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10 – June, 2021

By Tom Grabe

The anticipation is over. After 16 long months since a Best In Show winner was chosen on the floor of Madison Square Garden, Westminster 2021 is here!

As we all know, everything is different this year. The show will be held outdoors on the grounds of the Lyndhurst Mansion. The gate is limited to exhibitors, some owners, press and Westminster officials. There will be no water to wash dogs and no power to dry them. There will be an enormous, free-span tent but the breed judging will be outside of the tent on the grass as I understand it. In short, it’s not New York City, it’s not indoors, and it’s not February.

If you peruse the table of contents in this issue you’ll find a few articles about this year’s show and Westminster history. Elaine Lessing writes about the excitement and expectations for this show in her column, The Big E. (page 92) She also talks to current and former WKC judges about how judging the most prestigious dog show in North America, if not the world, is different in IMHO. (page 122)

Kerrin Winter Churchill looks back on the life of 4-time Westminster BIS winning handler Percy Roberts in The Great Ones. (page 104) And Sarah Montague talks to a few of today’s modern handlers about this year’s Westminster in her article titled, The Same, But Different – Westminster at Lyndhurst. (page 250)

As I read all of these articles, I began to think of Westminsters past. I wondered why this year’s show is different from all of the others whether it be the venue, the lack of bystanders, or the time of year. The obvious answer is that none of those prior shows were impacted by COVID-19.

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