It's all about who is running the Specialty events. A true Labrador can't win because he is plain and bred to standard.
Only Gross exaggerations win at Specialty Shows today. Breeders who breed to the judges likes get victories. Those breeding to the LRC standard get laughed at.
It is very different in Europe. A Labrador bred to Standard is victorious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY9SiMAKuUo
Could it possibly be that part of the reason is the difference in standards? I wonder if in your esteemed worldly knowledge of the breed if you could explain something to the rest of us ignorant souls?
Why is it that it is so necessary in the USA to have a standard that is so lengthy? Copying these Labrador Retriever breed standards into a Word document and doing a word count shows this:
The Kennel Club (U.K.) - 550 words
FCI - recognized by over 80 countries - 642 words
LRC (USA - recognized by not a solitary soul outside of the US, and many inside its borders - 2,053 words
Why the need for such verbosity when a dog as wonderful as Romeo can result from breeding to standards as simple as the U.K. or FCI versions?
