It was suggested to me that some of you might like to see the Crufts Report that I wrote last year. For those of you with the historical turn of mind, read on. Just returned from an unforgettable seven days in England, terminating at Crufts on Thursday, March 6, then flying to Odessa, TX, all day Friday, driving home to Cloudcroft NM on Saturday, and writing this in the wee small hours of Sunday morning due to jet lag - or leprechauns. My interest lies in the process rather than the results.
Memory is a tricky thing, and the eye is fallible.
I would describe Westminster as a dog SHOW and Crufts as a DOG show. This failed to be the case as only a few seemed to exceed a guesstimated 16 inches. I also half expected to see a number of obese Staffords, and this presentiment was realized at least in part. This is a correctable state of affairs, however, and certainly accounts for much of the disparity between photos taken of Staffords back then and photos taken now. A great deal of Breed uniformity in type has been attained, exactly what many Stafford enthusiasts were strongly advocating in the Sixties.