First Place in Puppy - Bitch, Judge: Ms Tina Jones (Otterholme)
My sincere thanks to the committee for the kind invitation to judge at my first club show, I enjoyed the day immensely. Thank you to my efficient stewards Tina Morgan, Rachel Larner and Wendy Mooney, show manager for keeping things running so smoothly.
My thanks must go to the exhibitors for bringing along their dogs today, and the sporting acceptance of my decisions.
I did note some untypical heads, which for me lacked for me the characterising feature of the breed, I found such heads to be somewhat exaggerated with too much stop, not the ‘moderately’ broad skull I was looking for.
On the whole, I found mouths were good, a couple of level bites, and one or two with misaligned teeth, but it was pleasing to find big strong teeth in most exhibits.
I was very pleased with my class winners; some decisions were very close especially in the bitch classes. In both sexes there were some promising youngsters coming through which can only auger well for the breed.
Another pleasing puppy class
b&t who very much appealed for type and balance. Very typical in head, nice fill under the eye, good strength in her muzzle and excellent scissor bite, looked so balanced in profile and on the move.She is a nice size, excellent in shoulders and upper arm, which was evident in her clean long strides, correct in rib, hence easy to span, super topline, correctly well angulated hindquarters.