Photo 12 • 2015: American Whippet Club Top 20, GCh. Bohem Swan Song, “Rosa,” shown by Scot Northern. (Bo to the right.) Both Homer and Rosa are sired by Viggo. Photo Thomas.
specialty there are usually 300-400 dogs entered, sometimes more, and the classes are full of really beautiful dogs … You wonder where all those Whippets are hiding at the all-breed shows, but of course the U.S. is a giant country, so everything is spread out. BIS: Who is the best Whippet you have ever judged? B.B.: That’s actually not so difficult to answer. I have judged a lot of beautiful Whippets over many years but the best one was the bitch who won BIS when I judged the AWC national specialty in 2006, Ch.
Brushwood’s Moxi of Endeavor. I still remember turning around, seeing her standing there and getting goose-bumps … She had all the long, beautiful curves that a top class Whippet should have, and she moved like a dream. Can I mention one dog that I didn’t judge also? On my way to judge the first national specialty in New Zealand sometime around 2000 or 2001 I made a stop-over in Australia and visited Frank and Lee Pieterse, who had Ch. Statuesque Extortion at home then. His dam was a bitch I had sent out in whelp, so I “almost” bred him, but I had never seen him before. Lee took Extortion in the car and moved him for me in a park in Sydney, and he was so handsome I could not believe it … He was probably the best Whippet male I’ve ever seen. BIS: Please mention some favourite wins that you have had with Whippets. B.B.: Going Best in Show at the international show in Stockholm in 1963 with Locomite was of course pretty amazing — I was only 18 years old at the time. (Later on I also won Reserve BIS at this show, and a bitch that Göran Bodegård and I bred was BIS there as well, but they were Greyhounds.) In the U.S., winning BIS at one of the first AWC national specialties in the 1980s with Ch. Bohem Delacreme Demoiselle was fun, of course (and BOS was her grandsire, Ch. Hardknott Maestro of Bohem, an English import). Also, it was exciting when Ch. Bo-
Photo 13 • 2016: Awarding CC and BIS at the Whippet Club championship show in England to Ch. Cobyo Tylko Paranoia (second from left). Dog judge was Wim Wiersma from the Netherlands; his CC winner and BOS (third from left) was Mulcair May Contain Nutz. Far left, Best Puppy Richclass King of Kings. Far right, Res. BIS and Best Veteran, Ch. Palmik Magical Whispers. Photo Pauline Oliver.
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