Journal Donau 2018
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see some of the dogs due to the darkness and<br />
bad lighting. BUT, I was determined to make<br />
this a special event.<br />
BEST IN SHOW JUDGING<br />
Once all the dogs at entered the ring one at a<br />
time It was necessary to make two lines so I<br />
could look more closely and examine each of<br />
the breeds. After giving all the dogs the opportunity<br />
to move individually, I took another<br />
close look and decided to just do one cut due<br />
to the lateness of the evening. I selected 5 final<br />
breeds.<br />
5th Place. The Irish Wolfhound. A truly beautiful<br />
specimen of the breed. Very classic in outline,<br />
wonderful type with a great body. Moved<br />
with great ease, showing both strength and<br />
elegance. Presented in tip top condition.<br />
4th Place. The Whippet. Very classic in outline<br />
and breed detail. Lovely size, excellent body<br />
with correct top line and matching underline.<br />
Totally sound with great foot placement, very<br />
easy on the eye when moving, presented in top<br />
condition.<br />
3rd Place. The Azawakh. A tall very beautiful<br />
young male of such excellent type. Wonderful<br />
head and expression, excellent top line and<br />
shown in great condition. He moved with precision<br />
and lifted of the ground with ease and<br />
good balance on the move.<br />
2nd Place. The Greyhound. A wonderful young<br />
bitch that stole my heart in the breed. I loved<br />
her type, her beautiful balance and clean flowing<br />
lines.<br />
A very well put together young girl, well angled<br />
but not over done. Covered the ground<br />
smoothly. Presented in very good condition.<br />
BEST IN SHOW. The Pharaoh Hound. A glorious<br />
specimen of his breed. The essence of this<br />
breed for me is its historic breed detail, this boy<br />
clearly had this for me.<br />
A beautiful wedge shaped head, great expression,<br />
Well set and well erected ears. Clean<br />
back skull and wonderful long neck which was<br />
beautifully arched which all enhanced his overall<br />
appearance. Great top line, fantastic body,<br />
good bone and shown in tip top condition. He<br />
moved with power and held his shape. BUT, I<br />
would have liked him to move a little slower.<br />
It was an honor and privilege for me to award<br />
him BIS from such a huge and high quality<br />
entry.<br />
Sunday Judging<br />
Chart Polski.<br />
Just a couple and nothing special. I found it necessary<br />
to heavily down grade a young Junior<br />
male. Type was good but he was not in good<br />
condition. Very much under weight, full rib<br />
cage showing and no muscle at all.<br />
Galgo Espanol<br />
A breed I really like judging, they can be quite a<br />
challenge to judge at times.<br />
Not a huge entry but enough to follow through<br />
in type. The overall entry was rather consistent<br />
in Type, soundness was rather good and a few<br />
very promising youngsters. My only criticism I<br />
found many moved rather narrow coming and<br />
going.<br />
Magyar Agar<br />
Not a large number to judge but type was<br />
good. BOB was a clear and easy winner. Tall,<br />
masculine yet still elegant male of good type,<br />
excellent construction and moved with both<br />
strength and power, covered the ground very<br />
well.<br />
Podengo Portugues Smooth and Wire.<br />
A small but quality entry. Good type and<br />
soundness was good in both varieties.<br />
Italian Greyhounds<br />
This was a very large entry of IGs, I had been<br />
looking forward to my judging and right from<br />
the first class numbers in each class was very<br />
large.<br />
My overall opinion of the entry fell far short<br />
of my expectations. I was rather disappointed<br />
with the overall quality and I cannot remember<br />
ever down grading so many exhibits in my<br />
history of judging. I consider myself to be a<br />
rather fair judge, thus, I do not judge any breed<br />
hard and will normally always find enough virtue<br />
to grade high. This was clearly not the case<br />
with this entry. In most classes it was necessary<br />
to place VG exhibits as I could find enough<br />
excellent dogs to award and place. Overall type<br />
was lacking. So many exhibits lacked angles<br />
and many were just average movers.<br />
Way to many exhibits were uncomfortable on<br />
the table and many I could not examine. Yes,<br />
clearly I was very disappointed.<br />
My two main winners, best male and best<br />
bitch were clear stand outs. Both were beautiful<br />
type, elegant, well angled and both had<br />
correct heads and VG expression.<br />
Both moved as an IG should move, they were a<br />
pleasure to judge and award<br />
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