[diane boden]

First sorry if this turns out to be a long post.
After years of being out of the ring I'm now comfortable enough [financially] to be ready to return to my favorite hobby. My dilema is choosing which of two breeders to approach for mu future show/brood, as it would be neccessary for her to be a nice duel purpose bitch.
Breeder 1 has bred champions and has very pretty dogs, but has not shown for many years though still breeds to the standard and is whom I got my very first show girl off. He's recently introduced new blood into his line which has improved for me the coat quality on his line, but not the ears which are a little large, something I noticed on the line he introduced.
Breeder 2 is still very much in the showring, has produced many champions but of course like most lines has the odd fault, personally I think they tend to lighten too quickly .
I've owned dogs from both lines previously and used studs. I'm in the uk so I'm aware things are done a little differently over here as we dont tend to have mentors though both breeders were happy to give me advice in the past, so we tend to take on potentials as pups and see how it goes. Just wondered what you guys would do.