FOX Sports' Jamie Little talks about covering the 150th edition of the Westminster Dog Show: 'Such an honor'

The 150th variation of the Westminster Dog Show is underway.

The highly anticipated lawsuit has taken spot astatine the Javits Center and volition reason astatine Madison Square Garden connected Tuesday. "Prove-It," the Border Collie, handled by Amber McCune, won the Westminster’s Masters Agility Championship connected Saturday.

The conformation portion of the amusement began with champion of breed judging from the Javits Center connected Monday, and radical judging continued connected Tuesday, connected FS1, wherever Best successful Show is awarded.

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FOX pit newsman Jamie Little smiles connected pit roadworthy earlier the NASCAR Cup Series Ambetter Health 400 contention astatine Atlanta Motor Speedway successful Hampton, Georgia, connected Feb. 23, 2025. (David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The level newsman for FS1’s primetime coverage, Jamie Little, talked with Fox News Digital astir what it’s similar to screen the event.

"Such an grant to beryllium present to screen the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. It is the biggest canine amusement successful the world. It's the astir prestigious. And past you adhd successful the information that it's the 150th. You person to fto that descend in. This is the 2nd longest sporting lawsuit to the Kentucky Derby," Little told Fox News Digital.

Little interviewed the archetypal 4 winners connected Monday, and the 47-year-old said you tin consciousness the strength and the emotions of those participating.

"You conscionable these families that person been coming present procreation aft procreation with amusement dogs. We person truthful galore stories. And that's what makes this twelvemonth special. We're telling those stories, the inheritance of the breeds who was present successful the archetypal twelvemonth of the amusement successful 1877 is beauteous neat," Little said.

"It's ever aggravated backstage successful the staging country with the dogs you ever consciousness the energy. But past nighttime you cognize interviewing those archetypal 4 winners that we saw connected Monday nighttime it's we saw tears. I saw tears 2 oregon 3 times due to the fact that it means that overmuch more."

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Pit newsman Jamie Little of FOX Sports during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series Jack Link's 500 contention astatine Talladega Superspeedway successful Eastaboga, Alabama, connected April 26, 2025. (David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Winning the Westminster Dog Show is ever an honor, but determination is thing antithetic astir having the accidental to triumph the 150th edition.

"I mean the information that you person a accidental to triumph the 150th, I mean that's conscionable thing for the grounds publication you'll ne'er forget," Little said.

Little has been covering the amusement for 8 years and said it feels similar the lawsuit has lone gotten bigger and that the dogs person gotten better. She said that adjacent for those who don’t person a dog, the amusement is for everyone and it’s thing that everyone loves.

Last twelvemonth was the archetypal clip successful 4 years the Westminster Dog Show returned to Madison Square Garden, returning for the archetypal clip since COVID-19. Little talked astir the value of the lawsuit being astatine the world’s astir celebrated arena.

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A canine competes during the 150th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show-Group Judging (Hound, Toy, Non-Sporting, Herding) and Westminster Legends Presentation astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City, New York, connected Feb. 2, 2026. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Westminster Kennel Club)

"My archetypal twelvemonth covering this show, we were astatine Madison Square Garden. It was conscionable like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ Like, it's that amusement oregon that movie that you spot 'Best successful Show.' It's similar the agleam lights, the cameras, the energy. And past with COVID-19 we had to determination retired of the city, and we've gone to a mates different places," Little said.

"Being backmost astatine Madison Square Garden, that's what everybody wants. They privation that large venue. I mean, the magnitude of events that this spot does and past they crook it into a canine ringing — similar canine showing — it's amazing. But the vigor and the lights, it's conscionable thing peculiar for the radical watching, the dependable from the audience, the dogs provender disconnected of it."

The favourite portion of the amusement for Little is getting the accidental to interrogation the winners.

"I deliberation my favourite portion is conscionable telling the stories of the dogs. I deliberation these winners that travel successful and they're affectional due to the fact that they've been trying it for 20 years, and past their parents earlier them, their grandparents earlier that. And they enactment truthful hard each azygous time to make these cleanable specimens that they do. And to person them arsenic a amusement winner, it means everything to them. So, I deliberation anything, nary substance what I'm covering, interviewing a victor is the best. And this is adjacent amended due to the fact that past I person a canine I get to favored during the interview."

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Joey Logano (22 Team Penske AAA Insurance Ford, left) talks with FOX Sports newsman Jamie Little aft winning the Wurth 400 Presented by LIQUI MOLY successful the NASCAR Cup Series astatine the Texas Motor Speedway successful Fort Worth, Texas, connected May 4, 2025. (Austin McAfee/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

After covering the Westminster Dog Show, Little volition displacement gears and caput down to screen the Daytona 500. She said the canine amusement is intense, but it’s antithetic compared to the strength that comes from NASCAR.

"I ever gag with radical that I screen 4 paws and past I'm going to displacement it up and spell 4 wheels successful Daytona. And it is truthful different. I mean, you person the strength of the canine show, but everybody's happy. They're having fun. The dogs emotion their job. These dogs are treated amended than astir people. I mean, they're surviving a life. They are pets astatine location oregon they're therapy dogs. They bash unthinkable things," Little said.

"And past you displacement it up to Daytona wherever radical are happy, but it's intense. I mean, we're going to spot brainsick wrecks. It's going to beryllium intense. So, wholly antithetic worlds. It's truthful overmuch fun. My hairsbreadth volition beryllium backmost successful a ponytail, headset on. For the canine show, I'm wearing a fancy evening gown similar I'm going, you know, to a wedding. It's incredible. It's amusive to get to bash both."

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