2025 Westminster Best In Show Lineup Features Repeat Winners

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252 – March, 2025

By Amy Fernandez

Despite the fact that Westminster has a notorious reputation as the show of upsets, this year’s biggest shock may have been the lack of them. You might say that Westminster 2025 was shocking because so many of the top-ranked favorites came through to the final round.

This year we had three repeat group winners. Angela Pickett’s choice for the Toy Group, the Shih Tzu, GCHP Hallmark Jolei Out of This World, earned his second Westminster group. Earlier in the weekend, Judge Vicki Abbott also awarded him Best In Show at Progressive’s 99th show on Friday.

This year’s Herding Group went to the five-year-old German Shepherd bitch, GCHP Kaleef’s Mercedes, another 2024 repeat winner. Michael Faulkner had awarded her the group in 2024 and Judge Roz Kramer also sent her to RBIS last year. This year she triumphed once again under Judge Janina Laurin, claiming victory in our ever expanding Herding Group. Remember when AKC created this group to solve that overflow problem in Working? It’s up to 34 breeds and just making it out of that competition qualifies as an achievement.

This year’s RBIS went to the Whippet, GCHP Pinnacle Kentucky Bourbon, a veteran by any definition. In addition to going Best at the 2020 AKC National Championship and RBIS at Westminster that year, she currently holds the record as the top winning Whippet of all time. Here’s the thing about well-bred dogs, they don’t fall apart. For that reason alone, veterans deserve more airplay in this sport, which makes this win satisfying in many respects.

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