"Firstly I would like to thank the Committee of the Club for asking me to judge at their Open Show, I so enjoyed my day and a big thank you to all the exhibitors for their sportsmanship, it came across to me that the sportsmanship in this breed is of the highest order and I congratulate you all for it, but it was marred by one incident late on in the day when a bottle of fizz was opened with a very noisy bang which completely unnerved one bitch - I grew up in the hotel trade and it was always emphasised to me if you open a bottle of bubbly with a bang you haven’t opened it correctly, lesson over but please bear it in mind for the future. But I really really must thank my stewards, Andy and Audrey, they did a fabulous job especially when sorting out the coloured classes, guys I was glad it was you not me, judging them was the easy part.

My winners pleased me greatly, but I was amazed what a problem you have with dew lap, I understand they have big heads and some dew lap can happen but for me breeding programmes need to consider this problem as it is so unattractive, feet could also have been tighter as so many could be heard clipping the floor as they moved.

Having said all that my winners delighted me and I was very proud of my final line up. As is always said with judging you please a few upset a number but really you only have one person to please - yourself."