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Originally Posted by YorkieRose  Color is not a serious fault (silvery blue)..so most judges will put up a lighter one over a structure fault like top line, bad bite etc...it is hard to get deep steel blue and keep it forever...dogs lighten by the time they make champion sometimes, especially the silk ones..in the days of old and Yorkies were very dark, most were very soft, cottony...C.D. Higgins won the Garden, but I doubt the judge would give it to him today..he was very different then what we see now..
I recently saw a web site with some of the older Yorks...all looked soft..
Does anyone know the point system a judge uses to judge the dog? |
Pat,
The All Breed Club I belong to just had their Cluster Show in January. While lunching with some of the judges, they brought up the judging of the Yorkshire Terrier, all of them brought up the fact that it was one, if not the most difficult breeds to judge. Their reason was that the standard was open to interpretation. What I gathered from this conversation is that each of these judges, judged the breed by their own preference. I'm not really sure if they do have a point system when judging the YT. However, I will ask one of the members in the club, who is a judge, just to make sure.