Talk of shows being fixed,- i remember being at a show, several years ago, at the terrier ring, surrounded by the dog show lads,- when a smartly dressed middle-aged woman, took her Border Terrier into the ring. You should have heard the laughter, and how they shouted her down. Shouting fix if she won.
What they did not know was , that her husband, was a well known working terrier man, and he did not want the risk of "cries of fix" if he entered the terrier himself. I don't think anyone knew his wife, so she took the dog in the ring. I think it got placed, but his dogs were actually working do