NWA Open Show
7th November 2015
I would like to thank the committee of National Whippet Association for giving me the opportunity to judge at their open show. It was such an enjoyable experience to be part of this very friendly, well organised breed show. The committee was welcoming and helpful and the exhibitors were very good sports. I would like to express a special thanks to my two ring stewards and all of the exhibitors who brought their beautiful whippets to be judged.
Minor Puppy Dog
Bellamy’s Kandalama Royale
7 month brindle with white trim
This is a handsome puppy who looks to have a lot of potential. Good length of ribs and loin with balanced angles front and rear. He sports a lovely head with good expression and ears. Moved well coming and going and in profile. BPD
Puppy Dog
Field’s Florancy First Glance
11 month shaded fawn with black mask
In top muscle condition, deep brisket and filled in front, good angulation in front and rear. Handsome head with good expression and ears. Sound mover and good profile movement.
Junior Dog
1. Leathart & Skelley’s Ringmore Dalrymple
Fawn, Balanced with no exaggeration of angles, good lay back of shoulders, curvy outline with a deep brisket, typey whippet head and expression with rosebud ears. He moved well coming and going and used his front and rear well on the go around.
2. Ford’s Sunset Warrior
Fawn
Handsome head, good fill in front, deep brisket, good topline and underline
3. Heaton’s Spongebob Squarepants
Yearling Dog
1. Howgate & Hull’s Palmik Strike It Right JW
Brindle parti- colour, handsome male in top muscular condition and very well trained. I like his angles front and rear ,, good lay back of shoulder and curvy outline with deep brisket . His movement is steady and impressive around the ring. RBD
2. Wroth’s Crosscop Love Struck Romeo
Another quality parti- colour brindle, whose neck flows smoothly into his correct shoulders, good outline with deep brisket. Correct profile movement. Pushed hard for first place.
3. Grant’s Windfly Look At Me
Novice Dog
1. Perkins’s Dejare Would You Believe
Fawn with a lovely smooth outline and all the whippet curves in the right places. Handsome head with a good expression. Plenty of spring of rib and in excellent muscular condition. Very true movement coming and going and in profile.
2. Field’s Spyanfly Surely Not
Brindle and white with a good outline and many lovely whippet features. Liked his size and profile movement.
3. Grant’s Windfly Look At Me
Special Beginners Dog
1. Nunneley’s Nimrodel Cognac
Fawn and white of good size. Good length of rib and loin, balanced angles front and rear, deep brisket. Best mover in the class.
2. Price’s Whisterfield Easy Rider Among Silkdance JW
Fawn with a curvy outline, deep brisket and long loin. In good muscular condition.
3. Down’s Rubys Boy Blue
Post Graduate Dog
1. Foord’s Collooney Pocket Rocket
Fawn white trim, quality, elegant boy of good size. Liked his head and expression, curves in the right places, with balanced angles front and rear. Moved well. Pushed hard in the challenge, but was a bit fidgety.
2. Perkins’s Dejare Would You Believe
3. Webber’s Dazzling Whiteband
Limit Dog
1. Nunneley's Veredon Vanilla Sunset
Fawn. Masculine, elegant and smooth. It is a pleasure to go over this dog because everything is so smooth and your hand flows from his head to his tail. Great front with plenty of fill and nice angled shoulder and upper arm. Good spring of rib and deep brisket, top line with the correct curve over the loin. Strong hindquarters. He is in beautiful condition and has a mole skin coat. A very sound mover with good profile movement. BD, RBIS.
2. Hughes's Penbriar Corruleam Star
Blue Not as long in the loin as I usually prefer, but I could not overlook him because of his construction and soundness. Good front with correct shoulder and return of upper arm, deep brisket and no exaggerations. Moved well.
3. Knowles's Lelaps Expelliarmus
Open Dog
1. Bellamy's Palmik Celtic Royale JW
Brindle and white good length of loin, lovely arched neck that flows into well layed back shoulders, correct return of upper arm. Handsome head with good expression and ears. Strong hindquarters. Moved soundly and with correct reach and drive.
