Toy Poodle Takes Best in Show at Cabrillo Kennel Club Sunday

A Toy Poodle bitch bred by V. Lopez and owned by C. Gauche closed the Cabrillo Kennel Club's three-day cluster with the biggest prize in the building. GCHG Cuna Del Renacimiento Give It 2Me took Best in Show on Sunday, April 5, under Mr. Kenneth E. Berg from a total entry of 650 dogs at Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center, California, with handler Daniel Chavez presenting her.

What makes the BIS selection particularly worth noting is that Berg had already seen this bitch two days earlier. On Friday, April 3, he judged the Toy Group and placed her first. Coming back Sunday and awarding her over the full all-breed entry of 650 was a second deliberate look, not a first impression. Breeders and handlers tracking panel consistency across a cluster weekend have something concrete to log here.

Saturday's Best in Show went in a sharply different direction. Mrs. Ann F. Yuhasz selected GCHS Studio Be Curious JP Justice Hero, a Welsh Terrier handled by Gabriel Rangel, from the weekend's largest single-day field of 721 dogs. A Toy Poodle and a Welsh Terrier splitting top honors across consecutive days is a useful data point: cluster judging rewards ring presence and sustained conditioning over breed type alone, and Saturday's result was no forecast of Sunday's.

This bitch has been running a strong season across the region. In early February, she placed Best of Opposite Sex at the Westminster Kennel Club show at the Toy Poodle breed level under judge Mr. Timothy Brazier, then returned to California and won back-to-back Best in Show at the Silver Bay Kennel Club of San Diego on February 21 and 22. The Cabrillo win extended that form into April.

The Bates Nut Farm venue, which draws multi-hundred-dog entries across a compressed three-day schedule, puts real demands on conditioning. A dog that peaks on day one and fades by day three is a common cluster story. That GCHG Cuna Del Renacimiento Give It 2Me was still topping group competition on Friday and converting Best in Show on Sunday, three days into the run, is the kind of result that frames where this bitch sits heading into the second quarter of the 2026 season.