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English Spot
VARIETIES - Black, Blue, Chocolate, Gold, Gray, Lilac, Tortoise
SCHEDULE OF POINTS
GENERAL TYPE . . . . . . . . 35
Body . . . . 25
Feet and Legs . . . . 6
Head and Ears . . . . 4
FUR . . . . . . . . 8
COLOR . . . . . . . . 8
MARKINGS . . . . . . . . 44
Butterfly . . . . 4
Eye Circles . . . . 4
Cheek Spots . . . . 4
Ear Markings . . . . 2
Herringbone/Spine . . . . 10
Side Pattern/Sweep . . . . 6
Graduation . . . . 8
Balance . . . . 6
CONDITION . . . . . . . . 5
TOTAL . . . . . . . . 100
SHOWROOM CLASSES AND WEIGHTS
Senior Bucks and Does - 6 months of age and over, weight 5 to 8 pounds. Ideal weight - Bucks 6 pounds; Does 7 pounds.
Junior Bucks and Does - Under 6 months of age. Not over 6 pounds. Minimum weight 3 pounds.
NOTE: Juniors which exceed maximum weight limits may be shown in higher age classifications. No animal may be shown in a lower age classification that its true age.
NOTE: Except for examination for diaqualifications, or to compare certain markings closely, English Spots should be judged without handling. Let the rabbit pose in its natural position. DO NOT DIG, POKE AND TUG AT THE ANIMAL. Above all, DO NOT FLATTEN THE ANIMAL DOWN ON THE TABLE WHILE JUDGING. The best view of the rabbit can be obtained by STEPPING BACK from the judging table and allowing the rabbit to move naturally.
GENERAL TYPE - Points 35
BODY - Points 25: The body is to be well carried up off the table. Hips should be of good depth, well rounded, and should be slightly broader than shoulders, but not wedged shaped. Bucks will show less tapering than does. The body is to have balance and enough length to show a full arch.
Faults - Cut severely for flatness; lack of arch; short coupled frame; chopped hindquarters.
FEET AND LEGS - Points 6: Legs are to be long and slender, allowing daylight to appear underneath the body. Legs are to be medium to fine boned. Hind legs are to be larger, and carried parallel with the body. One or more colored toenails permissible.
Faults - Short legs; weak front ankles; hind legs carried close together, or not parallel with the body.
HEAD AND EARS - Points 4: The head is to be in proportion to the body, with the ears carried erect. head is to be broader in bucks than does.
Faults - Bulldog type head; head too narrow; poor ear carriage.
FUR - Points 8:
(Flyback) Fur is to be short, dense, fine in texture, and carrying plenty of short guard hairs to give a very high luster. Coat should be even, in good condition, and free from molt or stains. Animal should be sleek and smooth in appearance.
Faults - Long, thin coat; guard hairs too long; slipping coat; lack of density; lack of luster; dirty coat; dead coat.
COLOR - Points 8:
BLACK - Color is to be an intense, very glossy black, running deep towards the skin, blending into a slate-blue undercoat next to the skin. Eyes - Dark Brown.
Faults - White hairs; mealiness; rustiness; brownish or any other tint; undercolor lighter than called for.
BLUE - Color is to be a rich, clear, very glossy, dark blue, running deep towards the skin, blending into a slate-blue undercolor next to the skin. Eyes - Blue-gray.
Faults - Faded or light color; mealy appearance. Cut severely for brownish tinge or stray white hairs.
CHOCOLATE - Color is to be a glossy, dark chocolate brown, running deep towards the skin, blending into a dove undercolor next to the skin. Eyes - Brown, ruby cast permissible.
Faults - Faded, mealy, or lighter color than described. Cut severely for rusty tinge, sunburned tinge, or stray white hairs.
GOLD - Color is to be a very glossy, bright, lustrous, clean gold color. All markings are to be of the same color (except eye circles, which may be lighter) and free of smut or shading. Color is to run well down the hair shaft to an off-white undercolor. Eyes - Brown.
Faults - Smut on any markings; frosted or washed out gold color. Cut severely for any shading.
GRAY - The Gray color is unique to the English Spot. The uniqueness combines a dark slate undercolor in the body markings with a hint of definition found in the neck area and other head markings. It is to be a dark, uniform color, consisting of three distinctly colored hairshafts: (1) solid black. (2) black hair shafts with a narrow tan tip (3) black hair shafts with a narrow tan band near the tip, resulting in a dark ticked color which should not have a ring color or band when blown into. The undercolor on the body markings is to have hair shafts with dark slate carried down to the skin. The head markings, consisting of the inner portion of the ears, eye circles, nostrils, and neck area, will be a lighter shade of tan, with slight definition, as found in the typical agouti coloration. Eyes - Brown.
Faults - Sandy, brassy, or brownish cast; ring color in body portion.
Disqualification from Competition - Guard hair coloration other than black.
LILAC - Color is to be a medium, dove gray, with an even delicate pink tint on the surface. Color must be carried well down the hair shaft to a slightly paler undercolor. Eyes - Blue-gray, ruby cast permissible.
Faults - Showing definite blueness; mealiness; white silver tipping; patches of rust.
TORTOISE - Color is to be a bright orange on the markings located on the top line and halfway down the flanks. It is to be a smoky-gray color on the markings on the lower flank and haunches. The head markings are to have the darkest shading, especially on the butterfly and ears. Eye circles and cheek spots are to be lighter in shading. All shading should permit the orange undercolor to show through, so as to avoid intense dark markings. Eyes - Brown.
Faults - Shading with no orange color bleeding through. Faded color on the top line, rather than orange color.
Disqualification from Competition - Any shading color other than called for; lack of shading.
MARKINGS - Points 44:
Markings are to be clear, clean, and distinct. They are to be free from color drags into the white section or white runs into the colored sections.
HEAD MARKINGS - Head is to be free of stray spots.
Disqualifications from Competition - Connection between any head markings. More than one stray spot on the head. (NOTE: Smudge between the ears, or dirty ear base are not to be considered spots.)
BUTTERFLY - Points 4: The marking is to be the shape of a butterfly. Wings should be well rounded and circle the nose from lip to lip. The body of the butterfly, or the nose fork, is to be in proportion to the wings and extend about 1/2 inch toward the forehead.
Faults - Irregular shaped wings; drags of color extending from the wings into the white head color; runs of white into the color section of the wings; nose fork out of proportion to body and wings; blunt, crooked, or off centered.
Disqualifications from Competition - Split butterfly; white spot.
EYE CIRCLES - Points 4: The eyes are to be surrounded by an even marking of color. Both eye circles are to be alike and in balance with the rest of the head markings. They are to be well seperated from the ears, cheek spots, and butterfly. Perfection is to get the eye circles as round as possible, but the feather over the eye circle should not be considered a fault. The ideal size of the eye circle is the size of a quarter.
Faults - Eye circles too large or too small; uneven; drags.
Diasqualifications from Competition - Absence of either eye circle.
CHEEK SPOTS - Points 4: The cheek spot is a round spot of color on each side of the head, located below the eye, on the cheek whisker bump. Any other placing of the spot should be considered a missing cheek spot. The ideal cheek spot is to be 3/4 inch in diameter. Cheek spots are to balance with other head markings and be well seperated from the eye circles.
