First Place in Minor Puppy - Bitch, Judge: Mr Colin Girling (Benattivo)
I would like to thank the Officers and Committee for giving me the opportunity to judge Border Terriers in their spiritual home territory. My stewards, Audrey & Judith did a great job in running the class changes efficiently on a hot humid day. It was a lovely entry, with many exhibits that I had not judged before – thank you all. I found some exhibits which could have been better prepared with attention to coat, body condition and clean teeth. A few level bites a couple of kink tails influenced placings but all dogs were entire and overall a nice group of BT’s to go over. My main winners had breed qualities that outweighed any imperfection, that in my opinion wouldn’t impact on its ability to perform its traditional work.
This was an outstanding class of youngsters and the quality was in abundance, I had to move some good specimens that I liked down the line. It will be interesting to see which of these go on to bigger things?
To win this class, the coat and condition were outstanding on this feminine youngster, who had good reach of neck, nice shoulder and good rear angulation. She moved out with good length of stride and purpose, super pelt and top-line with well-set on carrot like tail. Went on to be best puppy bitch, just lost concentration on the move in the final challenge for best puppy. A very promising prospect.