"I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Committee for inviting me to judge their lovely breed and I felt most honoured to be able to do so. A big thank you to the exhibitors for bringing your dogs for me to cast my eye over and I enjoyed going over such wonderful dogs. Thank you also to my able stewards who kept the ring and paperwork up to date.

Overall I was very pleased with my lineups in both the dogs and bitch class winners and I felt my BIS met the breed standard to a tee. Overall the strength I feel lies in the bitches. Just a couple of points I noticed was muzzles are becoming too long and wrinkled which is not in the breed standard but pleased to say the last time I judged long ears were the problem but I didn't find any on the day on the exhibits."