The long-awaited photos from the ARV 2010 National Sieger Show arrived this week. As you know, Axel traveled to Kentucky in September for the show with his breeder Denise and her husband Gary. After the long wait, I would have been quite disappointed if the photos hadn’t turned out well. And fortunately, they did. Here he is with his friend Scott Allen:
Click on the photo to see the rest of the pictures from the show.
As you know from my previous posts on sieger shows, the judge gives a critique to each dog. The critique is done for all to hear at the show, and you also receive a printed copy.
3 year old male, correct size, attentive, correct coat, correct markings, forehead should be wider for age, highly set away carried ears, correct shaped med. brown eyes, correct muzzle, more fill under eye and more pronounced cheek, exc. mouth pigmentation, strong neck a bit wrinkled, correct top and bottom line, bone could be a bit stronger, good front and rear ang, movement correct action in front, not enough in the rear, correct top line
I disagree with some of it: I like his head, I think his mouth pigmentation could be darker, and I don’t think his rear movement and drive is insufficient. It could have been so on that day. And although he was third out of the three dogs in the Champion Males class that showed, I’m still satisfied with his critique, his V (excellent) rating, and the reports that he traveled, behaved and showed well all weekend.
For comparison, here is his youth critique from the USRC 2008 National Sieger Show. He was 18 months old then and placed second with a V rating out of a large (20+) class.
strong boned maled nice outer lines excellent chest
proportion correctly set eyes good head shape
scissor bite lively temperment excellent coat correct
gate with good drive from the rear
Both critiques appear as typed: errors, strange translations and all. As a show typist many times myself, I don’t fault a few typos, and some things do get lost in translation. When you look at the show photos, do you see what the judges saw?
Jana Rade says
Fantastic photo!
Happy new year!
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kathi says
Happy New Year to you and yours, Jana! Axel thanks you for the luv!
Rosie says
First of all, big congrats to Axel!
The pictures look really good. I guess judges have different preferences to what they like and what they like to see more of. I can’t believe you met Lydia from Crni Lotos kennels 😛 I think she gave quite a good critic. Axels looks very good too. Big congrats!
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kathi says
Axel says thank you for the kind words, Rosie! I was pretty happy with Axel’s critique . It’s always nice to see the word “correct” so many times. But I hate to disappoint you and tell you I didn’t meet Lydia. I wasn’t at the show myself – Axel’s breeder and her husband took him along with a couple of their dogs.
Nick says
He looks good! His forehead does look a bit narrow in the pic, but sometimes that’s just how they’re standing too. Same with his ears being high.
I’m not a fan of huge heads so I’m not convinced those are bad traits 🙂 I like my dogs on the small side.
kathi says
I like big heads, but not disproportionately large or with too-short muzzles. Some pics I’ve seen of certain dogs make me hope it’s just the camera angle, or… something.