Over the past few years the Around the Dog World team stop off at the grand setting of Stoke Rochford Hall and cozy up round the fireplace to review the very best dogs a year’s worth of dog shows can offer.
Around the Dog World – Best of 2016 hits TV screens for the first time tonight (Thursday Feb 2) at 8pm where Simon Baillie, Andrew Brace and Di Johnson run down the top winning dogs of last year. So make sue to switch over to Horse & Country TV (Sky 253) to hear all about the dogs who won big throughout 2016.
If you miss tonight’s episode there are a few more chances to watch including, Saturday at 4 and 10pm or Sunday at 2 and 11pm. Better still, watch it any time you like at www.dogworld.tv, along with every previous episode in the DOG WORLD produced series. There are now 63 episodes, so if you are trying to avoid the first weekend of Six Nations rugby and lost without a general championship show, there is plenty to keep you going in the archive.
The show rings in 2016 were a very special place to be with prizes in breed, group and Best in show competition being spread around. In the year there were 22 different all-breed Best in show winners, and no dog won more than two such awards; a stark difference to 2014 when the Wire Fox Terrier ‘Oliver’, Ch Travella Striking Steel won 13 that year alone.
However the spread of prizes wasn’t the most exciting part of the year; the climax to the DOG WORLD/Arden Grange Top Dog competition was thrilling .
Two dogs arrived at the last show of the year, LKA with a three point gap and 13 points available for each to win. Tune in and see the moment 2016’s Top Dog was crowned – warning you might need some tissues, it all gets a little emotional.
There were so many quality dogs, this year’s ‘Best of’ programme is a very easy watch. Andrew and Di analyise the best performers of 2016 and there are many more who miss out.
Andrew and Di go into depth on so many things, but here are just a few… The joy of Marie Burns and her Westies, the luck of the Irish, a terribly tough to call Toy group – including two Best in show winning Papillons, being proved wrong, the best dogs who couldn’t compete, a Bulldog with personality, Whippet with charm and ‘one of the best dogs of the last decade’
And just before the team bid you adieu, they make some predictions for who will be making their mark and which dogs win big in 2017. Worth a watch just for that, after all last year they picked out Devon the West Highland White Terrier who I’m sure you don’t need told won Best in show at Crufts a few months later.
