Nabbing top-dog status at the National Dog Show can be a long, ruff journey.

But the crowning achievement is worth the nerve-racking buildup for a prized pooch’s handler — and maybe even the winner.

“The adrenaline just goes everywhere. You get butterflies, your stomach drops all the way down to your toes, and you kind of want to make sure you don’t look like a fool because you just want to jump up and down,” Daniel Martin exclusively told The Post after his black Belgian Sheepdog , Soleil, took home Best in Show last month.

“It’s a great feeling,” the 34-year-old from Princeton, North Carolina, said of taking the trophy alongside his 5½-year-old charge at the beloved contest, hosted by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia on Nov. 15 and 16.

Martin is even convinced that Soleil, who

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