EL Minja's Lhasa Apso kennel history

My first Lhasa Apsos were, Nykita and Madonna, Nikyta is bred on pure Dutch lines (v/d Warwinckel) and  Madonna Dutch,English(Saxonspring) and American ( CH Dolsa Marlo Matador), I only bred twice with Nikyta, then I quit breeding with her. In her first Lhasa Apso litter she had two males, Karma and Agami, Karma became an International Champion and Agami was loved in a pet home although he was good enough to show. Madonna became my basic Lhasa Apso brood  bitch, the foundation of my kennel for many years.

Both of these Lhasa Apso girls were bred to my imported English Champion Lingstoc Midas ( Tex) , I imported Tex February 1989 after he was shown at the Champion of Champion stakes Finals. Tex won 10 CC's under 10 different judges in England, he became Dutch champion in only three shows including Best In Show at the Dutch and Belgium specialty breedclubs. He was bred on Belazieths stock, USA&Can CH.Belazieths Malcolm/Salt 'n' Pepper & Hardacre lines.

The Lhasa Apso first litter with Madonna, she was bred to CH.Lingstoc Midas and this was for me very interesting to see  what the lines were doing. Well I was very pleased with 6 puppies.(5-1)  Out of this litter I showed a male CH. El Minja's Mahakala and his sister CH. El Minja's Dakini.

The second Lhasa Apso litter of Madonna with Tex produced my champion El Minja's Kerima who became Dutch and International champion, her sister Lha-mo who had the same high qualities as Kerima has been exported. Kerima is slightly greater in length than Dakini and has a rather longer head, however, Dakini have a very nice expression and character.Both have the coats of hard texture and density which is so important for me. Both have a beautiful feminine head.

In those days I travelled a lot to the UK and had conversations  and great time with the old Lhasa Apso breeders as Jean Blyth, Thelma Morgan and others who were active and long time in the breed. It was an educational time for me and gave me lots of know how for the future.

In 1991 I imported from Mrs. Sylvia Linge, Lingstoc Just Billy, which I made up International and Belgium champion.  This male was a little height and had heavy bone structure, for me he produced the  right coats with good density. Out of him I kept a bitch, CH El Minja's Maytreya , out of Maytreya I have  El Minja's Maxim a very pretty bitch. Maytreya is grey colored and she has been mated to my imported   CH Tn Hi Brick the Big Bang and they produced a very pleasing litter. A son of CH Tn Hi Brick the Big Bang , CH El Minja's Seng-Tru was mated to Maytreya and they produced my pretty Lhasa Apso bitch El Minja's Maxim.

To improve certain points,  I bought the bitch   Mouche Do'r Des Coquins, she was bred to Ramatsche (very old Dutch with excellent quality) .  Mouche Do'r Des Coquins I bred to my CH.El Minja's Mahakala and this litter gave me my famous CH EL Minja's Amitabha . She was deep red color with a dreaming head and the hautain Lhasa character. The first time she came to the show in juniorclass she won best bitch, over specials, this was at the Arnhem International championship show 1992.

Her list of wins is very long.

Highlight" Amitabha together with her father Mahakala" won the Paris Longchamp International championshipshow in 1993 both CAC/CACIB and Mahakala BOB.! This show is at the fields of the hippodrome Bois de Boulogne in Paris.

A good  year later,  I  imported the male CH.TN HI Brick The Big Bang, bred in the USA by Mrs Joyce Hadden of Tn Hi kennel and I imported him from Colombia from Mrs Cecilia Franco, his journey was via Spain were he was shown at the worlddogshow Valencia by his breeder  Mrs Joyce Hadden. CH.Tn HI Brick The Big Bang stayed a couple of months in Spain for some dogshows and was never used for breeding in Spain.  Brick was a nice male but  had a very bad time behind him. After he had six months relaxing and joining our house life I've started him at the dogshows again. It was a different experience for him and he really trusted me.  I lead him to the reserve BIS title at the greatest Dogshow of Europa "Dortmund VDH Hunde ausstellung Bundessieger".

CH. TN HI Brick the Big Bang with Sylvia

CH TN HI Brick the Big Bang did fit perfectly  in my Lhasa Apso lines and produced very well with my bitches, he gave me the most beautiful feminin CH El Minja's Lady-Nada, an experienced judge for more than 40 years in the breed said about her " she is one in a  million, the perfection".    Thank you ! With EL Minja's Chumi, he produced wonderfull males and with my other bitches excellent females. A son of CH.Tn HI Brick The Big Bang his name is Taikoo de San Marino also arrived from Cecilia Franco via Spain but he was not of the quality I was looking for, not good enough for showing and breeding program so I placed him as a pet. Cecilia Franco imported 2 very nice Lhasa Apso's from me.

In 1993 I purchased CH Qeshew Des Coquins  into my kennel, she was bred on old European lines as Ramatsche I mated her with Brick and they gave me my famous multi Ch EL Minja's Tsarong. Tsarong  was born real black and he stayed black until he was 10 weeks old and finished up dark deep red, a lovely male with gorgious temperament, Tsarong was one of my Top Lhasa Apsos.

In 1994 a litter was born from Tn Hi Brick the Big Bang out of my Dutch champion Farah-Diba v/d Warwinckel  (Ch.Dolsa Marlo Matador granddaughter), one bitch stayed at home, the other puppies went to breeders in three different countries. In France El Minja's Chana Dorje was made up International Champion. Unfortunately the other Lhasa Apso 's of these litter were never shown.

