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Okay, so as our SOP is now high enough to start getting the odd group placing, I thought I'd list the judges I've discovered that are more willing to place a PP over other breeds, even ones with higher SOP. When entering shows, these are the names to look out for:

Wilfredo Feaster
Sarah Brush

I don't think there is one or two judges that perfectly fit portugese pointers, but what you can do is look at the judges preference sheet i made and try to match as closely as you can the individual dog to the judge. I've found that some of my dogs are better with different judges, despite being the same breed. Each dog has different strengths and weaknesses.

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NSTBK9ACe9YQHRJ2MQB7pTd3BhCpiP7WyT-JDIzkFqA/edit?usp=sharing

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Hope this helps!
Windy

I've actually done some analysis with a spreadsheet before, weighing up which traits are important for Portuguese Pointers against judge preferences. It's why I wasn't too surprised when Wilfredo Feaster started placing my dogs in Group - he IS genuinely one of the best matches.

For example, today I got 2nd in Group under Wilfredo Feaster with an 87 SOP dog... who wasn't even fully sessioned. That dog placed over dogs with much higher SOP and who were also fully sessioned. Wilfredo Feaster has now Group placed two of my dogs who have rather different stat distributions (with the exception of Head).

Spreadsheets that calculate these things aren't always 100% accurate because of the unknowns in just how things are weighted, plus decimals, etc. So I'm quite happy to go with what experience tells me works. Currently, experience is starting to show that Wilfredo Feaster is the judge to go for with Portuguese Pointers.

More data is, admittedly, needed for Sarah Brush.