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Baby Puppy Dog

No entries.

Minor Puppy Dog

No entries.

Puppy Dog

2 entries.

1st: Pali's
Hubertus Double Trouble

A six month old puppy of very good type.  Correct proportions, balanced angulation both ends.  Moves in a co-ordinated fashion for one so young.  Is correct - true coming and going.  Bone and substance without excess.  For such a young puppy, shows great promise.  His coat and colour are correct.  Topline, tailset are what I look for.  He has a head which is quite masculine, without being overdone.  Well developed jaw, very good dentition.  All in all, I think this is a youngster very pleasing to the eye, and with a good future.

2nd: Wilkinson's
Pretorium P Peleus

A ten month old pup.  He’s a little taller, slightly rangier.  Correct bone and general build is good.  I’d like to see his elbows a little tighter and set in closer to the body – he’s a little loose in front and on the move he shows it.  He comes in a touch close behind on the move, but he’s overall a pleasing puppy.  I would like to see a little more foreface on this youngster, but his topline, tailset, ribbing and general construction are quite good.  I think he should make up to quite a nice dog, but certainly the head properties and general overall construction and movement of number one sorted this dog into second place today.

Junior Dog

2 entries.

1st: Hayden's
Vicoridge Magnum Power

Thirteen months of age.  Size and overall make and shape are good.  He has a pleasant masculine head.  He’s a lighter framed dog than the second place, but he’s more correct for size.  His angulations better balanced and what I liked about this dog is he has good feet and a straight front from the front.  He could do with more angulation both ends, but he’s balanced, and he moves in a more balanced fashion.  He’s somewhat untidy coming and going – I would like to see better through movement fore and aft, but side movement is good – he covers ground.  He’s well ribbed back and basically he won this class on some of the finer points and overall construction.  Coat and colour are good.  Dentition complete and correct.  If anything, I would like to see perhaps a tad less in the coupling and perhaps a kilo more condition on.

2nd: Blaik's
Hubmistil Astro Chaser

This dog is sixteen months of age and is for me a little tall.  He’s also shorter in ribcage than I would prefer, which tends to give a square outline.  This is also contributed to by the length of leg -  he is high on leg, a tall dog.  An excellent aristocratic head, with correct planes – its a very typical and correct male head.  Correct mouth and dentition.  His condition, coat and colour – excellent.  His feet let him down somewhat.  His feet are not knuckled up, and this is an aspect of a utility gundog that I consider important – he’s down on his feet.  I’d like to see a bit more angulation behind and because of that, he doesn’t move with the reach and drive I’d like to see.  He also stands and moves a little cow-hocked – he would be greatly improved if that weren’t the case.  I love his head...

Intermediate Dog

6 entries.

1st:  Harris'
Ch. Hanafor Bendick Murrell

An upstanding dog of very good type, with an excellent head and expression.  Very nice flow of neck into shoulder.  Balanced angulation – he is a moderate dog, as I want in my Vizslas.  Good depth of chest.  Good spring and carriage of rib back.  Correct topline, tailset and carriage.  He has good feet.  He has all the bone I want, without excess and he moves sound and true – covers ground very well, and is true coming and going.  Coat colour – dark sandy, and he has good eye colour.  Full and correct dentition.  From the front, quite straight.  From the back, quite straight, and from the side – balanced.  He moves in a balanced fashion.

2nd: Salisbury's
Ch. Hanafor Huxley Murrell C.D.X.

Another nicely balanced dog.  Good angulation fore and aft.  Slightly smaller than the dog in first place, but he happens to be a size I like.  He’s a confident dog.  Carries himself well.  Not a flashy mover – I think his handler could probably move him a little faster than she does, but I would rather they be steady than flashy and fast.  I’d like to see him a little tighter knit in front than he is – his elbows could perhaps be a little closer.  Good strong dogs head again.  Excellent mouth and dentition.  Good strong foreface.  A balanced head.  Nice neck into shoulders, good topline, correct tailset.  Strongly made without being overdone.  Good underline, and again, good feet.