2. Hughes's Derohan Masked Marvel
Brindle Another quality whippet with long loin, deep brisket, well muscled hindquarters, lots of fill in front. Preferred the outline of number one.
Open Racing and Lure Coursing Dog
1. Webber's Dark Wing
Black. Elegant dog with a curved outline, deep brisket. Correct front and rear angles. Loved this dog’s fill in front and front assembly.
Moves soundly and with good reach and drive. In super condition with a shiny coat.
2. Price's. Wisterfield Easy Rider Among Silkdance JW
3. Ford's Pelyma Positively Pompous
Veteran Dog
Hughes’s Smokey Faeriewood
Blue 8yrs old who looks to be an all purpose dog, pleasant head with a keen expression, nicely folded ears. Good fill in front, good muscle tone and showed enthusiastically..
Veteran Bitch
Wignall’s Starswift Sunset
Fawn 7 yrs old Good size and shapely, well balanced bitch. Correct depth of brisket and curve over the loin in the right place. Pretty head with a lovely expression. Moved well coming and going and in profile.
Minor Puppy Bitch
1. Howgate & Hull’s Palmik Kandalama Dusk Till Dawn
Brindle and white 7 month well trained promising puppy, correct lay back of shoulder and return of upper arm. Lovely outline with long ribcage and loin, deep brisket. Good hindquarter and moved soundly and with correct
reach and drive.
2. Grant’s Oakbark Magic Fly Over Windfly
Fawn 8 month Pretty feminine bitch, lovely head and eye, like her length of body and shape, many more good whippet qualities. Was overly enthusiastic on the day but I managed to see moments of good movement.
3. Simmons’s Culumalda Cornflower of Bosmere
Puppy Bitch
1. Howgate and Hull’s Palmik Wish Me Luck JW
Brindle white trim 11 months Wow, can this puppy bitch move and her structure would explain this. Shoulder is correct as is her return of upper arm. She has good length of rib and loin which allows her to cover a lot of ground. Not only is she made to run, but she has elegance and style. I was pleased to give her BPIS.
2. Chappell’s Blueflight Rainbow’s Charm
Silver fawn with white trim . 10 months Curvey outline with deep brisket , good tuckup and spring of ribcage. Nicely muscled. Well angulated rear. Her movement needs to settle.
Junior Bitch
This class was very strong with every entry showing promise.
1. Home & Fisher-Home’s Citycroft My Fair Lady Of Jasarat
Fawn with white trim A beautiful girl who possesses all the whippet qualities that I appreciate. She is elegance from the tip of her nose to the end of her tail, without losing the functionality of a running breed. Head that is beautifully feminine. She is so smooth as her neck flows into beautifully laid back shoulders, with a topline that is curved over the loin. Angles in front and rear match with no exaggerations. Underline is curvey with a deep brisket and correct tuckup. Movement is correct and this bitch is one to watch. It was my pleasure to award such quality a BIS.
2. Chappell’s Nattah Skys The Limit At Blueflight
Brindle and white Quality as well. Feminine head and good eye expression. Liked her outline with good length of ribs and loin. Correct shoulder and good angled hindquarter. Moved well.
3. Dewart’s Felicific Coweslip
Yearling Bitch
All three entries in this class were of finest quality.
1. Home & Fisher-Home’s Citycroft My Fair Lady Of Jasarat
2. Howgate & Hull’s Palmik En Vogue JW
Fawn with black mask Lovely quality with great outline, deep brisket. Good angles in front and rear. Well muscled. Sound mover and free and easy profile movement.
3. Bayley’s Whisterfield As If By Magic JW
Novice Bitch
Chappell’s Blueflight Rainbow’s Charm
Special Beginners Bitch
1. Wignall’s Starswift Siouxsie Sioux
Light fawn. Nice size, pretty head with good expression and ears, shoulders laid back correctly, hindquarter has adequate angulation and is so sound. Nicely bodied with a good spring of rib and strong loin.
2. Longhurst’s Blue Moon Eclipse
Blue with white trim . Very similar in type to number one, feminine head with lovely expression. Deep brisket with good body. Nicely muscled and in good condition. Moved well. Pushed hard for 1st place.
