Heh, since Labs & Goldens have two of the highest breed entries of all the breeds you might be right!
It’s almost always some little fuzzball dog.
One exception was that *horrible*, grotesquely overdone Bull Terrier.
If people are honest, The Fifinator should have gone BIS but as soon as those idiot TV announcers mentioned Obama’s Portuguese, I knew who would win.
It’s all politics and pomp.
Precisely my point. There was a show recently where they mentioned that there were 150 Goldens entered in the part of the show that we never see on TV. The one that made it to the group ring (presumably) represented the dog that best represented the Golden standard. Yet, these dogs rarely make it to the best in group ring. And NEVER to Best in Show.
How can that be when they are supposed to be judged against their own standard of their breed?
Yet, they are judged against dogs that perhaps had only 5 entries in their breed ring when they get to group. It makes no sense that a dog that has won over 150 other dogs of their own breed cannot compete against a field of dogs that made it to group over only 4-5 other entries in the breed ring.