First Place in Maiden - 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.
Lovely b&t with ticking throughout, the harshest of jackets and thick pliable pelt. I found her so balanced at whatever angle I looked at her from. Her head is quite exquisite, typical in head with femininity, dark eye with the best of expression, muscular neck into narrow shoulders, perfect length of rib, easily spanned, level topline which runs straight into a correct shaped tail and tailset. Her hindquarters are racy, moved out freely. Just right for bone, without losing substance. I liked her a lot. Never stopped showing, and retained her sparkle right through to the challenge. Best Puppy.