Show Results (and judges critiques if available)

NOAH'S TOP ACHIEVEMENTS

** First Greenland Dog to gain a UK Championship Show Puppy Group Placing **
** First Male Greenland Dog ShCEx Title Holder **
** UK Weightpull Breed Record Holder for Highest Weight Pulled (2200lb) **

International Champion
Spanish Champion
Irish Champion
Swiss Show Champion
UK Championship Show Working Group Shortlist

2x Crufts Best Of Breed (2020 & 2022)
4x Crufts Best Dog (2020, 2022, 2023 & 2025)
World Winner 2022
European Winner 2022

Latin Winner (FR) & Latin Winner (ES) 2022
Celtic Winner 2024
Brussels Winner 2022
Alpensieger (Alpine Winner) 2021
Benelux Junior Winner (BE) 2019
Our Dogs Top Puppy 2019
Our Dogs Top Dog 2020* / 21 / 22 / 24
*(2020 on points but cancelled due to Covid)

GDCGB Greenland Dog Of The Year Top Dog 2022
GDCGB Greenland Dog Of The Year Top Opposite Sex 2021 / 23 / 24
KC GCDS Puppy Foundation Obedience Award

Multi KC Discover Dogs Breed Representative

At UK Championship Shows (AVNSC & Breed Classes)...

1x Working Group Shortlist

19 x BOB (inc 2x Crufts)

35 x Best Dog (inc 4x Crufts)

13 x Reserve Best Dog

1 x Best Junior in Breed

8 x Best Puppy In Breed

1 x Working Puppy Group 3 (Breed first!!)
Crufts Qualified 2020-26

At Open Shows (AVNSC & Breed Classes)...

Show Certificate of Excellence Title

36 x Best of Breed

24 x Reserve Best of Breed

3 x Working Group 2
2 x Working Group 3
3 x Working Group 4

5 x Working Group Shortlist

4 x Best Puppy in Breed

In Harness

Weightpull
UK Breed Record Holder For Highest Weight Pulled
PB of 2200lb / 20.18x bodyweight
Dryland Racing

1x 1st Place (1x SHCGB E3)

1x 2nd Place (WME DRF3)
GDCGB GDOTY Top Working
4th Top Dog 2022-23
6th Top Dog 2023-24

Please say hello to our Norwegian boy, the handsome Noah!

Bred by Marit Ånes of Suna-Sanik Kennel in Norway - and cousin to our foundation bitch, Alice - his Mum, Suki, was infamous as one of the strongest lead dogs in Marit's kennel. Her success is seen in both her racing and showing accolades and has been passed onto her offspring, making her a leader for Suna-Sanik in many ways.

His father, Balder, is a sweet character with a strong working ethic, having finished both the Polardistans (160 km) and Beaver Trap Trail (100 km) races, with 4x1st places from other races. He has had a great show career in Sweden too, with multiple CACs / BOBs and even a Best in Show accolade to his name as well as Champion titles!

Noah has a wonderful mix of cheeky and sweet - loves his cuddles but seemingly unaware of his size can still be a bit of 'bull in a china shop'. He adopted our Malamute Harry as his "big brother" at a young age, enjoying chasing him for kisses & playtime (and often getting a telling off in the process for barging and jumping on him for attention) and has delighted us with his non-confrontational approach to other dogs, whether male or female - definitely a lover not a fighter! He has been a breed representative on the Kennel Club Discover Dogs stand on numerous occasions and is always happy to share his affection with an interested public of all ages.

His show career started well, with a trip over to Ireland in Mid-March for his first Baby Puppy classes where he gained not only back to back 1st / Very Promising gradings, but took Best Baby Puppy in Breed on both days!

In the UK his success was just as strong, with numerous Best Puppy and even Best of breed accolades at Open Shows, alongside a cluster of Reserve Best Dogs and Best Puppy wins at Championship shows, even making breed history by being the first Greenland Dog to win a UK Champ Show Puppy Group placing under judge Roy Baker at Birmingham National in 2019!

He kickstarted his Junior career well in 2019, gaining awards towards both Junior Champ & Championship titles in Belgium, Ireland & the Netherlands, as well as racking up the class wins at both Open & Championship Shows in the UK; sadly our FCI plans were soon put on hold by a combination of Brexit & Covid-19 restricting travel but we were proud of what he was able to achieve in this time.

Following on from this, 2020 proved a strange year indeed, with the coronavirus pandemic cutting short many show plans, but nonetheless yielded some amazing results for Noah, not least his winning Best Dog & Best of Breed at Crufts in March - his first such accolade at a Champ Show in the UK, and what a way to do it! 

