First Place in Junior - Bitch, Judge: Mr R Wright (Borderexpress)
Thank you to the committee of the YLC Border Terrier Club for this appointment, a very hard working team that pulled a lovely show together at a great venue and also my two very capable stewards Bridget Singh and Margaret Davies. To the exhibitors that also supported me on my wonderful entry for the day and generated a great atmosphere around the ring.
The lunch time interval also kept me busy with 6 lovely puppies taking part in the puppy walk, a great idea successfully carried out by the club and an opportunity to get the youngsters out and into a show environment – some promising youngsters to go over made the interval very pleasing.
I was really pleased with my final line ups on the day although I felt that the bitch classes were stronger than the dog classes, jackets with Crufts up and coming in a few weeks were varying so again thank you for putting exhibits forward that we all knew could do with some more jacket to just complete the picture.
16 month old grizzle bitch set down in super fit condition and lovely to go over, lovely feminine head and dark eye and neat V shaped ears. Clean shoulders and good in the rib – nice level top line in the stack and held on the move with a nice tail set, in excellent jacket/thick pelt – presents a lovely picture. Res Best Bitch and Reserve Best In Show