Show Placings
Nuneaton & DCS Open Show
15th Jan 2017
Judge: Wendy Steel (Upend)
Puppy /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Isle of Eley CS Open Show
4th Feb 2017
Judge: Kathy Gorman
Best Puppy
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Junior /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
BP. Nice puppy. Good eye and expression. Nice ear carriage. Good angulation in front and behind. Moved soundly fore and aft. Nice coat texture.
Beckenham Canine Association Open Show
23rd Apr 2017
Judge: Tina Morgan (Blewecourt)
Thankyou to the officers and committee for the invitation to judge at this show, and to the exhibitors for attending. It was a good venue with an ample sized ring and an efficient steward who kept everything in order. All exhibits were bitches today with excellent temperaments, and they were all fit for function.
I was delighted that both best of breed and best puppy, achieved group placings.
Best Puppy
Name at show: TPG4, Baillieswells Scapa
Junior /
Second Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
Nine month old light grizzle bitch. Lovely feminine handy sized bitch with a feminine head, and good scissor bite. Lovely straight front and neat cat like feet, good for bone. Narrow all through with level topline and well set on tail. Easily spanned but in undercoat today. Moved well from behind, front still needs to tighten.
South of England Agricultural Society Open Show
30th Apr 2017
Judge: Becky Johnson (Downstream)
Best Puppy
Name at show: TPG3, Baillieswells Scapa
Puppy /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Tunbridge Wells Canine Society Open Show
7th May 2017
Judge: Julie Green (Breckgreen & Stowthorney)
Best Puppy
Name at show: TPG4, Baillieswells Scapa
Junior /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
10 month old puppy bitch. Beautiful head with good bite and strong teeth. Lovely neck and shoulder. Narrow throughout and easily spanned. Shown in good double coat moved well when settled. BP & Terrier Puppy Group 3
Bath CS Championship Show
26th May 2017
Judge: Mr P Iversen (Norway)
I would like to thank the committee of Bath CS for inviting me to judge at their show. Many thanks to my stewards, who did an excellent job. I enjoyed my day among Border Terriers and their sporting owners. Many thanks for your entries.
Puppy - Bitch /
Very Highly Commended
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Southern Counties Canine Association
3rd Jun 2017
Judge: Mr Kimmo Mustonen (Finland)
I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to judge at this show. And to my two stewards who were very helpful all the day. I really enjoyed the show. It was a pleasure and an honour to judge my own breed Border Terriers in their home country. It was a day I will remember. Thank you to the exhibitors for their entries!
Puppy - Bitch /
Second Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
Excellent size and proportions. Beautiful head and typical expression. Very good topline. Good angulations. Excellent coat and pelt. Easy to span. Very good movements.
Three Counties
10th Jun 2017
Judge: Ms Michelle Barnett
Many thanks to the Officers and the committee for kindly inviting me to Judge at the show and my most capable stewards for their efficiency in the ring. My sincere thanks also to the exhibitors for their entries and support. The classes were filled with some lovely breed quality dogs and bitches and on completing my appointment I was delighted to see my final line up(s) presenting me with such a hard task in my final decision of who to award the ultimate top honours too! That always makes for a satisfying end to a judges day. So can i take this opportunity to thank you for allowing me the privilege of judging your Border terriers Two nice classes of pups which bodes well for the future
Puppy - Bitch /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
The Southern Border Terrier Club Championship Show
11th Jun 2017
Judge: Mr Arthur Cuthbertson (Ashbrae)
My thanks to the Club for my appointment which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you to the Officers and Committee for their hospitality and gift. Thanks to my stewards Tina Morgan and Jane Roberts for the efficient way they kept the show moving along. I was very pleased with my final line ups, which were all presented in very good coat and condition. I would have been happy to have awarded at least 3 CC’s in each sex. All the dogs placed had correct dentition which was very pleasing. Movement has improved since the last time I judged. However I do think more thought should be taken regarding heads as a lot appear to be lacking strength under the eye and jaw, which results in losing the otter like head.
Puppy - Bitch /
Reserve
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Novice - Bitch /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Windsor
1st Jul 2017
Judge: Mr Stewart McPherson (Brumberhill)
Firstly, my thanks must go to the committee for the invitation to judge at their show and to those exhibitors who entered, for my opinion, always an honour, to judge their dogs, giving me the highest entry in the Terrier Group. My thanks, also, to my stewards, who kept things running smoothly, with good humour.
