<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Bassets DO win Group and they DO win BIS but not at Westminster. They have taken Group, but never BIS. They aren't flashy, they don't have "chrome": they don't have long, arched necks or coats that flow in the breeze. Politics aside, breeding a good mutant breed is extremely difficult to do. They get a lot of applause because they're cute, comical-- those big balls banging back and forth--those lips flapping-- but they don't win BIS at Westminster. And I thought he made the cut: not the final cut, but the first one, and that's no small achievement.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Remember-- he had already beat all the other Bassets entered (I do not know how many there were) to GET to Group, but there he was.</font></div>
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