I am not sure why Genoa is not covered in great detail in all the guide books, as we loved it and would be happy to return again and probably will, perhaps in Spring or Autumn, when there are more things are available to see and do, as a lot of the tourist cruises end with the end of the good weather. Although I have to say we had fantastic weather the whole time we were there, which did help us to enjoy the city. We stayed at the Hotel Bristol, An elegant turn-of-the-century palace in the centre of Genoa famous for its staircase.
The street outside the hotel has large colonnades on either side with mosaic tiled pavements, which apparently represent each of the 4 seasons, and there were all the designer stores and boutiques, for window shopping.
Saturday say me judging the Purina Pro Plan Cup (obviously was sponsored by Purina) to help promote the breeding of better dogs in Italy. The breeders were able to enter up to 2, of the best dogs of their kennel and as judges we had to grade them on 5 parts – head, structure, movement, coat & condition, and overall quality – each part had a possible score of 100, so overall they had a possible high score of 500. The dogs were never judged against each other. There were 3 different judges for each dog, one from the USA, one from UK and one FCI, the organizers totaled the scores for each dog and the highest scorer was BOB, and went onto the group, where again there were 3 judges and this time we just graded each entry out of a possible 100 – and there were 3 placings. At this point I guess I did not play the game the right way, as I judged them as to the quality I saw in front of me, but obviously in some cases the judges marked some dogs very low (or high scores) to undermine the results! Then for Best in Show ALL the judges gave their rating out of 100 – this was very hard to do, as you just looked at the dogs from the other side of the ring and I don’t see how you can be legitimate on grading a Pekinese from 20 feet away! So I think they need to make some changes to the system overall. However it was a fun day and I enjoyed it. And it is a day and scheme full of potential, but needs some tweaking, to get it to be fairer.
Saturday say me judging the Purina Pro Plan Cup (obviously was sponsored by Purina) to help promote the breeding of better dogs in Italy. The breeders were able to enter up to 2, of the best dogs of their kennel and as judges we had to grade them on 5 parts – head, structure, movement, coat & condition, and overall quality – each part had a possible score of 100, so overall they had a possible high score of 500. The dogs were never judged against each other. There were 3 different judges for each dog, one from the USA, one from UK and one FCI, the organizers totaled the scores for each dog and the highest scorer was BOB, and went onto the group, where again there were 3 judges and this time we just graded each entry out of a possible 100 – and there were 3 placings. At this point I guess I did not play the game the right way, as I judged them as to the quality I saw in front of me, but obviously in some cases the judges marked some dogs very low (or high scores) to undermine the results! Then for Best in Show ALL the judges gave their rating out of 100 – this was very hard to do, as you just looked at the dogs from the other side of the ring and I don’t see how you can be legitimate on grading a Pekinese from 20 feet away! So I think they need to make some changes to the system overall. However it was a fun day and I enjoyed it. And it is a day and scheme full of potential, but needs some tweaking, to get it to be fairer.
Photos here
It was interesting to see breeds that I had not seen before – Czechoslavakian Wolf Dog
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