Staffordshire Bull Terrier Breed Magazine - Showsight

Judging the STAFFORDSHIRE BULL TERRIER

PHILIP BRIASCO I am from Ocala, Florida. I spend most of my time as President and Show Chairman for The Greater Ocala Dog Club and our beautiful forty acre show site. I’ve been in the dog world and showing dogs for 50 years. I’ve been judging for 9 years. ANN D. HEARN

judging. Then I’d be the one to touch and play with every dog in my ring! ALAN HEDGES I live in the midlands of the United Kingdom in a little town called Swadlincote. It is not famous for anything that I know of. Outside of dogs I produce breed yearbooks for Staffords and French bulldogs, so other than football, a lot of my life is dog related. I have been involved with Staffords since 1977 and judging since 1979. I am really a Stafford man through and through although I am very proud of the fact that I will be judging border terriers at champ show level for the first time this year. MARION MCPHERSON I live in Vista, CA. Outside of dogs, I enjoy gardening and reading, mostly fiction in my spare time. Showing and breed- ing over 40 years. Judging 32 years. DESI MURPHY

I live in a county that is part of the greater makeup of Atlanta. Beading has become one of my passions—I love bling, and now I can make my own. I knit, crewel and especially enjoy classical music. When I’m in town on the weekends that the New York Met streams their Saturday afternoon operas, believe me, I’m in that theater

seat listening and watching. I started in purebred dogs on our first wedding anniversary at least a hundred and three years ago. We got a Wire Fox Terrier from a pet breeder, real- ized he didn’t look much like the pictures of quality dogs, and so decided we should attend the Atlanta Kennel Club dog show in downtown Atlanta. What a shock! The dogs were gorgeous! And a man was in the middle of the ring with a dog on the table and, by golly, he was getting to touch and play with every one of them! I said right then and there. That’s what I want to do! And after about 25 years of breed- ing and exhibiting and grooming, I decided to try my hand at

I am from Monroe, NY. I got my first dog, a Lakeland, 60 years ago. I started showing in 1958. I have been judging since 1976.

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