First Place in Special Beginners - Bitch, Judge: Mrs Elizabeth Barrett (Howthwaite)
I would like to thank the committee of the Scottish BTC for their warm welcome and hospitality. Thank you also to my ring stewards Joyce Orr and Helen McKenzie for keeping things running smoothly. I am grateful to those exhibitors who braved the weather to attend the show. All the dogs were entire and mouths were very good. Coats were on the whole just on their way in which I expected just before the coming show season. A number of exhibits were carrying rather too much condition for a fit functional terrier.
Dark grizzle and tan bitch with a good bite and lovely shaped dark eye and well set ears. Good neck and clean well laid shoulders and lovely return of upper arm. Ribbed well back with a strong loin. Good for bone and standing on very well padded feet. Lovely hind angulation which balances her front nicely. Short well set tail and in the most fabulous dense pin-wire topcoat with the thickest of undercoats and oodles of thick pliable pelt. A little erratic on the move but true when settled. Just carrying rather too much condition today.