3rd: Taylor's
Ch. Gamefinder Touch Of Kiai

He is a strongly made dog.  He has the best, hard, muscular condition I have judged today.  This dog obviously gets a lot of exercise and a lot of work, and is in beautiful condition.  He is quite solid; he is not a big dog - he’s very correct for size.  Perhaps I could do with his skull being a little less broad than it is, but I guess his head balances his body.  He has good strong correct feet.  Well matched angulation fore and aft.  Tailset perhaps a little high, and he can be a little bit wayward on the move, particularly out and back.  When he settles, he’s good, and going around he covers ground well.  Just the finer points which put him into third place rather than second or first, but a nice dog nevertheless.  Good coat, pretty well as dark as I’d like to see, but not too dark.  Good eye colour.  Again, good mouth, correct dentition.  Solid bone without lumber, but I wouldn’t like to see him any heavier.

Australian Bred Dog

4 entries, 1 absent.

1st: Meagher's
Gr. Ch. Brenwick Shah

A five year old dog of very, very nice breed type.  Stands and moves fairly true – I’d like him perhaps a little less elbowy coming and going.  In side gait, he covers ground well in a very balanced fashion because he has balanced angulation.  Good topline.  If I wanted to change anything about this dog, I would make him a centimetre less tall, and I would just make his head a little stronger.  The body is well constructed and is balanced.  Nice topline, very good underline, no exaggerations.  Excellent feet, correct bone and substance.  A good winner of this class.

2nd: Goold & Pali's
Ch. Hubertus Skys The Limit

This dog to my mind, doesn’t have quite the balance of the first.  He has a deep but rather short sternum, and tucks up just a little more quickly than I would like.  His hindquarter angulation – this side facing me is good, the other side is not so well angulated.  When he moves, he lifts his front feet a bit more than he should.  He has a pleasant masculine head, and it suits his body.  It fits well into his neck, which flows into nicely made shoulders, but I prefer the head of first place, in spite of what I have said.  This dog comes second more on movement than on fundamental construction.

3rd: Pali's
Ch. Hubertus Main Event

This dog is absolutely beautiful on the stack.  His proportions are excellent.  He has a good strong dogs head, without being overdone.  Lovely flow of neck into shoulder.  His angulations match.  He has a lovely topline, correct tailset.  Correct bone.  He’s a very nice dog.  On the move, he’s a bit silly.  Doesn’t cover ground the same as the others.  The main reason for his third placing today is temperament – he wasn’t as stable, and steady as I expect a Vizsla to be.  He is in conformation and appearance a very nice dog, but he needs to display much better temperament when being examined.

Open Dog

4 entries.

1st: Harris'
Ch. Hanafor Benbold Hunter

A dog of moderate size, which I have to say is my preferred size.  Very balanced construction, balanced angulation fore and aft which gives him his correct movement.  His reach and drive are very fluent and corresponding.  He has a pleasant obviously masculine head and expression, and I am pleased to say, like all the other dogs today, complete and correct dentition.  Stands fairly straight and true in front.  Good feet – nice round feet.  Strong feet, good pads and well knuckled up.  Good topline, correct tailset and carriage.  Bone – correct for his size.  Very nice strong crested neck flowing into nice shoulders.  Good topline.  A worthy winner of this class.

2nd: Pali & James'
Gr. Ch. Hubertus Special Edition [A.I.]

This is a dog of larger size – to my eye stretching the upper limit, but he’s a very well made dog.  He is of mature age, but that does not affect him.  He’s very sound, but the movement of first place is better than the movement of this dog for the simple reason that this dog doesn’t have the same angulation in the forequarter that he does in the hindquarter and his movement is not quite as balanced.  He is a fine upstanding dog, and he is obviously very masculine and has a very nice head.  Just a little more of him than I would prefer but obviously a quality dog.

3rd: Hawkins'
Ch. Tanrod Golden Mc Goo C.D.X.

