BEST OF BREED BENTON Alopex Marionette of Oakestelle

BEST DOG BENTON & WOOD Oakestelle Vivaldi

RESERVE BEST DOG Oakestelle Sebastian Bach
BEST BITCH  BENTON Alopex Marionette of Oakestelle
RESERVE BEST BITCH BENTON Oakestelle Venus De Milo
BEST PUPPY BENTON Oakestelle Venus De Milo

BEST VETERAN
 

Veteran
absent

Puppy
1st Oakestelle Venus De Milo
2nd Oakestelle Indie Rock at Stormsett
3rd Oakestelle Vivaldi

Junior
1st Oakestelle Sebastian Bach

Post Graduate
1st Ryecombe Deb n Air

Limit
absent

Open Dog
absent

Open Bitch
1st Alopex Marionette of Oakestelle

 

SMOOTH COLLIES – P (3) 1 Benton’s Oakstelle Venus De Milo, 7 months old today & heading a wonderful puppy class who all turned out to be siblings! Glamorous b/m bitch of scintillating colour giving her an eyecatching appearance. She needs time to develop slightly more definition in head profile but she has the clean gently tapering lines of a true wedge & she has a super flat skull. I would like a tad more length of chin. Ears are well placed & used giving an intelligent, alert expression. Absolutely bang on for bone & substance & so well bodied. Front legs are straight & well covered with good pasterns & finished off with well padded tight feet. Excellent length of arched neck into good withers, nice layback of shoulder. She needs time to develop a touch more forechest but I am confident that she will. Strong level back with correct hind angulation creating that slight rise over the loin. Long tail. For me she has a ‘star quality’ that draws my eye & I can forgive her obvious lack of maturity, because she is pure delight to my senses, she pushed her mother hard! BP & RBB; 2 Glover’s Oakstelle Indi Rock at Stormsett; 3 Benton & Wood’s Oakestelle Vivaldi. BD. J (1) 1 Benton’s Oakstelle Sebastian Bach, tri dog of just 7 months & in fact I see he is yet another puppy from the same litter as the three in the previous class! He has a wonderful chin & lip line & nice clean cheeks, but the bridge of his nose is a touch wavy. This could improve when the muzzle fills with maturity. He is a very well constructed puppy with a nice width of second thigh conveying his excellent hind angulation. Good bone, strong flexible pasterns. He was very enthusiastic on the move which made him difficult to assess. His overall balance gave him RBD. PG (1) 1 Kennedy’s Rycombe Deb’n Air, 2½ years old sable male, with good size & substance. Loved the finish of chin on this lad & flat skull, good stop. All providing an excellent head profile. Kind intelligent eye & expression. Nice ears, good bone, I hope that his body drops a little more into his frame as he continues to mature & because of this I found him to be a little unbalanced in outline, which showed on the move. Having said this he is light on his feet. OB (2,1a) 1 Benton’s Alopex Marionette of Oakstelle, well known 5 years old b/m bitch, of fabulous colour, dam of the winning quartet of puppies & I am sure her owner must be very proud of her accomplishments in the whelping box. I would like her a little bit bigger all over but she is well balanced with good bone & substance for her size, & she is very feminine. She has an excellent stop & ultra flat skull that combined with her good muzzle produce very clean & correct parallel head planes. Keen workmanlike attitude, she looks intelligent & willing to please & this reflects in her expression. On the move she is collected & effortless. Today she took BOB on her maturity in head & her mature confident disposition, but I believe that eventually some of her children will outshine her. BB, BOB & BIS. Well done!

Extra critique Benton & Wood’s Oakstelle Vivaldi, this young man was placed third in his puppy class behind his two litter sisters but when judging the challenge for best smooth male I remembered how much I had liked him, so asked for him to return to the ring as he was in fact unbeaten by any male. During his puppy class he had insisted on tucking his hind legs underneath him which lost him the look of overall balance & harmony I find essential, but as there was so much to like about this young fella, I wanted to give him a second chance. In the challenge for BD he pulled out all the stops & stretched himself out to show off his true shape. He has such an excellent width to his second thigh & I just knew he was hiding his outstanding angulation in the earlier class. He actually has the best head in the litter at this present time but his hind construction & well muscled thighs are what really impressed me on such a young male & that super long tail. In the challenge he was up against his litter brother & a much older more mature dog, but he won BD with something to spare.

ANGELA HARVEY