An interesting entry, most were sound and typical. The thing that struck me most was front profile movement. An alarming number, due to an incorrect shoulder and upper arm placement, lacked full reach on the move, the leg lifting, hackney like, but not straightening out to reach full extension on the move. It may appear to be accurate coming and going, but it doesn’t actually cover much of the ground, so is therefore uneconomical movement, meaning the dog would have to work twice as hard to keep up, as the Standard asks for “capable of” and the “soundness to follow a horse”. Just because it’s possible to win with this type of movement doesn’t make it correct!
I was very pleased with my top winners, shown free standing, giving the, in my opinion, correct outlines, with no need to “assemble“ them in to a shape! All were sound, free movers. Typical “old school” Border Terriers! Pleased to hear that their qualities were recognised in their respective Groups!
Puppy - Bitch /
Second Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
Grizzle &Tan. Litter sister to the Best Puppy. Good head and expression, neck, shoulder, front & feet, topline & tailset. Sound on the move. Just a shade shorter coupled than the 1st and was just sinking in to herself in the stack, on the day. Her young handler should have some fun with her.
East of England Agricultural Society
9th Jul 2017
Judge: Mrs Marion Reeves
Having achieved 80 years on my last birthday I have decided that this has to be the last occasion that I award C.C. ‘s in Border Terriers. It’s time for the next generation to step up. In the showring border terriers still come in every size & shape imaginable. Our breed standard is I believe the sketchiest of all the breed standards offering only limited guidance as to the perfect exhibit. What would be wrong with including an ideal ratio of length of body to height at withers? I also have a problem with “Hindquarters – racy” which for me describes a greyhound or a whippet. Surely we don’t want the overangulated hindquarters that have crept into the breed in recent years.
On to the Show! I was very pleased with my entry & had no difficulty finding some worthy winners.
Puppy - Bitch /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Bournemouth CA Championship Show
13th Aug 2017
Judge: Mr Harold Ogden
This was such a special appointment and I am indebted to Bournemouth for the opportunity. You see it was "Aunty Eva" Heslop, the revered breeder of the Corburn Border Terriers, who drove me to my first ever allbreed Ch show in 1970. Eva took Sunday school in the Methodist chapel in Corbridge, Northumberland, and I was her secret weapon boy soloist at the competitive music festival! I particularly remember the beautiful Ch Corburn Corn Dolly shown by Mr Skeet. Bellingham show was not only local for me but THE Mecca for Geordie/Scots Borders. I have judged the breed since 1992 and been educated both by a breed club seminar in 2012 and by obtaining a JDP Credit in Nov 2013. That would theoretically have halved the KC Judges Sub requirement of 160 hands on. I actually had 200. I only mention all this as cynics assume the likes of me to have been "fast tracked" and / or to have no actual interest.
69 of the original 82 starters made it so I had plenty to work with. The bugbear was fronts whether steep /elbows /plaiting /hackney. As a toydog specialist I am accustomed to spotting lift / hackney that is often written into the breed standards. But this no decorative breed but rather a functional working terrier "capable of following a horse" that
requires endurance and hence a rhythmical swing straight through from the shoulders ensuring no wasted effort, He will tire all too quickly otherwise. Moreover the breed standard expressly includes in the Faults section an assessment of "its effect on the terrier's ability to work"
Novice - Bitch /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
13m; litter sister od Dog CC; lovely b. of outstanding breed type; ex head & eye; spannable; thick pelt; quality through her narrow bodylines; ex tailset & carriage; correct bone & feet; dense coat; sound with a reachy, rhythmical profile; will surely be joining her brother as a CC contender
City of Birmingham
2nd Sep 2017
Judge: Mrs B Roderick
Firstly I would like to thank my stewards for their assistance during the day.
Thanks to the exhibitors that sportingly took my decisions, it was a pleasure to judge some lovely terriers. I would just suggest that over baiting not only slows up the judging, especially with young puppies but does spoil the terriers outline in the final line up of the classes on occasion. That said it was pleasing to find the temperaments sound in the exhibits, despite the various distractions and of course the clanking of the ducting under the carpet. Thank you again for your entry.
Yearling - Bitch /
Reserve
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Richmond
9th Sep 2017
Judge: Mr Richard Allen (Penparc)
Yearling - Bitch /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
London and Home Counties Terrier Club Open Show
10th Sep 2017
Judge: Mr Bob Blackley (Vaevictus)
Post Graduate - Bitch /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Woolwich and Bexley DCS Open Show
3rd Dec 2017
Judge: Nigel Merrick (Magicgem)
Post Graduate /
Reserve
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Folkestone and Hythe DCS Open Show
4th Mar 2018
Judge: Mr Mike Blay
Post Graduate /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
B. Good head of good proportions, good neck and correct front, good rib and straight front legs, good top line, correct harsh coat, would like a tad more angulation to stifle, tendency to paddle her front slightly on the move.
