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Darryl Vice shares insights on judging Sealyham Terriers at Montgomery, highlighting breed quality and concerns for the future.
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Darryl Vice: I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was to be able to do Sealyhams at Montgomery. It’s such an honor, in my opinion, for a non-Terrier person to be asked. Coming up from Toys, and Working breeds, I never had a Terrier until 2005. At that time, I got my first Kerry Blue, and my second one in 2017. So, as much as I would like to say I’m a Terrier person, I really can’t. However, it is my favorite Group to judge.
Darryl Vice: I had four very lovely bitches in the Breed class. All four, very similar Sealyham type. They were very much in the 10-1/2 inches with substance, without being overdone. Very strong and powerful in movement. All very strong in the head. My final decision with those four bitches was movement. I moved them all together and my BOB just held everything together, with powerful movement, level topline, and using her angles well.
Darryl Vice: I am very worried about our Terrier breeds in the future. I feel there are not enough young people growing up in these tough-coated Terriers. Someone has to be trained in stripping and trimming of these tough coats. It’s not something you can read in a book and put down Terrier coats the way they should be. It takes years of apprenticing under top Terrier handlers to understand the difficulties in putting down these hard coats. Just not sure the younger people want to put in the time to understand these coats.
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