I have a young tri that has a blaze that closed up into a "hourglass" type look that you described. At the sidelines at a show I asked a well known breeder and judge about this and the judge said that she tried the longest time to campaign a bitch with the closed blaze to no avail. The bitch did take reserve a few times but never finished. She told me this after I had just been in the ring when an English judge said to me at the table "Too bad about the Blaze." In the Club standard it does not indicate that a blaze should be evident however as my conversation continued the judge/breeder at the sidelines noted that if there is a choice in the ring and two dogs are equal, that final detail of a blaze may be the thing that gives it to the dog with the white marking. So maybe it IS important albeit not by the Club standard.
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