Excellent post fbkeays!! You made it really simple for the learning conformation world to understand the gist of a dog show in both Canada and the US.
It IS a truly sexist sport....I LOVE my girls tho.......love campaigning a specials female, when you win the breed you are thrilled, if you win the group you are ELATED. In Canada we have had just four BIS winning bitches since 1990.....one in 1991, one in 2002.....and I'm fortunate to say 1 in 2006/1 in 2007 both littermate sisters (owned/bred by me) To win BIS with a bitch is icing on the cake!!!!
To win 2 separate BIS with two separate girls that are littermates to my knowledge hasn't happened before in Canada!!
Heather Peters