His name is Wasabi from Beijing: this fur ball won the “Westminster Dog Show”, a famous canine beauty contest, on the night from Sunday to Monday.
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The famous Westminster Dog Show canine beauty contest is usually held in February in Madison Square Garden. But for this 145th edition, the calendar had to be shifted, the usual crowds of spectators banned and the competition transported to the bucolic setting of Tarrytown, north of New York.
Wasabi, aged 3, was crowned among seven finalists including Bourbon, a whippet, Mathew, a French Bulldog, Connor, an English Shepherd, Striker, a Samoyed, or Boy, a West Highland white terrier.
For his owner and breeder, David Fitzpatrick – who had already won the prestigious award in 2012 with another Pekingese, Malachy – Wasabi combines “Charisma, sense of movement and spectacle”.
Over 2,000 competitors from over 200 different breeds
“He’s in top form and he’s just great”, smiled the breeder after his victory on the Good Morning America show. He added that Wasabi would retire soon, even though“He loves competitions and has a great character”.
The competition is reserved for pedigree dogs: this year it brought together more than 2,000 competitors from more than 200 different breeds, of all sizes, hair and shapes.
They are judged not only on their dress, their posture, but also the adequacy of their reactions to certain situations., depending on whether they express the vigilance or the joy that is required in certain circumstances.
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