BAMBI

CHAMPION Goldmali Over the Rainbow VW
Photo by Alan Seymour (Main ring Crufts 2022, Pastoral group)

Malinois bitch, d.o.b. 16th July 2017

Red with black mask

Sire: Mats Van De Vaardekenshoeve at Goldmali (IMP BEL)
Dam: Goldmali Fabulous

Breeder: Marianne Brett
Hips: 2/2
Elbows 1/0 Eyes tested clear 23/10 2022

3 CCs and  9 RCCs. BEST OF BREED CRUFTS 2022.
RBCC Crufts 2020 & 2024 (there was no Crufts in 2021, Bambi not shown there in 2023), Best Veteran 2025.

The FIRST EVER MALINOIS to gain the VETERAN WARRANT
(December 2025)

In 2025, aged 8, Bambi won 7 Best of Breeds at Open shows and won one Open show pastoral group, placed second in the group once and third once.
She also took Reserve Best Veteran in Show at Scunthorpe CS Open show.
She didn't attend many Championship shows but took Best Veteran in Breed at Crufts, Windsor, BSDA and NBSDC -all the championship shows she attended.

Bambi is from two CC winning parents - Mats and Rona. (Both have also won multiple RCCs including at Crufts.)
She's from a mating I had wanted to do for a long time,
and I'm very pleased with the result.
Bambi is 50 % Belgian blood, 25 % Dutch and 25 % UK.

Her names (pet name and KC name) are direct references to her great granny Ripley. I wanted to call Ripley Bambi originally,
but as I had Dandy at the same time it sounded too similar.
"Over the Rainbow" is of course after the song, and every time I see a rainbow I say "hello Rip",
taking it as a sign from Ripley at the Rainbow Bridge.

In 2022 Bambi did what her great granny Ripley did in 2010; won Best of Breed at Crufts. She then took her third CC in July 2022.
Our first HOME BRED Champion. 17 years of hard work!

Bambi has had one litter of puppies; the Goldmali U litter.

Windsor Championship show 2025, photo Yvonne Davis

Bambi in Sherwood Forest September 2025, 8 years old

Bambi RBCC Crufts 2024. Photo by Yvonne M Davis.

Bambi at National Working & Pastoral Breeds 2022, 3rd CC and BOB. Photo Yvonne M Davis.

Photo: Yulia Titovets (Main ring Crufts 2022)

Photo: Yvonne Davis (Breed ring Crufts 2022)

Photo: Yvonne Davis (Breed ring Crufts 2022)

Bambi on TV

2021

4 years old. Photo by Yvonne Davis.

2 ½ years old

Crufts 2020 (RCC)

Bambi's pedigree:

PHOTOS AS A PUP:

8 ½ month old

Bambi at her first show aged 6 months

Bambi 5 ½ month

5 months old in her favourite lookout spot

Bambi 5 months old with Paul McCatney. Now look at this old photo of Bambi's great granny Ripley -same cat!
Neither photo posed.

4 ½ month old

Cuddled up to granny Rio

4 ½ month old

Bambi aged 3 months with half brother Fen

3 months old and have just realised she can look out the window

Baby Bambi

One red, one grey (Ritzy) -but we are sisters. Half sisters anyway, same mum.

At puppy class aged about 12 weeks

For photos of Bambi being born and the first few weeks, visit the blog I did: O LITTER