"Showing Your White Collie Under FCI"
Showing dogs under FCI is very different from showing under AKC
rules. To better understanding, let me first explain the system here.
Shows are announced in the dog magazines, they also print the entry-
formulas. You have to send in about 6 weeks before the show date
and pay the entry fee (about $40 a dog the least) at the same time.
You can enter a youth class, open class, bred by exhibitor, working
class, champion class (working and bred by not at all shows).
The dog is judged and given a written critique by the judge, pointing out
the dog’s virtues AND faults. This may sound strange to you, but it is
very helpful in knowing where to take a closer look in your further
breeding program, at least when a couple of judges discover the same
failure in the same dog.
The dog also get a rating from fairly good (awarded to a dog without
notable qualities), to good (a dog having characteristics of the breed,
but displaying defects),to very good (awarded to a perfectly ‘typed’
dog, a few minor failures will be accepted), to excellent (only for the
dogs that come very close to the ideal breed standard).
Then in each class, four dogs are place from 1 to 4 and of course, if
there are 4 dogs that got excellent, they are the ones that are place.
But, it is theoretically possible to win a class, or to place second with a
good or fairly good, if no higher ratings are given by the judge!
Then the best of each class competes for Best of Sex. To choose the
Reserve of that sex, the number two of the class the winner came
from steps back into the ring. The same procedure is followed for the
other sex. Then the best bitch and male compete for Best of Breed.
If the show is only a National show, you can win a CAC or Reserve
CAC Championship, in an International show, you can win a CACIB or
Reserve CACIB Championship.
Rough and smooth collies are different breeds, so there are
champions to win for both breeds and they are, of course, judged
separately. Best Smooth and (may I add the word BEST here?)
Rough compete in the Herding Group, and the Group Winners
compete for Best of Show.
**The FCI standard points out, no disqualification, (rough and smooth.)
I don't understand this part.
The smooth standard says that white or predominately white is highly
undesirable under the chapter colour, the rough standard only points
out the three accepted colours, sable, tri and blue and says that all
above mentioned colours may carry the typical white collie marking to
a greater or lesser degree.
And this is my point, (I always carry the official FCI standard with me
in the ring) whenever I am questioned (to say it friendly) about our Cul
Mor’s White Fernando in the show ring. No matter how the
appearance of the white upsets the European collie people, with the
standard in my hand, no one (even not the FCI delegate) can find a
good reason to kick me out of the ring. And, boy they tried it so hard…
Of course, you have to grow elephant skin to enter a second and third
show and the ratings differ on the same dog, from good to excellent
(from and FCI judge!) But, we proved that if you really want, you can
show AND breed a white under FCI, at least here in Holland and
Belgium, Ferry sired 1 litter in Holland, 2 in Germany.)
We are very happy with our white, proud to have him and grateful to
Ginny Holtz, who let him go to the unknown. Under FCI, Ferry's
children, white-factored collies only, have the problem all American
type collies have under FCI standard. Some of them have already
been bred, themselves. Although it is sometimes hard, we won’t give
up promoting the white collie among his coloured breed mates and
hope to enter one day the FCI show ring in Bred By Class, with a
WHITE.
Lia Verniel
DUTCHAMCO’S COLLIES
Holland
Showing dogs under FCI is very different from showing under AKC
rules. To better understanding, let me first explain the system here.
Shows are announced in the dog magazines, they also print the entry-
formulas. You have to send in about 6 weeks before the show date
and pay the entry fee (about $40 a dog the least) at the same time.
You can enter a youth class, open class, bred by exhibitor, working
class, champion class (working and bred by not at all shows).
The dog is judged and given a written critique by the judge, pointing out
the dog’s virtues AND faults. This may sound strange to you, but it is
very helpful in knowing where to take a closer look in your further
breeding program, at least when a couple of judges discover the same
failure in the same dog.
The dog also get a rating from fairly good (awarded to a dog without
notable qualities), to good (a dog having characteristics of the breed,
but displaying defects),to very good (awarded to a perfectly ‘typed’
dog, a few minor failures will be accepted), to excellent (only for the
dogs that come very close to the ideal breed standard).
Then in each class, four dogs are place from 1 to 4 and of course, if
there are 4 dogs that got excellent, they are the ones that are place.
But, it is theoretically possible to win a class, or to place second with a
good or fairly good, if no higher ratings are given by the judge!
Then the best of each class competes for Best of Sex. To choose the
Reserve of that sex, the number two of the class the winner came
from steps back into the ring. The same procedure is followed for the
other sex. Then the best bitch and male compete for Best of Breed.
If the show is only a National show, you can win a CAC or Reserve
CAC Championship, in an International show, you can win a CACIB or
Reserve CACIB Championship.
Rough and smooth collies are different breeds, so there are
champions to win for both breeds and they are, of course, judged
separately. Best Smooth and (may I add the word BEST here?)
Rough compete in the Herding Group, and the Group Winners
compete for Best of Show.
**The FCI standard points out, no disqualification, (rough and smooth.)
I don't understand this part.
The smooth standard says that white or predominately white is highly
undesirable under the chapter colour, the rough standard only points
out the three accepted colours, sable, tri and blue and says that all
above mentioned colours may carry the typical white collie marking to
a greater or lesser degree.
And this is my point, (I always carry the official FCI standard with me
in the ring) whenever I am questioned (to say it friendly) about our Cul
Mor’s White Fernando in the show ring. No matter how the
appearance of the white upsets the European collie people, with the
standard in my hand, no one (even not the FCI delegate) can find a
good reason to kick me out of the ring. And, boy they tried it so hard…
Of course, you have to grow elephant skin to enter a second and third
show and the ratings differ on the same dog, from good to excellent
(from and FCI judge!) But, we proved that if you really want, you can
show AND breed a white under FCI, at least here in Holland and
Belgium, Ferry sired 1 litter in Holland, 2 in Germany.)
We are very happy with our white, proud to have him and grateful to
Ginny Holtz, who let him go to the unknown. Under FCI, Ferry's
children, white-factored collies only, have the problem all American
type collies have under FCI standard. Some of them have already
been bred, themselves. Although it is sometimes hard, we won’t give
up promoting the white collie among his coloured breed mates and
hope to enter one day the FCI show ring in Bred By Class, with a
WHITE.
Lia Verniel
DUTCHAMCO’S COLLIES
Holland
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| by Lia Verniel, Dutchamcos Collies, Holland |
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