Greyhound Club

The Greyhound Club 20.10.2024

Lynda Race - Kaskarak

I’d like to thank The Greyhound Club for inviting me to judge. I had some beautiful dogs entered and the quality was excellent.

I was hoping to be able to judge outside on the spacious village green but ‘Storm Ashley’ had other ideas! The weather upon arrival was challenging to say the least, resulting in judging taking place inside the village hall. Despite the conditions, huge credit must go to the committee, helpers and exhibitors for battling the gale force winds and horizontal rain and putting together a super show.

Everyone will surely agree that the generous hospitality and all round friendliness made for a great atmosphere. A lovely touch was for everyone to sit down together for a hot lunch, provided by the Club.

Alongside our British contingent, several overseas exhibitors made the journey to the show and it was wonderful to see the breed coming together and supporting each other. Thank you all for graciously accepting my decisions.

Puppy Dog

1. Howlett, Boggia & Koulermou’s Ina’s Fashion Imperial (Imp) Deu

6 months old gold brindle and so very confident, I loved everything about him. Super head of good type, dark correct eyes, fine ears and really shapely. Great front, topline and smashing quarters, beautifully balanced throughout with long tail. Good carriage. Very well behaved and well schooled with composed steady movement. Super potential, handled to perfection. Best Puppy Dog.

Junior Dog. 2 entries

1. Newsham & Rowes’ Frankie Decuma Via Windspiel (Cze Imp)

Upstanding, dark brindle with an imposing presence. Wonderful head and eye displaying great type with small fine ears. Strong neck into clean front, good legs and bone. Good feet. Very shapely body, correct top and underline, well angulated quarters. Enviable condition and muscle tone. Still a teenager at 15 months old and needs to settle in movement but his career is only going one way. Super prospect with great potential.

2. Sawer’s Boughton Back On Top

Gold brindle of nice type with adequate balanced angulation to front and rear. Still needs to drop into his rear and settle in topline. Long tail and good feet. Presented and handled very well.

Yearling Dog. 2 entries

1. Langcake & Short’s Boughton Back In Business At Langshor

Gold brindle, pleasing head with flat skull and fine ears. Nice deep chest although slightly better angulated behind than in front. Curvy topline, good hocks and feet. Well presented and handled.

2. Boughton Back On Top

Post Graduate Dog. no entries

Limit Dog. 4, 1 abs

1. Ahrens & Primavera’s Sobers Ibsen.

Upstanding, statuesque dark brindle of quality. Super head, small ears and darkest of eyes. Powerful long neck into clean shoulders, great chest, well ribbed back, firm loin and super rear angulation. Presents a very shapely outline, both over and under. Good pasterns, firm hocks and feet. Fine coat, very well conditioned. Lovely dog. Reserve CC.

2. Howlett & Howden’s Rubicon’s Don’t Stop Believing (Imp USA)

Brindle parti colour, powerfully made and lovely to go over. Masculine head with chiselled detail, impressive neck into the best of fronts, so clean and sound. Great body, good width and spring, lovely underline and well muscled thighs and quarters. Super pasterns and feet, great bone. Wonderful free mover, tail carried rather gayly. Beautifully conditioned and presented.

3. Boughton Back On Top

Open Dog. 4, 1 abs

1. Ahrens & Salmistraro’s It Slo Ch Southpoint Gabriel D’sobers

Powerful and upstanding, a dominating presence in this super class of reds. Masculine head of enviable type, dark eyes, fine ears and strong jaw. Strong neck into a sound front, correct head carriage, capacious body of good length, firm loin. Super body condition and muscle tone, great bone. Hard, firm quarters with good hocks and feet. Won the class with his steady sound movement, presented in wonderful condition. CC.

2. Monti’s It Swed Swiss Croat Slo Ch Sobers Hansen

Impressive red with good head properties, dark eyes and fine ears. Strong neck into clean front, good body outline, well ribbed back, strong loin, deep chest and well angulated quarters. Balanced all through. Covered the ground easily and presented in super condition.

3. Harrison-Stratford’s Ch Southpoint Niemeyer At Highwick (Imp Prt)

Special Racing/Lure Coursing Open Dog. 1 abs

Veteran Dog.

1. Howletts’ Skyswift New Moon

Still a great favourite, beautifully made white with good head and eye, strong jaws. Sound body make up, long strong neck into a good clean front, deep well filled in chest, well ribbed back. Strong quarters and thighs. Presented in amazing condition.

2. Salmistraro’s Sobers Cassius

8 yrs old, of the highest calibre. Wonderful head and eye, powerful body, great depth and spring, beautifully clean front, great forechest and strong quarters. Looked amazing standing, but didn’t seem settled on the mat, carrying his head low and not so positive in front movement. Presented in extremely good condition.

Special Racing/Lure Coursing Veteran Dog. 2, 1 abs

1. Bakewell’s Affleck Barney Bestest Bud.

8 years old. Handsome pale gold brindle with pleasing head and dark well shaped eyes. Built a lighter frame with very moderate angulation, he was presented in super condition and well handled.

