[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: What's right with our judges
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- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:07:43 -0400
I remember being at an All Breed Show in Virginia years ago where the judge
put up the worst dog entered for Winners Dog. This judge was so old and
frail I thought he would be blown away if a stiff breeze came along.
Fortunately he managed to put the BIS Show CH. up for BOB.
Tish
In a message dated 9/19/2014 11:33:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
d_fritsche@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
What's Right with our Judges
It was many years ago that we packed up our dogs
and went to a little all-breed show in Southern
Oregon. Surprisingly, there were more dogs entered
than we expected, so we were prepared to have a
good time. We did the second day. The first day
was one of those events you remember for a
lifetime.
I do not remember the class, possibly it was 9-12
Dogs, but we went into the ring, about 6 of us,
and lined up, waiting expectantly. The old judge
tottered into the ring, looked confused, then
mumbled something and turned his back on us. Since
he was looking the other way, I suspect that his
mumble was telling us to go around the ring. The
lady at the front of the line asked the rest of us
what he said and we all seemed to decide that we
were to go around. So off we went. About half way
through our first lap he shouted, "What in the
hell are you doing?" We all stopped and looked at
him.. Then he did something none of us expected.
He pointed to the first dog in the line and said,
"Best of breed, winner's dog, and best of
winners," then he walked out of the ring and left
the building.
By this time the ring steward was confused and
angry and left also saying she was going to find
the AMC Rep. Not sure how it all worked out, but
it was, well, different. I was not real happy at
the time, but now I laugh about it and love to
tell the story.
Judges are human beings. That's the problem. But
they are also human beings who have met some
qualifications, taken some tests and been
certified to judge dogs. Some are better than
other and have a better eye for certain things. As
in all hierarchies in our world, some few are
incompetent, and some few are at the top of the
heap. By and large, most judges are honest, try to
do their very best and give us their opinion of
the dogs they see in that show. That's about all
we can ask for.
The other factor in this game is in our knowing
what a give judge likes and what we should bring
to them. We play a large role in the selection of
the judge.
As to politics, every group has politics. Politics
it the rules and manner of how any group manages
its relationships and how it functions. It is
neither good nor bad - it just is. What we usually
call politics is when something goes wrong and the
judge, whether actually or by perception, picks
the dog of a friend or a person who has presumably
given them a favor before. But all that is
subjective and is far greater in the mind of the
conspiracy theorist than it is real. For the most
part, most of our judges try their very best to do
what is right and best for the breed.
Particularly in the specialty ring, our judges are
primarily breeder judges. That provides an arena
for charges of favoritism, in that we all know one
another, but also gives us judges who know the
breed and usually give us a better judging
performance than those who are not. How can we
improve on a system with those given
relationships? I have no idea. But most of us are
able to accept those givens and to compete with
the best of hopes and desires, trusting that the
judge will give us a fair evaluation.
We have a great group of judges and depending on
what dogs I have to show at the time, there is
always someone that I think I should go to with my
dog. That's a pretty good thing for a sport that
does not pay our judges what NFL referees are
paid.
Here's to our judges! The travel long miles, set
in noisy airports, ride in airplanes that fit 250
people into the space that should take 50, then
stand in the hot sun for hours looking at our
dogs. These are dedicated people who deserve our
respect rather than our criticism. Tell them
thanks and smile at them once in a while. We have
some really great judges who sacrifice a lot of
time and energy to do for us what we need them to
do.
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