Manchester (Ch - 22/01/2010)

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German Spitz Mittel PD (3) 1 O’Loughlin’s Caoilta Wicca, excellent conformation, short coupled, sturdy body, very good head, excellent gait. Needs to grow on more to balance. Very promising, incredibly dense & thick puppy profuse coat; 2 Beard’s Flamuna Franz Ferdinand, 9 month black, typical & desired balance & outline, excellent coat & tail. Far too thin right now, a shame; 3 Hill’s Wyndlee Sweet Talking Guy of Sobriety. JD (2) 1 Pooley’s Wyndlee Short ‘N Sweet at Azkaban, has preferred construction, correct sized youngster, good head, good substance, well ribbed back, short loin. Tends to stand too stretched out making him appear long in body & he isn’t. Excellent coat texture, very good side gait; 2 Hughes & Forrester’s Druitz Chestnut Charlie at Candease, attractive red. Preferred conformation of class winner. Broad masculine head, correct pigment for coat colour. Ears a tad wide set, not as compact in body as class winner. Excellent tailset & coat texture, moves with very good fluency. PGD (5) 1 Smith’s Wyndlee Ghostly Magic, lovely outline, very good conformation, has the desired substance, bone, tiny tight cat-like feet so often missing in this breed. Fairly typical head. Eyes a bit round. Very good coat texture, very good topline & tail, best mover in the class; 2 Clayton’s Rossfort Gerhardt, just out of Junior, needs to body up & come together. Typical head & expression, small ears that needs a bit higher set. In between coats right now. Very good tail set. Just needs time; 3 Beard’s Wyndlee Desperado Between Zephon. LD (5) 1 Mulholland’s Zephon Spookz the Tempest, gold dog, attractive Spitzy head, one of few so far today with what I would call a correct Spitz head. Nose pigment could be darker. Very good conformation, substance, excellent tailset, coat texture & very sound movement, quality dog. Pressed hard for top awards; 2 Hewett’s Spellcast Secrets And Lies, very neat ears well set, just the size & set on I was looking for. Very good conformation. A shade longer in body than I prefer. Excellent coat, tail set & rear & side gait; 3 Purves’ Bulabs Polarbear. OD (3) 1 McCulloch’s Ch/Ir Ch Wyndlee Chandera Spectre, mature red, much substance & body, wouldn’t want him any bigger. Typical outline, head & expression, lovely small ears well used, good coat texture, tail correct set on, gives very good account on the move, true parallel action front & back, excellent example of the breed. CC; 2 Chambers’ Ch Druitz Corncracker for Teamspitz, 6 years, attractive cream of smaller mould but still very correct. Very good head & expression, excellent small ears so well set & used to advantage, good neck, very good forehand, very good body, excellent tail, lovely coat to complete the package. RCC won on movement; 3 Hunter’s Rossfort Eldorado. VD (0). PB (5) Excellent class. 1 Hunter’s Rossfort Elbe, 8 month black with the total package. The first absolutely correct Spitz head with oval eyes, slightly oblique set, small ears high set, good fill under the eyes, balanced length to muzzle & skull. In going over her she fulfils the standard in conformation & movement. Right now lacks confidence so couldn’t advance any further today but once that hurdle is crossed she will be a star. I love her; 2 Thurston’s Caoilta Iceni, litter sister to PD class winner, beautiful head & lovely to go over. Is better than her brother on leg length so quite well balanced. Moves well, very good body shape. Two excellent examples of the breed; 3 Rolleston’s Kelham Pillow Talk. JB (4) Heslop’s Flamuna Fratelli, 12 months today so still considered a puppy. Red, very nice to go over, broad skull, good coat but texture could be harsher. Very good body development, excellent tail, strong rear quarters & excellent rear gait. In challenge for BPB the younger bitch would not use her tail. BPB, BP; 2 Cleworth’s Studholme Queen To Be, in the throes of the junior stage, needs to steady in front, just needs time to develop & grow her coat back in; 3 Andrew’s Runfold Marsh Mallo. PGB (2) Not a strong class. 1 Clayton’s Studholme Dolly Mixture, b/w whose main problem is she is too long in body thus spoiling the outline & balance. Attractive head, ears well placed but tall, good skull shape, very good neckline, level topline, good coat texture; 2 Orchard’s Spilmah Affair To Say, sable, right out of coat, did not move as well as class winner. Attractive feminine head, dark eyes. Ears slightly wide set. LB (4) 1 Moir & Moir’s Nixtev Liberty at Jansanleis, light cream, excellent head & expression, excellent conformation, very short coupled, lovely coat, excellent tail set & correct movement in all directions. CC, her third, & BOB; 2 Purves’ Rossfort Griselda, excellent bitch, very good head. Just needs a bit more time to develop in body before she is ready for top awards. Close up in quality to 1; 3 Garbutt’s Nixtev Lexis. OB (4,1) 1 Powell’s Desaria Fanny-ann at Brookwell, 6 years blue, excellent conformation. Smaller than many but within the Standard. Correct pigment & eye colour for coat colour. I was struck by the excellent muscle tone on this bitch. Excellent spring of rib, very strong short loin, very good coat & tailset, alert, active bitch with excellent tiny ears & very good movement. RCC; 2 Chambers’ Ch Nosregor Bewitched for Musique, choc, alert & active, correct eye & pigmentation to go with coat colour, sturdy body. Not the forehand of class winner. Excellent tailset, very good front & side gait. Coat is a shade soft; 3 Conway’s Druitz Dorn Dolly at Spawood. VB (1) 1 Clayton’s Studholme Kiss An Tell, 7½ years cream, attractive head & expression, small well set ears, very good bone & body. Front pastern needs strengthening. Very good body, compact strong loin, excellent tailset.
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