{"id":465150,"date":"2026-03-09T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T02:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:09:09","slug":"crufts-2026-clumber-spaniel-named-bruin-wins-best-in-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465150\/","title":{"rendered":"Crufts 2026: Clumber spaniel named Bruin wins best in show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cox and Bruin received the Kendall Memorial Trophy and a \u00a3200 cash prize after the spaniel was crowned as this year&#8217;s champion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Tibetan mastiff called Viking, a Pembroke Welsh corgi named Hazel, and miniature schnauzer Spencer were among the six other pooches trying not to look too glum after missing out on the top prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Tamas Jakkel&#8217;s choice for reserve dog was a petit basset griffon vendeen called Meghan, from Croatia, who earlier won the Hound group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Bruin&#8217;s victory, the dog&#8217;s handler described him as &#8220;a bit of a diva&#8221; who &#8220;likes his own way&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But he&#8217;ll never ever let me down,&#8221; Cox added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cox and Bruin received the Kendall Memorial Trophy and a \u00a3200 cash prize after the spaniel was crowned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-465150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}