Westminster

Ring 9, 1:00pm EST, Welsh Springer Spaniels.  Sporting Group at 8:00pm EST, USA Channel.

• Spaniels (Welsh Springer) 1-1-(8-3)
• 545 entries representing 30 breeds in the sporting group

J-Clarke takes Westminster 2012 BOB

GCh Ivywild's Lookin' to Skeldale RN (J-Clarke) won Best of Breed at this year's Westminster Kennel Club show, and it was much deserved. JC looked great, moved great, and looked classy relative to the other dogs, nice though they were. (Unhappily, the video is no longer available at the Westminster website.)

Owner Mary Johnson said that she couldn't find the words to express her feelings, other than thinking that J-Clarke and Ryan accomplished more in 2011 than she could ever have thought, and then topped it off by the BOB win.

That's very tough competition in the Westminster ring and everything has to line up perfectly to get the win, and that's what happened with J-Clarke and handler Ryan Wolfe.

J-Clarke and handler Ryan Wolfe pose with the royal purple and gold Best of Breed ribbon.