HAVANESE
DD - Lil Scamps Sardi She's a Devil in Disguise
1st/Winners Bitch/Best of Winners/BEST OF BREED
from the 6 - 9 month puppy clasover 4 specials for a 3 POINT MAJOR!
Congratulations to owner Sara Dingman Dellorto, and co-owner/breeder Ruth Francis-Floyd.
THANK YOU JUDGE JASON HOKE
As much as we appreciate this win (as co-breeders on this puppy) this is another example of a Judge rewarding puppy coat. He gave this bitch Best of Breed and the puppy dog Best of Opposite, over top specials. Having received this award numerous times, it has almost always come down to coat. While I think this is a really special puppy, who moves like the wind, these judges have to get it out of their brain that soft, silky coat equals puppy coat. There is a difference between soft, silky adult coat, and soft, silky puppy coat. A puppy coat should be softer and silkier, but the standard does not say 'the softest, and silkiest coat in the ring.' Mr. Hoke felt that this puppy was great enough to put over top specials, yet not good enough for a group placement.
Note to all judges: If they were that great in the breed, then they deserve something in the Group.
I am getting a little tired of judges picking one sentence, out of context, from the standard, and judging by that. I had a judge a short while ago tell me that all of my dogs had incorrect upper arm. He insisted that the standard called for a 'short, straight, upper arm.' The standard says 'short upper arm' THREE times. It does not say "short, straight, upper arm." If my dogs were so incorrect, why give me any ribbons at all? Instead I had winners dog, winners bitch, and Best of Breed. Things that make you go "hmmmm."
