Re: SHOW: Age discrimination
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- Subject: Re: SHOW: Age discrimination
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:55:43 -0700 (MST)
Mark Cook writes:
>
> This should not happen. I was under the impression that awards were
> supposed to be given on the basis of how well the entry represented the
> Cultivar in question. CUP RACE does not appear to be outdated either.
It
> is an excellent Iris. However, with everything else being equal, I would
> expect the newer, "fancier" flower to win. But, under no circumstances
> should a flower be excluded because it's only "fault" is being an older
> variety.
I agree with you 100%, Mark. At the time I was a novice judge, and I was
surprised by how opinionated some of the older judges were and puzzled over
where they got their opinions from - it certainly didn't seem to be from
the Judges' Handbook. As you correctly point out, CUP RACE was(is) clearly
not "an iris of obviously outdated features" - in fact, at the time, it
didn't even qualify as a "historic" iris. I do believe that, at least
locally, the Judges' Training Program has done a lot of good work in the
past few years, and we are seeing a lot less of this sort of thing than we
used to.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