Later that year a litter was born out of Brick and Adarsha fun Nuijefurd( Lingstoc Just Billy daughter) produced our famous  CH EL Minja's Adarsha she pleased me very much in the ring and as a mother. She produced great, She is the mother of American and Canadian Champion El Minja's Chumbi and multi Champion EL Minja's Nag Po Chen Po wich is a winner as well he went to China and Hong Kong for starting the Lhasa Apso in these countries.

Another litter of CH.Tn HI Brick The Big Bang,that year produced the famous Best in Show winner and World Champion Winner  CH. El Minja's Thang-Ka, this  parti-color boy had shown all over Europe, winning BOB and BIG as BIS, out of his breeding I have several Lhasa Apso  males and females to keep on going on this line of me. Thang-Ka produced Top dogs in many kennels still nowadays offspring of CH EL Minja´s Thang-Ka is seen in the dogshow ring.

When I review the next litters of CH.Tn HI Brick The Big Bang,, I have to notice the litter of CH. El Minja's Honeybe and her brother CH El Minja's Hi Flyer which went to the USA, to Mrs Joyce Hadden. This Boy aka Baron is a very solid and an attractive male, with a marvelous coat. He was producing in TN HI kennel of Mrs Joyce Hadden in the USA.

Mentioned my Lhasa's I cannot passed my EL Minja's Chamdo,  CH. EL Minja's Osiris & CH. EL Minja's  Only for Pleasure, EL Minja's Joyana CH.EL Minja's Nag Po Chen Po, CH EL Minja's Jasmine they all have very high qualities, and soaring above!

The differences are small because of my consistency breeding.

To refresh and keeping the diversity on level, I did used two males consisting some inheritance of the former bloodlines of mine and submitting some new characteristics. The results are excellent and I'm very pleased with the results. Out of this refresh breeding is USA BIS BISS CH EL Minja's Walk on Water, EL Minja's Innimini in the USA, CH.EL Minja's Good as Gold, EL Minja's Me Me, CH. EL Minja's Gambler and CH.EL Minja's Thsang-Pa and CH.EL Minja's Dream On.

Lhasa Apso breeding the results are Great;

Lhasa Apso Champion EL Minja's Thsang-Pa and his brother Champion EL Minja's Walk on Walker in the USA owned by Mrs Fran Stayer can be proud on their wins, see the news page. Champion EL minja's Dream-On a great champion too with great results and is now multi champion.  Her companion Ch.EL Minja's Good as Gold is a real red-golden bitch and she is a look a like with her sister Innimini in Canada.

Champion EL Minja's Gambler started his career in Germany with a winners dog and in Belgium with a best of breed and Group 3 placement, do I need to say more.......Champion EL Minja's Gambler has great influence is many kennels in Europa he was used many times for breeding still today.

CH Le Sajnim indian Dream and Le Sajnim Ashanti bred by my husband Frank , he dearly wanted to go back to my previous lines and used a German male son of CH EL Minja's Thang-Ka with the female CH EL Minja's Osiris.

The last years I am focussing on even more improving my quality and imported new dogs into my kennel.

Very important was my choice to add Kalif (from kokomo kennel) this male with wonderful temperament and attitude had a wonderful career and is a tribute to my breeding program, he won BIS,BISS,Int.Dutch,Belgium,German,VDH Europasieger champion titles.

Kalif produced excellent quality in my kennel.

Other imports are from the USA mentioning; Brick, Arielle, Lilly and Candy (2ng generation EL Minja´s all from Nuseng/Sinkey kennels breeding exclusive with my EL Minja´s stock) Arielle, Candy and Lilly are American Champions in European countries.

I will breed later with the other guys. On the dogshow scene Lilly and Brick put there names already here on the showfields as they have won numerious titels,best of breeds and best in groups and best in shows!

With my newest youngsters as Jo-Bo, Katie, Safir and Mercedes the last few years are succesful certainly with CH EL Minja´s Nashua who won Best in Show at Leiden 2010, in the USA Chenpo & Walker JR Kaden finished for Champions at the dogshows. As well as Jupiter his sons Kaden and Walker junior. In Scandinavia CH EL Minja´s Solar Kyi, Luna and Xivas obtained all of them their multi Champion titles.

All these Lhasa Apso´s are EL Minja´s bred or 2nd generation down from EL Minja´s, except Jo-Bo he has EL Minja´s back in his pedigree down from CH EL Minja´s Mahakala, he is a son from Kalif and from old German mother line.

Ch EL Minja´s Yeshey

will be continued

Best Regards,

Mrs S.H.M. van Tatenhove van Roosenbroek, breeder and owner of "EL Minja's kennels".

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Sylvia with her beloved Champion EL Minja's Tsarong at Paris dogshow "Longchamp

One of my first Afghanhounds "Abdoullha"

Mrs Sophia van Tatenhove van Roosenbroek  year 1983 in function as Dogshow Manager.

Champion Lingstoc Just Billy bred by Mrs S.Linge owned by myself.

Lhasa Apso in Obedience classes we have been succesfull in obedience Lia obtained several degrees with our Lhasa Apso dogs check out Lia page click here!

CH EL Minja's Walk on Water .

foto Wayne Cott

BIS Multi Champion Kokomo Kalif .