Dog show’s young handlers take a grown-up sport in stride
Associated PressNEW YORK — Fenric Towell isn’t nervous about his first time competing at the nation’s top dog show. But when she started showing dogs at age 9, she decided: “This is what I love, and I didn’t really care if there were older people or not.” Or, as twin sister Emma puts it, “Let’s just show ‘em what we got.” Dogs ranging from wee Chihuahuas to rangy Irish wolfhounds showed what they’ve got in Monday night’s group judging, helped by adult handlers. Slick has won best of breed previously at Westminster, but Monday’s herding group win “means a lot to us,” handler Jamie Clute said. She isn’t going to Westminster — yet — but super-young handlers have shown there, including then-7-year-old Raina McCloskey last year Westminster’s 95 junior invitees are “very competitive, they’re very talented and very, very good,” show chairman David Helming said. “You go and spend time with your best friend,” says Emma Rogers, who’s returning to Westminster as a 2016 juniors finalist.
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