Her face freckled with the belton markings characteristic of her kind, an English Setter called Victoria studied her surroundings through chocolate-brown eyes.

Amid black and brown dachshunds, a caramel-colored corgi and a white Westie on a grooming table, she appeared calm — the requisite temperament of a show dog. Victoria was one of hundreds of canine competitors this weekend in the Suffolk County Kennel Club and Westbury Kennel Association's annual dog show.

The multiday event, held this year at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, was expected to involve 450 canines on Saturday and the same amount on Sunday, said Dawn Eisele, president of the Suffolk County Kennel Club.

"It's considered a small show," Eisele said. For many of the dogs, she said, this show is

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