SKC (Ch - 21/05/2016)

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PD (3) 1 Barnes & Hewett’s Spellcast Talk Tidee, 7 months brown, sound & stylish, absolutely correct conformation, head is masculine, good neck & topline, so his profile is just right everyway. Lovely eye, good bone, & neat feet just right for size. Lovely dog; 2 Caldow’s Flynn’s Fly’ing Scotsman over Livlandean, another brown of good quality & type, sound, with a grand head & eye, good sturdy body & correct tail. PGD (2,1a) 1 Brock & Peterson’s Wyndlee Storm Chasing for Pomkins, eyecatching dog, with really correctly placed shoulder, so plenty of reach & drive, such a sound hard body, grand head, eye & ears, good bone & correct tail. LD (4,1) 1 Cook & Clayton’s Studholme Moon Orbit, impressive br/w with a totally correct shoulder & upper arm, good bone & super feet, correct neck & topline & tail, he is just so sound & so very stylish when he moves, has a lovely masculine head without coarseness, wonderful dark expressive eye. RCC; 2 McWilliam’s Nixtev Raziel at Istramac, cream, good for size & substance, scored in head, eye & expression, correct rib & topline & tail, just not so fluid as 1 but a very lovely dog; 3 Hamer’s Borndownunder Talking Heads of Clarmer. OD (3) 1 Smith’s Ch Spellcast Jivetalking, black, quite delightful to look at, good for size & substance with a sturdy body, correct rib & front angulation, level topline, correct tail & good typical rear angles. Superb head, masculine, well shaped skull & balanced muzzle, dark expressive eye & well set ears, in full coat. He is a delight to watch on the move, reach & drive, fluid & free well deserved his CC; 2 Garbutt’s Nixtev Polarize, cream, well made quality dog, correct all through, good body, front & rear angles, topline & tail all correct, lovely eye shape & colour, moved soundly; 3 O’Leary’s Ir Ch Amoyalois Rufus for Cadasaro.

PB (4) 1 Connor’s Galvizach Daraydala Top Class, cream that caught my eye right away because every time I looked she was just right standing, what a picture this little lady is, so typical in outline, sound in body with a beautifully correct front & rear, deep lengthy rib & super topline & tail. Her head is feminine & balanced, good flat skull, lovely dark eye of good shape & cheeky expression. Moved with reach & drive, sound fluid & stylish. BP; 2 Garbutt’s Nixtev Xamira, good for size, dark well shaped eye, nicely angulated front & rear, with a good rib & topline. Sound on the move; 3 Church & Bamford’s Fisherbloom Blue Moon with Claricheon. JB (3) 1 Hamer & Cree’s Clarmers Best Buds with Gibbcree, b/t, glorious looking bitch with such a lovely typical & feminine head, so balanced skull to muzzle. Absolutely correctly placed front with good length of upper arm, forechest, topline & tailset all excellent, dark well shaped expressive eye, good earset, so sound on the move, fluid, reaching & driving all the time, she is a real beauty & in full coat too. CC, BOB; 2 F Blue Moon with C, lovely marked bitch who is very pretty & feminine, she has a good head, eye & ear, level topline & good tailset, good bone & neat feet, & sound enough, but just a little long in the back for me; 3 Purves’ Bulabs Blonde Lady. PGB (3) 1 Garbutt & Corkin’s Nixtev Vanquish, white of such good looks & conformation, correct front with length of upper arm, nice rear angle too, reachy neck & good head proportions, sound fluid & stylish on the move; 2 Clyde’s Jansanleis Shot Of Love, white, with a good outline & neat strong body, not quite the front of 1 but nevertheless quite sound, very feminine in head with a lovely dark eye & in super coat; 3 Clayton’s Galvizach Moon Chimes. LB (2) 1 Smith’s Spellcast Kiss’n Tell, balanced & sturdy, well bodied & workmanlike bitch, with a feminine head, good topline & tail & deep rib. Moved soundly; 2 Purves’ Bulabs Leading Lady, cream who could do with a bit more bodyweight, but she is a good typical girl with a very pretty head, good eye shape & colour, & quite sound but a bit unsettled. OB (2) 1 Duncan’s Ir Ch Spellcast Talk Of The Town, impressive girl with a lovely typical outline, sound body with good rib, topline & tail, correct front with length of upper arm that allows her to move so freely, grand reach & drive, well balanced head with lovely eye, ear & neck. RCC. VB (1) 1 Moir’s Ch Nixtev Liberty at Jansanleis, gold, in full coat & super condition, pretty feminine head, good ears & deep rib, sound & stylish on the move. BVIS.

KEITH NATHAN