{"id":12974,"date":"2020-02-12T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12974"},"modified":"2020-02-12T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:33:35","slug":"the-144th-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-the-best-and-winner-is-ordinary-poodle-siba-in-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12974","title":{"rendered":"The 144th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the Best and winner is Ordinary Poodle Siba in Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

A standard poodle named Siba was crowned \u201cBest in Show\u201d, taking home the grand prize in the most prestigious competition for pure-bred canines in the United States at the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.<\/p>\n

Just shy of four years old, the graceful black female from Northampton, Pennsylvania succeeded over crowd favorites Daniel the golden retriever<\/p>\n

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Golden Retriever Dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

and Bono the Havanese at the grand finale of the three-day event at Madison Square Garden, her crown of tall black fluff bobbing as she loped around the ring.<\/p>\n

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Bono Havanese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We think she\u2019s beautiful and has that special something, so hopefully that\u2019s what he saw, Siba\u2019s handler Chrystal Murray, referring to the Best in Show judge, Robert Slay. Before Siba embarks on a whirlwind tour of television appearances and celebrity photo shoots, as is customary for Westminster champions, Murray would get to enjoy plenty of her favorite treat: chicken.<\/p>\n

Siba advanced to the final round as the champion of the non-sporting group, going head-to-head with the winners in six other groups – hounds, toy dogs, herding dogs, working dogs, sporting dogs and terriers. Rounding out the roster of finalists best-in-show contest were Bourbon, a female whippet, who was awarded second place or \u201cReserve Best in Show\u201d; Daniel, a male golden retriever; Bono, a male Havanese; Conrad, a male Shetland sheepdog; Wilma, a female boxer, and Vinny, a male wire fox terrier.<\/p>\n

The wire fox terrier had an edge after the breed took home the top prize last year, but the golden retriever, a breed that has never won Best in Show, seemed to win the hearts of the audience.\u00a0 Chants of \u201cDaniel! Daniel!\u201d echoed from the crowd of thousands, as Slay inspected the seven canines before making his choice.<\/p>\n

It was the fifth time a standard poodle took home the alpha prize in the Westminster show\u2019s 144-year history. It is the second-oldest sporting event in the country, after only the Kentucky Derby horse race.\u00a0 \u00a0This year\u2019s competition drew a field of contenders consisting of more than 2,600 dogs representing 205 breeds from 20 countries, including the United States. The prestigious dog show grew out of an 1870s gathering of sporting gentlemen who regularly chatted at a bar in the long-gone Westminster Hotel in lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The Westminster Kennel Club pronounces the men decided to put on a dog show named for the meeting spot, while trading stories about hunting and their dogs\u2019 exploits.<\/p>\n

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A standard poodle named Siba was crowned \u201cBest in Show\u201d, taking home the grand prize in the most prestigious competition for pure-bred canines in the United States at the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York. Just shy of four years old, the graceful black female from Northampton, Pennsylvania succeeded over crowd favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-sports","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12982,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions\/12982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}