2012 Westminster Info for Frenchie Fanatics

Blog entry updated with show results 2-13-2012.

Today may be the Super Bowl for foot­ball fans, but the real action is next week: the West­min­ster Ken­nel Club Dog Show!

Start­ing early Mon­day morn­ing, breed cham­pi­ons from the Hound, Toy, Non-Sporting, and Herd­ing Groups go in the ring, com­pet­ing head-to-head for the cov­eted Best of Breed title. Win­ning this title is a career high­light and also the chance to to com­pete in the evening’s tele­vised Group competition.

Frenchies hit the ring Mon­day to com­pete under the dis­cern­ing eye of judge Leonard S. Rep­pond. If all dogs attend, he’ll have 39 Frenchies from which to choose his Best of Breed, Best of Oppo­site, and Award of Merit winners.

Every year West­min­ster issues invi­ta­tions to five Cham­pi­ons of Record, per breed. These aren’t ran­dom picks, but dogs hold­ing the top five spots in their breed, based on AKC show win num­bers from Jan­u­ary to Octo­ber. This ensures top dogs don’t miss their chance to com­pete at Madi­son Gar­den. If they decide to attend, their entry forms are given spe­cial, guar­an­teed entry sta­tus – but invited or not, their form must include a $75 check for the entry fee.

Sub­mit­ting an entry form by dead­line and then hav­ing it ran­domly selected for pro­cess­ing is one of the main hur­dles to attend­ing this show. For 2012, entries were lim­ited to the first 2,000 prop­erly processed forms. It takes four Pre­mium List pages to explain all the nitty-gritty details of how to suc­cess­fully send in an entry form: 2012 Pre­mium List (pages 14–17 for entry rules) If you read the rules, it’s easy to see how a paper­work tech­ni­cal­ity could elim­i­nate an entry form – even if the check is good!

Time for the nitty-gritty of when to watch or record:

West­min­ster Ken­nel Club Dog Show

Mon­day, Feb 13

French Bull­dogs enter Ring 1 at 1 PM
Judge: Mr. Leonard S. Rep­pond
Breed judg­ing video will be avail­able on the West­min­ster site later in the day. (Video of Non-Sporting Breed Judg­ing.)

See list of French Bull­dogs entered: 2012 West­min­ster French Bull­dog entries

See Breed Show Results: 2012 West­min­ster French Bull­dog Breed Judg­ing Results

8–9 PM East­ern Time, USA Net­work, then the live broad­cast switches net­works to,
9–11 PM East­ern Time, CNBC
Non-Sporting Group com­petes Mon­day evening, along with Hound, Toy, and Herd­ing groups
Non-Sporting judge: Mr. Randy Garren

Tues­day, Feb 14

8–11 PM East­ern Time, USA Net­work
Sport­ing, Work­ing, Ter­rier Groups, and Best in Show com­pete
Best in Show judge: Mrs. Cindy Vogels

In alpha­bet­i­cal order, Westminster’s Five Invited French Bull­dogs for 2012 are:

• GCH CH Ban­dog Bayou’s The Warrior
• GCH CH Fabel­haft Robob­ull Hot Commodity
• GCH CH Highwood’s Big Shot
• GCH CH Lebull’s New Hope Wooly Bully
• GCH CH Lionheart’s Thumbs Up!

NYC FBDCA Inde­pen­dent Specialties

While these are not tele­vised, there is an addi­tional treat for Frenchie show fans attend­ing West­min­ster, two days of French Bull­dog Spe­cial­ties imme­di­ately prior to Westminster.

New York Metro Spe­cial­ties
NYC FBDCA Inde­pen­dent Spe­cial­ties
Hotel Penn­syl­va­nia
Penn Plaza Pavil­ion
Mez­za­nine Floor
New York, NY

Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 11, Ring 1
9:30 AM EST Sweeps (28 entries) – Judge Dr. Nancy Rose New­comb
11:00 AM EST Reg­u­lar Classes (80 entries) – Judge Mrs. Sari Brew­ster Tietgen

Sat­ur­day – FBDCA Spe­cialty Judg­ing Results

Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 12, Ring 1
8:30 AM EST Sweeps (24 entries)  – Judge Ms. Elena Sieg­man
9:45 AM EST Reg­u­lar Classes (79 entries) – Judge Mr. John C. Fred­er­ick Peddie

Sun­day – FBDCA Spe­cialty Judg­ing Results

$10 Admis­sion for the pub­lic. Down­load the Pre­mium List here. The Judg­ing Sched­ule here.

If you’d like more infor­ma­tion, visit the FBDCA Other French Bull­dog Spe­cialty page or the FBDCA Face­book page.

iPad Raf­fle

Sad you can’t attend either show? Would it perk you up if you had a chance at win­ning a new 32 GB Apple iPad for as lit­tle as $10? And you don’t have to be present to win? An iPad raf­fle is being held ring­side at the NYC Spe­cial­ties, but tick­ets can be bought online. Prices are: $10 for a sin­gle ticket, $25 for three, or eight tick­ets for $50. Wanna know some­thing sneaky? Not only do you not need to be present, you don’t need to be owned by a Frenchie! Win­ner to be drawn Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 12, 2012.

Buy iPad Raf­fle tick­ets online – $10 each • 3 for $25 • 8 for $50
(Pro­ceeds ben­e­fit the FBDCA Top Twenty Event.)

 

For those of us with­out mez­za­nine or ring­side seat­ing, time to make the stay-at-home TV-watching treat shop­ping list. Be sure to add some­thing for your snub-nosed pal. Not such a bad deal if you think about it. You save travel and ticket costs and get to snug­gle in and watch the Show of the Year with your Best in the World, four-legged pal!