Freddy (Piccolino z Negraland) went to Hungary with his owner at the last minute. Hugo (Néreus Hare and Hounds) stayed at home because he was participating in the National Dog Show in Mladá Boleslav on Saturday.
The 3x CACIB in the spa town of Sárvár had an unusual format of evening and night shows. The judging began at 7 p.m., promising better weather (lower temperatures), but we were very curious to see how it would look, how the show would proceed in the late hours after dark, and especially how Freddy would react.
Fortunately, beagles were on the agenda in the first part of the judging, i.e. between 7 and 8 p.m., so we were still running around in the ring while it was still light outside. We were very curious to see how Freddy would be evaluated by the judges, and although no written evaluations were provided at the show, to the credit of all the judges we met, they communicated their evaluations quite extensively verbally, either in Slovak or English. We would like to thank all three judges – Jozef Jursa (SK), Borsfaj Csaba (HU), and Enrico Drudi (SMR) – it was great to meet them in the ring!
We don't really speak Hungarian, so we didn't understand a word the staff in the circle were saying :-), but we are quite experienced when it comes to exhibitions, so we kind of know how things work (and studying the catalog wasn't too much work this time).
The evaluation of our Freddy was more positive than expected. He performed very well, even tolerating the less than ideal grass cover and not being distracted by the circle, which was uphill (or downhill when entering the circle). In the final battles for the best individual of the breed, he easily defeated the best junior female (so there was competition after all) and fought a fair fight with the best adult female, who had a slight advantage. However, the overall results are absolutely fabulous, and after three days of the show, Freddy took home his first junior championship – Hungária Junior Champion.
We decided not to wait for the final competition for the best junior of the show, as it was scheduled for the very end of the final competitions, which was well after midnight.
Grandma (i.e., the owner's mother) also joined us on the trip, and she thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition.
Results:
junior class – 3x V1, 3x HPJ (Hungarian version of CAJC), 3x J-CACIB, 3x BOJ, 3x BOS
