The bench numbers are on the removal passes. Tollers have got 49 entered We often have more entries than some ticket breeds, at Crufts last year we had 146 entered! the biggest class, post grad bitch had 29 entries

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Spellweaver sounds like you had a good day inspite of the time of your class

Tollisty i have found my bench number it is 8935.Thanks

How come not all classes have a ticket you would think they would with it being a champ show

When we took Holly to a benched show, we took her crate, and covered it with a blanket when she was in it alone, however generally she was only on her own, for seconds, while we were sorting stuff out, or switching who was looking after her. She barks at all dogs that walk past, so she has to have a covered crate, silly girl :P

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It depends how many of the breed there are - for example, border collies are so numerous that they have tickets at every champ show - we generally have between 200 and 300 entires at a champ show, and almost 500 at Crufts. Some breeds, however, are numerically a lot smaller, and might only have about 20 entires at a champ show, and so they won't have tickets at every champ show. It's to try to even it out, because otherwise it would be a lot harder to make champions up in breeds like the border collie than in, say, the Komondor. Also, rare breeds or Import Register breeds don't have tickets at all - rare breeds because there are so few of them, and import register breeds becaue their breed standards are interim standards.

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Bergies and borders - what more could anyone want? Siamese and maine coons, of course!

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on, nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
(But you can always edit your post, of course )

I'm not at Manchester - Groens are not even scheduled ( although Tervs are !) good luck to all those that are going.

As for benching - personally I never use them and think they take up a lot of space that could be put to better use - perhaps a bigger caged area near the ringside would reflect what most exhibitors want nowadays instead of benching.

Spellweaver; i get it now..The joys of being blonde

Bijou; I am going to have to look up Groens as not sure i have seen one of them...

Also agree on a bigger caged area near the ringside that way you can keep an eye on your belongings while in the ring..

An area near the ring is OK when your first in that ring, but what about those that are last? there wouldn't be any space! What happens when it's wet and muddy? It's bad enough if we have cockers or am.cockers before us and we can't even get next to the ring because of all the cages! Tollers people always use there benches because we have to hang around so long!

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Bijou..are they belgian shepherds...I have seen them before but is that how the breed name is spelt in belgium..

Tollisty..Hope you don't have too long a day and i will come over and say hello..
See your point about cages by the ring being ok if you are first and not so good if you are later in the day...Especially with the amount of entries at this show..