When UK shows finally recommenced in June 2021, despite a lack of coat for the first few months he still hit the ground running, racking up 2 Best of Breeds, 5 Best Dogs & 3 Reserve Best Dogs in the less than 4 months of Champ Shows we enjoyed, resulting in him being able to claim the accolade of Our Dogs Top Dog 2021 (as well as giving his parents Suki & Balder Top Brood / Top Stud awards and in combination with Alice's efforts helping Suna-Sanik Kennel claim Top Breeder in the UK).

Now starting to mature, 2022 gave Noah a cracking run at Championship Shows, unbeaten to Best Dog in breed classes with multiple Best of Breeds, including his second such award at Crufts, not to mention multiple Open Show Best of Breeds / Best AVNSCs and group placings!

We were also finally able to venture back across the water without the heavy restrictions seen in the years prior, kicking off with a trip to Paris for the European Dog Show & Championnat Du France in April. He made us ever so proud with the CAC / CACIB & Best Opposite Sex on both days, earning him the European Winner & Latin Winner 2022 awards!

A couple of months later he ventured to Spain for the World Dog Show and once again earned the CAC / CACIB at all three shows, claiming the World Winner title and closing his Spanish Champion title!

2023 saw Noah once again unbeaten to Best Dog at UK Championship Shows, including adding a Crufts Best Opposite Sex to his tally, as well as enjoying multiple Best of Breeds / BAVNSCs both in the UK and abroad, closing his International Champion title with his final CACIB win in Ireland and a our highlight of the show year being an excisting trip to Denmark for the European Dog Show where we had some fantastic competition. He came runner up to his littermate Vodka across the three shows, but we certainly enjoyed our chance to represent the breed in it's country of patronage and even moreso having the opportunity to catch up with Marit and his Suna-Sanik family.

2024 saw an amazing start to the year for Noah, seeing him not only get Best of Breed at our first Championship Show of the year but going on to get shortlisted in a strong working group, making him the first Greenland Dog to achieve a UK Championship Show group shortlist in over 9 years!!

The rest of 2024 was a solid one, closing his Irish and International Champion titles, winning multiple Open Show Best of Breed & Group placings and maintaining his UK Championship Show status of being unbeaten to Best Dog; despite strong competition from the Fenrirkin girls, his efforts here culminated in him being awarded Top Dog in breed.

2025 was a slower start for a number of reasons but with our youngster Jack needing socialising and open show experience he hit the open show scene again to keep him company - and delighted us by closing his ShCEx title in January, making him the first male Greenland to achieve this award (Jess having pipped him to the post)!

Noah (unsurprisingly with his pedigree) started working with great enthusiasm.

His initial foray into weightpull had to be taken at a slower pace, as he initially failed to understand why he should do something if not allowed to do it at 100 MPH, but showing much improvement by the end of a season in novice class.
After the CV-19 pandemic caused a couple of years gap between competitions, Noah came back to the chute with a bang, and over the course of the 2022-24 season saw an improvement at virtually every pull, culminating in him acheiving a new UK breed record for highest weight pulled of 2100lb!

In March 2025 he went one better, pulling a new Personal Best & new breed record of 2200lb - over 20x his bodyweight! So so proud!!

He absolutely loves to run in harness and had his first competitive experience running at SHCGB Sherwood in January 2020, where he was borrowed alongside my own Harry to run with CED Peech for an inaugural CED-Malamute-Greenland team - and they won their class!

The combination of limited competitive opportunities during the CV-19 pandemic - and his legendary poor sense of direction often relegating him to the B-Team when it came to picking dogs for smaller teams - Noah still managed to get out and about even if just training or in recreation classes, and his non-confrontational nature has seen him swap around and run with a variety of different team mates!

At the end of 2024, however, he came out to give our youngster Ryan a first race experience alongside friend Kim's girl Strike, with the trio even managing a 2nd place in their class!

At 2 years of age, he started backpack training and although he doesn't seem to understand it doesn't require him to pull the whole way round fair to say he enjoys exploring what the British countryside has to offer. This has taken a backseat in favour of other disciplines in more recent years, although we hope to find more time to enjoy some longer pack walks and work towards the titles the breed is eligible for here in the UK.

And finally, to prove there are some brains alongside the brawn, he is one of only 7 Greenland Dogs in the UK (1 being his cousin Alice and another 2 her daughters) to gain a KC GCDS Puppy Foundation obedience award - clever boy :)

We are very excited to see what Noah can bring to our kennel as well as the breed in the UK & beyond, and remain looking forward to the future.