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We were Team 4, lead by
Mr Manabu Ogata, founder
of the famous Ogata Koi
Farm in 1972.

After a quick break, we went on to select Jumbo B Above and Right:
from the non-Go-Sanke group; fewer Koi were Our team of judges hard
at work, judging took a
involved, so this section did not take too long. By this considerable amount of
time, it was midday, and we broke for lunch before time as the quality of Koi
tackling all the other sizes and variety classes in our was very high.
respective teams. My group was team four, led by
Mr Manabu Ogata of Ogata Koi Farm. We had 30, 50,
70 and over 85 bu classes to judge. Since we had
THE COVERS already reviewed over 85 bu Koi in our selection
process for GC, we began with this size, followed by
WERE SO 70 bu – a very well-represented class, which took us
THICK THAT considerable time to judge. A major issue at this show
was the wretched covers on the bins! They were a
IT WAS permanent fixture unless a group of judges was
PRACTICALLY examining that particular bin. The covers were so thick Right:
that it was practically impossible to view the Koi
All the bins had thick
IMPOSSIBLE through the mesh, therefore making a second quick covers on all the time
look at a particular Koi shortlisted for selection difficult which made it very
TO VIEW – a steward would have to take the cover off again, difficult to view the Koi.
THE KOI generally too slow a process. I suggested to the
organisers after the show that lighter covers you could
see through would be better for both judging and
public viewing, not to mention photography – Ian was
able to take almost no Koi photographs at this show.

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