A Scottish deerhound named Foxcliffe Hickory Wind takes best-in-show honors. Sunday, April 18, 2010 BY KARI ANDREN kandren@patriot-news.com Nancy Wise's eyes lit up as the dogs in the working league took to the judging plaza de toros at the Harrisburg Kennel Club dog show Saturday evening. The show, separate of the three-day Blue & Cluster dog show at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, featured about 2,200 dogs representing more than 150 breeds. Goliath, Wise's 3-year-old St. Bernard, had no show training when he won best of converse coupling and winners at matrix year's show.
Wise hasn't been showing Goliath this year, but she promises he'll be back. "It didn't subject if he got ribbons or medals," Wise said. "It was just well turned out that he had the aptitude to come dwelling-place with that.
" Denny Crone, Wise's fiance, said he gave Goliath a blast dispatch in the basics of being a show dog just a heyday before he was to be judged. Crone said he's been attending the Harrisburg show for 20 years and has shown dogs three times. The show judges dogs on qualities such as bone structure, body fat, teeth and coat. Dogs anything else fence within breeds, and the head dog in each cause moves on to the conglomeration competition, said Brian Brubaker, one of the show's organizers. There are seven groups, which departmentalize the breeds based on their prominent function, such as working dogs and herding dogs.
The champion of each rank then competes for the show's best prize, best in show. This year's campaigner was Foxcliffe Hickory Wind, a 4-year-old Scottish deerhound. The dog, owned by Phyllis Sweatt, R. Scott Dove and Cecelia Dove, was shown by wizard handler Angela Lloyd, said Laurie Stone, one of the event's organizers.
Dog owners and dog lovers from around the midstate or as far away as Massachusetts came to Saturday's event. Laura Gordon and her china Cheryl Barber traveled from Massachusetts to show their St. Bernards, Torin and Manny.
Gordon said the farthest she's ever traveled for a show was Ashville, N.C., but that the two were in view of traveling to Branson, Mo., for an upcoming dog show.
Many in the audience were first-time dog show goers. Charles Ford of Carlisle brought his camera and his zoom lens to sudden photos as the dogs trotted previous him in the ring. He said he'd enchanted more than 200 Saturday. "I don't have knowledge of the names of half of these, but they're all cunning in their own way," Ford said.
Re'Naye Waklatski, 9, and Zarria Pitman, 10, students at Milton Hershey School, came out to accept their initial dog show with their homestead mother, Tracy Nzambi. Before the date was over, the girls had picked out their favorites: Re'Naye liked the artificial dogs while Zarria said the hounds were her favorite.
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