"Thank you to the committee for inviting me to judge at such a well-run show and to my steward, Richard Forsythe, for working so effortlessly to keep the ring running smoothly. I would also like to thank the exhibitors for your entries and accepting my placings so gracefully. I really enjoyed this judging appointment, with some lovely examples of the breed present.

I would like to give a few general observations of the breed within this entry… Whilst work still needs to be done on front construction (the same in my own breed); the front movement was actually significantly cleaner coming towards than the last time I judged them, so well done to the clever breeders that are working hard to improve on this - I thought this was very positive.

On the day, I noticed a huge variety in head type and quality; I would not consider myself a "head judge", however on the day I was harder on incorrect and particularly overdone heads, as there were so many that lacked that typical and melting Newfoundland head and expression. Large, low-set ears and excessive lip were common faults found. I did however, have many with nice neat ears, lovely dark eyes and some strong, yet clean and correct heads."