We are looking for a Best Exhibit in Group winner and a Runner up in Group winner plus Class in Group winners for each age group. To determine this all
the Best of Breed winners will come back to be judged against all the other breeds in your group. after all the individual breed winners have been determined.  This is called Group specials.  The winner of the Group Special is called "Best Exhibit in Group" (BIG).  Once the winner of BIG is determined the R/up dog to that one comes back into the ring for R/Up Best Exhibit in Group.  The BIG and R/Up winners are again automatically the Best in their age Group.  So a dog may be BIG + Best Intermediate in Group. 

What we are ultimately looking for is a Best Exhibit in Group winner for each group thru 1 - 7 and a Runner Up in Group winner.  All BIG's  winners go against each other at the end of the day, to determine a "Best in Show" (BIS) winner the Runner Up BIG winner then comes back in the ring and a R/UP Best in Show winner is determined.   Each Best Exhibit in Group winner receives bonus points towards their Australian Champion title.

In addition to this we need all the breed class elimination winners to come back in the ring for each class to determine the  winner of each age group within the Group.  So for example we determine "Best Baby Puppy in Group 2" and so on.  We ultimately then bring all these age group winners (1 from each group 1 thru to 7) back in against each other at the end of the day, to determine the best in show classes, ie "Best Baby Puppy in Show".  Again remember BIS and R/Up in Show are automatically best of their age group.

You are probably now totally confused but you should start to see what the format is: 

  • We judge within our breed to start with to determine Best of Breed winners and age class winners.
  • We then put all these breed winners together to come up with Group winners.
  • Finally all the Group winners go against each other to win the final Best in Show and Class in Show winners at the end of the day.


GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR SHOWING