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BOG I
The Sporting Group Judged by you the six group winners!”
Mr. Thomas H Bradley III He considers two of his
highest honors in the sport
Mr. T h om a s H Bra d le y III to date are the fact that he
has been invited to judge
Thomas H. Bradley 3d., of the Irish Setter Club of
Watertown, New York, be- America National Specialty
gan in dogs in 1954 with on four separate occasions
German Shorthaired Point- and, of course, judging BIS
ers. at Westminster in 2017.
Under his Luftnase pre- Mr. Brad le y wa s s ho w ch air-
f i x , M r. Bra d le y h a s bre d a man for the Westminster
number of sporting breeds, Kennel Club show from
including Pointers, German 2002 until retiring in 2016.
Shorthairs, English Cocker He is most proud to be a
Spaniels, and Labrador Re- co-founder and the execu-
trievers. His last breeding tive d irec to r o f Take t h e
produced a litter of four Lead. His favorite saying
Bor d e r Te rrie r s, a ll AKC is “ We are known by the
champions. friends we keep–both two
leg g e d a nd fo ur.”
M r. B ra d le y was app rove d
to judge in 1965 and now
judges all sporting breeds
and Best in Show. “My first
BIS assignment was at
Santa Barbara in 1975, and
that was prior to ever judg-
ing a Sporting Group. The
entry, I believe, was over
4,000 dogs. I can still tell
Results • AKC National Championship ‘18
