x a Ch. Roundtown Mercedes of Maryscot (“Sadie”) a Scottish Terrier won BestIn Showat the 2010 Westminster Kennel Club. Photo by Mary Bloom / Westminster Kennel Club (NAPSA)—New dogs it seems can be uptooldtricks. If it’s beginningto feel like The Westminster Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show has been with you your entire life and unless you are older than 134 years of age it has. The show has survived power outages snowstorms a national depression two World Wars and a tugboat strike that threatened to shut down thecity. In the process Westminster has become “America’s Dog Show” as well as the secondlongest continuously held sporting event in the country. Only the Kentucky Derby has been staged longer—but by just one year. Then In the early Westminsteryears some interesting names showed up in the catalogs. In the first show there were two Deerhounds that had been bred by the Queen of England. In 1889 the Czar of Russia was listed as the breeder of a Siberian Wolfhound entered Now In 2010 the show had to compete against both the Winter Olympics and Fashion Week in New York City yet it was entirely sold out at Madison Square Gar- den for the fifth year in a row. Sponsored by Pedigree the two-day show exhibits 2500 dogs in seven categories: Sporting Hound Working Terrier Toy Nonsporting and Herding. The 2010 winner a 4-year-old Scottish Terrier named Round- town Mercedes Of Maryscot—or Sadie for short—became the eighth Scottie to win Best in Show at Westminister—more than any breed other than the Wire Fox Terrier (13). The 134th Best in Show winner was raised in Michigan’s landmarked Grand Hotel. Sadie’s been on the dog show circuit for two years now and wontop Terrier at Westminster last year. Sadie’s next stop is a trip to California where she'll live with her trainer’s entries is a Russian Wolfhound whose listed owner was the family and be bred but she’ll return home to Michigan to have her puppies. Learn More Collies in 1898. Famous American long on Twitter at www.twitter. com/Wkcdogs on Facebook at and the following year one of the Emperor of Germany. Philanthropist J.P. Morgan madethefirst of his many appearances at Westminster with his journalist Nelly Bly entered her Maltese at Westminster in 1894. The most-coveted award in the dog show world Best In Show at Westminster was given for thefirst time in 1907. That year and for the You can follow Sadie’s life during her reigning year and all the Club’s canine activities all year www.facebook.com/WKC DogShow on Buzz at www.west minsterkennelclub.org/buzz and on the club’s own Website www. next two years as well it went to a Smooth Fox Terrier named Warren westminsterkennelclub.org. Plans are already under way for the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Showto be held once again at ever to win three times. ruary 14-15 2011. Remedy. She remains the only dog Madison Square Garden on Feb-
