Second Place in Open - Bitch, Judge: Mr Colin Girling (Benattivo)
I would like to thank the Officers and Committee for giving me the opportunity to judge Border Terriers in their spiritual home territory. My stewards, Audrey & Judith did a great job in running the class changes efficiently on a hot humid day. It was a lovely entry, with many exhibits that I had not judged before – thank you all. I found some exhibits which could have been better prepared with attention to coat, body condition and clean teeth. A few level bites a couple of kink tails influenced placings but all dogs were entire and overall a nice group of BT’s to go over. My main winners had breed qualities that outweighed any imperfection, that in my opinion wouldn’t impact on its ability to perform its traditional work.
A great class to judge with lots of quality and only 5 places, I had to dismiss decent dogs as a result.
Shorter coupled with strong loin many quality features including a moderately broad skull, short strong muzzle, good jaw and dentition with neat ears well placed, giving a keen expression. Coat coming in she was easily spanned and was also in tip-top condition she covered the ground with ease and drive, loved her bodylines and pleased to award her Reserve CC today. She didn’t stop showing and was at one with her handler.