Puppy Bitch

1. Koulermou & Knauber Ina’s Fashion Highlight

Delightful red, has the hallmarks of a future star. Superb head, great type, dark eyes and correct ears. Great neck into clean shoulder, good chest with spring and depth, shapely underline. Feminine, yet displaying correct substance and bone. Good pasterns, hocks and feet. Moved very steadily. Well conditioned.

Junior Bitch. 3, 1 abs

1. Koulermou & Knauber Ina’s Fashion Hypnotic

Captivating white with excellent eye shape and pigmentation. Littermate to above puppy class winner and will surely be joining her sister on the red carpet competing for top honours. My comments on her sister apply equally but she tipped the scales for best puppy with her free and easy true movement which was a joy to watch. Well handled. Best Puppy In Show.

2. Ball’s Boughton Back In Time

Elegant gold brindle, pleasing head and good ears. Long neck into fair shoulders, shapely topline and underline, moderate angulation fore and aft. Not as positive on the move as winner.

Yearling Bitch. 4 entries

1. Boggia’s Boughton Back For Good

Gold brindle with lots to like. Won this class with her free movement and great ground coverage. Pleasing head into nice neck and front, deep chest, shapely body and good pasterns and feet. Well conditioned.

2. Sawyer’s Inchydoney Memories Une Virgin Mary Avec Stonelow (Imp) Fra

Substantial fawn, appreciated her lovely head and chiselling. Very well made with good chest, well ribbed back and firm loin. Balanced angulation front and rear, in nice condition, well handled.

3. Boggia’s Boughton Back For More

Post Graduate Bitch. 5, 1abs

1. Boughton Back For Good

2. Inchydoney Memories Une Virgin Mary Avec Stonelow

3. Boughton Back For More

Limit Bitch. 3 entries

1. Langcake & Short’s Southpoint Normandia At Langshor (Imp Prt)

Quality red of a type I admire. Beautiful head and eye, good ears. Very well angulated front and quarters, deep chest. A little long in loin and more shapely under than over. Super quarters. Foot placement not in line when moving, tended to crab. Beautifully presented and well handled, excellent condition.

2. Ayling’s Blueberry Saga Paeonia (Imp Svn)

Finely constructed gold brindle, very pretty, elegant shape with moderate angulation fore and aft. Good depth to chest. Nice feet. Well handled.

3. Abell’s Ballyoak Queen

Open Bitch. 5, 1 abs

1. Newsham’s Ch Europa Decuma Via Windspiel (Czech Imperial)

At 7 years old she headed this fabulous class with her superb overall condition and sound, steady movement which was footfall perfect. The conditions suited her well, she looked glorious and it was quite simply her day. Built on classical lines, she exuded power whilst still remaining graceful and presented a wonderful combination of type, balance and soundness. Correctly angulated front and rear, superb forechest with good width and depth, firm sound hocks and good feet. Totally fit, her movement never faulted or waned. Thoroughly deserved her win today. CC, Best Veteran, Best In Show.

2. Ahrens & Primavera’s It Esp Ch Dk Ch Uk Su Ch Int Ch Sobers Geraldine

A great favourite who can never disappoint, indeed I awarded her 2nd CC in 2022. Her excellent head properties and overall breed type appeal hugely. Beautifully balanced all through with strong neck into the best of fronts, deep chest and flowing outline. Lovely frame, shapely and curvaceous with sweeping quarters with plenty of second thigh. Without a doubt she is built to move and did not seem totally at ease coping with the indoor matting. Quality throughout. Reserve CC, Res Best In Show.

3. Koulermou & Knauber Ina’s Fashion Famous

Special Racing/Lure Coursing Open Bitch. 5, 2 abs

1. Nutts Corner Igsb 7551 (Az3)

Black, lovely head, the blackest of eyes and neat ears. Very well made, deep chest with good width. Curvy underline, superb muscle and great tone. Lovely when standing but rather stilted on the move, would like to see more reach and drive. Well handled.

2. Ballyoak Queen

3. Westview Puddles

Veteran Bitch. 5 entries

1. Ch Europa Decuma Via Windspiel (Cze Imp)

2. Boggia’s Ch Ina’s Fashion Design By Boughton (Imp Ger)

Impressive hound and most worthy champion. Great type throughout with lovely head and good ears. Totally balanced, presents a shapely outline. Scored in movement, very sound and free, covered the ground effortlessly. Wonderful condition.

3. Howletts’ Ch Skyswift Moonlight Serenade

Special Racing/Lure Coursing Veteran Bitch. 2, 1 abs

1. Sadler’s Huarache Mags

Pretty and feminine, now 8 years old. Built on a smaller frame with the sweetest of temperaments. Darkest of eyes, good ears, compact body, adequate angulation and good feet. Always enjoys her day out. Best Racing/Coursing In Show.

2. Bartlett’s Bubbly Diva.

Substantially made glorious black, approaching 11 years old. Dear gentle matriarch who perhaps found it all a bit of an effort. It was lovely to see her, I hope she enjoyed her day out.

Stud Dog. no entries

Brood Bitch. no entries