The Facebook post read: “So, recently I’ve seen posts by two people proudly calling their dogs Best In Show winners. One in my breed and one in another. The accepted meaning in the United States is that you have won an AKC Best In Show. Or if you are Canadian, a Canadian Best In Show. It is deceptive and disingenuous to call your UKC or IABCA win a Best In Show without designating it as such. It is not at all the same level of competition.”
When it comes to sports, all of us have heard someone talking about winning. It always comes up and usually leads to someone who says, yes… winning is everything. Well, it may be central to all sports and competitive activities, but is it everything or is there something more? No one says it better than Lee Corso, a football sports announcer who became famous for his phrase “Not so fast my friend.” He would often use this phrase during his regular Saturday morning TV shows. With a panel of his peers, Corso would discuss and analyze the performance of different teams and players. The winners and the losers. This usually involved everyone, and it included their opinion and reasons for a team’s win or loss, and how a players’ performance made a difference. Corso’s quick observation and unique understanding of the sport made him famous when he would counter an opinion or conclusion about a team or player with, “Not so fast my friend.” Then he would follow with his perspective and analysis. His phrase during the Saturday morning weekly shows attracted a large and diverse audience who soon developed a taste for Corso’s observations and analysis. Since Corso was rarely wrong, his ideas about winning being everything also attracted national attention because he looked at things as having more than two sides.
Entries for the greatest Terrier show in the world–Montgomery County Kennel Club–and Hatboro and Devon have closed. It is shaping up to be another phenomenal week! Montgomery County has an entry of 1220 terriers. Kerry Blue Terriers top the schedule with an entry of 98! Coming in at a very respectable second is Miniature Schnauzers with an […]
Interms of historical accuracy, John Marvin was on point. He presented topics in almost forensic detail–the good and the not so good. That is the historian’s job, but when it comes to purebred history, that job can be a challenge. Too often those maddening gaps in the record succumb to creative interpretation. John Marvin never resorted to shortcuts, and his legacy continues to inform us today. But here’s the thing about Mr. Marvin…scratch the surface and it’s obvious that his dispassionate presentation was not the whole story. Because he truly loved Terriers and there was no disguising that fact. Marvin and his wife bred Wires, and later Westies, under the Cranbourne prefix for decades. He judged Terriers starting in 1947, and later took on the torture of serving as Montgomery show chairman from 1971-77. Of course, he also wrote prolifically, and it’s in his writing that his true passion for these breeds is revealed. He was a romantic at heart. His overview of the Welsh Terrier in his 1964 Book of All Terriers is a good example.
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We hear about it every summer…dogs left in a vehicle with every precaution, yet somehow, cooling failed, dogs died, and owners and handlers, already grief-stricken, were vilified.
The mother-daughter relationship begins the moment a little girl is born. It blossoms each year more and more. One year they are doing Pee Wee. Too soon they reach the age to go into the ring as a Junior Handler. Their mothers, all well-respected handlers, watch as their daughters go on to do great things in the sport. The bond from sharing their experiences becomes stronger and stronger. Before they know it, that little girl becomes a handler, too. It’s a lifelong passion. From cradle and beyond, here are the amazing mothers enjoying time with their much-loved daughters. It’s obvious!
Another day, another Facebook outburst from an exhibitor, this time raging about judges who twice awarded a class dog Best of Breed over the Champions. The scandal? The dog allegedly paced during Best of Breed, though even the critic conceded it trotted in class judging for Winners. The exhibitor poured their frustrations online, blaming this incident for the shrinking number of dog show entries and dramatically predicting the sport’s imminent demise.
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