.e. the best in Show
awards were Best Gosanke, and Best Non Gosanke.

Gosanke is the grouping of Kohaku, Sanke and Showa
and because those varieties are regarded as the top 3
in Japan and so many Koi of those varieties are
produced; this Gosanke category is generally regarded
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