Pieta put check to become a champion

May 3rd, Japan's Constitution Day, the location is Kanto Local Finance Bureau Management Zone, the same place where the dog show on May 1st took place. Another dog show "Kawasaki Companion Dog Club Dog Show" was held.

The site was full of mini-buses, camping caravans, and tents, which have been staying there throughout the three days, and it was impossible to park my car however early I arrive. On the previous day, May 2nd, "Yokohama Dog Fancier Club Dog Show" was held, and although I did not show any of my terriers, two of my frieds, who are also being instructed by Mr. Nakahara, brought their Scotties, one male junior and one female junior, and I was in charge of preparing a tent for the team. Since I left the frame of the tent at the site during the night for keeping the space, I felt easy to come to the site this morning. In spite of my effort to arrive as early as just a few minutes past 5 o'clock, however, with the hope to park my car at a car park adjacent to the show site, the car park was full.
Today, the participants from Team Nakahara was two, Land Rose R JP Masamune and Pieta.
The breed judge for Terrier Group was Mr. Manuel Languel from Mexico.
Although Masamune, who showed up on the ring as a male prior to Pieta's match, showed a very good gait, he lost against the winner of the junior class.
The female matches follow, and it's Pieta's turn. It was suggested that up & down gait from the entrance to the ring be made before the dogs are examined on the table.
Pieta is being examined.
　　The round gait. Pieta's tail is up although it is not sufficiently bent forward.
Pieta won the winner among non-champion bitches, and the champion to compete with was the one who defeated Pieta at Tokyo North Terrier Group Dog Show in Tokyo a week ago. Fortunately enough, Pieta got her revenge on the champion.
My friends, who came to the show to cheer up Pieta and Masamune, congratulated us as a prodigious feat that owner-handled non-champion defeated a champion handled by a professional handler.
Pieta obtained Best of Breed and a Major Champion Challenge Certificate. One certificate is left to obtain before Pieta can be registered as a champion.
Well, the judge for the group match of Terrier Group, which tool place in the afnernoon, was the distinguished Mr. Peter Green from UK, who judged Breed and Group matches on May 1st.
While the BOB of Parson Russell Terrier was being examined, I put Pieta on the table to be examined. At this moment, the leash tangled with the comb, and when Mr. Green turned to Pieta, we were not quite ready, which was fatal.
Mr. Green examined Pieta as carefully as that of two days before. This time again, Pieta's tail bent down when she showed up & down gait, and her tail finally started to erect in the second half of the round gait.
This means that Pieta lost in the group match again, and I strongly felt that I needed to train Pieta to erect her tail from the very beginning of gait.
Pieta, however, obtain an MCC, which was the objective of attending dog shows and the firs half of Japan's holiday season, the "Golden Week", which was full of dog shows is now over.