Note: All files
are in pdf format which may be searched by most browsers
Data Compiled by Barry Truax (enquiries at:
truax@sfu.ca)
You can access these results for your breed in the
following ways:
1) Annual Top Dog standings (complete).
2) Ranked Group Level Judging statistics for all dogs
in the Breed who have won points with at least one BB
win, including the % of group appearances that have
resulted in a placement. The dogs are ranked according
to total number of points won. This represents a
multi-year career total for each dog for the years
covered. The list is ranked so that one can easily
identify the biggest breed winners. This information
can be followed up with option 5 below to see which
judges were involved.
3) Ranked Group Level Judging statistics where for
each judge that has judged the breed 20 or more times,
a ranked statistical summary of their Group and BIS
placements is given, based on a % figure for their
Group placements of the breed. The total number of
points awarded to the breed is also given. This
information can be followed up with option 6 below to
see which dogs were involved. The list is ranked so
that one can easily see which judges have awarded the
most (and least) group placements to the breed.
4) Complete Group Level Judging Statistics for all
judges; this can be consulted for judges that don't
appear in option 3.
5) Group Level Judging where for each BB dog, all of
the judges that have judged it at Group level are
listed, along with their placements.
6) Group Level Judging where for each judge, all of
the dogs they have judged at Group level are listed,
along with their placements.
7) Best in Show Level Judging where each dog that has
been judged at that level, all of the BIS judges are
listed, along with their placements.
8) Best in Show Level Judging where for each judge,
all of the dogs they have judged at that level are
listed, along with their placements.
9) Single year record holders listing for each group
and breed (complete from the beginning of the Top Dog
system in 1963), updated annually, and only available
here!
Note: The Top Show Dog Point System was established in
1963 by Elizabeth Dunn, publisher of Dogs in Canada.
It ranks dogs who have won at least one Best of Breed
and above, up to Best in Show) based on the number of
dogs defeated at each show. That is, there is no data
for class dogs or puppies. In the early years, various
people compiled the data manually, including Joan
Morden who did this job for many years. At that point,
only the total number of points for the top 3 in each
breed was reported, along with top 10 per group and
all-breeds. The Top Dog tabulations above for 1983-87
are what was printed in Dogs in Canada (without
corrections). In 1988 Barry Truax computerized the
data tabulation by creating his own software. His
reports expanded the records to what is seen here,
including breed and group statistics and details about
each dog's wins, a task which he continued until 2007,
entering and compiling over 875,000 Best of Breed wins
with the assistance of his partner Guenther Krueger.
The final result of this work is this database that
incorporates his complete results, including
multi-year 'career' and judging statistics unavailable
elsewhere.
Since then the CKC has tabulated the official results,
and canuckdogs.com
has published unofficial (but very accurate) results
throughout the show year, usually updating their site
the same day as the show! Their website makes it easy
to document each dog's career, and the details of
their standings since 2009. The intermediate year
(2008) between these two databases is partly covered
here with the top dog and top group and breed winners,
based on the CKC data. Unfortunately I have been able
to update the multi-year statistics for each breed
from 1988-2007 only for Terriers, but even the
all-breed results over these years show an impressive
legacy of Top Dogs, particularly given that the size
of Canadian shows was up to two-thirds higher that
those of today (peaking in 1995, see the survey
above).