Second Place in Limit - Bitch, Judge: Mr Dan Ericsson (Sweden)
It is always a pleasure to judge Border Terriers and this was no exception. Many thanks for a decent entry which, however, was marred by quite a number of absentees. There has always been diversity in the breed, but I felt this was even more obvious this time than on previous occasions when I have judged Borders in the UK. Many dogs were well up to size making them impossible to span. I also felt that heads varied more than I would have liked with plenty of large ears and long weak muzzles, often also falling away under the eyes. Temperaments, as one would expect, were excellent and so were coats and pelts on the whole. Grateful thanks for the sporting manner in which my placings were accepted, and also to my stewards.
Excellent class with two particularly lovely bitches, ultimately won by:
the more I looked at this bitch the more I liked her. She excels in front and shoulders and has a lovely head, very good easily spanned body, good coat, pelt and topline, sound quarters, perhaps a little overangulated behind for perfection but a very good bitch indeed who pressed hard here and landed the bitch res CC