[ SHOWGSD-L ] Canine Discussion
- From: "Helen Franklin" <helen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:19:34 -0800
PEGGY SAID IT EXACTLY RIGHT!!!! PERFECT, PEGGY! New name,
perfect Peggy. The good handlers DO KNOW what to bring each judge. However,
when judging the Nationals, and the reason judges want to do that, is they then
have the opportunity and selection to chose the best of the best. They are
able to select what they consider the ideal. Matters not what they say, judge
your judge from what they selected at a National Specialty. THEY DID HAVE A
CHOICE.
Helen
P.S. After watching the official Nationals tapes, I missed three bitches from
the excused group. Lesson learned. Ed will correct my mistakes.
PEGGY SAID:-----Original Message-----
From: pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:00 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Return to Canine Discussions
I think it depends on the entry on the day. Most judges have
"hangups" of one kind of another...they are harder on specific faults,
more on one than another...
but given a certain entry on any given day, may overlook and forgive
that same fault that they usually can't forgive. For that matter, in a
big entry, especially one with quality dogs, a judge may hit on dogs
with a specific fault and then in a big class of specials, forgive that
same fault because he or she sees so many virtues in one dog that
overall that dog leaves the others in the dust.
It's called judging on the day, and/or judging what's there.
Say, for instance, that a judge spends the first 8 months of the year
coming down hard on dogs that are dirty going away...but then suddenly
has a great entry, filled with quality dogs, and there is a dog that
just makes the judge catch his or her breath...spectacular side gait,
beautiful reach, drive, and follow thru, and type as well...type to die
for...but that dog is not clean going away...the rest of the dogs are
good sidegaiters, pretty enough (pretty means they have type), and clean
going away...but no matter what the judge does, the dog that's dirty is
just breathtaking every time he comes into view....on that day, the
judge might forgive the dog going away.......... I don't know if
I've explained it properly, just hope so. Sometimes every judge will
forgive his or her most hated thing when everything else just is
wonderful.......... to do otherwise is, in my mind, not judging at all.
One other thing on this topic...the best of our handlers know what
blows the judges away, and they know going in what certain judges will
forgive and what they won't. They will bring a dog with a fault that
they know a particular judge usually is hard on, if they know that dog
has something that judge will just fall for, too, no matter what. I
wish there were more handlers who knew that stuff.
Peggy
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