NYTTS Turtle and Tortoise Show 2003

Best-in-Show Winner

Judge Bill McCord with Best-In-Show Winner Michael Musnick

Best In Show — Trophy

Michael Musnick, group:* 5 black-breasted leaf turtles, Geoemyda spengleri


First Place — Blue Ribbons

Diane-Michele Petrillo (1st runner up), pair: Home’s hingeback tortoises, Kinixys homeana
Peter Brynildson, group: 4 Middle Eastern spur-thighed tortoises, Testudo graeca terristris
Mariette Bailey, diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin
Cathy Chow, Middle Eastern spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca terristris
Sheri Greenspan, Central Asian (Russian) tortoise, Testudo horsfieldii
Sylivia & Charlie Hyman, leopard tortoise, Geolchelone pardalis babcocki
Sylivia & Charlie Hyman, group: 3 Florida softshell turtles, Trionyx ferox
Diane-Michele Petrillo, group: 3 (Jordanian) spur-thighed tortoises, Testudo graeca
Akemi Okamoto, group: Chinese box turtle, Cuora flavomarginata; Middle Eastern spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca; and yellow-footed tortoise, Geochelone denticulata
Dan O'Malley, red-footed tortoise, Geochelone carbonaria
Sara Ramos, yellow-footed tortoise, Geochelone denticulata
Best-in-Show Winner

A Best-In-Show winner — black-breasted leaf turtle, Geoemyda spengleri
Chris Santoro, common (Florida) cooter, Pseudemys floridana
Frank Schneider, leopard tortoise, Geolchelone pardalis babcocki
Bob Seaver, Chinese box turtle, Cuora flavomarginata
Michael Sherwin, group: Asian leaf turtle, Cyclemys dentata; spotted turtle, Clemmys guttata; Malayan box turtle, Cuora amboinensis
Gary Weiler, pair: red-footed tortoises, Geochelone carbonaria

Second Place — Red Ribbons

Leslie Fagen, black-breasted leaf turtle, Geoemyda spenglerii
Leslie Fagen, group: 4 three-toed box turtles, Terrapene carolina triunguis
Allen P. W. Karen, group: 3 Central Asian (Russian) tortoises, Testudo horsfieldii
Allen P. W. Karen, group: scorpion mud turtle, Kinosternon scorpoides; and chaco tortoise, Geochelone chilensis
Diane Lapson, group: western painted turtle, Chysemys picta bellii; false map turtle, Graptemys pseudogeographica; and red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans
Deborah Machalow, 2 yellow-bellied sliders, Trachemys scripta scripta
Bill McCord and Michael Sherwin

Show judge Bill McCord discusses Nina's snapping turtle with Michael Sherwin.
Kay Martin, pair: Chinese box turtles, Cuora flavomarginata
Linda Miller, 2 red-eared sliders, Trachemys scripta elegans
Frank Schneider, Central Asian (Russian) tortoise, Testudo horsfieldii
Frank Schneider, big-headed turtle, Platysternum megacephalum
Jeff Sherman, eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina
JoAnn Vacchiano, group: yellow pond turtle, Mauremys mutica; Chinese broad-headed pond turtle, Chinemys megalocephala; and red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans
Jen Warren & Jeff Edelson, 2 red-eared sliders, Trachemys scripta elegans
Gary Weiler, 2 red-footed tortoises, Geochelone carbonaria
Randye Wolf, Chinese box turtle, Cuora flavomarginata

Third Place — White Ribbons

Charlie Christiansen, leopard tortoise, Geochelone pardalis babcocki
Cynthia Fagen, elongated tortoise, Geochelone elongata
Shari Greenspan, Chinese three-keeled pond (Reeve’s) turtle, Chinemys reveesii
Best-in-Show Winner

Trung Canh Luu, Asian Scholarship Program participant from Vietnam, and Best-In-Show Winner Michael Musnick
Sylvia & Charlie Hyman, Mississippi map turtle, Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii
Kay Martin, group: 3 red-footed tortoises, Geochelone carbonaria; Asia Minor spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca ibera; and elongated tortoise, Indotestudo elongata
Kay Martin, red-cheeked mud turtle, Kiinosternon scorpoides cruentatum
Kay Martin, river cooter, Pseudemys concinna
Diane-Michele Petrillo, leopard tortoise, Geochelone pardalis babcocki
Diane-Michele Petrillo, (Jordanian) spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca
Sara Ramos, yellow-footed tortoise, Geochelone denticulata
Frank Schneider, leopard tortoise, Geochelone pardalis babcocki
Frank Schneider, group: 3 common spider tortoises, Pyxis arachnoides
Frank Schneider, Egyptian tortoise, Testudo kleinmanni
Michael Sherwin, four-eyed turtle, Sacalia quadriocellata
Nina Sherwin, common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina

* Note:  Ribbons may be awarded to a group of turtles, such as a breeding pair with hatchlings or to a member’s collection of mixed species, when merited.



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The New York Turtle and Tortoise Society thanks
Dr. Bill McCord — Judge for the Turtle and Tortoise Show 2003.

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