02-17-2006, 05:38 PM
I think there are a number of reasons solids aren't so popular to show.
One is that they don't tend to stand out in the ring as much, especially indoors and even more especially when you have a tarmac type surface - blacks tend to get lost on a black surface. Another is that a solid can't get away with certain structural features that a parti colour can. The main example of this being length, if a parti colour is slightly too long in the back the break up of colour can help to mask it but in a solid the dog tends to look rangy because there is no break up of colour.
Obviously any judge worth their salt would pick up on these points when going over a dog but from a ringside perspective it perhaps isn't unreasonable to argue that a solid actually has to be better than an equivalent parti colour just to appear as good.
One is that they don't tend to stand out in the ring as much, especially indoors and even more especially when you have a tarmac type surface - blacks tend to get lost on a black surface. Another is that a solid can't get away with certain structural features that a parti colour can. The main example of this being length, if a parti colour is slightly too long in the back the break up of colour can help to mask it but in a solid the dog tends to look rangy because there is no break up of colour.
Obviously any judge worth their salt would pick up on these points when going over a dog but from a ringside perspective it perhaps isn't unreasonable to argue that a solid actually has to be better than an equivalent parti colour just to appear as good.
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