Smoke & Shaded Exotic Breed Winners in CFA

In the 2001-2002 show season, CFA began awarding a new title – Breed Winner, which is abbreviated as BW. This title is quite exclusive, being given to ONLY ONE cat in each breed or division in a given year – the highest scoring cat for that breed or division in the Championship class.

Although the award began in that season, CFA is retroactively adding the title to Breed Winners of previous years.

In the 2016-17 show season, the award areas were expanded, to provide 3 sets of awards – BWR (for all cats competing in regions 1-9), BWC (for cats competing in China), and BWI (for cats competing in all other International areas).

In this article, Best of Breed was researched back to the 1966-67 show season where the best of breed cats were first listed in the CFA yearbooks.

For the Exotic, the first Breed Winner was GC, BW Silver Secret of Gay-O, a shaded silver male. The first female Breed Winner followed in 1972-73, a black smoke named GC, BW, NW Docia-Dao’s Trilby.

Prior to the 2020 show season, all Exotics were shown in a single color class, and awarded a single breed win – for a list of those cats, see Exotic Breed Winners.