First Place in Minor Puppy - Bitch, Judge: Dr Ian Gabriel (Gaybryl)
Many thanks for the lovely entry, both in terms of quality and quantity. I thoroughly enjoyed my day with the Border Terriers. When I last judged I felt there were too many with houndy large ears, this did not seem to be replicated in today’s entry which was pleasing and expression was generally much improved. What I did notice was that front action is something that we need to watch. Being Manchester and the last Championship show pre Crufts there were quite a few dogs who had been stripped in preparation and quite a few out of coat. In part that did play a part in some of my fineer placings.
This was a well filled class with a number of very promising young puppy bitches. There was a variety with regard to size, type and maturity.
Heading this class was one of my stars of the day, this is a beautiful Border Terrier bitch who immediately appealed as soon as I saw her come into the ring. On closer examination she is all of a piece. She has an excellent headpiece with a good breadth of skull, good overall head proportions, neat small ears, good strong short muzzle and her headpiece is nicely furnished.
Good length of neck into well alid shoulders. She is well boned for a bitch and has good tight feet. Narrow through the body but well ribbed back, good top-line, correct tail set. Excellent hindquarters which she used well on the move. She has an excellent harsh jacket which was well put down and has a good depth of undercoat. Footfall was perfect and she had that extra bit of showmanship which took her to the top of this interesting and good quality class. In the challenge she upped her game even further and on the go around I found her quite lovely. It was a surprise but a pleasure to go down the line and award her the RBCC from MPB, I really hope she does well and wish her so. BP and RCC.