First Place in Post Graduate - Bitch, Judge: Rachel Larner (Hawcoat)
Firstly I would like to thank the club and its committee members for inviting me to judge their show, it was an honour and privilege and I thoroughly enjoyed my day. Thank you to my two lovely stewards, Liz Barrett and Anna Duxbury, for their help and assistance and for keeping the show running smoothly. Lastly I would like to thank all the exhibitors for entering and bringing their lovely dogs for me to judge. I have done the majority of my judging, so far, in the south west and wales so it was a real pleasure to go over some dogs that I have not had the pleasure of judging, Northern dogs are a lot hardier than our southerners!!
I had some quality dogs to go over which gave me some tough decisions to make and wish I could have given out more cards. I found all dogs to be entire and no bad mouths, apart from the odd missing tooth in the Veteran class!
I really did have a fabulous day and just want to apologise for not getting this critique out sooner.
Tough Class of some lovely bitches. The top two were lovely examples of the breed who on another day could easily switch places.
Super blue and tan bitch with a lovely feminine otter head and expression, keen dark eye, good scissor bite and ear set on well. Good reach of neck into well laid shoulders. Good narrow front with well laid rib. Good underline and rear angulation, a well-balanced bitch. Level topline which she held on the move. Moved well round the ring. Pleased to award her BB.