Ring #1 - Ellen Considine

Ring #2 - Chris Strickland

1st place:

Entry #1 - Green Gables EHJ Sapphire

1st place:

Entry #6 - Green Gables Prancing Pixie

2nd place:

Entry #3 - Green Gables E Summer Breeze

2nd place:

Entry #1 - Green Gables EHJ Sapphire

3rd place:

Entry #6 - Green Gables Prancing Pixie

3rd place:

Entry #8 - Moonstone B-Fancy

4th place:

Entry #5 - Awee Farm Paisley

4th place:

Entry #3 - Green Gables E Summer Breeze

5th place:

Entry #7 - Awee Farm Penelope's Frosted Cookie

5th place:

Entry #5 - Awee Farm Paisley

6th place:

Entry #2 - Green Gables USG Trillium

6th place:

Entry #2 - Green Gables USG Trillium

7th place:

Entry #8 - Moonstone B-Fancy

7th place:

Entry #7 - Awee Farm Penelope's Frosted Cookie

8th place:

Entry #4 - Cornerstone Farm Royal

8th place:

Entry #4 - Cornerstone Farm Royal

Comments:

One is placing over two for her advantage in general appearance. She is stronger in the chine, more level from hips to pins, and is more upstanding with a longer bone pattern throughout.

Two is placing over the red doe in three for her advantage in general appearance, particularly in feet and legs. She is stronger on her pasterns and has a more desirable rear leg set. She also has an advantage in dairy character, with more wedge-shaped withers that carry through to more depth, angularity, and openness throughout.

Three is placing over four for her advantage in general appearance. Her rear legs are straighter when viewed from the rear, she is stronger in the chine, and more level from hips to pins. She is also somewhat more balanced when comparing width through the chest floor to length and height.

The spotted doe in four is placing over five for her advantage in body capacity. She is taller at the withers, longer over the topline, and exhibits a longer bone pattern throughout.

Five is placing over six for her advantage in dairy character, being more angular, lean, and feminine than the doe in six.

Six is placing over seven due to her advantages in general appearance and dairy character, in being freer from coarseness and more smoothly blended through the front end.

Seven places over eight for her advantage in general appearance, showing a more desirable strength of bone, femininity, and length of bone.

The doe in eight is commended for the set to her rear legs.

Comments:

This is a difficult class to place based on the differences in presentation of the animals and photographic staging.

One has the advantage over two in general appearance. She appears to be more level in rump from hips to pins. In front end assembly It appears her fore legs came to rest more squarely under the high point of the withers instead of being further forward on the body. In dairy character she shows more of an arch or “U” shape in the escutcheon when compared to 2 and an arch that is closer to the vulva.

Two excels three in general appearance with a longer chine, loin and rump. In side profile she shows a tighter point of elbow and more correct placement of fore leg on the body. .
The excellent topline and set to the rear legs carries three over four. She is stronger in chine and more level in rump from hips to pins. She also has a greater arch at the top of the escutcheon in the category of dairy character. For her size she is proportionately deeper in body than is 4.
Four has the advantage over five today in front legs. She is straighter in foreleg when viewed in side profile and has greater width between the front legs. She has more sharpness to the withers giving her general appearance points as well as dairy character points. From the rear 4 is more square on the rear legs with less tendency to turn in at the hock.

In side profile five has a stronger rear leg angulation in general appearance giving her the advantage over six. She also appears to be smoother at the point of shoulder than is 6.

Six excels seven today in dairy character having a longer leaner neck. From the rear she shows more refinement in the thigh with a thinner thigh and more arch at the top of the escutcheon.
Seven has the advantage in general appearance when we view them in side profile. She is stronger in rear leg set with more angle from stifle to hock as well as being more perpendicular from hock to pastern. From above she shows us more angulation. Additionally she is leaner where the neck comes into the body giving her an advantage in dairy character.

While standing 8th this red doe is to be commended for her uphill stature at the withers.