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Feb 16, 2016, 09:54

Sky, a Wire Fox Terrier, poses for a photo with handler Gabriel Rangel (R) and Judge Betty Regina Leininger, after winning the Best in Show category in the Westminster Dog Show on February 11, 2014 in New York City.

More than 100 dog breeds, separated into hounds, toy dogs, non-sporting dogs and herding dogs, competed Monday, which followed the agility competitions on Sunday.

Jango, a Spanish Water dog from Ridgeland co-owned by Faith Ott and Janet Rahn, took best of breed honors at the dog show in NY on Monday morning.

"I'm nearly having a heart attack", said Mai Ozeki, whose four-year-old borzoi, called Lucy, made the cut.

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Miss P, a 4-year-old beagle from British Columbia, Canada, won Westminster's 2015 "Best in Show" contest.

Rumor has already won 101 best in show titles, including the big AKC/Eukanuba event last December.

"She showed great. She's a super nice representative of German Shepherds", said Boyles, an Edgerton, Wisconsin resident. After that show, Cherry and the Kirk sisters handed off Connor to Howard and Heidi Huber, handlers based out of Lancaster County, for two years, where he won many awards; he then retired from his show career at the end of 2007.

Breed competition starts again today at 8 a.m., with the sporting, working, and terrier groups aired live tonight starting at 8 p.m. on USA Network.

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Rumor rose over 10 others of her breed in the conformation ring, where each dog is judged on how closely it represents the ideal standards of the breed.

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By his count, Frei has watched over 72,000 dogs from the TV tower above the ring at Madison Square Garden.

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"I think of it as something like March Madness", he said.

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This photo taken Thursday, Feb. 3, 2016, shows David Frei at his Manhattan apartment with his dogs, Grace, left, and Angel, right. Dog Agility Association, which sponsors hundreds of events nationwide. "I think of it as something like March Madness", he said.