3. Dewart’s Felicific Coweslip
Post Graduate Bitch
1. Davis’s Jemalsheva Kaliska
Fawn and white. Pretty head with lovely expression. Good length of ribcage and loin, well angled shoulder, no exaggeration of angles in the rear. Like her style and topline. Moved well.
2. Longhurst’s Blue Moon Eclipse
3. Bunney’s Jothryn Bjorne To Party At Bunehug
Limit Bitch
1. Bass’s Blandings Treacle Tart
Brindle and white High quality , beautiful head and ears with a graceful neck that flows into her correct shoulder. Stylish outline with deep brisket , lovely topline. Liked her return of upper arm and angle of hindquarter. Movement was sound and flowing around the ring. Was one of the four most considered in the challenge.
2. Chappell’s Blueflight Snow Fairy
Brindle and white Another girl with a feminine head and lovely expression. A stouter body type than number one, but has a good whippet outline with a deep brisket. Good shoulder. Moved well with adequate reach and drive.
3. Wignall’s Starswift Sunbeam
Open Bitch
1. Hills’s Shimmeree Chantilly Lace JW
Black A beautiful good sized bitch, elegant profile outline with a deep chest and rise over the loin. Very feminine head, well angled shoulder with the neck flowing smoothly into the body. Rear has plenty of angulation, but not over done. I like the way she moves coming , going and around the ring. RBB
2. Julian’s Bluestreak Blonde Ambition
Fawn Good quality bitch with plenty to like. She also has a beautiful profile with a deep brisket and curvy topline with good length. Good profile movement, just preferred the hindquarter movement and length of body of the first place winner.
3. Smith’s Cryhavoc Contradiction
Open Racing/ Lure Coursing Bitch
1. Webber’s Diamond Web
Brindle parti-coloured A sound little bitch that you can’t ignore. She has no exaggerations of any kind. Very desirable shoulders and balanced angles all around. Like her head and expression. Deep brisket and correct topline. Very sound mover and no nonsense movement around the ring. She was seriously in contention in the challenge.
2. Webber’s Derohan Attraction
Brindle with white trim Another soundly constructed bitch, who I later found out is the mother of number one. Quality begets quality. Good mover both coming and going and on the go around. Just preferred the topline of number one.
3. Williamson’s Windfly Onnerown
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Minor Puppy Dog
Bellamy’s Kandalama Royale
7 month brindle with white trim
This is a handsome puppy who looks to have a lot of potential. Good length of ribs and loin with balanced angles front and rear. He sports a lovely head with good expression and ears. Moved well coming and going and in profile. BPD
Puppy Dog
Field’s Florancy First Glance
11 month shaded fawn with black mask
In top muscle condition, deep brisket and filled in front, good angulation in front and rear. Handsome head with good expression and ears. Sound mover and good profile movement.
Junior Dog
1. Leathart & Skelley’s Ringmore Dalrymple
Fawn, Balanced with no exaggeration of angles, good lay back of shoulders, curvy outline with a deep brisket, typey whippet head and expression with rosebud ears. He moved well coming and going and used his front and rear well on the go around.
2. Ford’s Sunset Warrior
Fawn
Handsome head, good fill in front, deep brisket, good topline and underline
3. Heaton’s Spongebob Squarepants
Yearling Dog
1. Howgate & Hull’s Palmik Strike It Right JW
Brindle parti- colour, handsome male in top muscular condition and very well trained. I like his angles front and rear ,, good lay back of shoulder and curvy outline with deep brisket . His movement is steady and impressive around the ring. RBD
2. Wroth’s Crosscop Love Struck Romeo
Another quality parti- colour brindle, whose neck flows smoothly into his correct shoulders, good outline with deep brisket. Correct profile movement. Pushed hard for first place.
3. Grant’s Windfly Look At Me
Novice Dog
1. Perkins’s Dejare Would You Believe
Fawn with a lovely smooth outline and all the whippet curves in the right places. Handsome head with a good expression. Plenty of spring of rib and in excellent muscular condition. Very true movement coming and going and in profile.
2. Field’s Spyanfly Surely Not
Brindle and white with a good outline and many lovely whippet features. Liked his size and profile movement.