Slightly smaller – correct size.  I’d like to see a tighter front and better movement.  This dog doesn’t cover ground as well as the others and he stands and moves a little cow hocked behind.  But apart from that, he has a pleasant head, good earset, smooth transition of neck into shoulders, correct topline and underline.  He’s well ribbed back..  Good tailset and carriage.  He’s not a bad dog at all, just unlucky to be third today to the other two.

Dog Challenge & R/UBIS:
Harris'
Ch. Hanafor Benbold Hunter

Reserve Dog Challenge:
Meagher's
Gr. Ch. Brenwick Shah

Dog Challenge winner is the Open Class winner.  He wins on overall size, balance, movement and what I consider to be type.  There are some very nice typey dogs here, but this dog is, to my eye, the type I’m looking for.  There are no exaggerations – every part blends with every other part and he’s a very complete mover.  

Reserve Challenge is the winner of the Australian Bred Class.  This is a very classy dog.  I just simply prefer particularly the movement both out and back and around of the Challenge winner.  This is a very good Reserve Challenge dog.

Baby Puppy Bitch

No entries.

Minor Puppy Bitch

1 entry, absent.

Puppy Bitch

No entries.

Junior Bitch

4 entries.

1st: Pali's
Hubertus Bestillmy Heart

A twelve month old bitch of first class breed type.  Sound overall construction.  Size and substance correct.  Pleasant, if slightly strong head for a bitch.  But still obviously a bitch head.  Excellent forequarters and feet – she has very good feet.  Round, tightly knuckled, with deep strong pads.  Her balanced angulation allows her to move in a balanced fashion.  I’d like to see her ribbed back perhaps a little more, but its adequate.  Good flow of neck into shoulders, correct topline.  Good tailset and carriage.  She stands and moves true.

2nd: Goold's
Hubertus Xtravaganza

A more stongly made bitch and I have to say, she did give her handler a really bad time.  She’s good type, nice bone and construction.  I wouldn’t necessarily like to see too much more for a bitch, particularly at thirteen months, but you can't mistake her for a dog.  Feet not quite as good as first place.  Movement a little wayward.  She was definitely throwing away certain of her chances because of behaviour.  Overall construction is quite good.  Not quite so straight in hindquarter from behind – they come in just a little bit.  But she’s a pleasant bitch, overall well made and I think it would be interesting to see her another day when she was behaving correctly.

3rd: Hayden's
Vicoridge My Deja Vu

A lightly made bitch, also thirteen months.  I’d just like to see more of her in every direction.  For thirteen months, she does look more to me like a seven or eight month old with a lot of growing yet to do.  But having said that, she has a lovely outline.  She’s ultra feminine - she would be, being small and fine but she has a lovely outline.  Her movement is a little wayward but she’s balanced, and balance is very important.  She has a nice neck into shoulder.  Like every one so far, correct dentition, good bite.  She stands quite true – I would simply like her to have more size and substance.

Intermediate Bitch

3 entries, 1 absent.

1st:  Pali's
Ch. Hubertus Sound Of Music

This is a bitch of the size that is correct to my eye.  Very good breed type, nice proportions, pleasing outline, very typical, attractive bitch’s head.  Nice expression, good eye colour.  Nice flow of neck into shoulders, good topline, good underline, correct depth of chest.  Angulations match.  Stands true in front and correct behind.  She tends to move with a little less reach in front than behind – she could probably do with a little more length of upper arm, but she’s a quality bitch, easy winner of this class.

2nd: Quinn's
Ch. Hanafor Tantu Ashka

This bitch is carrying perhaps a little too much condition – a little broad across the beam and somewhat sluggish on the move.  She doesn’t have the balance of the first, and while she has a perfectly pleasant and acceptable head, it doesn’t please me quite as much as the head on the bitch won the class.  She is a little wide in front and a little out at elbow, but quite nice type.  Strong hindquarters and she stands true behind.  She moves fairly well, but I would really like to see a little more animation from her.  Perhaps she would if she were carrying a little less condition.

Australian Bred Bitch

5 entries, 1 absent.

