question: Viscount Grant, also known as Gable, who was the winner of the title of Best In Show at the Crufts dog show in 1987, was the Afghan Hound is a hound that is distinguished by its thick, fine, silky coat and its tail with a ring curl at the end, selectively bred for its unique features in the cold mountains of which country?
answer: Afghanistan
context: Title: Charles Cruft (showman)
  Passage: Charles Alfred Cruft (28 June 1852 – 10 September 1938) was a British showman who founded the Crufts dog show.  Charles first became involved with dogs when he began to work at Spratt's, a manufacturer of dog biscuits.  He rose to the position of general manager, and whilst working for Spratt's in France he was invited to run his first dog show at the 1878 Exposition Universelle.  After running dog shows in London for four years, he ran his first Cruft's dog show in 1891, and continued to run a further 45 shows until his death in 1938, as well as running two cat shows in 1894 and 1895.  He was involved in a range of dog breed clubs, including that for Schipperkes, Pugs and Borzois.  He and his wife upheld a story that they never owned a dog, and instead owned a cat, however Cruft admitted to owning at least one Saint Bernard in his memoirs, published posthumously.
  Title: Sussex cattle
  Passage: Sussex cattle are a red breed of beef cattle from the Weald of Sussex, Surrey and Kent in south eastern England.  Descended from the draught oxen long used on the Weald they were selectively bred from the late 18th century to form a modern beef breed which is now used in many countries around the world.  They have a thin summer coat and many sweat glands, but grow a thick coat in winter, so they are suited to both hot summers and cold winters.  They have a placid temperament but can be very stubborn.
  Title: Chris Amoo
  Passage: Chris Amoo is a singer-songwriter and the lead singer of English soul group, The Real Thing.  He is also a dog breeder, and judge at the dog shows including Crufts.  He also had great success with his Afghan Hound, Viscount Grant.
  Title: Viscount Grant
  Passage: Ch.  Viscount Grant, also known as Gable was an Afghan Hound who was the winner of the title of Best In Show at the Crufts dog show in 1987.
  Title: Afghan Hound
  Passage: The Afghan Hound is a hound that is distinguished by its thick, fine, silky coat and its tail with a ring curl at the end.  The breed was selectively bred for its unique features in the cold mountains of Afghanistan.  Its local name is Tāžī Spay (Pashto: تاژي سپی‎ ) or Sag-e Tāzī (Dari Persian: سگ تازی).  Other names for this breed are "Kuchi Hound", "Tāzī", "Balkh Hound", "Baluchi Hound", "Barakzai Hound", "Shalgar Hound", "Kabul Hound", "Galanday Hound" or sometimes incorrectly "African Hound".
  Title: Snuppy
  Passage: Snuppy (Korean: 스너피 a portmanteau of "SNU" and "puppy"; born April 24, 2005) is an Afghan hound, credited with being the world's first cloned dog.  The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only three produced pups (Snuppy being the sole survivor).  Department of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University for cloning Snuppy was led by Woo Suk Hwang.  Snuppy has since been used in the first known successful breeding between cloned canines, after his sperm was used to artificially inseminate two cloned females, which resulted in the birth of 10 puppies in 2008.
  Title: Topscore Contradiction
  Passage: NORD Ch.  Topscore Contradiction, also known as King, is a standard sized Poodle, who was the winner of the title of Best In Show at the Crufts dog show in 2002.  He was the first overseas dog and the first undocked dog from a breed which was previously docked in the UK to win the title.
  Title: Bakhmull
  Passage: Bakhmull is an Aboriginal Afghan Hound belonging to an ancient group of oriental sighthounds.  The Afghan Royal Family were the only humans who possessed this breed.  The bakhmull tazi (tazi means " fast running sighthound" ) is a long haired variety of sighthounds in Afghanistan.  There are two more: Luchak tazi short haired like sloughi and Khalagh tazi with moderate long hair on ears, shoulders, elbows and thighs.Bakhmull tazi has developed in the mountain areas of Mid and Central Asia - ancient Punjab, Paunchala, "Five river land".  This dog breed roots back presumably in the ancient Indian Harappa( Mohenjo Daro) civilization 2300 - 1700 B.C.  If translated from Pashto (Afghan) the word "bakhmull" means "velvet" due to its incredible silky velvet, long, ivory color hair of the coat, rather abundant and long on the whole body, because it is a mountain oriental sighthound, except the "saddle", front parts of four legs and the muzzle.  Its color is always fawn, ivory or white with a darker "saddle", thus it produces an impression of a fawn (yellowish) dog which coat color is protective khaki that matches sandstone and limestone of the Hindu Kush mountain landscape and deserts.  Following colors are not permissible: red, red with white spots, black and black with white spots.  Bakhmulls hunt the wild ram, ibex (wild mountain goat), hare, fox, wolf, jackal, wild big cats, in old times leopard, but never birds.  They are also good guards; they guard homes and flocks of sheep.  They hunt solo, in couples and rarely in packs.  Since the 1980s the centre of Bakhmull breeding is in Russia, "The Blue Dale el Bark Bakhmull" Moscow, where they are spread all over the former Soviet Republics and various regions.  The foundation stock was brought to Russia in the 70s by military men from Afghanistan.  Breed Standard for tazi BAKHMULL (aboriginal Afghan Hound) was adopted in Moscow, Russia (since Russia has become the 2nd motherland of bakhmulls) first in 1985 and later after detailed elaboration in 1997 (RFOS-RKF).
  Title: Halls Heeler
  Passage: The Halls Heeler was a dog bred by Thomas Simpson Hall to herd cattle on the Hall family's extensive properties in north-western New South Wales in the 19th century.  On "Dartbrook Station", in the Upper Hunter Valley, Hall selectively crossed the offspring of Northumberland Drover's Dogs (Border Collie lineage) that he had imported, with progeny of dingoes that he had tamed.  By 1840 he had bred the type of dog that he needed to control cattle on the massive runs that his family owned, and until he died in 1870 few of these dogs were owned and used by anyone outside the Hall family and their workers.  However the death of Thomas Hall and the break-up of the Hall estate coincided with the development of the dog show, and an interest in breeding dogs to specific criteria or standards.  The Halls Heeler was further developed into two contemporary dog breeds the Australian Cattle Dog and the Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog.  The name is spelled both with the possessive apostrophe, as Hall's Heeler, and without.
  Title: List of Best in Show winners of Crufts
  Passage: The title Best in Show is awarded annually to the dog chosen as winner of the Crufts dog show, according to conformation show rules.  This title was first awarded in 1928, the initial winner being Primley Sceptre, a fawn Greyhound.  Previously, Crufts had used the title "Best Champion", sponsored by the "Illustrated Kennel News", which was awarded from 1905 to 1914.  The first winner of Best Champion was Ch.  The Sable Mite, a Pomeranian.  According to "Crufts: The Official History" the first winner of that award was the first dog to be considered the "best" at a Crufts show, although it only lists winners between 1906 and 1912.
citations: Afghan Hound Viscount Grant