last night i judge a super match of all the winners from the intermatch from this club over the year,

i gave the supermatch winner to a whippet,
then i went on to do match of the month,
had a very sweet gsd of 13 weeks with one ear up and down just scoll  around the mat at ease.that was the puppy walk
from went on to do the other classes my
best puppy was deerhound
best in match was a beagal
rev in match was a whippet
was until i stood back and look at them that i realized that i had given the winners all to hounds, which i did know i like them untill went over them and watch their movement,
i had all differen type of dog plus gundogs wish are my love, but these hounds tick the box too

Bet you didn't think that is what you would have in your final line up!!!   I would think others would have put money on you having gundogs too!

:)

you right there have two breeds in the gundog group and have owned a gordon setter and a lab,

but you just have to judge the dogs on the day,

but it nice to go over other breeds too

Whippets are match dogs though don't you think?
If you look over club records you will find a dis-proportionate number of them winning. My theory is that matches only usually have facilities for " straight up and down please" so making it difficult to get a prolonged side view. Whippets invariably move dead straight up and down but few hold the correct topline.My friends and I have called them 'match dogs' for years.  

NO  i was luckly to move them in a triangle and then up and down then down to join on the end of the line.

Not only are they hounds but they've hardly any hair :d 

Remember one of our Pomeranian's winning BIS at an open show a few years ago and the judge said that she was going to get the mickey taken out of her so much because she's a gundog person!

I judged an Exemption show (my first doing the pedigree classes as had always refused to do them)  My BIS was a French Bulldog.  Now I am not a fan of short coated short-faced breeds to live with for me, but a good dog is a good dog.  There was also a super looking young coloured bull terrier, but they didn't enter him.

I had taken my KC illustrated standards book and made sure I checked the details on some of the breeds that were booking in, so that I felt confident I knew what I should be looking for. 

To be honest it wasn't as difficult as I feared it cwould be as soundness (or lack of it) sorted a lot of things out without having to nit pick on typical breed points.  Once I had found some sound animals then I could compare how well each conformed to the standards requirements.

short coated breed cannot hind any faults.

as we know in one on my breed the coat can hind alot and you cannot get your hanfd rigth in beacuse there to much coat.