1st: Harris & Stading's
Ch. Kimlise Isobella Ximenex

A very nice bitch of correct size.  Correct proportion, flowing outline.  Very pretty and feminine head – I don’t use the word pretty very often, but she has a pretty and feminine head, yet with sufficient strength to do the job she’s made for.  She stands true in front.  She has round, well knuckled feet.  Her neck flows nicely into the shoulder, which continues to a correct topline and tailset.  Very good tail carriage.  She has balanced angulation, and moves accordingly.  I ran this bitch off an extra time or two with the second place getter, and the big difference is that this bitch moves more correctly – the second place bitch tends to overreach a little bit.  This is a quality Vizsla bitch, and at two and a half years of age, she is obviously in her prime.

2nd: Hayden's
Ch. Gonnylde By Figonia

Another typey bitch – balanced.  This bitch’s neck maybe doesn’t flow as smoothly into her shoulder as first place.  She’s very attractive on the stack, and she’s good on the move, but when it comes to the final analysis, she tends to overreach a bit.  She stands true in front.  Feminine head, nice expression, good eye colour.  I like the size.  I like the overall make and shape.

3rd:  Heemskerk's
Ch. Tanrod Golden Jaffa C.D.X.

This is a lighter coloured bitch, but not too light – in fact its quite a pleasant colour.  She is delightful on the stack.  I love this bitch – everything works on the stack.  She stands true in front, she stands true behind.  She has a very nice head.  But she is another who is sluggish on the move.  She really doesn’t get into the gaiting thing.  She appears to be built correctly, and I think the difference is inside her head.  Looking at her in profile – lovely head.  Neck flows nicely into shoulders.  Good topline – she’s very well made.  She’s balanced, good angulation.  She stands true.  There’s everything to like about her, and she could easily have placed much higher than that, had she been more willing on the move.

Open Bitch

4 entries.

1st: Harris'
Ch. Jasmegon Rasabee Joanna

This is a bitch of what I consider to be classic size, classic proportions, classic outline and classic head.  Soft, intelligent expression.  She stands true in front and true behind.  She has lovely flow of neck into shoulder.  Good prosternum – plenty of heart and lung room.  She’s well ribbed back, with a smooth topline, correct underline.  Excellent feet.  Correct, matching angulation both ends, well-laid shoulder and long upper arm She’s very feminine but with enough strength and substance and she carries herself in a sound, true, balanced fashion.  She is a top quality bitch.

2nd: Pali's
Ch. Hubertus Hearts Onfire

A more substantial bitch – as big as I would like a bitch to be.  If she were any bigger, I wouldn’t have placed her second, but she is of good type.  I would like to see perhaps a little more angulation in front, but overall outline is good.  Good topline.  Stands a little wide in front, perhaps toes in a little, but that’s a minor thing.  Good head, eye colour, expression.  Very good hindquarter.  Correct tail set and carriage.  She moves well, but not quite in such a balanced fashion as the winner.

3rd: Blaik's
Ch. Hubertus Misty Morn

This is a bitch of good size – in between size of first and second with a pleasant head, nice length of neck, good prosternum.  Forehand angulation is adequate but she could do with a little bit more behind.  She’s not quite balanced, and she moves in a less balanced fashion than the others, but she moves willingly and she’s an outgoing bitch.  Topline, tailset and tail carriage on the move are all quite good.

Challenge Bitch & BIS:  Harris'
Ch. Jasmegon Rasabee Joanna

Reserve Challenge Bitch:  Harris & Stading's
Ch. Kimlise Isobella Ximenex

Challenge Bitch is the winner of the Open Class.  I’ve already said a deal about this bitch – she is just beautiful, my kind of Vizsla.

Reserve Challenge Bitch is a larger bitch, just a bit taller, but of similar type, and of the balance she has the type, outline and the movement I prefer.  She moves in a very balanced fashion – reach and drive, but no overreaching.

I was moved to comment to the gallery  that it was an absolutely beautiful Bitch Challenge line-up.  All four of them were delightful, quality Vizslas.  I was very very happy with the Bitch Challenge line-up and my Bitch Challenge– I’m very impressed with them.