First Place in Yearling - Dog, Judge: Mr Frank Nicholls (Halcus)
An excellent entry, with real quality in both dogs and bitches. I’m only sorry we were forced indoors after the puppy bitch class to get out of the biting wind bouncing off the Malvern Hills. Heads were generally good, just a few snipey muzzles, and three or four light noses. I found no bad mouths. Quite a few had short, round rib cages with weak loins. Coats were pretty good overall. The biggest problem, and has been for quite some time, was poor front movement, with exhibits moving quite reasonably, and as one would expect from a breed expected to run whilst carrying out its job, when viewed from the side, only to wave their legs all over the place when coming towards me.
Beautifully constructed, masculine red grizzle, excellent coat and pelt, lovely head, reach of neck, clean shoulders. Good length of narrow body, ribbed well back, firm loin, good angulation front and back, easily spanned, moved with true easy motion at front and plenty of drive at the back. CC and BOB.