BEST DOG AND BEST IN SHOW Sh Ch Trimere Talking Point of Allenie BEST BITCH, BEST VETERAN AND RES. BEST IN SHOW Sh Ch Trimere Total Devotion to Dexbenella JW Sh CM Res. Best Dog - Petranella Perfickly Frank with Dexbenella JW Sh CM Res. Best Bitch - Trimere Thrills and Frills JW BEST PUPPY IN SHOW - Carlyquinn Classic Line

Entry of 71 dogs, 51 present, 122 entries

I thank the committee and officers of the SESSS for the invitation to judge and their kind hospitality. Ideal showing conditions – sunny with a gentle breeze, a large, hard ring, expert stewarding and a lovely entry, made for a most pleasurable day. I felt it a great compliment to have such a high standard of exhibits and a numerically strong entry. Handling and presentation was generally of a high standard, but I was disappointed to find some weepy eyes and stained feathering.

My Best in Show was Bott’s Sh Ch Trimere Talking Point of Allanie, Reserve Best in Show and Best Opposite Sex, Sh Ch Trimere Total Devotion to Dexbenella, Best Puppy in Show Carlyquinn Classic Line. I felt the trio of Best Dog, Best Bitch and Best Puppy made a smashing line up to complete a most enjoyable and memorable judging appointment. Looking up their breeding afterwards, I am not surprised to see the top winners are closely related, the BD and BB are full siblings from different litters, and the BP’s sire and dam are also bred by the same breeder.

Dogs
Minor Puppy (4 entries, 2 absent)

1 Cole’s Trimere Touch Control, a super dog to set the scene for the day. Good type and proportions, lovely shape super front, legs and feet. Excellent ribbing, body and loin. Reserve comment on head as needs to break and develop. In fabulous coat and condition and moved well with a little floppiness so typical of his age.
2 Warbrick’s Lyndberry Lightening Star, very happy dog of good coat and colour. OK in bone, but would prefer better feet. Reasonable outline and proportions and better in head than 1 at present.

Puppy (6, 2)

1 Topliss’ Peasbottom Escape to Beresford, loved his head and expression. Strong, merry and active. Good neck and shoulders, good topline and set of tail. Free in movement but a shade haphazard coming towards me.
2 Foster’s Petronella Bombay Bad Boy for Shanoah, good general type and in excellent condition. Rather narrow in front and needs to settle, but promising
3 Warbrick’s L Lightening Star

Junior (6, 1)

1 House’s Gleadsbury Whatisname, liked his size, make and shape. Good neck and shoulders, good bone, depth and width of brisket. Well sprung ribs and strong body and over loin. Well set and carried tail. Went freely and handled to advantage.
2 Cokell’s Trimere Transition to Carlyquin, stronger in head but close up to 1. Good type and proportions. Plenty of heart and lung room, good body, moved with good swinging extension and handled to advantage.
3 Large’s Mompesson Flawless
4 Smiths' Woodspa Elm
5 Mitchells' Heulyn Intoxication

Special Yearling (4,1)

1 Gleadsbury Whatisname
2 Attwell’s Feorlig Zero Tolerance, Black and White with tan markings. Reasonable type and proportions. Fair head but rather pronounced in stop. Good large moist nostrils, essential in a scenting gundog. In excellent condition. Moved adequately.

Maiden (3,0)

1 May’s Charlie Brown Hot Chocolate, mature dog with plenty of forechest and heart and lung room, good layback of shoulders although a little heavy on the day. Good bone and feet. Moved soundly fore and aft.
2 Warbrick’s L Lightening Star
3 Smith’s Woodspa Elm

Novice (4,0)

1 Topliss’ Peasbottom Escape to Beresford
2 Mompesson Flawless
3 Woodsp Elm
4 Attwells' Feorlig Zero Tolerance

Graduate (1,0)

1 Gleadsbury Whatisname,

Post Grad (4,0)

1 May’s Charlie Brown Hot Chocolate,
2 Glass’s Tiverstone Prarie Spy at Covina, Liked his type, make and shape. Good balance to well angulated fore and hindquarters, moved OK in profile but too close in hocks when moving away. In good body and coat condition.
3 Taubman’s Meonspoke Make me Smile
4 Wilsons' Shipden Authorised at Zawspring

Limit (5, 0)

1 Walker’s Petranella Perfickly Frank with Dexbenella, filled my eye with his excellent type, construction and moved soundly with flair in his side gait and sound coming and going. Excellent neck, shoulders, ribbing and body. Good in front, legs and feet, strong topline. In very good coat and condition. RBD.
2 House’s Gleadsbury Whatacracker, well balanced dog of lovely type and construction. Plenty of heart and lung room, deep brisket, good bone and feet. Well coupled and moved soundly.
3 Whitley’s Shipden Will Hay
4 Grays' Trimere Talk It Up

Open (7, 0)

1 Bott’s Sh Ch Trimere Talking Point of Allanie, a star of a dog at his peak. Lovely type, masculine head with rounded skull, deep muzzle and good division between. Well set oval eyes, good length of leathers. Good flow of neck through withers and topline to well set low tail. Excellent front, bone and well padded feet. Just right for ribbing, body and strength over loin. Wide thighs and second thighs, which were set off by good muscle. Absolutely true on the move. Superb presentation to deliver a package that was made to win BD and BIS.
2 Gray’s Trimere Top Score, an easy second in this class. Liked his head, type and proportions, but would prefer more angulation behind. Excellent legs, feet and bone. Good low set of tail, which was carried well on the move. Sound and active in profile, coming and going. Well presented and handled.
3 Nicholson’s Kingsheath Batista, best Black and White
4 Notleys' High Score Xciting Xperience
5 Reads' Brailea Better Believe It

Veteran (2,1)

1 Williams and Toublic’s Cobhay Sweet William, 10 year old of good type. Good head proportions, and shape to skull and muzzle. Good length of ears. Good length of neck and straight front. Well presented and handled. Very happy and free on the move and kept his enthusiasm to win 3rd in a strong stakes class.

Special Beginners (10,1)

1 Read’s Brailea Better Believe It, mature, masculine dog of good make and shape, but a shade too heavy in head for me.
2 Whitley’s S Will Hay
3 Grays' Trimere Talk It Up