My dogue is currently 9 months old and we have just started showing, a late run I know but it just turned out this way. He stands well in the ring, runs well and is well behaved for the judge. He has won all his classes but constantly loses the challenge to a younger dogue bitch. To me he is going through his lanky teens with more skin to fill out and not much muscle definition but I thought a judge would take this into consideration. The other thing is he still seems to have his puppy coat where as the bitch has her nice short adult coat.
Any pointers?