CONWAY — Kit has been to the big time, and although she didn’t win Best in Show at the 143rd Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City last week, the 3-year-old flat-coated retriever is a champion in the eyes of her owner, Robin Crocker of Conway.
Attending Westminster was long on Crocker’s bucket list, but she never imagined she’d have a dog compete in the canine Super Bowl.
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