3. Grant’s Windfly Look At Me
Special Beginners Dog
1. Nunneley’s Nimrodel Cognac
Fawn and white of good size. Good length of rib and loin, balanced angles front and rear, deep brisket. Best mover in the class.
2. Price’s Whisterfield Easy Rider Among Silkdance JW
Fawn with a curvy outline, deep brisket and long loin. In good muscular condition.
3. Down’s Rubys Boy Blue
Post Graduate Dog
1. Foord’s Collooney Pocket Rocket
Fawn white trim, quality, elegant boy of good size. Liked his head and expression, curves in the right places, with balanced angles front and rear. Moved well. Pushed hard in the challenge, but was a bit fidgety.
2. Perkins’s Dejare Would You Believe
3. Webber’s Dazzling Whiteband
Limit Dog
1. Nunneley's Veredon Vanilla Sunset
Fawn. Masculine, elegant and smooth. It is a pleasure to go over this dog because everything is so smooth and your hand flows from his head to his tail. Great front with plenty of fill and nice angled shoulder and upper arm. Good spring of rib and deep brisket, top line with the correct curve over the loin. Strong hindquarters. He is in beautiful condition and has a mole skin coat. A very sound mover with good profile movement. BD, RBIS.
2. Hughes's Penbriar Corruleam Star
Blue Not as long in the loin as I usually prefer, but I could not overlook him because of his construction and soundness. Good front with correct shoulder and return of upper arm, deep brisket and no exaggerations. Moved well.
3. Knowles's Lelaps Expelliarmus
Open Dog
1. Bellamy's Palmik Celtic Royale JW
Brindle and white good length of loin, lovely arched neck that flows into well layed back shoulders, correct return of upper arm. Handsome head with good expression and ears. Strong hindquarters. Moved soundly and with correct reach and drive.
2. Hughes's Derohan Masked Marvel
Brindle Another quality whippet with long loin, deep brisket, well muscled hindquarters, lots of fill in front. Preferred the outline of number one.
Open Racing and Lure Coursing Dog
1. Webber's Dark Wing
Black. Elegant dog with a curved outline, deep brisket. Correct front and rear angles. Loved this dog’s fill in front and front assembly.
Moves soundly and with good reach and drive. In super condition with a shiny coat.
2. Price's. Wisterfield Easy Rider Among Silkdance JW
3. Ford's Pelyma Positively Pompous
Veteran Dog
Hughes’s Smokey Faeriewood
Blue 8yrs old who looks to be an all purpose dog, pleasant head with a keen expression, nicely folded ears. Good fill in front, good muscle tone and showed enthusiastically..
Veteran Bitch
Wignall’s Starswift Sunset
Fawn 7 yrs old Good size and shapely, well balanced bitch. Correct depth of brisket and curve over the loin in the right place. Pretty head with a lovely expression. Moved well coming and going and in profile.
Minor Puppy Bitch
1. Howgate & Hull’s Palmik Kandalama Dusk Till Dawn
Brindle and white 7 month well trained promising puppy, correct lay back of shoulder and return of upper arm. Lovely outline with long ribcage and loin, deep brisket. Good hindquarter and moved soundly and with correct
reach and drive.
2. Grant’s Oakbark Magic Fly Over Windfly
Fawn 8 month Pretty feminine bitch, lovely head and eye, like her length of body and shape, many more good whippet qualities. Was overly enthusiastic on the day but I managed to see moments of good movement.
3. Simmons’s Culumalda Cornflower of Bosmere
Puppy Bitch
1. Howgate and Hull’s Palmik Wish Me Luck JW
Brindle white trim 11 months Wow, can this puppy bitch move and her structure would explain this. Shoulder is correct as is her return of upper arm. She has good length of rib and loin which allows her to cover a lot of ground. Not only is she made to run, but she has elegance and style. I was pleased to give her BPIS.
2. Chappell’s Blueflight Rainbow’s Charm
Silver fawn with white trim . 10 months Curvey outline with deep brisket , good tuckup and spring of ribcage. Nicely muscled. Well angulated rear. Her movement needs to settle.
Junior Bitch
This class was very strong with every entry showing promise.
