Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-09-04
HARRODSBURG HOUND
SHOW DISCUSSED

Local lON hunters VIII be IN
terested to get some news on
the discussion of the fox hound
/ show at the Harrodsburg Fair
this year. Several letters have
been written concerning this
! show. A letter from Emo Mey-
er, of Cincinnati, to the editor
OF the Harrodsburg Herald is as
follows:
Dear Mr. Editor: Tn view of my
position as one of. the all-round
judges of the American Kennel
Club, [ take the liberty to supple
ment the recent timely remarks
of Mr.. Breckenridge on the Har-
rodsburg Hound Show, with a
few OF my own observations on
the subject. | do not for one
moment wish these to be CON
strued in the nature of a criti-
ism; on the contrary; the gen
ilemen who have made this show
possible, deserve the highest
/ praise for their pntiring efforts.
and [ offer these humble remarks
only as helpful, Suggestions to-
ward a still greater result. g4
activities as judge over the
! greater part of the United States
and Canada and my general ia
! miliarity with all the shows held
on this side OF the pond, permit
me to say that the Harrodsburg
Hound Show IS probably the
largest one breed speciality show
/ in the country today and a show
with such an suspicious begin
ming in the brief time Of its in
ception bids fair to become one
that will beFnational in charac-
ter and is therefore worth every
f. effort to make the general con-
duct of this enterprise hawless
in every respect. | have been
importuned by several journals,
with whom | am staff corre-
| spondent, to give them a thor
! ough review of the show and for
this reason attended the show
two years in succession. How
ever, the utter lack of any list of
! numbers to. identify the indiVid-
ual dogs and their owners and
the impossibility of seeing the
dogs in the ring, due to several
/ phalanXes Of men that surround
! ed tell dogs so closely that the
Judge and the dogs could hardly
breathe, made the matter of a
report an absolute impossibility.
1t seems to me that it would be
a most simple matter to rope off
a Judging ring and use the Amer
lean Kennel Club rule to permit
10 one to enter the ring except
the Judge, the secretary, the ring
steward, the dogs and their
!! handlers, and the larger the ring
the better for the judge and the
dogs After a general examina-
ton of the dogs as individuals,
the Judge depends entirely upon
comparison to make his final
awards, and | foraotle4 know the
great difficulty 70 1ftke these
comparisons in a limited space.
A fox hound is not a small dog
and covers "a certain arhountSof
ground to properly show himself
and again there must be enough
space between them to give the
Judge his proper viewpoint. Nor
can a hound be Judged by head
alone: he is a working dog and
his entire anatomy must be ball
aneed accordingly. Another
most important feature in my es-
timation is the gait and action
and there must be sufficient
room to test out this, most sail
ent feature of the breed. An ex-
hibitor wants fair run for his
money; he does not want to bel
crowded out or overlooked and
if he has his due,ghe will leave. as
lucky winner or a game loser
and come back again next year
with a smile and perhaps a bet-I
ter dog. Another improvement
would be the matter of benching
the dogs more comfortably, both
for the dogs and the exhibitors.
Some men do wash their dogs
because they realize that any
clean dog looks better than fill
thy one and therefore a bed of
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