First Place in Limit - Dog, Judge: Lesley Armstrong-Rodgers (Atron/Scottsway)
It was a great honour to be invited to judge The Midland Border Terrier Club Open Show and therefore my thanks go to the Committee for the opportunity. I thoroughly enjoyed my day at this friendly well run show. It was advantageous in having such a good sized ring in which to watch the dogs move. Borders need room to get into their stride and show their effortless movement and profile when viewed in side gait.
A special thank you also to Richard and Sharon, my two stewards for keeping things running smoothly. It is always a great help for any judge to be blessed with competent stewards. Finally a big thank you to all the Exhibitors for bringing their dogs under me for my opinion and for accepting my decisions with good grace. As always coats were at differing stages, often reflected in the placings, but coats do come and go, construction does not !. Overall I found temperaments excellent, as well it should be, which bodes well for the breed.
A lovely headed Grizzle dog with dark expressive eye and neat ears well placed. Owns a typical super keen expression. Standing on a straight front with enough bone and neatly padded tight feet. Well bodied but easily spanned and has a super thick pelt, well ribbed back, not oversprung in anyway. Level topline and lovely short carroty tail. Today shown in super quality jacket but for me it was his sound movement fore and aft that finally gave him RESERVE BEST DOG.