Crystal Palace Canine Association Open Show
8th Apr 2018
Judge: Ben Hanney (Lilwaukee)
Post Graduate /
Second Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Crystal Palace Canine Association Open Show
17th Nov 2018
Judge: Mr Andreas Schemel (Bentwood)
Post Graduate /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Woolwich and Bexley DCS Open Show
2nd Dec 2018
Judge: Mr Tim Ball (Kaitac)
Reserve Best Of Breed
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Post Graduate /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Guildford & DCS Open Show
8th Dec 2018
Judge: Mr Matt Smith (Alncroft)
Thank you to the society for the invitation to take over this appointment and to the Southern Border Terrier club for putting me forward. I always enjoy judging Borders and was pleased with the quality in this entry. Having grown up with earth working terriers I am always mindful when judging of the true original function of this breed.
Graduate /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Kent CA Open Show
24th Feb 2019
Judge: Gill Thomas(Sunnystone)
Post Graduate /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Crystal Palace Canine Association Open Show
13th Apr 2019
Judge: Mr Robert Goddard (Awbrooksky)
Post Graduate /
Third Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Christchurch & New Forest CS Open Show
19th May 2019
Judge: Miss Judith Haydon
Thank you so much to the Committee for asking me to judge the Border Terrier & Norfolk Terrier Classes at their Open Show. Thank you also to my three ring stewards, all of whom worked most efficiently between their various commitments to keep our ring running smoothly and keeping me in order!! And of course, many thanks to the exhibitors for entering and allowing me to judge their dogs, all of whom, and without exception, were a credit to their owners.
Post Graduate /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
A grizzle bitch with a pretty, feminine head and shown today in full double coat. A smaller bitch with a good reach of neck, level top-line and good rear angulation. Moved well around the ring.
Worthing & District Canine Society Open Show
22nd Sep 2019
Judge: Becky Johnson (Downstream)
Post Graduate /
Second Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Placing Critique
Another quality bitch. Well balanced. Good head. Little stuffy in neck. Good shoulder. Deep in chest. Well ribbed back. Well made hindquarters and used tail well on move. Good texture to coat.
Woolwich, Bexley & District Canine Association Open Show
15th Mar 2020
Judge: Dr K Suggitt
Open /
Second Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
The Southern Border Terrier Club Open Show
16th Sep 2023
Judge: Mr Robert Brewster (Stowthorney & Breckgreen)
I would like to thanks the officers and committee of The Southern Border Terrier Club for giving me the honour of judging their Open Show. I first signed the contract for the show in 2017, but due to Covid and the Lockdown I have only just fulfilled my judging appointment. Whist remembering those who are no longer with us due to the Covid Pandemic. I was happy with my entry and would like to also thank the exhibitors for entering under me and thank them all for taking my decisions, some of which were difficult, in a sportsmanlike way. I found most exhibits to be in good order, but I was quite worried that I found some younger exhibits with a build-up of scale on their teeth. This should be addressed as soon as possible. I was also delighted with a young exhibitor, attending her first show, on a whole handling her young dog so well whilst full of nerves and inexperience. We need to encourage these youngsters as they are the custodians of our breed
Veteran - Bitch /
Reserve
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa
Reading & District KA Open Show
29th May 2024
Judge: Mr Kevin Yeates (Bluebabel)
My thanks to Reading & District in giving me this appointment. Unfortunately I didn’t have a big entry on the day.
Reserve Best Of Breed
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa For Lexcol
Open /
First Place
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa For Lexcol
Placing Critique
7yr old grizzle n tan bitch, nice feminine ottery head, good front and bone, ribbed well back, good neat feet with good angulation throughout, lacking coat today, easily spammed. Res Best of Breed.
Bournemouth Championship Show
12th Aug 2024
Judge: Mrs Wendy Mooney (Chesterton)
Thank you to my stewards, Hayley and Malcolm and to all the exhibitors who endured the heat and accepted my decisions sportingly, on what must have been one of the hottest days of the year. Overall the quality of the entry was good with some lovely dogs. Mouths, tails and size were generally good. Coats varied (as they always do) in both quality and the stage of growth. There were a number of pelts that could have been thicker and loose which was disappointing as this is mentioned in the standard and important from a working point of view. I was surprised and disappointed to see evidence of scissorwork on some coats and grooming was not always done to the dog’s best advantage – this does not affect the ability to work but this is a dog show and presentation therefore does count to a degree when placing the dogs. Compared to the last time I judged, I felt that size had improved and in most cases the dogs today were closer to the standard.
Veteran - Bitch /
Reserve
Name at show: Baillieswells Scapa For Lexcol
