Best In Show Judging at Turlock on Saturday

The California State Convention on Saturday has an unusual Best In Show judging routine.   The BOB rabbits are grouped into 5 groups, 5 judges pick a winner in each group and each winner is given a big rosette.   Then a 6th judge comes in to pick the best of the 5 group winners.  This is what judge Josh is doing in the photo, picking the best of the 5 rabbits.

Joe's Tan gets the nod from judge Josh for the Best In Show.
The remaining 4 group winners compete with the 2nd place in the group that produced the Best In Show for the honor of the Reserve In Show.

The second place of the "marked group" is the English Spot shown by Maddie and Louis and this English Spot gets the Reserve In Show honor from judge Josh.   The other four group winners are:

Commercial group: Julie's Havana
Fur group: Julie's Mini Rex
Lops and others group: Jeremy's Netherland Dwarf
Rare breed group: Kelly's Lilac

The same method repeats in show B, judge Scott has the honor of being the Best In Show judge to pick from the 5 group winners.

Judge Scott is looking at the fur group winner English Angora.  Judge Jeremy on the right is the fur group judge who picked the English Angora as the group winner.

My mom's rabbit won Group!!!

Joe beats his mom to get Best In Show with his Tan and Betty's English Angora gets the Reserve In Show.

The other four group winners are:

Commercial Group: Jonathan and Randy's Californian

Lops and others Group: Heather and Janay's French Lop

Rare breed Group: Kelly's Lilac

The second place in the mark group is still the English Spot.