1. Home & Fisher-Home’s Citycroft My Fair Lady Of Jasarat
Fawn with white trim A beautiful girl who possesses all the whippet qualities that I appreciate. She is elegance from the tip of her nose to the end of her tail, without losing the functionality of a running breed. Head that is beautifully feminine. She is so smooth as her neck flows into beautifully laid back shoulders, with a topline that is curved over the loin. Angles in front and rear match with no exaggerations. Underline is curvey with a deep brisket and correct tuckup. Movement is correct and this bitch is one to watch. It was my pleasure to award such quality a BIS.
2. Chappell’s Nattah Skys The Limit At Blueflight
Brindle and white Quality as well. Feminine head and good eye expression. Liked her outline with good length of ribs and loin. Correct shoulder and good angled hindquarter. Moved well.
3. Dewart’s Felicific Coweslip
Yearling Bitch
All three entries in this class were of finest quality.
1. Home & Fisher-Home’s Citycroft My Fair Lady Of Jasarat
2. Howgate & Hull’s Palmik En Vogue JW
Fawn with black mask Lovely quality with great outline, deep brisket. Good angles in front and rear. Well muscled. Sound mover and free and easy profile movement.
3. Bayley’s Whisterfield As If By Magic JW
Novice Bitch
Chappell’s Blueflight Rainbow’s Charm
Special Beginners Bitch
1. Wignall’s Starswift Siouxsie Sioux
Light fawn. Nice size, pretty head with good expression and ears, shoulders laid back correctly, hindquarter has adequate angulation and is so sound. Nicely bodied with a good spring of rib and strong loin.
2. Longhurst’s Blue Moon Eclipse
Blue with white trim . Very similar in type to number one, feminine head with lovely expression. Deep brisket with good body. Nicely muscled and in good condition. Moved well. Pushed hard for 1st place.
3. Dewart’s Felicific Coweslip
Post Graduate Bitch
1. Davis’s Jemalsheva Kaliska
Fawn and white. Pretty head with lovely expression. Good length of ribcage and loin, well angled shoulder, no exaggeration of angles in the rear. Like her style and topline. Moved well.
2. Longhurst’s Blue Moon Eclipse
3. Bunney’s Jothryn Bjorne To Party At Bunehug
Limit Bitch
1. Bass’s Blandings Treacle Tart
Brindle and white High quality , beautiful head and ears with a graceful neck that flows into her correct shoulder. Stylish outline with deep brisket , lovely topline. Liked her return of upper arm and angle of hindquarter. Movement was sound and flowing around the ring. Was one of the four most considered in the challenge.
2. Chappell’s Blueflight Snow Fairy
Brindle and white Another girl with a feminine head and lovely expression. A stouter body type than number one, but has a good whippet outline with a deep brisket. Good shoulder. Moved well with adequate reach and drive.
3. Wignall’s Starswift Sunbeam
Open Bitch
1. Hills’s Shimmeree Chantilly Lace JW
Black A beautiful good sized bitch, elegant profile outline with a deep chest and rise over the loin. Very feminine head, well angled shoulder with the neck flowing smoothly into the body. Rear has plenty of angulation, but not over done. I like the way she moves coming , going and around the ring. RBB
2. Julian’s Bluestreak Blonde Ambition
Fawn Good quality bitch with plenty to like. She also has a beautiful profile with a deep brisket and curvy topline with good length. Good profile movement, just preferred the hindquarter movement and length of body of the first place winner.
3. Smith’s Cryhavoc Contradiction
Open Racing/ Lure Coursing Bitch
1. Webber’s Diamond Web
Brindle parti-coloured A sound little bitch that you can’t ignore. She has no exaggerations of any kind. Very desirable shoulders and balanced angles all around. Like her head and expression. Deep brisket and correct topline. Very sound mover and no nonsense movement around the ring. She was seriously in contention in the challenge.
2. Webber’s Derohan Attraction
Brindle with white trim Another soundly constructed bitch, who I later found out is the mother of number one. Quality begets quality. Good mover both coming and going and on the go around. Just preferred the topline of number one.
3. Williamson’s Windfly Onnerown
Phyllis Seimet