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So I am looking into becoming a bench show judge. But I have a few questions that I need a definitive answer on. My question is how many best of class winners do you have in a show? Do you have a class winner for male black and tan puppy, a class winner for female black and tan puppy, a class winner for junior male black and tan, and so on and so forth? This is confusing. I was thinking you had one class winner for puppies in general (all breeds combined), one for junior class, and one for senior. If I am wrong then that would mean you would have 14 puppy class winners (one male and one female for each of the 7 breeds.) That's assuming you have that many show up. Could somebody please clarify this for me? I want to know all I can before I take the test... That being said, you'd have 42 total class winners of puppy, junior, and senior combined.

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Each breed has 3 classes per sex, puppy, junior and senior, Then the 3 winners compete for best of breed, again, separated byy sex. The only time the different breeds compete together is Best of Show. Champion class competes against all champions of all breeds, separated only by sex. Grand champion class is the same.
Yes, could be alot of dogs, but rarely do you have near that many.

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Ok, thank you, I was confused.

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So I am looking into becoming a bench show judge. But I have a few questions that I need a definitive answer on. My question is how many best of class winners do you have in a show? Do you have a class winner for male black and tan puppy, a class winner for female black and tan puppy, a class winner for junior male black and tan, and so on and so forth? This is confusing. I was thinking you had one class winner for puppies in general (all breeds combined), one for junior class, and one for senior. If I am wrong then that would mean you would have 14 puppy class winners (one male and one female for each of the 7 breeds.) That's assuming you have that many show up. Could somebody please clarify this for me? I want to know all I can before I take the test... That being said, you'd have 42 total class winners of puppy, junior, and senior combined.

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Thank you. I have read the rulebook a few times. This particular question I ask, I didn't see anywhere in the rulebook. Some things in the rules are very vague. Such as this for example. The only thing in the rulebook was how it's does and in what order but, I wasn't sure if each breed male and female were recognized as their own class. When it says puppy class, I assumed ALL puppies. Not just one sex and one breed. I think I got the kinks figured out now. Thanks so much.

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Thank you. I have read the rulebook a few times. This particular question I ask, I didn't see anywhere in the rulebook. Some things in the rules are very vague. Such as this for example. The only thing in the rulebook was how it's does and in what order but, I wasn't sure if each breed male and female were recognized as their own class. When it says puppy class, I assumed ALL puppies. Not just one sex and one breed. I think I got the kinks figured out now. Thanks so much.

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You can learn a lot by going to lot of bigger bench shows and watching how the format works. One of the requirements for being a bench show judge should be several years experience actually showing dogs. You can't learn it all from a book or the interweb.

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