First Place in Veteran - Dog or 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.
A lovely class of veterans, a joy to judge.
8 year old dog in super condition. Typical otter head with strong jaw and neat ears set well on a flat skull and with keen dark eyes. Good length of neck, good front, well placed shoulders and narrow throughout. Lovely topline, well balanced and well angulated. Tail set just right with a super tail. Not the best coat today but a lovely thick pelt to make up for it! BV.